title: Strauss (disambiguation)
text: # Strauss (disambiguation)
  
  Strauss is a common Germanic surname.
  
  Strauss or Straus may also refer to:
  
  ## Companies
  
  * Strauss Group, 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
  * Straus Clothing, a North Dakota menswear retailer
  * Engelbert Strauss, a German clothing company
  
  ## 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, an unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas
  * 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
  