Kaminsky is a

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with various origins. It may be derived from Czech/Slovak Kaminský, uk, Камінський, russian: Каминский, be, Камінскі, or Polish Kamiński. Feminine forms include Kaminská (Czech and Slovak), Kaminska (Polish and Ukrainian), and Kaminskaya (Belarusian and Russian). Its Lithuanian-language counterpart is Kaminskas.

People

Adolfo Kaminsky Adolfo Kaminsky (or Adolphe; born 1 October 1925) was active in the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents. During World War II, he forged papers that saved the lives of more than 14,000 Jews. He later went on to a ...

(1925–2023), French WWII resistance fighter and document forger *

Alexander Kaminsky Alexander Stepanovich Kaminsky (1829–1897, russian: Александр Степанович Каминский, sometimes spelled Kamensky, Каменский) was a Russian architect working in Moscow and suburbs. One of the most successful and ...

(1829–1897), Russian architect * Bohdan Kaminský (pen name of Karel Bušek) (1859–1929), Czech poet and translator * Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski, (1899–1944), General-Major of Waffen-SS *

Dan Kaminsky Daniel Kaminsky (February 7, 1979 – April 23, 2021) was an American computer security researcher. He was a co-founder and chief scientist of WhiteOps, a computer security company. He previously worked for Cisco, Avaya, and IOActive, where h ...

, American computer security expert *

David Kaminsky David Kaminsky (דוד קמינסקי; born January 8, 1938) is an Israeli former basketball player and coach. He played the guard position. Kaminsky played in the Israel Basketball Premier League, and for the Israel national basketball team. Bi ...

(born 1938), Israeli basketball player * David Daniel Kaminsky, birth name of American comic

Danny Kaye Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; yi, דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and ...

(1911–1987) *

Frank Kaminsky Francis Stanley Kaminsky III (born April 4, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers. During his college basket ...

(born 1993), American basketball player * Graciela Kaminsky, American economist *

Grigory Kaminsky Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky ( az, Ҝригориј Камински Наум оғлу, italic=no, Griqoriy Kaminski Naum oğlu, russian: Григорий Наумович Каминский; 1 November 1895 – 10 February 1938) was a Soviet p ...

(1895–1938), Soviet politician *

Ilya Kaminsky Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections ''Dancing in Odesa'' and ''Deaf Republic'', which have earn ...

(born 1977), Russian-American poet and professor * James Kaminsky, American editor *

Josef Kaminský Josef Kaminský (1878–1944) was a politician in interwar Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–1939 ...

(1878–1944), Czechoslovak politician *

Laura Kaminsky Laura Kaminsky (born September 28, 1956) is an American composer, producer of musical and multi-disciplinary cultural events, and educator. She was born in New York City, graduated from the High School of Music and Art, and studied with Joseph ...

(born 1956), American composer * Max Kaminsky (1912–1961), Canadian hockey player * Max Kaminsky (1908–1994), American musician * Melvin Kaminsky, birth name of American comic

Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began h ...

(born 1926) *

Patrik Kaminský Patrik Kaminský (born 27 October 1978 in Prešov) is a professional Slovak football defender who currently plays for the 3. liga club FC Lokomotíva Košice FC Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak football club, playing in the town of Košice. Th ...

(born 1978), Slovak footballer * Rafael Kaminsky, birth name of

Rafael Eitan Rafael "Raful" Eitan ( he, רפאל "רפול" איתן, born 11 January 1929 – 23 November 2004) was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (Ramatkal) and later a politician, a Knesset member, and government m ...

(1929–2004), Israeli general *

Rob Kaminsky Robert Harris Kaminsky (born September 2, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals. In high school, Kaminsky was the Gatorade New Jersey Ba ...

(born 1994), American baseball player *

Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Holly ...

(1934–2009), American mystery author *

Todd Kaminsky Todd Kaminsky is an American attorney and politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, he was a member of the New York State Senate representing the 9th district, which is based on the South Shore of Long Island. Early life and career ...

(born 1978), American politician, great-nephew of Mel Brooks *

Walter Kaminsky Walter Kaminsky (born 7 May 1941) is a German chemist. His research dwells in olefin polymerization, and also in plastic recycling. He discovered the high activity of Group 4 metallocene/methylaluminoxane (MAO) mixtures as catalysts for olefin pol ...

(born 1941), German chemist *

Yan Kaminsky Yan Bronislavovich Kaminsky (russian: Ян Брониславович Каминский; born July 28, 1971) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Championship League and National Hockey League between 1989 a ...

(born 1971), Russian-American ice hockey player

Fictional characters

* Mikhail "Misha" Kaminsky, character in the anime series '' Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket'' * Victor Kaminsky, astronaut in ''

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'' * Fedyor Kaminsky, character in the book series ''

Shadow and Bone ''Shadow and Bone'' is a young adult fantasy adventure and debut novel written by Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo. It was published by Macmillan Publishers on June 5, 2012. The novel is narrated by Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows ...

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