Maurice Wertheim was an American investment banker, chess player, chess patron, art collector, environmentalist, and philanthropist. In 1927 he founded Wertheim & Co..

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.