Auerbach (surname)

Auerbach and Averbuch is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow brook. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a meadow brook. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi
• Arnold Auerbach (disambiguation), multiple people
• Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
• Artie Auerbach (1903–1957), American comedian, press photographer
• Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
• Beatrice Fox Auerbach (1887–1968), philanthropist, president and director of G. Fox & Co. from 1938 to 1959
• Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
• Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German rabbi and one of the most prominent leaders of modern Orthodox Judaism
• Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
• Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
• Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
• Dathan Auerbach, author of the novel Penpal
• David Auerbach, American writer with a background in software engineering
• Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
• Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
• Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-born American scholar of literature
• Felix Auerbach (1856–1933), German physicist
• Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
• Friedrich Auerbach (1870–1925), German chemist. He was the son of anatomist Leopold Auerbach and the brother of physicist Felix Auerbach. He was the father of geneticist Charlotte Auerbach
• Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
• Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
• Herbert S. Auerbach (1882–1945), prominent Jewish businessman in Salt Lake City and also a member of the Utah House of Representatives
• Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
• Ilya Auerbach (also known as Ilya Averbakh), Russian Jewish film maker often known by the Russianized version of the name
• Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with essentially the same name (meaning "someone from a meadow brook")
• Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies, holder of 15 patents, founding president of the International Federation for Information Processing (1960–1965), a member of the National Academy of Science, an executive at the Burroughs Corporation and a developer of first computers at Sperry Univac
• Jake Auerbach (born 1958), British film maker specialising in documentary subjects. Though his films have ranged across the cultural spectrum he is best known for his portraits of artists both contemporary and historical
• Jerold Auerbach, American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College
• Johann Gottfried Auerbach (1697–1753), Austrian painter and etcher
• Johann Karl Auerbach (1723–1780s), Austrian painter
• Larry Auerbach (1923-2014), American television director and National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
• Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967), American artist
• Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach (1882–1941), Polish classical philologist of Jewish background
• Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist known for his research of Cnidospora
• Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620–1689), Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator born in Vienna at the beginning of the 17th century
• Neil Auerbach (born 1958), private equity investor known for his leadership role in clean energy investment
• Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
• Paul Auerbach (born 1951), American physician and author in the discipline, wilderness medicine
• Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
• Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
• Rokhl Auerbakh (1903–1976), Polish-Israeli writer, essayist, historian, and Holocaust scholar
• Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
• Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
• Stephen Auerbach, Santa Monica, California based American filmmaker best known for two documentary films that aired on A+E Networks in 2015: "The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case," and "O.J. Speaks: The Lost Deposition Tapes."
• Stevanne Auerbach (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
• Tauba Auerbach (born 1981), visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists' books, photography, and sculpture, lives and works in New York
• Taylor Auerbach (born 1991), Australian journalist who rose to prominence after becoming the youngest ever winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat game show, a spinoff version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
• Yuri Averbakh (born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name

• A prominent family of rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
  • Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named after Rabbi Auerbach
  • Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
  • Shmuel Auerbach (1931-2018), prominent Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel
  • Ezriel Auerbach (or Azriel Auerbach) (born 1937), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek. He is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, two renowned poskim. He was considered Rabbi Elyashiv's right-hand man in matters of halakha

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