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 (1898–1981), Soviet film director
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Efim Etkind (1918–1999), Russian philologist
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Efim Fradkin (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.
Life
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
, nationality = Russian
, image = Ефим Григорьевич Колбинцев (1875 — после 1917) в 1913.png
, caption = photo of 1913
, office = ...
(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