Horwitz is a surname, current among

Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

Jew 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""Th ...

s. It is derived from the

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

pronunciation of the name of the town of

Hořovice Hořovice (; german: Horschowitz, Horvitz, Horowitz) is a town in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,900 inhabitants. Administrative parts Hořovice is made up of only one administrative part. His ...

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

. For detailed historical background see the

Horowitz Horowitz ( he, הוֹרוֹביץ, yi, האָראָװיץ) is a Levitical Ashkenazi surname deriving from the Horowitz family, though it can also be a non Jewish surname as well. The name is derived from the town of Hořovice, Bohemia. Other varia ...

page . Notable people with the surname include: * Arnold Horwitz (later

Arnold Horween Arnold Horween (originally Arnold Horwitz; also known as A. McMahon; July 7, 1898 – August 5, 1985) was an American college and professional American football player and coach. He played and coached both for Harvard University and in the Nati ...

), American football player for Harvard Crimson and in the NFL *

Bella Horwitz Bella Ḥazzan, , was an 18th-century Bohemian Yiddish writer. She was the daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died at Prague in 1713. In 1705 she published ''Geshikhte des hoyzes ...

, 18th century Bohemian writer *

Bernhard Horwitz Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885 in London) was a German and British chess master, chess writer and chess composer. Horwitz was born in Neustrelitz and went to school in Berlin, where he studied art. From 1837 to 1843, he was part ...

(1807-1885), German chess player *

Brian Horwitz Brian Jeffery Horwitz, nicknamed "The Rabbi", (born November 7, 1982) is an American former baseball outfielder who played for the San Francisco Giants in 2008, and won two minor league batting titles. Baseball career High school A native of San ...

(born 1982), American major league baseball outfielder * Jacob H. Horwitz (1892–1992), American businessman, philanthropist and fashion innovator. * Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903 – 1952), Curly Howard, of the ''Three Stooges'' *

David Horwitz David Jason Horwitz (born 30 September 1994), commonly referred to as Dave, is an Australian rugby union player who plays as a Centre for Sydney rugby club Randwick. He formerly played for Irish rugby club Connacht and domestically New South Wal ...

(born 1994), Australian rugby union player *

Kai Horwitz Kai Horwitz (born 9 April 1998) is a Chilean Olympic alpine skier. Early and personal life Horwitz was born in Santiago, Chile, and is Jewish. His sister Nadja Horwitz represented Chile in sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeir ...

(born 1998), Chilean Olympic alpine skier *

Maksymilian Horwitz Maksymilian Horwitz (pseudonym: ''Henryk Walecki''; 6 September 1877 – 20 September 1937) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish socialist and communist movement. Biography Maksymilian Horwitz was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, the s ...

, aka Henryk Walecki (1877–1937), leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement * Morton Horwitz (born 1938), legal historian and law professor * Moses Harry Horwitz, a.k.a. Moe Howard, of the ''Three Stooges'' *

Phineas Jonathan Horwitz Phineas Jonathan Horwitz (March 3, 1822 – September 18, 1904) was an American surgeon. Biography Born in Baltimore, Phineas was the son of immigrant Dr. Jonathan (Jonas) Horwitz and his wife, Deborah Andrews, the granddaughter of the Revoluti ...

(1822–1904), former

Surgeon General of the United States Navy The surgeon general of the Navy (SGN) is the most senior commissioned officer of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy and is the principal advisor to the United States Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and director of the ...

* Ralph Horwitz (later "Ralph Horween), American football player for Harvard Crimson and in the NFL * Ronald Horwitz (born 1934), known as Ronald Harwood * Samuel Horwitz, a.k.a. Shemp Howard of the ''Three Stooges'' *

Steven Horwitz Steven G. Horwitz (February 7, 1964 – June 27, 2021) was an American economist of the Austrian School. Horwitz was the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the department of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State Un ...

(born 1964), American economist * Susan B. Horwitz 1955 – 2014), American computer scientist *

Susan Band Horwitz Susan Band Horwitz is an American biochemist and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she holds the Falkenstein chair in Cancer Research as well as co-chair of the department of Molecular Pharmacology. Horwitz is a pioneer i ...

, American biochemist *

Tony Horwitz Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include ''One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback'', ''Baghdad Without a Map'', '' ...

(1958–2019), American journalist *

William Horwitz William Horwitz (1918 – September 27, 2006 in Olney, Maryland) was an analytical chemist who is notable for formulating a description of the relationship between the variability of chemical measurements and the concentration of the analyte. Th ...

(1918 – 2006), analytical chemist, formerly at the US Food and Drug Administration *

Yosef Yozel Horwitz Yosef Yozel Horowitz ( he, יוסף יוזל הורוביץ), also Yosef Yoizel Hurwitz, known as the Alter of Novardok (1847–December 9, 1919), was a student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Musar movement. Horowitz was also a stude ...

, rabbi

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