Auerbach (surname)

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

  • Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi
  • Abraham Dov Auerbach [he] (1926–2008), Israeli rabbi
  • Abraham Dov Auerbach (Tiberias) [he] (1935–2021), Israeli rabbi
  • Alan J. Auerbach (born 1951), American economist
  • Alexander Auerbach [de] (born 1988), German handball player
  • Alexander Andreevich Auerbach [ru] (1844–1916), Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist
  • Alfred Auerbach [de] (1873–1954), German actor and writer
  • 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
  • Baruch Auerbach [de] (1793–1864), German-Jewish educator
  • 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 Auerbach [de] (1855–1940), German physician
  • Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German Orthodox rabbi
  • Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
  • Chaim Auerbach [he] (1839–?), Polish rabbi
  • Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), Israeli rabbi
  • Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
  • Christopher Auerbach-Brown [de] (born 1970), American composer and music educator
  • Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach [de] (1900–1997), German musicologist and author
  • 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
  • Doron Aurbach (born 1952), Israeli electrochemist, materials and surface scientist
  • Eldad Auerbach [he] (1914–2003), Israeli military man and businessman
  • Elizaveta Borisovna Auerbach [ru] (1912–1995), Soviet actress of theater and cinema, pop, writer
  • Ella Auerbach (1900–1999), one of the first female German lawyers
  • Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
  • Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
  • Ephraim Auerbach [he] (1892-1973), Yiddish writer, poet, editor and translator
  • 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
  • Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
  • Gerhard Auerbach [de], German football player
  • Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
  • Herbert S. Auerbach (1882–1945), Jewish businessman and politician
  • Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
  • Ilya Auerbach (also known as Ilya Averbakh), Russian Jewish filmmaker
  • Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with a related name ("someone from a meadow brook")
  • Isaac Auerbach (architect) [de] (1827–1875), German architect
  • Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies
  • Yitzhak Auerbach [he] (1877–1951), Israeli rabbi
  • Itzhak Itzik Auerbach [he] (1846-?), Polish rabbi
  • Ivan Bogdanovich Auerbach [ru] (1815–1867), Russian geologist and mineralogist, professor
  • Jacob Auerbach (1810–1887), German educator and writer
  • Jake Auerbach (born 1958), British documentary film maker
  • Jerold Auerbach (born 1936), American historian
  • John Auerbach [he] (1922–2002), Israeli writer in the English
  • Johann Gottfried Auerbach (1697–1753), Austrian painter and etcher
  • Johann Karl Auerbach (1723–1780s), Austrian painter
  • Joseph Danziger Auerbach, Yiddish writer
  • Larry Auerbach (1923–2014), American television director and National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America
  • Leonore Auerbach [de] (born 1933), German politician
  • Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician
  • Leopold Auerbach (jurist) [de] (1847–1925), German jurist and historian
  • Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
  • Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967), American artist
  • Ludwig Auerbach [de] (1840–1882), German merchant, jeweler and poet
  • Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach (1882–1941), Polish classical philologist
  • Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist
  • Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
  • Menachem Nata Auerbach [he] (1858–1930), Rabbi in the Land of Israel
  • Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620–1689), Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator
  • Neil Auerbach (born 1958), private equity investor
  • Nikolai Konstantinovich Auerbach [ru] (1892–1930), Soviet scientist, archaeologist, local historian
  • Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
  • Paul Auerbach (1951–2021), American physician who wrote about wilderness medicine
  • Philipp Auerbach [de] (1906–1952), Head of the Bavarian State Compensation Office
  • Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach
  • Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
  • Rokhl Auerbakh (1903–1976), Polish-Israeli writer and Holocaust scholar
  • Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
  • Siegmund Auerbach [de] (1866–1923), German neurologist
  • Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American historian better known as James S. Allen
  • Solomon Heymann Auerbach (died 1836), Hebrew scholar and translator
  • Stephen Auerbach, American filmmaker
  • Stevanne Auerbach (1938–2022), also known as Dr. Toy, American child development expert
  • Tauba Auerbach (born 1981), visual artist
  • Taylor Auerbach (born 1991), Australian journalist and winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat
  • Thomas Auerbach [de] (1947–2020), civil rights activist in the GDR
  • Walter Auerbach [de] (1905–1975), German politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
  • Wilfried Auerbach (born 1960), Austrian rower
  • Willi Auerbach (born 1980), German illusionist
  • Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
  • Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022), Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name


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