Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel etc. Notable people with the surname include:Charles B. Garfinkel (1890–1969), New York assemblyman Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) sociologist Jack Garfinkel (1918–2013), American basketball player Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), 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
