Oppenheimer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: In arts and media Alan Oppenheimer (born 1930), American film actor Andrés Oppenheimer (born 1951), Argentine author and journalist known for his analysis of Latin American politics Jerry Oppenheimer, American biographer Jess Oppenheimer (1913–1988), American radio and television writer, producer, and director, creator of I Love Lucy Joel Oppenheimer (1930–1988), American writer Joshua Oppenheimer (born 1974), American film director Lillian Oppenheimer (1898–1992), American origami pioneer Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Austrian painter and graphic artist Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer on genetics and human prehistory In business Minerals Bernard Oppenheimer (1866–1921), South African and British diamond merchant and philanthropist, brother of Ernest Ernest Oppenheimer (1880–1957), diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier; controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, brother of Bernard Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908–2000), South African businessman of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, son of Ernest Nicky Oppenheimer (born 1945), chairman of De Beers and of The Diamond Trading Company, son of Harry Other businesses Damon Oppenheimer (born 1962), Vice President and Director of Amateur Scouting for the New York Yankees Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698–1738), financial adviser to Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg Samuel Oppenheimer (1635–1703), Jewish banker Peter Oppenheimer, American business executive, first CFO of Apple Inc In government and law Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer (1916–2011), lawyer and Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico David Oppenheimer (1834–1897), second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Kay Oppenheimer, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Santiago Oppenheimer (1869 – ca. 1930), mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1906 Suzi Oppenheimer (born 1934), New York politician In science and academia Clive Oppenheimer (born 1964), British volcanologist Daniel M. Oppenheimer, American professor of psychology at UCLA Frank Oppenheimer (1912–1985), American physicist, brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), German sociologist and political economist Hillel Oppenheimer (1899–1971), Israeli professor of botany, son of Franz Jane M. Oppenheimer (1911–1996), American embryologist and historian of science J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), American physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" Katherine Oppenheimer (1910–1972), German-American biologist, wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer Michael Oppenheimer, American professor of geosciences at Princeton University, authority on climate change Rebecca Oppenheimer (born 1972), American astrophysicist Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), British popular science writer in prehistory In other fields Damon Oppenheimer