Abramowicz

Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews,[1][2] for whom it is commonly Hebraized to Ben-Avraham (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel.

A similar surname of peoples from the former Yugoslavia is Abramović.

Some people with these names include:

Abramowicz (Polish)

  • Andrzej Abramowicz (died 1763) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman.
  • Danny Abramowicz (1945-), American football player
  • Halina Abramowicz, Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University and Max Planck Institute
  • Hirsz Abramowicz (1881–1960), prominent Yiddish historian and writer[3]
  • Kazimierz Abramowicz (1889–1936), Polish mathematician
  • Leo Abramowicz (1889–1978), Jewish Austrian painter
  • Lisa Abramowicz, American television and radio host
  • Manuel Abramowicz (born 1967), Belgian reporter
  • Michel Abramowicz (1950-), French cinematographer
  • Michał Abramowicz (1884–1965), Russian and Soviet geologist
  • Tomasz Abramowicz (born 15 February 1979 in Ełk) is a Polish professional football player
  • Witold Abramowicz, a Polish scientist
  • Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, (1914–2007), Israeli rabbi and politician

Abramovich (Russian: Абрамо́вич)

  • Alexander Abramovich (Alexander "Sasha" Argov; 1914–95), Russian-born Israeli composer
  • Luis Abramovich (born 1962), Argentine footballer
  • Mario Abramovich (1926–2014), Argentine musician
  • Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian billionaire and former owner of Chelsea Football Club
  • Vsevolod Abramovich (1890–1913), Russian aviator
  • Yuri Abramovich (1935–2017), Soviet/Russian aircraft pilot and Hero of Russia
Abramovitch
Abramovitz
Abramowitz

References

  1. ^ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664.
  2. ^ A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location, McFarland, 13 May 2004
  3. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 1, edited by Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (Granite Hill Publishers, 2007), page 324
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