Schaefer (disambiguation)

Schaefer (along with various similar spellings) is a surname of Germanic origin.

Schaefer, Schaffer, or Shafer may also refer to:

Places

Cities and towns:

• Schaffer, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Rush County
• Shafer, Minnesota, a city in Chisago County
• Shafer Township, Chisago County, Minnesota, the township adjacent to the city
• Schaffer, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Delta County
• Schafer, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in McKenzie County

Landforms

• Lake Shafer, Indiana
• Schaefer Head, mountain in Pennsylvania
• Schaefer Islands, Antarctica
• Shafer Peak, Antarctica
• Shaffer Creek, a tributary of Brush Creek in Bedford County, Pennsylvania

Other uses

• Schäferhund, German Shepherd Dog
• Schaefer Beer, a brand of beer from the United States
• Shaffer (company), a wholly owned subsidiary of National Oilwell Varco
• Schaefer Music Festival, formerly an annual music festival held in New York City's Central Park
• Schaffer paragraph, a five-sentence paragraph style developed by Jane Schaffer, used to write essay
• Willi Schaefer, a German wine grower and producer based in the Mosel wine region of Germany.

See also

• Schaeffer (surname)
• Schafer automation system, a system for automating radio station programming
• Schaefer-Bergmann diffraction, the resulting diffraction pattern of light interacting with sound waves in transparent crystals or glasses
• Schaffer collaterals, given off by CA3 pyramidal cells in the hippocampus
• Shafer Commission, another name for the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse formed in the 1970s to study marijuana abuse in the United States
• Schaefer's theorem, either of two unrelated mathematical theorems