Kantor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Kantor, American actor and singer Gergely Kántor (born 1999), Hungarian chess grandmaster Isaiah Kantor (or Issai Kantor), mathematician Istvan Kantor, Hungarian-born Canadian performance artist Jodi Kantor, New York Times journalist Loli Kantor (born 1952), French-born Israeli-American photographer MacKinlay Kantor, American novelist and screenwriter Maxim Kantor, Russian painter and writer Mickey Kantor, American lawyer and politician Piotr Kantor, Polish volleyball player Roman Kantor (1912–1943), Polish épée fencer killed by the Nazis Seligmann Kantor (1857–1903), Bohemian mathematician Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter and theatre director Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, Russian businessman, philanthropist and Jewish leader William Kantor (born 1944), American mathematician See also Cantor (surname) Kantorov (surname) Kanter, surname Jewish surnames