Siskind is a German-Jewish surname meaning "sweet child", thought to have originated during the early nineteenth century period when German officials assigned surnames to Jews. People having this surname include:
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), a renowned American photographer
Amy Siskind (born 1965), an American activist and writer
Arthur Siskind (born 1938), a lawyer, businessperson, and executive director of the News Corporation Edward Siskind (1886–1955), an American football and basketball coach Jeffrey Mark Siskind, writer of the optimizing batch whole-program Scheme compiler used in the program, Stalin Jeremy Siskind, a jazz pianist taught by Sophia Rosoff Martin Siskind, former manager of artist Purvis Young, who successfully petitioned for Young to be declared mentally incompetent Murray Jay Siskind, a fictional character in the novel, White Noise Paul Siskind, composer of the opera The Sailor-Boy and the Falcon, with librettist Alan Steinberg Sarah Siskind (born 1978), an American folk singer and songwriter Scott Siskind (born 1984), American blogger and psychiatrist better known under the pseudonym Scott Alexander