Bibas or Peppas ( ar, بيباص; el, πέππας; he, ביבאס) is a Greek

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derived from the word παππάς or παπάς, and it means

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. the surname is used in Greece and various places in the Mediterranean, like Libya, Israel. for Israel, the surname is exists in Jews families of Greek origin where migrated to it. In Libya and due to the influence of Greek in the local dialect, someone nicknamed with this because of the similarity of his appearance to the "peppas" which is called for the Christian priests, thus it became a surname for extended families from him, residents in

Janzur Janzur or Janzour ( ar, جَنْزُور ), also known as Zanzur, is a city in north-western Libya, situated on the Libyan coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, located in the west of the capital Tripoli, and East of Az-Zawiya. Residents of this ci ...

as well as in other places in Libya, also in Tunisia and Algeria. Also exists in the United States for families of Greek origin.

People with the surname

Notable people with the surname include: *

Christos Peppas Christos Peppas ( el, Χρήστος Πέππας; born 1899, date of death unknown) was a Greek football player. He was born in Piraeus. He played for the club Piraikos Enosi. He was member of the Greek team for the 1920 Olympic Games The 19 ...

Haim Bibas Haim Bibas ( he, חיים ביבס; born 1 December 1969) is the third mayor of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, an Israeli city, in office since 2008. Bibas has lived there with his wife and three children since 1997. He is the head of The Federation of L ...

James Pipas James M. Pipas is an American molecular virologist. He currently holds the Herbert W. and Grace Boyer Chair in Molecular Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. Pipas is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, and completed his Ph. ...

, American virologist *

June Peppas June Peppas (June 16, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a first basewoman and pitcher who played from 1948 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , , she batted and threw left-handed. Early life Peppas was bor ...

Nicholas A. Peppas Nicholas (Nikolaos) A. Peppas ( gr, Νικόλαος Α. Πέππας; born August 25, 1948 in Athens, Greece) is a Chemical engineering, chemical and Biomedical engineering, biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterial, biomaterials science ...

Stephanos Bibas Stephanos Bibas (born 1969) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench, Bibas was a professor of law and criminology and director of the Supreme ...

Yehuda Bibas Yehuda Aryeh Leon Bibas (or Judah Bibas) ( he, יהודה אריה ליאון ביבאס) (1789 – April 6, 1852) was a Sephardic rabbi, the rabbi of Corfu and was the first of the precursors of modern Zionism. Biography Early life Bibas was ...

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