Efim is a given name, also spelled as Yefim. It is possibly derived from the Greek name Euthymios (Εὐθύμιος; ; latinized as
Euthymius). Notable people with the name include:
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Efim Alexandrov (born 1960), Russian-Jewish comedian
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Efim Bogoljubov (1889–1962), Russian-German chess grandmaster
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Efim Dzigan Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (russian: Ефим Львович Дзиган; 14 December 1898 – 31 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
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(1898–1981), Soviet film director
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Efim Etkind
Efim Etkind (russian: Ефи́м Григо́рьевич Э́ткинд, 26 February 1918, Petrograd – 22 November 1999, Potsdam) was a Soviet philologist and translation theorist.Efim Fradkin
Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Russian: ''Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин'') (November 30, 1924 – May 25, 1999) was a Russian physicist.
Fradkin was born in Shchedrin near Zhlobin (now Belarus), then in the Soviet Union, in 1924.
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(1924–1999), Russian physicist
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Efim Geller (1925–1998), Soviet chess grandmaster
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Efim Jourist
Efim Jourist (January 13, 1947 – January 13, 2007) was a Russian and German composer, accordionist and bajan player.
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Efim Jourist was born in Siberia. From 1966 until 1971 he studied at the conservatory of Gorky where he made the acquai ...
(1947–2007), Ukrainian composer
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Efim Kolbintsev
, birthname = Efim Grigoryevich Kolbintsev
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(1875–), Russian peasant, treasurer, merchant and deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from Orenburg Governorate
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Efim Motpan (born 1971), Moldovan racewalker
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Efim Shifrin (born 1956), Russian actor
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Efim Zelmanov (born 1955), Russian-American mathematician
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Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov and Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (1774–1842) and (1803–1849), Russian inventors, father and son
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Yefim Bronfman (born 1958), Russian-Israeli pianist
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Yefim Chaplits (1768–1825), ethnic Pole, general of the Russian Empire
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Yefim Chulak (born 1948), Russian former volleyball player
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Yefim Golïshev (1897–1970), Ukrainian-born painter and composer
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Yefim Karskiy (1861–1931), linguist-Slavist, ethnographer and paleographer
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Yefim Kopelyan (1912–1975), Russian actor of theater and cinema
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Yefim Moiseevich Fomin (1909–1941), Jewish-Soviet Political Commisar
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Russian masculine given names