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Mass (surname)
Mass
is a
surname
with either following meaning and origin:
North
German
and Dutch: from a
short form
of the
personal name
Thomas
. Compare
Maas
,
Mas
.
Jewish :
metonymic
occupational name
from German 'measure', 'measurement'.
People
surnamed Mass include:
Isaac Mass, a Massachusetts
politician
Lawrence D. Mass,
American
physician and writer who wrote the first
press
reports on the
disease
AIDS
Wayne Mass,
American football
player
Wendy Mass, author of
young adult
and
children's books
, in the
Marvel Comics universe
Sayla Mass, in the
Universal Century
Gundam
universe