Montefiore, Montifiore, and Montefiori is a surname associated with the Montefiore family,

Sephardi Jews Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefar ...

who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from the

Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...

, namely

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

and

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

, and also

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

, and

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. Meaning "flower mountain", its

Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

equivalent would be "

Blumberg For the town in South Australia previously called Blumberg, see Birdwood, South Australia. Blumberg is a municipality situated in the Schwarzwald-Baar region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Nineteen kilometres south of Donaueschingen, it lies ...

" or "

Bloomberg Bloomberg may refer to: People * Daniel J. Bloomberg (1905–1984), audio engineer * Georgina Bloomberg (born 1983), professional equestrian * Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman and founder of Bloomberg L.P.; politician and ma ...

". Notable people with the surname include:

People

Adam Montefiore Adam Montefiore (born 10 November 1957 in London) is a British-born Israeli wine trade veteran, wine critic and wine writer. Biography Adam Sebag Montefiore was born in Kensington, London. His father was Stephen Eric Sebag-Montefiore, descended f ...

(born 1957), British-born Israeli wine trade veteran and wine critic *

Alan Montefiore Alan Claude Robin Goldsmid Montefiore (born 29 December 1926, London) is a British philosopher and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is a co-founder and Emeritus President of the Forum for European Philosophy, as well as Joint Presi ...

(born 1926), British philosopher and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford *

Albert Montefiore Hyamson Albert Montefiore Hyamson, (27 August 1875 – 5 October 1954) was a British civil servant and historian who served as chief immigration officer in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to 1934. The Political Zionist of the 1910s and 192 ...

(1875–1954), British civil servant and historian, chief immigration officer in British Palestine 1921–1934 *

Claude Montefiore Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, also Goldsmid–Montefiore or just Goldsmid Montefiore (1858–1938) was the intellectual founder of Anglo- Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a schola ...

(1858–1938), philosopher *

Dora Montefiore Dorothy Frances Montefiore (; 20 December 1851 – 21 December 1933), known as Dora Montefiore, was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Early life Born Dorothy Frances Fuller at Kenley Manor near Cou ...

(1851–1933), English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer *

Eliezer Levi Montefiore Eliezer Levi Montefiore (1820 – 22 October 1894) was a businessman, art enthusiast, and the first director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Montefiore was born in Barbados to merchant Isaac Jacob Levi (who also had a home in Brussels) a ...

, businessman and art collector in Melbourne and Adelaide (nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow) *

Fausto Montefiore Fausto Montefiori (born March 16, 1906, date of death unknown) is an Italian boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he was eliminated in the second round of the featherweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze ...

(1906–not known), Italian boxer *

Georges Montefiore-Levi Georges Montefiore-Levi (18 February 1832 – 24 April 1906) was a Belgian politician, industrialist and inventor of Jewish extraction who created the first phosphorus bronze. Early life He was born in Streatham, South London. His father, I ...

(1832–1906), Belgian politician, inventor and philanthropist *

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Nicholas Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (born 5 March 1955) is a British writer. He trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and then a non-fiction writer. His second book ''Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man'' was published in 2006. His previous b ...

(born 1955), author, attorney, and journalist *

Hugh Montefiore Hugh William Montefiore (born Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore; 12 May 1920 – 13 May 2005) was an English Anglican bishop and academic, who served as Bishop of Kingston from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1978 to 1987. Early life and ...

(1920–2005), bishop of Birmingham 1977–1987 and environmentalist (born Hugh Sebag-Montefiore) *

Jacob Barrow Montefiore Jacob Barrow Montefiore (1801–1895) was a member of the South Australian Colonization Commission in London from 1835 to 1839, a body appointed by the British Government under King William IV to oversee implementation of the ''South Australia ...

(1801–1895), Colonial Commissioner for South Australia resident in London (brother of Joseph Barrow, cousin to Sir Moses) *

Jacob Levi Montefiore Jacob Levi Montefiore (11 January 1819 – 24 January 1885) was a businessman, financier, writer and politician in New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Bridgetown in Barbados to merchant Isaac Jacob Levi and his wife Esther Hannah Montefi ...

(1819–1885), Australian politician (brother of Eliezer Levi, nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow) *

John Israel Montefiore John Israel Montefiore (1807 – 14 February 1898), also known as John Julius Montefiore, was one of the first Jewish settlers in New Zealand. He became a trader and merchant in the Far North District of the country, and was later active in b ...

(1807–1898), New Zealand trader and merchant *

Joseph Barrow Montefiore Joseph Barrow Montefiore (24 June 1803 – 8 September 1893), merchant and financier, was the youngest son of Eliezer Montefiore, merchant, of Barbados and London, and his wife, Judith (née Barrow). Montefiore was born on 24 June 1803 in Londo ...

(1803–1893), merchant and financier in the Australian colonies (brother of Jacob Barrow, cousin to Sir Moses) *

Joseph Sebag-Montefiore Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore (born 29 August 1822 in London, died 19 January 1903 in London) was a British banker, stockbroker and politician. He was the son of Solomon Sebag and his wife Sarah Montefiore. He married Adelaide Cohen, daughter of Lou ...

(1822–1903) financier *

Judith Montefiore Judith, Lady Montefiore (née Barent Cohen; 20 February 1784 – 24 September 1862) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, and philanthropist. She was the wife of Sir Moses Montefiore. She authored the first Jewish cook book written i ...

(1786–1862), British linguist, musician, and philanthropist, wife of Sir Moses * Sir

Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, afte ...

