Wasserstein is a surname and can refer to:
Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), a German-born British and Israeli classicist Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948), a British historian Bruce Wasserstein (1947–2009), an American former investment banker and former CEO of Lazard Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), an American playwright Leonid Nasonovich Vasershtein, a Russian-American mathematician
It is also used to name: Wasserstein metric, a mathematical distance measure Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank, part of Dresdner Bank Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank built by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph R. Perella