List of Famous people with last name Fischer

Bruce M. "Bear" Fischer was an American actor, best known for playing the prisoner and rapist Wolf Grace, in the 1979 film, Escape from Alcatraz. Fischer also played a rapist in Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), and Mr. Cooger in the film Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). His other film credits include The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) and Grim Prairie Tales (1990) as an undead gunman. In addition Fischer was one of the Beauregard Brothers on TV's Dukes of Hazzard.

Madeleine Fischer was a Swiss actress who was active in the Cinema of Italy.

Otto Peter Leck Fischer was a Danish writer and playwright. He was the brother of the politician Viggo Kampmann. Fischer was a socially conscious writer that portrayed the modern urban man with a sad, gray everyday life. His literary style was cool and matter-of-fact. Fischer was read and appreciated in his day, but he has since been forgotten, perhaps because he was so closely associated with the time in which he lived and which he portrayed. Fischer made a name for himself in many genres: novels, films, and radio drama. He is buried at Mariebjerg Cemetery in Gentofte.

Adolph Fischer was an anarchist and labor union activist tried and executed after the Haymarket Riot.