People named Oppenheimer include

• Alan Oppenheimer , a film actor.
• David Oppenheimer, a Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Frank Oppenheimer, Robert's younger brother and also a physicist.
• Franz Oppenheimer a German sociologist and political economist.
• Harry Oppenheimer, a South African businessman.
• Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer, a Puerto Rican criminal better known as Isabel la Negra.
• Jess Oppenheimer, a screenwriter writing for Lucille Ball.
• Joseph Suss Oppenheimer "the Jew Suss" (ca 1698-1738), financial advisor to Karl Alexander, Duke of Wurttemberg .
• Max Oppenheimer, birth name of Max Ophüls, a German film actor.
• Nicky Oppenheimer, son and heir of Harry Oppenheimer from South Africa.
• Robert Oppenheimer, an American physicist and "the father of the atomic bomb."