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
• Sławomir Abramowicz (born 2004), Polish footballer
• 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

• Raphael Abramovitch (1880–1963), Russian socialist

Abramovitz

• Max Abramovitz (1908–2004), American architect
• Moses Abramovitz (1912–2000), American economist and professor
• Orit Abramovitz, Israeli Olympic athlete
• S. Y. Abramovitz aka Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Jewish author from Belarus

Abramowitz

• Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz (1902–1995), American Hasidic rebbe
• Dov Ber Abramowitz (1860–1926), American Rabbi
• Pinchas Abramowitz, (1909–1986), Israeli artist
• Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), American mathematician
• Sid Abramowitz (1960-), American football player
• Morton I. Abramowitz (born 1933), American diplomat
• Yosef Abramowitz (born 1964), Israeli businessman

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