Efron is a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
surname.
It is taken from the Biblical place name, he, עפרון. Another version to it is the
demonym Efroni ().
Notable people with the surname include:
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Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lead ...
(born 1938), American statistician
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Edith Efron
Edith Efron (; 1922 – April 20, 2001) was an American journalist and author.
Biography
Efron was born in New York. Graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where Efron studied under journalist John Chamberla ...
(1922–2001), American libertarian
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Inés Efron
Inés Efron (born May 9, 1984 in Mexico City) is an Argentine actress.
Career
Before ''XXY'', Inés Efron starred in ''Glue'', a drama about three teenagers set in a small town in a remote town in Uruguay. In her '' XXY'' role, Efron's charact ...
(born 1984), Argentine actress
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Marshall Efron
Marshall Efron (February 3, 1938 – September 30, 2019) was an American actor and humorist originally known for his work on the listener-sponsored Pacifica radio stations WBAI New York and KPFK Los Angeles, and later for the PBS television sho ...
(1938-2019), American actor
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Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron ( ; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award for ...
(1941–2012) playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director
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Paloma Efron (1912–1977), Argentine singer
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Sergei Efron (1893–1941), Russian poet, officer of White Army and later NKVD agent
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Zac Efron (born 1987), American actor and singer
See also
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Efron's dice, a set of four nontransitive dice invented by Bradley Efron
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Ephron Ephron is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Ephron (biblical figure), Hittite who sold a cave to Abraham according to the Bible
*A family of American writers:
** Henry Ephron (1911–1992), father
** Phoebe Ephron (1914 ...
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Effron
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:sv:Vera Efron (born 1959), an editor and author in Sweden
References
{{surname, Efron
Jewish surnames
Hebrew-language surnames