Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Strauss, the German word for ostrich, is also the surname of a number of notable figures: Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist Cristoph Strauss (around 1580 - 1631), composer Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916), composer, son of Johann I Franz Strauss (1822 - 1905), horn player and composer Ida Straus, died in in the sinking of the Titanic, wife of Isadore Isadore Straus, owner of R.H. Macy Co Johann Strauss I (1804 - 1849), composer, popularizer of the waltz Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899), composer, son of Johann I, known as the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss III (1866 - 1939), composer, son of Eduard Josef Strauss (1827 - 1870), composer, son of Johann I Leo Strauss, political philosopher of Straussianism Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949), composer, son of Franz This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.