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Rivlin (Hebrew: ריבלין) is a primarily Jewish family originating from Austria and Eastern Europe, which became established in early 19th century Palestine (now Israel). There are also branches of the family in several other countries.
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The Rivlin family originated from Vienna, Austria and has over 50,000 members.[1]
The Rivlin family has held major reunions in Jerusalem in 1980 and 2009. These reunions drew thousands of family members to Jerusalem. A film, The Tribe, was made about the 1980 reunion by Lilly Rivlin.
Chronologically:
- Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), rabbi and student of the Vilna Gaon, revitalized the Ashkenazi community in Palestine
- Yosef Rivlin (1836–1896), rabbi and secretary of the Jerusalem-based Central Committee of Knesseth Israel under Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shmuel Salant
- Yosef Yoel Rivlin (1889–1971), Oriental studies scholar, Hebrew U. professor and translator
- Ronald Rivlin (1915–2005), Anglo-American physicist, developer of the Mooney-Rivlin model for calculating the mechanical behaviour of rubber and similar materials
- Jule Rivlin (1917–2002), American college men's basketball coach and professional basketball player
- Theodore J. Rivlin (1926–2006), American mathematician
- Leanne Rivlin (born 1929), an originator of the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA
- Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official
- Lilly Rivlin, (born 1936), Israeli filmmaker
- Reuven Rivlin (born 1939), President of Israel
- Nechama Rivlin (1945–2019), First Lady of Israel
- Eliezer Rivlin (1942–2013), deputy-president of the Supreme Court of Israel and chairman of the Central Elections Committee
- Avraham Rivlin (born 1946), former mashgiach at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh
- Sefi Rivlin (1947–2013), Israeli actor and comedian
- Gary Rivlin (born 1958), American journalist and author
- Michal Rivlin-Etzion, Israeli neuroscientist (graduated from the Hebrew University in 2001)[2]
- Yermi Kaplan (born 1961), son of Orah Rivlin Kaplan; Israeli singer and musician [3]
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- Related surnames
- Gary Ruvkun (born 1952), American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
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