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 ...

Jews. 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 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 Jacob H. Horwitz (1 January 1892 – 11 October 1992), known as Jack, was an American businessman and philanthropist and a fashion innovator whose company, Horwitz and Duberman (founded 1925), was one of the first to specialise in junior miss and ...

(1892–1992), American businessman, philanthropist and fashion innovator. * Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903 – 1952), Curly Howard, of the ''Three Stooges'' * David Horwitz (born 1994), Australian rugby union player * Kai Horwitz (born 1998), Chilean Olympic alpine skier * Maksymilian Horwitz, aka Henryk Walecki (1877–1937), leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement *

Morton Horwitz Morton J. Horwitz (born 1938) is an American legal historian and law professor at Harvard Law School. The recent past dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan, relates that during her time at law school, students often nicknamed him as "Mort the ...

(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 *

Ralph Horwitz Ralph Horween (born Ralph Horwitz; also known as Ralph McMahon or B. McMahon; August 3, 1896 – May 26, 1997) was an American football player and coach. He played fullback and halfback and was a punter and drop-kicker for the unbeaten Harvard ...

(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 Susan Beth Horwitz (January 6, 1955 – June 11, 2014) was an American computer scientist noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. She had several ...

1955 – 2014), American computer scientist * Susan Band Horwitz, 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 (1918 – 2006), analytical chemist, formerly at the US Food and Drug Administration * Yosef Yozel Horwitz, rabbi

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