(1784–1885), prominent British financier, stockbroker, banker and philanthropist, husband of Judith * Moses Eliezer Montefiore (born 1798?), probably brother of Jacob and Joseph Barrow * Leonard A. Montefiore (1853–1879), British author and philanthropist *

Leonard G. Montefiore Leonard Nathaniel Goldsmid-Montefiore (2 June 1889 – 23 December 1961) was a wealthy member of the Montefiore family, the only son of Claude Montefiore, and he succeeded his father as a leader of Jewish philanthropic organisations in th ...

(1889–1961), Anglo-Jewish community leader and philanthropist * Karlo Montefiore Gordeziani (1938–2005), Professor of Physics at

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

, Georgia *

Santa Montefiore Santa Montefiore (; born 2 February 1970) is a British author. Early life Santa Montefiore was born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson on 2 February 1970 in Winchester. Her parents are Charles Palmer-Tomkinson, formerly High Sheriff of Hampshire, and Pa ...

(born 1970), British author *

Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore (; born 27 June 1965) is a British historian, television presenter and author of popular history books and novels, including ''Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar' (2003), Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and ...

(born 1965), British historian and author

Places

Montefiore Montefiore, Montifiore, and Montefiori is a surname associated with the Montefiore family, Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from the Iberian Peninsula, namely Spain and Portugal, and also France, Morocc ...

, a neighborhood in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

, north of the Central Station *

Montefiore Conca Montefiore Conca ( rgn, Munt Fior) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rimini in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about south of Rimini. Montefiore Conca borders the following municipali ...

, a municipality in the

Province of Rimini The province of Rimini ( it, provincia di Rimini) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The provincial capital is the eponymous city of Rimini. The province borders the independent Republic of San Marino. As of 2019, the province ...

, Italy *

Montefiore dell'Aso Montefiore dell'Aso is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about northeast of Ascoli Piceno. One of several Hilltowns in Central Italy, Montefiore dell ...

, a municipality in the

Province of Ascoli Piceno The province of Ascoli Piceno ( it, Provincia di Ascoli Piceno) is a province in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ascoli Piceno, and the province is bordered by the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Province of Fermo to the north ...

in Italy *

Montefiore Hill Montefiore Hill is a small hill in North Adelaide, South Australia, which affords a view over the Adelaide city centre. Location and description The hill lies within the northern Adelaide Parklands, within the area known as Park 26: Adelaide O ...

, small hill with lookout and memorial in North Adelaide, South Australia, and named after Jacob Barrow Montefiore * Montefiore Road, continuation of

Morphett Street, Adelaide Morphett Street is a main street in the west of the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia, parallel to King William Street and numbered from north to south. At its northern end it is part of the West End of Adelaide, a thriving cultural and ...

which leads up to Montefiore Hill

Hospitals

Montefiore Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center is a premier academic medical center and the primary teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York City. Its main campus, the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, is located in the Norwoo ...

, teaching hospital of the

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a research-intensive medical school located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. Founded in 1953, Einstein operates as an independent degree-granting institution as part of t ...

, located in the Norwood section of the Bronx *

Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital (formerly New Rochelle Hospital and Sound Shore Medical Center) is a community-based, teaching hospital located at 16 Guion Place in the West End of the city of New Rochelle, in Westchester County, New York, and ...

, a teaching hospital in New Rochelle, New York * Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, residential elderly care facilities in Hunters Hill and Woollahra * The Montefiore Hospital in Hove, United Kingdom *

UPMC Montefiore The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is a $23billion integrated delivery system, integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds, 800 clinical locations includ ...

, part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Schools

* Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine, one of the oldest primary care training programs in the U.S., active in

Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

Moses Montefiore Academy Moses Montefiore Academy (also known as Moses School or simply Montefiore) was a special school of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Established in 1929, The school was located Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois and served students with severe e ...

, special school of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for students with severe emotional disorders * Montefiore House,

Wessex Lane Halls Wessex Lane Halls is a halls of residence complex owned by the University of Southampton. It is situated in the Swaythling district of Southampton, approximately one mile north-east of the University campus in Highfield. The complex is form ...

of the University of Southampton * The

Montefiore Institute The Montefiore Institute is the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Liège, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgi ...

, the EECS département of the University of Liège

Synagogues

B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the United States, consists of a Reform Jewish congregation and its synagogue; and the congregation's related cemetery. Both the synagogue building and the cemetery ...

, in Grand Forks, North Dakota *

Congregation Montefiore Synagogue The Congregation Montefiore Synagogue is a historic synagogue in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The synagogue was built in 1903 for the local congregation of Jews who followed Conservative Judaism. In the 1970s, the congregation merged with Con ...

, historic synagogue in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah *

Montefiore Cemetery Montefiore Cemetery, also known as Old Montefiore Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York, established in 1908. The cemetery is called by several names, including Old Montefiore, Springfield, or less commonly, just ...

, Jewish cemetery in St. Albans, Queens, New York * Moses Montefiore Congregation, synagogue in Bloomington, Illinois * Montefiore Synagogue the former private synagogue of Sir Moses Montefiore, an 1833, Grade II* listed building in Ramsgate, Kent, England

Other

Montefiore Club The Montefiore Club was a private social and business association, catering to the Jewish community, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. History Founded in 1880, the club was originally called the "Montefiore Social and Dramatic Club", named for ...

, a private social and business association, catering to the Jewish community, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada * Montefiore Windmill, a landmark windmill in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, Israel

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montefiore Italian-language surnames