Löw (or Loew) is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. Another
romanization of the Yiddish name לייב is
Leib
Leib is a given name and (less often) a surname that are usually of Jewish origin.Leib
Baby Names Pedia Leib often stems from ...
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Benjamin Wolf Löw
Benjamin Wolf Löw (1775 – 6 March 1851) was a Polish–Hungarian rabbi. He was also known as Binyamin ben Elʻazar, Benjamin Adolf Löw, and he, Binyamin Ṿolf Leṿ, a.b.d. ḳ.ḳ. Ḳollin u-Ṿerboi.
Löw was born in Loslau (Wodzisł ...
(1775–1851), a Polish-Hungarian rabbi
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Franklin M. Loew
Franklin Martin Loew, (1939 in Syracuse, NY – 2003 in Boston, MA) was president of Becker College, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University and dean of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine (now Tufts Cummin ...
(1939-2003), a veterinarian
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Hermann Loew (1807–1879), a German entomologist
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Immanuel Löw (1854–1944), a Hungarian rabbi, scholar and politician
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Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal
Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (10 June 1759 in Prostiboř – 12 December 1849 in Vienna) was an Austrian merchant.
Life
During the famine in Ansbach in the middle of the 18th century, Hofmann's parents had emigrated from Pretzendo ...
(1759-1849), an Austrian merchant
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Jiri Lev
Jiri Lev (born 1979, , cs, Jiří Lev) is a Czech-Australian architect and urbanist, active in the field of sustainable residential, sacred and public architecture, disaster recovery and humanitarian development.
Lev's works are known for the ...
(born Löw 1979), Czech-Australian architect and humanitarian
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Joachim Löw (born 1960), a German former footballer, current head coach of the national football team of Germany
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Judah Loew ben Bezalel (c. 1520–1609), the "Maharal of Prague", creator the
Golem of Prague
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Maj-Lis Lööw
Maj-Lis Lööw (born 13 August 1936) is a former social democrat politician who served as the minister of immigration and minister of gender equality between 1989 and 1991 in the cabinets of Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson. She was also a member ...
(born 1936), Swedish politician
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Marcus Loew, an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry
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Mattias Löw
Mattias is a masculine given name found most prominently in Northern Europe. It is a cognate of Matthew and Matthias, and may refer to:
Sports
* Mattias Adelstam (born 1982), Swedish footballer
* Mattias Asper (born 1974), Swedish goalkeeper
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(born 1970), a Swedish film director
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Michael Loew (1907–1985), an abstract expressionist artist
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Moritz Löw
Moritz Löw, astronomer; born at Makó, Hungary, in 1841; died in Steglitz, Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of Leipzig and Vienna, and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Budapest
A university () is an institution ...
(Lőw Móric) (1841–1900), a Hungarian-German astronomer
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Oscar Loew (1844–1941), a German chemist
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Peter Oliver Loew (born 1967), German historian
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Samuel Löw
Samuel ben Nathan Ha-Levi Loew (Kelin or Kolin) (also "Lōw" or "Löw", he, שמואל בן נתן נטע הלוי קעלין; c. 1720–1806) was a Talmudist and Halakhist, best known for his work ''Machatzit HaShekel'' (Ashkenazi pronunciation, ...
(1720–1806), a Czech Talmudist
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Samuel Löw Brill Samuel Löw Brill (September 14, 1814 – April 8, 1897) was a Hungarian rabbi and Talmudical scholar born in Budapest. He was educated by his father, Azriel Brill (1778-1853), who was teacher and associate rabbi at Pest, Hungary, and the author o ...
, a Hungarian rabbi and Talmud scholar
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Zsolt Lőw (born 1979), a Hungarian footballer
See also
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Loews (disambiguation)
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Loewe (disambiguation)
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Löwe (disambiguation)
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Loeb (disambiguation)
Jewish given names
German given names
Jewish surnames
German-language surnames
Levite surnames
Yiddish-language surnames
Surnames from nicknames
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