Strauss (disambiguation)
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Strauss is common Germanic surname.
Strauss or Straus may also refer to:
Companies
- Strauss (company), food manufacturer in Israel
- Straus Family Creamery, a California organic dairy in Marin County
- Abraham & Straus, former major New York City department store co-founded by Isidor and Nathan Straus
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, American book-publishing company
- Karl Strauss Brewing Company, a San Diego, California-based beer business with a microbrewery and a chain of brewpub restaurants, co-founded by Karl Strauss
- Levi Strauss & Co., clothiers
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Company of Chicago, an engineering firm founded by Joseph Strauss, chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge
- Strauss Radio Strategies, an American radio communications firm
Buildings
- Straus Hall, dormitory housing first-year students at Harvard College named after Isidor Straus and Ida Straus
- Straus Education Building, at the University of Louisiana at Monroe
- Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, or Strauss Center, at the University of Texas at Austin
Places and geographic features
- Strauss Airfield, a World War II airfield near Noonamah, Northern Territory, Australia
- Strauss Glacier, in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica
- Straus Park, a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
- Straus Street, a north-south road in north-central Jerusalem
- Straussee, a lake in Strausberg, Brandenburg, Germany, occasionally translated as "Lake Straus"
Other uses
- 22647 Lévi-Strauss, a main-belt minor planet
- Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, United States Supreme Court decision concerning the scope of rights accorded owners of a copyright
- Straus flask, a type of Schlenk flask used in air sensitive chemistry
- Strauss–Howe generational theory, created by authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, identifies a recurring generational cycle in American history
- USS Straus (DE-408), a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy
- USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16), a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer of the United States Navy
See also
- Strausse, a type of wine tavern in winegrowing areas of German-speaking countries that is only open during certain times of the year
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