"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 ...
" or "
Lewkowicz", is a
surname of German origin, meaning "son of Levko".
Notable people with the surname ''Lefkowitz'' include:
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Bernard Lefkowitz
Bernard Lefkowitz (1937/1938 – May 21, 2004) was an American author, sociologist, journalist and investigative reporter.
A reporter and assistant editor at the ''New York Post'', Lefkowitz worked for the Peace Corps before becoming an author ...
, 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 family ...
, 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 ...
, professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts
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Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, 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 ...
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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, history professor at Smith College
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Rochelle Lefkowitz, 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 network programming framework for Python. His work on asynchronous programming techniques influenced the core Python language, as well as the JavaScript Pr ...
, American open-source software programmer and creator of the
Twisted (software)
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License.
Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, many protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, ...
network programming framework
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Mark Lefkowitz, entrepreneur and financial literacy teacher
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