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 Hebrew or

Cyrillic , bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця , fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs , fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic , fam3 = Phoenician , fam4 = G ...

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 (1842–1914), German chemist *

Charles H. Liebermann Charles H. Liebermann (September 15, 1813 – March 27, 1886) was a Russian-American physician and one of the co-founders of the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Biography Liebermann was born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire. Hi ...

, Russian-American physician *

Eliezer Dob Liebermann Eliezer Dob Liebermann (; 12 April 1820 - 15 April 1895) was a Russian '' maskilic'' writer and scholar. Biography Liebermann was born in Pilvischok in the region of Suwałki. His father was a '' shoḥet'', and gave him a traditional Jewish e ...

, Russian-Jewish writer * Felix Liebermann, historian (brother to Max Liebermann) * Lowell Liebermann, 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, 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 of ...

, composer and opera director

Lieberman

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

Daniel Lieberman Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his r ...

, 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 Fredric Lieberman (1940 - died May 4, 2013) was an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author. As a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he was affiliated with the Music Department (including the und ...

, an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author *

Hadassah Lieberman Hadassah Lieberman ( Freilich; born March 28, 1948) is the second wife of former United States Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Life and work Hadassah Freilich Lieberman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (a past report erroneously stated ...

, wife of Joe Lieberman *

Hendel Lieberman Chenoch Hendel Lieberman (29 March 1900 Old Style, OS – 15 March 1976), born Chenoch Hendel Futerfas, was an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Russian-born, Chabad Hasidism, hasidic United States, American artist. He was the broth ...

, Russian-American artist * Herman Lieberman, 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 bor ...

(born 1947), American filmmaker *

Jeffrey Lieberman Jeffrey Alan Lieberman (born 1948) is an American psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and related psychoses and their associated neuroscience (biology) and pharmacological treatment (psychiatric drugs). He was principal investigator fo ...

, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University * Joe Lieberman, US Senator from Connecticut, husband of Hadassah Lieberman *

Jon Lieberman Jon Leiberman is an American reporter, television producer, and radio news personality. Career Leiberman has been a reporter for WBFF in Baltimore and the newsman at WIYY 98 Rock radio in Baltimore. He has also worked as a reporter in New Mexico ...

, reporter and producer *

Judith Lieberman Doctor Judith Lieberman, (August 14, 1904 — December 1978), was an American educator and school administrator. She served as Hebrew principal and later dean of Hebrew studies of Shulamith School for Girls in New York City, the first Jewish day s ...

, 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 t ...

, American singer-songwriter *

Lou Lieberman Louis Stuart Lieberman (born 13 May 1938) is an Australian politician and was a member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives. Born on 13 May 1938 at Swan Hill, Lou Lieberman was educated at Alb ...

, Australian politician *

Louise Lieberman Louise Kristina Lieberman (born May 6, 1977) is an American soccer coach and former player. She is currently the head coach of the San Diego Toreros women's team. Lieberman played for the Washington Freedom of the Women's United Soccer Associa ...

(born 1977), American soccer coach and former player * Nancy Lieberman (born 1958), American basketball player * Philip Lieberman, linguist * Robert Lieberman, film and television director *

Robert C. Lieberman Robert C. Lieberman (born September 26, 1964) is an American political scientist and the former provost of the Johns Hopkins University. A scholar of American political development, Lieberman focuses primarily on race and politics and the Ameri ...

, American political scientist *

Robert H. Lieberman Robert H. Lieberman is a novelist, film director, and a long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University. Initially he came to Cornell to study to be a veterinarian, but ended up becoming an electrical engineer and doing research i ...

, scientist, educator, novelist and movie director * Saul Lieberman, rabbi and scholar and the husband of Judith Lieberman *

Syd Lieberman Sydney Lieberman (1944 – May 12, 2015) was a noted American storyteller who began performing professionally in 1982. He was born in Chicago. He was a frequent performer at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. In 200 ...

, storyteller * Zvi Lieberman, Hebrew children's book author

Liberman

* Alexander Liberman, a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor *

Alvin Liberman Alvin Meyer Liberman (; May 10, 1917 – January 13, 2000) was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Liberman was an American psychologist. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of psychological research in speech perception. Biography Liberman rece ...

, professor of psychology and director of Haskins Laboratories * Anatoly Liberman, professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore * Evsei Liberman, 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 backwards ...

, American drag racer *

M. Charles Liberman Michael Charles Liberman (July 17, 1950) was born to Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman in Storrs, Connecticut. He is now Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, and Harold Schuknecht Profe ...

, professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School * Mark Liberman, professor of linguistics *

Simcha Liberman Rabbi Simcha Binem Lieberman (29 December 1926 – 28 June 2009) was an Israeli Talmudic scholar, lecturer at London School of Jewish Studies, Jews' College, London, and a prolific writer. He was one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Pol ...

, Talmudist *

Tetiana Liberman Tina Karol, russian: Тина Кароль (born Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman, 25 January 1985) is a Ukrainian singer, actress, and television presenter. She Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song C ...

, Ukrainian singer

Fictional characters

* Claire Lieberman, the female lead in ''

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. Filming took place in various locations around the world, with "Old Indy" bookend segments filmed in Wilmington, Nort ...

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

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