Bader is a German occupational surname derived from the German word "Bad" meaning "bath". It originally referred to the owners or attendants of bathhouses, who subsequently took on other tasks including cutting hair and dentistry. List of people with surname Bader ((Romeo Bader) (born 1942 Chilean Drumer,key board player,composser rock and ballad. Alfred Bader (1924–2018), Canadian industrialist and art collector Ali Bader (born 1970), Iraqi novelist Art Bader (1886–1957), Major League Baseball player Beth Bader (born 1973), American professional golfer Clarisse Bader (1840–1902), French writer Curt Bader (born 1961), American sprint canoer David A. Bader (born 1969), American professor of computing David M. Bader, American Jewish writer Dewan Bader (born 1971), a retired U.S. soccer player Diedrich Bader (born 1966), American actor Douglas Bader (1910–1982), British fighter pilot and amputee Édouard Bader (1899–1983), French rugby union player Ernest Bader (1890–1982), English Quaker businessman and philanthropist Ernst Bader (1914–1999), German actor, composer and songwriter Ferdinand Bader (born 1981), German ski jumper Gretta Bader (1931–2014), American sculptor Harrison Bader (born 1994), American baseball player Jeffrey A. Bader (born 1945), United States Ambassador Jesse Moren Bader (1886–1963), U.S. evangelist and Christian leader Kristina Bader (born 1981), a Soviet-born German bobsledder Lore Bader (1888–1973), American pitcher Marina Rice Bader, Canadian-American writer, director, and film producer Martin Bader (born 1985), Austrian ski mountaineer Márton Báder (born 1980), Hungarian professional basketball player Menachem Bader (1895–1985), Labor Zionist Pascal Bader (born 1982), Swiss footballer Paul Bader (1883–1971), General der Artillerie in the Wehrmacht Pepi Bader (1941–2021), German bobsledder Richard F. W. Bader (1931–2012), Canadian chemist Roland Bader (born 1938), German choral conductor and music director Ryan Bader (born 1983), American mixed martial arts fighter Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), United States Supreme Court Justice Travis Bader (born 1991), American basketball player William B. Bader (1931–2016), United States politician Yaarub Bader (born 1959) minister of transport of Syria Yohanan Bader (1901–1994), Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician Given name Bader Al-Mutwa, Kuwaiti football player See also Baade (surname) Baader Badr (disambiguation) Surnames German-language surnames