Feder

Feder is the German word for "feather", "quill", and secondarily for "[mechanical] spring", and may refer to:

Surname

• Abraham Hyman Feder (1908-1997), American lighting designer
• Adolphe Féder (1886–1943), Jewish-Ukrainian painter and illustrator
• Dege Feder (born 1978), a multi-disciplinary Ethiopian-born artist based in Israel
• Donald A. Feder (born 1946), American media consultant, free-lance writer and World Congress of Families Communications Director
• Ed Feder (1896–1968),Australian rules footballer
• Essener Feder (or Feather), award for German-style board games
• Eva Feder Kittay, American philosopher and academic
• Galila Ron-Feder Amit (born 1949), Israeli children books author
• Gottfried Feder (1883–1941), German economist and key member of the Thule Society and of the Nazi Party
• Janet Feder, American composer and guitarist
• Gottfried Jens Feder (1939-2019), Norwegian physicist
• Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (1740–1821), German philosopher
• Johann Michael Feder (1753–1824), German Roman Catholic theologian
• Judy Feder, professor of Public Policy
• Kenneth Feder, professor of archaeology
• Naftali Feder (1920–2009), Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for the Alignment (1977-84)
• Paula Marie Mathilde Illemann Feder (1893–1967), Danish actor and educator
• Robert Feder (born 1956), media blogger
• Robert Arthur Feder (1909-1986), American screenwriter and film producer
• Tobias Gutmann Feder (c. 1760–1817), Maskilic writer, poet, and grammarian
• Galila Ron-Feder Amit (born 1949), Israeli author

Others

• Feder (DJ), French DJ and music producer
• Feder (fencing), an early modern practice or sparring weapon derived from the longsword
• Feder Grotesk, a "stressed" sans-serif type introduced by Jakob Erbar in 1910
• Olami–Feder–Christensen model, an earthquake model conjectured to be an example of self-organized criticality

See also

• Olami–Feder–Christensen model, an earthquake model
• Fader (disambiguation)