"Lefkowitz", also written as "
Levkowitz
Willie Howard (April 13, 1883 – January 14, 1949) and Eugene Howard (July 7, 1880 – August 1, 1965), billed as the Howard Brothers, were Silesian-born American vaudeville performers of the first half of the 20th century. They were two of the ...
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Lewkowicz Lewkowicz is a surname and can refer to the following persons:
* Sampson Lewkowicz (born 1951), an Uruguayan-American boxing promoter and manager
*Sara Naomi Lewkowicz
Sara Naomi Lewkowicz is an 42 year old American photographer best known for her ...
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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 ...
of German origin, meaning "son of Levko".
Notable people with the surname ''Lefkowitz'' include:
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Bernard Lefkowitz, author and professor of journalism
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David Lefkowitz, Texas rabbi
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Jay Lefkowitz
Jay Lefkowitz (born 20 November 1962) is an American lawyer. He is a senior partner at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm, and he also served as President George W. Bush's Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea.
Career
Lefkowitz is a graduat ...
, American lawyer and Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea
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Louis Lefkowitz
Louis J. Lefkowitz (July 3, 1904 – June 20, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the Attorney General of New York State for 22 years. He was a Republican.
Early life and education
Lefkowitz was born to a Jewish famil ...
, New York politician
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Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American scholar of Classics. She is the Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she previously worked from 1959 to 2005. She has published ten b ...
, professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts
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Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz
Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913 – 27 June 2011) was a respected Haredi Lithuanian Torah leader and rosh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, for over 70 years. He was a '' maggid shiur'' at Yeshivas Tiferes Tzion from 1940 to 2011 and rosh yeshiva of ...
, a rabbi and one of the heads of the Ponevezh yeshiva
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Nat Lefkowitz
Nat Lefkowitz (July 24, 1905 – September 4, 1983) was an American talent agency executive who served as co-chairman of the William Morris Agency.
Biography
Lefkowitz was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn. He attended New York City public sch ...
(1898–1983), American talent agency executive who served as co-chairman of the
William Morris Agency
The William Morris Agency (WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency. It represented some of the best known 20th-century entertainers in film, television, and music. During its 109-year tenure it came to be regarded as the "first great talent a ...
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Robert Lefkowitz
Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled recep ...
, American physician and professor at Duke University
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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 31 Jan. 1942) is an American historian and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College.
Early life and education
Horowitz was born on 31 Jan. 1942 in Shreveport, ...
, history professor at Smith College
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Rochelle Lefkowitz Rochelle Lefkowitz is president and founder of Pro-Media Communications, a bicoastal public interest public relations firm.
Education
She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in Latin American studies and a master of arts degree ...
, President of Pro-Media Communications
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Glyph Lefkowitz
Glyph Lefkowitz is an American open-source software programmer and creator of the Twisted (software), Twisted network programming framework for Python (programming language), Python. His work on Asynchrony (computer programming), asynchronous prog ...
, American open-source software programmer and creator of the
Twisted (software)
Twisted is an event-driven programming, event-driven computer network programming, network programming software framework, framework written in Python (programming language), Python and licensed under the MIT License.
Twisted projects variously ...
network programming framework
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Mark Lefkowitz
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Fi ...
, entrepreneur and financial literacy teacher
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