Lieberman, Liebermann, or Liberman are names deriving from ''Lieb'', a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) nickname for a person from the German ''lieb'' or Yiddish ''lib'', meaning 'dear, beloved'.

Patrick Hanks Patrick Hanks (born 24 March 1940) is an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated at Ardingly College, ...

and Flavia Hodges, ''A Dictionary of Surnames'' xford UP, 1988 p. 325 Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in

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or Cyrillic characters, so variations in the spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet.

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Benjamin Liebermann Benjamin Liebermann was a German textile manufacturer.Carl Theodore Liebermann Carl Theodore Liebermann (23 February 1842 – 28 December 1914) was a German chemist and student of Adolf von Baeyer. Life Liebermann first studied at the University of Heidelberg where Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was teaching. He then joined the ...

(1842–1914), German chemist * Charles H. Liebermann, Russian-American physician * Eliezer Dob Liebermann, Russian-Jewish writer *

Felix Liebermann Felix Liebermann (20 July 1851 – 7 October 1925) was a Jewish German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law. Born in 1851, Ber ...

, historian (brother to Max Liebermann) *

Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961 in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1. He studied at the Juilliard ...

, composer *

Max Liebermann Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...

, painter *

Oren Liebermann Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as a Pentagon correspondent for CNN. Biography Liebermann was born in Virginia on October 13, 1982. He spent his childhood in Virginia and Israel until he was raised in the Wayside section o ...

, American-Israeli journalist *

Rolf Liebermann Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also Artistic Director o ...

, composer and opera director

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Avigdor Lieberman Avigdor Lieberman (, ; russian: Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман, Evet Lvovich Liberman, ; born 5 June 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician serving as Minister of Finance since 2021, having previously served twice as Deputy ...

, Moldavian-born Israeli politician, former Minister of Foreign affairs * Daniel Lieberman, paleoanthropologist *

Evelyn S. Lieberman Evelyn May Lieberman ( Simonowitz; July 9, 1944 – December 12, 2015) was an American public affairs professional who, during the Clinton administration, became the first woman to serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and was the first Uni ...

, American public official * Fredric Lieberman, an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author * Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Joe Lieberman * Hendel Lieberman, Russian-American artist *

Herman Lieberman Herman Lieberman (4 January 1870 – 21 October 1941) was a Polish lawyer and socialist politician. Life Lieberman was born into a Jewish family in Drohobycz, Galicia, then part of Austro-Hungary. From 1907 to 1914 and from 1917 to 1918, he ...

, Polish lawyer and Socialist politician *

Jeff Lieberman Jeff Lieberman (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for his cult horror and thriller films ''Squirm'' (1976), '' Blue Sunshine'' (1978) and '' Just Before Dawn'' (1981). Biography Jeff Lieberman was bo ...

(born 1947), American filmmaker * Jeffrey Lieberman, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University *

Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; born February 24, 1942) is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee for ...

, US Senator from Connecticut, husband of Hadassah Lieberman * Jon Lieberman, reporter and producer * Judith Lieberman, educator and the wife of Saul Lieberman *

Lori Lieberman Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano. She first came to public attention in the early 1970s with a series of albums on Capitol Records, the first of which featured ...

, American singer-songwriter * Lou Lieberman, Australian politician * Louise Lieberman (born 1977), American soccer coach and former player *

Nancy Lieberman Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman (born July 1, 1958), nicknamed "Lady Magic", is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) who is currently a broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Thun ...

(born 1958), American basketball player *

Philip Lieberman Philip Lieberman (October 25, 1934 – July 12, 2022) was a cognitive scientist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. His career focused on topic ...

, linguist *

Robert Lieberman Robert Lieberman (born July 16, 1947) is an American motion picture and television director. Personal life Lieberman was married from June 27, 1990 to June 7, 2001 to actress Marilu Henner; the divorced couple has two children, Nicholas Morga ...

, film and television director * Robert C. Lieberman, American political scientist * Robert H. Lieberman, scientist, educator, novelist and movie director *

Saul Lieberman Saul Lieberman (Hebrew: שאול ליברמן, May 28, 1898 – March 23, 1983), also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or, among some of his students, The ''Gra"sh'' (''Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul''), was a rabbi and a Talmudic scholar. He served as Professo ...

, rabbi and scholar and the husband of Judith Lieberman * Syd Lieberman, storyteller *

Zvi Lieberman Zvi Lieberman (also Zvi Liberman) ( he, צבי ליברמן) (March 1, 1891 - August 6, 1985) Ben-Ezer, Ehud (1998). Days of Artemisia. Am Oved. p. 543. was a Russian-born Israeli children’s book author. He immigrated to Palestine during the ...

, Hebrew children's book author

Liberman

Alexander Liberman Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publicati ...

, a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor * Alvin Liberman, professor of psychology and director of Haskins Laboratories *

Anatoly Liberman Anatoly Liberman (russian: Анато́лий Си́монович Либерма́н; born 10 March 1937) is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic. Liberman is a pro ...

, professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore *

Evsei Liberman Evsei Grigorievich Liberman (russian: Евсей Григорьевич Либерман, , uk, Овсій Григорович Ліберман; 2 October 1897, – 11 November 1981) was a Soviet economist who lived in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is n ...

, Soviet economist *

Jim Liberman Russell James Liberman (September 12, 1945 – September 9, 1977) was an American funny car drag racer, nicknamed "Jungle Jim." In 2001, he was named #17 on the list of the Top 50 NHRA drivers of all time. Liberman was known for driving backward ...

, American drag racer * M. Charles Liberman, professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School *

Mark Liberman Mark Yoffe Liberman is an American linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, and as a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Scienc ...

, professor of linguistics * Simcha Liberman, Talmudist * Tetiana Liberman, Ukrainian singer

Fictional characters

* Claire Lieberman, the female lead in ''

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'' film ''Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies''.

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