Axelrod or Akselrod (variant:
Axelrad, meaning "axle wheel") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Albert Axelrod
Albert "Albie" Axelrod (February 12, 1921 – February 24, 2004) was an American foil fencer.
He was a five-time Olympian for the US, won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, and was the only American men's foil fencer to reach the finals at the ...
(1921–2004), American Olympic medalist foil fencer
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Barry Axelrod
Barry Evan Axelrod (born August 21, 1946) is an American sports agent and lawyer who specializes in sports, entertainment and business law.
Education
He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Hist ...
(born 1946), American sports agent
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Beth Axelrod, American executive
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Daniel I. Axelrod
Daniel Isaac Axelrod (July 16, 1910 – June 2, 1998) was an American paleoecologist specializing in Tertiary Cordilleran floras, in particular correlating fossil evidence of specific floras with climate change indicators.
Biography
He received ...
(1910–1998), American paleoecologist, botanist, and geologist, known by author abbreviation "Axelrod"
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David Axelrod (born 1955), American political consultant who worked on campaigns of Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley
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David Axelrod (musician)
David Axelrod (April 17, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and producer. After starting out as a staff producer for record companies specializing in jazz, Axelrod became known by the mid-1960s in soul and jazz circle ...
(1936–2017), American classical musician
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Donald Axelrod
Donald Axelrod (January 15, 1916 – March 16, 1999) was Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Public Administration & Policy at the University at Albany (SUNYA). Axelrod also served as director of the Public Enterprise Proj ...
(1916–1999), American academic
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Dylan Axelrod
Dylan Davis Haines Axelrod (born July 30, 1985) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds.
At Santa Barbara High School Axelrod was the 2003 ...
(born 1985), American MLB baseball player
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George Axelrod
George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play ''The Seven Year Itch'' (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Mon ...
(1922–2003), American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director
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Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert Richard Axelrod (June 7, 1927 – May 15, 2017) was an American tropical fish expert, a publisher of pet books, and an entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.
Early life
Axelrod was born ...
(1927–2017), American author, publisher and ichthyologist
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David Ha'ivri
David Ha'ivri ( he, דוד העברי, born Jason David Axelrod, 1967) is an Israeli and an independent political strategist, who focuses on foreign relations, he has worked closely with Christian Zionists and leading politicians in Washington DC ...
(born 1967), Jewish-Israeli settler activist and spokesman
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Jim Axelrod
Jim Axelrod (born January 25, 1963) is the Chief Investigative Correspondent for CBS News and reports across all CBS News programs and platforms.
Axelrod was one of CBS News' embedded correspondents in Iraq and was the first TV reporter to broa ...
(born 1963), American reporter for CBS
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John Axelrod
John Neal Axelrod (born March 28, 1966, in Houston, Texas) is an American conductor. Axelrod was elected Artistic and musical director of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville in 2014(ABC de SevillaRetrieved 2014-11-26./ref> and is Principal Co ...
(born 1966), American conductor
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Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the re ...
(1912–2004), American biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970
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Lyubov Axelrod (1868–1946), Russian Marxist philosopher and revolutionary
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Max M. Axelrod (1911–2004), American philanthropist and activist
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Meer Akselrod (1902–1970), Russian painter known for paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
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Paul Axelrod (born 1949), British author and professor and dean at York University
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Pavel Akselrod
Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (russian: Па́вел Бори́сович Аксельро́д; 25 August 1850 – 16 April 1928) was an early Russian Marxist revolutionary. Along with Georgi Plekhanov, Vera Zasulich, and Leo Deutsch, he was one of ...
(1850–1928), also spelled Pavel Axelrod, Russian Menshevik revolutionary
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Robert Axelrod
Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work o ...
(born 1943), American professor of political science at the University of Michigan who has written about the evolution of cooperation
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Robert Axelrod (actor)
Robert Axelrod (died September 7, 2019), also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included ''Digimon'', having started voice acting for the English-language versions ...
(1949–2019), American actor who has been in movies and TV shows, often as a voice actor
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Victor Axelrod
Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias ...
, American independent music producer and artist
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