Levison is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alan Wendell Levison, birth name of
Alan Wendell Livingston (1917–2009), American music executive
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Catherine Levison, American writer and public speaker
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David Levison
Leon David Levison (1919–2012) was a Church of Scotland minister. During the early 1970s he was Convener of the Church of Scotland's Moral and Social Welfare Board.
Family background and early life
Leon David Levison was born in Edinburgh in 1 ...
(1919–2012), Scottish minister
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Ejnar Levison
Ejnar Levison (15 May 1880 – 3 August 1970) was a Danish fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.
References
1880 births
1970 deaths
Danish male fencers
Olympic fencers of Denmark
Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Fencers a ...
(1880–1970), Danish fencer
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Harold F. Levison
Harold F. (Hal) Levison (born 1959) is an American planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics. He currently works at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and studies planetary orbits and their evolution through Solar S ...
(born 1959), planetary scientist
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Iain Levison
Iain Levison is a Scottish American, Scottish-American writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963.
Biography
Levison graduated from Villanova University, where he received an English degree that became part of the premise for his first commercia ...
(born 1963), Scottish-American writer
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Jay Livingston
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison, March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a song-writing duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote music and Evans t ...
(born ''Jacob Harold Levison'', 1915–2001), songwriter
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Levison Wood
Major Levison James Wood VR (born 5 May 1982) is a British Army officer and explorer. He is best known for his extended walking expeditions in Africa, Asia and Central America. He has also undertaken numerous other overland journeys, includin ...
(born 1982), British Army officer and explorer
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Mary Levison
Mary Irene Levison (8 January 1923 – 12 September 2011) was the first person to petition the Church of Scotland for the ordination of women to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in 1963. This was achieved five years later and Levison became a m ...
, (1923–2011), Church of Scotland minister
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Nat Levison, British actor
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Sarah Rachel Russell (1814–1880), British con artist who went by Levison
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Stanley Levison (1912–1979), American businessman
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Wilhelm Levison
Wilhelm Levison (27 May 1876, in Düsseldorf – 17 January 1947, in Durham) was a German medievalist.
He was well known as a contributor to ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wi ...
(1876–1947), German medievalist
See also
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Leveson Leveson is a surname. The name as printed can represent two quite different etymologies and pronunciations:
#A Leveson family who were Merchants of the Staple became very influential in Wolverhampton in the late Middle Ages, supplying both lay sup ...
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Lewisohn
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Levinson
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