List of Famous people with last name Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist educated primarily in Germany; he based his practice in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the Weimar period. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. Historian Dustin Goltz characterized this group as having carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights". "Hirschfeld's radical ideas changed the way Germans thought about sexuality." Hirschfeld was targeted by Nazis for being Jewish and gay, he was beaten up by völkisch activists in 1920, and in 1933 his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was sacked and had its books burned by Nazis. He was forced into exile in France, where he died in 1935.

Albert Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

Gustav Hirschfeld was a German classical archaeologist. He was the great-uncle of Walter Benjamin.

Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld was a German Enlightenment gardening theorist, academic in philosophy and art history in the service of Denmark and a writer, notable for several books. He advocated for sensitive Romantic gardens in the English landscape style.

Gerald Hirschfeld, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer.

Kurt Hirschfeld was a German theater director and dramaturg in Zurich.

Leopold Hirschfeld, was Hungarian Jewish brewer in Pécs, Hungary, Habsburg Empire. He founded in 1848 the Pécsi Sörfőzde.