Avi is a given name, usually masculine, often a
diminutive
A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment. A (abbreviated ) is a word-formati ...
of
Avram, Avraham, etc. It is sometimes feminine and a diminutive of the Hebrew spelling of
Abigail
Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's second wife, after Saul and Ahinoam's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married ...
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People with the given name include:
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Avi
Avi is a given name, usually masculine, often a diminutive of Avram, Avraham, etc. It is sometimes feminine and a diminutive of the Hebrew spelling of Abigail.
People with the given name include:
* Avi (born 1937), Newbery award-winning Americ ...
(born 1937), Newbery award-winning American author
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Avi Arad
Avi Arad (; he, אבי ארד; born 1948) is an Israeli-American film producer who became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, and the chairman, CEO, and founde ...
(born 1948), Israeli-American businessman, founder, chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios
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Avi Avital
Avi Avital (Hebrew: אבי אביטל, born 19 October 1978) is an Israeli mandolinist. He is best known for his renditions of well-known Baroque and folk music, much of which was originally written for other instruments. He has been nominated fo ...
(born 1978), Israeli mandolin player and composer
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Avi Beker
Avi Beker ( he, אבי בקר; May 3, 1951 – June 4, 2015) was an Israeli writer, statesman, and academic. Beker served as secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 4 October 2001 to 14 October 2003.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, Avi Beker ...
(1952–2015), Israel-American political scientist
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Avi Bell
Abraham (Avi) Bell is an Israeli Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Law.
Bell received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his S.J.D. from Harvard. He interned ...
, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
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Avi Ben-Chimol
Avraham "Avi" Ben-Chimol ( he, אבי בן-שימול; born May 22, 1985) is an Israeli professional basketball player for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Premier League. He was the Israeli Premier League Assists Leader in 2018 and 2019.
Early yea ...
(born 1985), Israeli basketball player
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Avi Cohen
Avraham "Avi" Cohen ( he, אבי כהן; 14 November 1956 – 29 December 2010) was an Israeli footballer who played as a defender, and a manager. He was best known for his spells playing for two British clubs: Liverpool in England and Rangers ...
(1956–2010), Israeli footballer
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Avi Cohen (footballer, born 1962)
Avraham "Avi" Cohen (born 12 June 1962) is an Israeli former footballer who played as a right back. He is often referred as Avi Cohen II or Avi Cohen of Jerusalem to distinguish himself from the player of the same name, born in 1956.
Career
Co ...
, Israeli former footballer
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Avi Dichter
Avi Dichter ( he, אָבִי דִּיכְטֶר, ; born 14 December 1952) is an Israeli politician. A former Minister of Internal Security and Shin Bet director, he resigned from the Knesset and left Kadima in August 2012 in order to become Mi ...
(born 1952), Israeli politician, former Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Home Front Defense and Shin Bet director
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Avi Gabai
Avraham "Avi" Gabbay ( he, אַבְרָהָם "אָבִי" גַּבַּאי, born 22 February 1967) is an Israeli businessman and politician. He was CEO of the telecommunications company Bezeq from 2007 to 2013, then entered politics. He served ...
(born 1967), Israeli politician, former Minister of Environmental Protection (2015-2016)
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Avi Ivgi
Avi Ivgi ( he, אבי איבגי; born 2 October 1978) is an Israeli professional football goalkeeper who plays for Liga Alef club Hapoel Qalansawe
. He previously played for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, Hapoel Kfar Saba, Beitar Jerusalem, Hapoel Risho ...
(born 1978), Israeli football goalkeeper
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Avi Kornick
Avraham "Avi" Kornick ( he, אבי קורניק; born 2 May 1983) is an Israeli actor and is famous as a protagonist of the Israeli television series ''Split (TV series), Split'' and ''HaShminiya''.
Biography
Kornick grew up in Ramat Aviv, a prest ...
(born 1983), Israeli actor
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Avi Kaplan
Avriel Benjamin Kaplan (born April 17, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his basso profondo range and for his tenure as the vocal bass of the a cappella group Pentatonix from 2011 to 2017. As a part of the group, he relea ...
(born 1989), American-Jewish a capella singer and songwriter
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Avi Lerner
Avinoam Lerner ( he, אבי לרנר; born 13 October 1947) is an Israeli-American film producer, primarily of American action movies. Lerner is the founder and CEO of Millennium Films.
Life and career
Avi Lerner was born in Haifa, Israel), on ...
(born 1947), American-Israeli film producer
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Avi Lewis
Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born May 1967) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show ''Fault Lines'' and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs ''CounterSpin'' and ' ...
(born 1968), Canadian documentary filmmaker and former TV host
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Avi Nesher
Avi Nesher ( Hebrew: אבי נשר; born 13 December 1952) is an Israeli film producer, film director, screenwriter and actor.
Biography
Avi Nesher was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel. The child of a Romanian-born diplomat, and a mother w ...
