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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
A prominent family of Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
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