Spiegel is a surname of German origin. In German language Spiegel means mirror.
Spiegel is an ancient German Christian surname. Family tradition says it was taken from a town or lake named Spiegel. There is a small community south of Munich named Spiegel. The name Spiegel goes back to at least the 12th century, when the Spiegel family were barons of Desenburg and Peckelsheim in Hessen; one noted person was Heinrich III Spiegel zum Desenberg (1361–80), Bishop of Paderborn.
There are also a significant number of Jewish people with the surname, and it is said that this name originated from a house sign in the Frankfurt am Main (Judengasse) picturing a mirror. The form Spiegel is documented in Frankfurt am Main since the 16th century. Variants are Szpiegel, Schpiegel, Shpi(e)gel, Şpighel, etc.
People with the surname Spiegel Adam Spiegel aka Spike Jonze (born 1969), American film director Anne Spiegel (born 1980), German politicians (The Greens) Arthur Spiegel, Chicago mail-order businessman and early American film studio executive Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel (1920–2002), Jewish resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising David Spiegel (born 1945), son of Herbert Spiegel, American psychiatrist and medical hypnotist Edward A. Spiegel (1931–2020), American astrophysicist Evan Spiegel (born 1990), American entrepreneur, inventor of Snapchat Friedrich (von) Spiegel (1820–1905), an orientalist at the University of Erlangen Giora Spiegel (born 1947), a Jewish-Israeli footballer and manager Herbert Spiegel (1914–2009), American psychiatrist and medical hypnotist, who treated the woman known as Sybil Isaiah Spiegel (1906–1990), Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, Holocaust survivor Jacob Spiegel (1902–1984), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Joseph Spiegel (1840–1918), founder of Spiegel Catalog Laurie Spiegel (born 1945), an American composer Marcus M. Spiegel (1829–1864), Colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War Murray R. Spiegel (1923–1991), American mathematician Paul Spiegel (1937–2006), leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Sam Spiegel (1901–1985), Polish-born film producer Sam Spiegel (musician), American producer/DJ and brother of Spike Jonze Samuel A. Spiegel (1914–1977), American lawyer, politician, and judge Sarah Spiegel, American singer Scott Spiegel (1957–2025), American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor Simon Spiegel (born 1977), Swiss German privatdozent for film studies and critic Tilly Spiegel (1906–1988), European wartime resistance activist and postwar researcher into victims of Nazism
Fictional Spike Spiegel, Bounty hunter, pilot and former gangster; a character in Cowboy Bebop
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See also
Spiegl Spiegle Spiegler Spiegelmann Spigel