Loeb or Löb may refer to:
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Loeb (surname) Loeb or Löb is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. It is derived from the word ''lion'' in German and Yiddish in different historic and dialectal forms (''Löwe'', ''Lewe'', ''Löb'', ''Leb'', ''Leib''). In Yiddish it is mostly written לייב ...
, including a list of people surnamed Loeb or Löb
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Löb Nevakhovich
Löb Nevakhovich, or Lev Nikolayevich (Leib ben Noach) Nevakhovich (russian: Лев Николаевич (Лейб Бен Ноах) Невахович, born between 1776 and 1778, Letychiv, Podolia – , Saint Petersburg), was a Russian writer ...
(between 1776 and 1778–1831), Russian writer
* Löb Strauß, birth name of
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss (; born Löb Strauß ; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco ...
(1829–1902), German-born American businessman
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Loeb (supermarket)
Loeb was a Canadian supermarket chain. Founded in Ottawa, Ontario, Loeb expanded across Canada, and into parts of the United States. The company was acquired by the Quebec-based supermarket chain Metro in 1999, and its stores were converted to ...
, a defunct Canadian supermarket chain
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Loeb's (department store)
Loeb's Inc. is an American department store based in Meridian, Mississippi. Loeb's was founded in 1887 by Alex Loeb as Alex Loeb, Inc. Today, Loeb's legal name is "LOEB'S, INC." Loeb's is located on Front Street, Meridian.
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Alex Loeb w ...
, a specialty department store
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Loeb, Rhoades & Co., a Wall Street brokerage firm founded by Carl Loeb and John L. Loeb
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Loeb Classical Library
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works of ancient Greek and L ...
, a series of books containing the works of Greek and Latin authors with the original text and the English translation on facing pages
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, commonly known as The Loeb, is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It was founded in 1864 as the Vassar Colleg ...
, an art museum on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
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Lev (given name)
The name Lev may be of different origins.
It is typically a first name, or less commonly a surname (e.g. in Czech Republic) of Slavic origin, ( Cyrillic: Лев) which translates as "lion". Cf. Germanic form Löwe or Löw.
It is common with Ger ...
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Löw (disambiguation)
Löw (or Loew) is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. Another romanization of the Yiddish name לייב is Leib. It may refer to:
People
* Benjamin Wolf Löw (1775–1851), a Polish-Hungarian rabbi
* Franklin M. Loew (1939-2003), a veterinar ...
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