Finkel or Finckel is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. Notable people with the name include: * Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist * Aryeh Finkel,

rosh yeshiva Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primar ...

of the Brachfeld branch of the Mir yeshiva *

Benjamin Finkel 250px Benjamin Franklin Finkel (July 5, 1865 – February 5, 1862) was a mathematician and educator most remembered today as the founder of the American Mathematical Monthly journal. Born in Fairfield County, Ohio and educated in small country sc ...

, American mathematician and educator *

Binyomin Beinush Finkel Rabbi Binyomin Beinush Finkel (1911 – February 13, 1990) was the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem. Biography He was born in Mir, Belarus, where his father Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel was the rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva. R ...

, rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1965–1990 *

Caroline Finkel Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Publications Her book ''Osman's Dream, History of the Ottoman Empi ...

, British historian * Edwin Finckel, jazz composer *

Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Eliezer Yehuda Finkel may refer to one of the two rosh yeshivas of the Mir yeshivas: * Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879) (1879–1965), also known as Reb Leizer Yudel, rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Poland and Jerusalem * Eliezer Yehuda Finke ...

, rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Poland and in Jerusalem from 1917–1965 *

, current rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem *

Eliyahu Boruch Finkel Eliyahu Boruch Finkel (25 December 1947 – March 31, 2008) was an influential ''maggid shiur'' (lecturer) at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem. Biography He was born in Jerusalem, Israel to Rabbi Moshe Finkel, son of the rosh yeshiva of the Mir ...

, a lecturer at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem *

Frank Finkel Frank Finkel (January 29, 1854 – August 28, 1930) was an American who rose to prominence late in his life and after his death for his claims to being the only survivor of George Armstrong Custer's famed "Last Stand" at the Battle of the Little B ...

, American who claimed to have been the only survivor of the

Battle of the Little Bighorn The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Nor ...

Fyvush Finkel Philip "Fyvush" Finkel ( yi, פֿײַוויש פֿינקעל; October 9, 1922 – August 14, 2016) was an American actor known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series ''Picket Fences'', ...

, American actor *

George Finkel George Finkel (July 29, 1936 – April 17, 2019) was an American television sports producer and director. He was the son of architect Maurice Herman Finkel. He graduated from University of Michigan in 1958. Finkel worked for NBC Sports from Aug ...

, TV sports producer and director *

Irving Finkel Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in c ...

, British philologist and Assyriologist *

Howard Finkel Howard Finkel (June 7, 1950 – April 16, 2020) was an American professional wrestling ring announcer, best known for his appearances in WWE. He began working for Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in 1975, and was a Mad ...

, professional wrestling announcer *

Jon Finkel Jon Finkel (born May 18, 1978)Jon Finkel 2006 Pro Player card (from the Magic: The Gathering Time Spiral expansion) is an American ''Magic: The Gathering'' and poker player. Finkel is one of the most decorated players in the history of profess ...

, American Magic: The Gathering champion *

Maurice Herman Finkel Maurice Herman Finkel (1888–1949) was an American architect and Yiddish theater actor, known for buildings designed in and near Detroit, Michigan, where he had his career. Born in Bessarabia, part of the Russian Empire, he immigrated to New York ...

, Yiddish theatre performer * Miriam Dorothy (Posner) Finkel, American

radiobiologist Radiobiology (also known as radiation biology, and uncommonly as actinobiology) is a field of clinical and basic medical sciences that involves the study of the action of ionizing radiation on living things, especially health effects of radiation. ...

who made significant contributions to

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

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Moishe Finkel Moishe Finkel (c. 1850 – June 7, 1904) (also known as MorrisJones 2006. or Maurice Finkel) was a prominent figure in the early years of Yiddish theater. He was business partner first of Abraham Goldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko (the greate ...

, Yiddish theatre manager * Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Alter of Slabodka * Nosson Tzvi Finkel, rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1990–2008 *

Raphael Finkel Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of ''An Operating Systems Vade Mecum'',Shelly Finkel Sheldon "Shelly" Finkel (born June 27, 1944) is an American boxing and music manager and promoter. Finkel received the Boxing Writers Association of America ''Manager of the Year'' award in 1990 and 1993. He was inducted into the International ...

, American boxing promoter *

Terri H. Finkel Terri H. Finkel (born 1953) is an American pediatric rheumatologist and immunologist who is the Children's Foundation of Memphis Endowed Chair and tenured professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and St. Jude C ...

, American pediatric rheumatologist and immunologist

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