Melamed (surname)

Melamed is a Hebrew surname. "Melamed" translates to "teacher" from the Hebrew language and came into different languages in different spellings, e.g. Malamud, Malamed, Melamid, etc.

Melamed (Hebrew: מלמד‎)
Origin
Language(s)Hebrew

Some variants of the spelling should not be confused with "Malamute" or "Malemute".

Those with the surname include:

  • Abraham Melamed, former member of Knesset from National Religious Party
  • Douglas Melamed, one of the founding fathers of law & economics
  • Fred Melamed, U.S actor and writer
  • Guy Melamed, an Israeli soccer defender
  • Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and a longtime executive in the field of global derivatives
  • Rabbi Meir Melamed, financier to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain in the house of Arbarbanel during the Jewish Inquisition in 1492.
  • Tatiana Melamed, Ukrainian and German chess grandmaster
  • Vince Melamed, an American keyboardist and songwriter
  • Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Israeli-American philosopher
  • Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, the rosh yeshiva of the Beit El yeshiva in Beit El
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