(born 1953), Israeli film producer, director, screenwriter and actor
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Avi Nimni
Avi Nimni ( he, אבי נמני; born 26 April 1972) is a former Israeli football player and Maccabi Tel Aviv's highest ever scorer. He is regarded as one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's greatest players ever. Until 2006, he served as the captain of the I ...
(born 1972), Israeli former footballer
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Avi Pazner
Aviezer "Avi" Pazner (born 9 June 1937) is a retired Israeli diplomat and former World Chairman of Keren Hayesod - United Israel Appeal.
Biography
Avi Pazner was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk). His father was Chaim Pazner, the ...
(born 1937), Israeli retired diplomat
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Avi Peretz (footballer)
Avi Peretz (born September 2, 1971) is an Israeli former football player who last worked as a goalkeeping coach in Hapoel Haifa. In June 2020, he became the chairman of the Israel Tennis Association.
Career
Avi Peretz was born in Beersheba, a ci ...
(born 1971), Israeli former footballer
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Avi Peretz (singer)
Avi Peretz (in Hebrew אבי פרץ) sometimes transliterated Avi Perez (born on 9 December 1966) is an Israeli singer of Jewish Mizrahi music (in Hebrew מוזיקה מזרחית i.e., Muziqa mizrahit, meaning Oriental music).
Biography
Pere ...
(born 1966), Israeli singer in Mizrahi music tradition
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Avi Ran
Avi Ran (August 25, 1963 – July 11, 1987) was a goalkeeper at the Israeli football club Maccabi Haifa. Widely considered one of the greatest football players in Israel, he had a promising future which was cut short by a fatal accident.
Footb ...
(1963–1987), Israeli footballer
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Avi Rikan
Avraham "Avi" Rikan ( he, אבי ריקן; born September 10, 1988) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Maccabi Tel Aviv. His previous clubs include Maccabi Herzliya, Hapoel Petah Tikva, Beitar Jerusal ...
(born 1988), Israeli footballer
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Avi Rubin
Aviel David "Avi" Rubin (born November 8, 1967) is an expert in systems and networking security. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Se ...
(born 1967), American computer scientist and expert in systems and networking security
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Avi Sagild
Avi Sagild (22 February 1933 – 19 September 1995) was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 21 films between 1958 and 1993. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and died in Denmark.
Selected filmography
* ''The Gree ...
(1933–1995), Danish film actress
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Avi Schafer
is a Japanese professional basketball player for SeaHorses Mikawa of the B.League. He played college basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Schafer has been a member of the Japan men's national basketball team, Japan national basketba ...
(born 1998), Japanese professional basketball player
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Avi Shlaim
Avraham "Avi" Shlaim (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli-British historian, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and fellow of the British Academy. He is one of Israel's New Historians, a group of Israeli ...
(born 1945), Israeli-British professor and historian
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Avi Soffer
Avi Soffer (born 29 March 1986) is an Israeli football player. He currently plays for Hapoel Ramat Gan
Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. ( he, מועדון כדורגל הפועל רמת-גן גבעתיים, ''Moadon Kaduregel Hapoel Ramat Gan ...
(born 1986), Israeli footballer
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Avi Strool
Avraham "Avi" Strul (or Strool, he, אבי סטרול; born 18 September 1980) is a retired Israeli footballer who currently works as the CEO of Hapoel Rishon LeZion.
Early life
Strul was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family.
Being o ...
(born 1980), Israeli retired footballer
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Avi Tikva (born 1976), Israeli former footballer
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Avi Toledano
Avi Toledano ( he, אבי טולדנו; born April 4, 1948) is an Israeli singer and songwriter.
Biography
Avraham ("Avi") Toledano was born in Meknes, Morocco to a Jewish family. At the age of 5, the family relocated to Casablanca, where Toled ...
(born 1948), Israeli singer and songwriter, runner-up in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest
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Avi Wallerstein
Avi Wallerstein is a Canadian ophthalmologist and laser eye surgeon who specializes in surgical vision correction, also termed refractive eye surgery. He practises in Montreal and Toronto. In 2001, he co-founded LASIK MD with Mark Cohen. LASIK ...
, Canadian ophthalmologist and laser eye surgeon, co-founder of LASIK MD
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Avi Weiss
Avraham Haim Yosef (Avi) haCohen Weiss ( he, אברהם חיים יוסף הכהן ווייס; born June 24, 1944) is an American Open Orthodox ordained rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer, and activist who led the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in T ...
(born 1944), American rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer and activist
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Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson ( he, אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jerse ...
(born 1956), Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
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Avi Wortzman
Avraham "Avi" Wortzman ( he, אבי וורצמן, born 29 October 1970) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home. He also served as Deputy Minister of Education between 2013 and 2015.
Biography
Wortzman wa ...
(born 1970), Israeli politician, former Deputy Minister of Education (2013-2014)
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Avi Yehezkel (born 1958), Israeli former politician
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Avi Yehiel (born 1979), Israeli footballer
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