Rajchman is a surname; it is a Polish respelling of the German

Reichmann Reichmann, Reichman ( he, רייכמן, yi, רייכמאן) is a German language, German and Yiddish surname. The name means that somebody is a very wealthy (rich) man; (reich = rich and mann = man) in German. Notable people Notable people with ...

, typically used by Jews in

Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It w ...

, while those in Galicia and

Prussian Poland The Province of Posen (german: Provinz Posen, pl, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. Posen was established in 1848 following the Greater Poland Uprising as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, w ...

were more likely to use the original German spelling. Notable people with the surname include: *

Aleksander Rajchman Aleksander Michał Rajchman (13 November 1890 in Warsaw, Poland – July or August 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Germany) was a mathematician of the Warsaw School of Mathematics of the Interwar period. He had origins in t ...

(1890-1940), Polish mathematician *

Jan A. Rajchman Jan Aleksander Rajchman (London, 10 August 1911 – 1 April 1989) was a Polish electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Biography Jan Aleksander was son of Ludwik Rajchman and Maria Bojańczyk. His father was a Polish bacteriologist and ...

(1911-1989), Polish-American electrical engineer and computer pioneer *

John Rajchman John Rajchman (born June 25, 1946) is a philosopher working in the areas of art history, architecture, and continental philosophy. Son of Jan A. Rajchman, a Polish-American computer scientist. John Rajchman is an Adjunct Professor Ludwik Rajchman Ludwik Witold Rajchman (1 November 1881 – 13 July 1965) was a Polish physician and bacteriologist. He is regarded as the founder of UNICEF, and served as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950. Family He was born to Aleksander Rajchman, the fou ...

(1881-1965), Polish bacteriologist and one of the founders of UNICEF

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