title: Mass (surname)
text: # Mass (surname)
  
  Mass is a surname with either following meaning and origin:
  
  * North German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Thomas. Compare Maas, Mas.
  * Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from German Mass 'measure', 'measurement'.
  
  People surnamed Mass include:
  
  * Isaac Mass (born 1976), a Massachusetts politician
  * Lawrence D. Mass (born 1946), American physician and writer who wrote the first press reports on the disease AIDS
  * Wayne Mass (1946–2019), American football player
  * Wendy Mass (born 1967), author of young adult and children's books
  
  Fictional characters include:
  
  * Miss Mass, in the Marvel Comics universe
  * Sayla Mass, in the Universal Century Gundam universe
  