Pistorius

Pistorius or Pistor (from Latin pistor meaning miller or baker) are Latinized surnames, corresponding to the Dutch Bakker or the German Becker and German Müller.

Notable people with the surname include:

Pistorius

• Boris Pistorius (born 1960), German politician
• Calie Pistorius, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria
• Caren Pistorius, South African actress
• Charlotte Pistorius (1777–1850), German poet
• Eduard Pistorius [de], German artist
• Hermann Andreas Pistorius (1730–1798), German Protestant-Lutheran theologian and philosopher
• Johannes Pistorius (disambiguation), several people
• Martin Pistorius, South African web designer and author
• Micki Pistorius, South African forensic psychologist and author
• Oscar Pistorius (born 1986), South African double-amputee athlete and convicted murderer

Pistor

• Johann Jakob Pistor, 18th-century German general who served in the Imperial Russian army
• Ludger Pistor (born 1959), German actor

See also

• Demian, a novel by Hermann Hesse, in which one of the characters is named Pistorius
• Pastorius (disambiguation)
• H Pistorius & Co, a South African company