Avraham (given name)

Avraham is a masculine given name, the Hebrew version of Abraham. It may refer to:

Ancient world:

• Avraham Maimuni (1186-1237), son of Maimonides and his successor as Nagid of the Egyptian Jewish community

Modern world:

• Avraham Adan (1926-2012), Israeli major general
• Avraham Avigdorov (1929-2012), Israeli soldier and recipient of the Hero of Israel award (today the Medal of Valor)
• Avraham Ben-Yitzhak (1883-1950), Israeli Hebrew poet
• Avraham Burg (born 1955), Israeli author, politician and businessman
• Avraham Danzig (1748-1820), a Posek and codifier, author of the works of Jewish law Chayei Adam and Chochmat Adam
• Avraham Deutsch (1889-1953), Israeli politician
• Avraham Eilat (born 1939), Israeli artist, educator and curator
• Avraham Even-Shoshan (1906–1984), Russian-born Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary
• Avraham Gombiner (c. 1635-1682), rabbi, Talmudist and religious authority in Poland
• Avraham Granot (1890-1962), Zionist and Israeli politician, a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence
• Avraham Harman (1914-1992), Israeli diplomat and Hebrew University of Jerusalem president
• Avraham Herzfeld (1891-1973), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
• Avraham Hirschson (born 1941), Israeli former politician convicted of embezzlement
• Avraham Katz (1931-1986), Israeli politician
• Avraham Katznelson (1888-1956), Russian-born Zionist and politician, a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence
• Avraham Menchel (born 1935), Israeli former footballer
• Avraham Neguise (born 1958), Israeli politician
• Avraham Nudelman (1910-1985), Jewish footballer
• Avraham Ofek (1935-1990), Israeli sculptor, muralist, painter and printmaker
• Avraham Ofer (1922-1977), Israeli politician who committed suicide over a corruption scandal
• Avraham Oz (born 1944), Israeli associate professor of Theatre and Hebrew and Comparative literature at the University of Haifa, translator and peace activist
• Avraham Palman (1919-2000), Israeli footballer
• Avraham Poraz (born 1945), Israeli lawyer and former politician
• Avraham Ravitz (1934-2009), Israeli politician
• Avraham Sela, Israeli historian and scholar on the Middle East and international relations
• Avraham Shekhterman (1910-1986), Israeli politician
• Avraham Shapira (1914-2007), Israeli rabbi, head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem, member and head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Avraham Yosef Shapira (1921-2000), Israeli politician and businessman
• Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro (1870–1943), last Chief Rabbi of Lithuania
• Avraham Shochat (born 1936), Israeli former politician, twice Minister of Finance
• Avraham Stern (1907-1942), one of the leaders of the Jewish paramilitary organization Irgun and later founder of the breakaway Stern Gang
• Avraham Stern (politician) (1935-1997), Israeli politician
• Avraham Trahtman (born 1944), Russian-born Israeli mathematician
• Avraham Yaski (1927-2014), Israeli architect
• Avraham Yoffe (1913-1983), Israeli general during the Six-Day War and later politician
• Avraham Yosef, Chief Rabbi of Holon, Israel, and a Sephardi representative on the Chief Rabbinate Council
• Avraham Zilberberg (1915-1980), Israeli politician