Garfinkel

• Charles B. Garfinkel, New York assemblyman
• Harold Garfinkel sociologist
• Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player
• Lenora Garfinkel, American architect
• Marian Garfinkel, yoga practitioner who pioneered the use of yoga to treat carpal tunnel
• Simson Garfinkel, computer scientist, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security
• Yosef Garfinkel, Israeli archaeologist

  Variant forms

• John Garfield, American actor
• Norton Garfinkle, economist
• Richard Garfinkle, American science-fiction author

• Julius Garfinckel, American merchant, founder of Washington, D.C., based department store chain, Garfinckel's

• David Gurfinkel, Israeli cinematographer
• Goldie Steinberg, Moldovan-born American supercentenarian
• Josefa Gurfinkel, Soviet chess master
• Yisrael Guri, Russian-born Israeli politician

• Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf,", American comic book creator, newspaper cartoonist, animation and multi-media entertainment producer.