Zalman (name)

Shneur Zalman of Liadi, author of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav and Tanya. Also the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and the oldest still operating charity organization in Israel Colel Chabad (established 1788).
- The compound name "Shneur Zalman" is common among people of Hasidic Chabad affiliation, derived from their founder, Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

Zalman Aran, Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician (also Zalman Aranne)
Zinovy Gerdt (born Zalman Khrapinovich), Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor
Zalman Grinberg, Lithuanian/Israeli/American doctor, Holocaust survivor
Zalman King, American film director, writer, actor and producer
- Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries, TV series by the above
Zalman Kornblit, Romanian Jewish playwright
Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, one of two Grand Rebbes of the Satmar Hasidim (full name Zalman Leib Teitelbaum or Zalman Leib Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum)
Zalman Melamed, Israeli settler Rabbi (full name Zalman Baruch Melamed)
Zalmen Mlotek, American conductor, composer, musician, and Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi (known familiarly as "Reb Zalman Moishe")
Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Israeli Rabbi
Zalman Schachter, Polish-born American Rabbi (full name Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)
Zalman Schocken, German Jewish, (later Israeli) publisher
Zalman Shazar, President of Israel
Zalman Shoval, Israeli politician and diplomat
Zalman Shragai, Mayor of Jerusalem
Zalman Sorotzkin, East European (later Israeli) Rabbi
Zalman Usiskin, American mathematician
Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky, Canadian rock musician
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, a Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist

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