Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro,
Spiro (name) Spiro is a surname with a variety of origins, as well as a given name among Greek-speaking populations, Albanians, and the Christians of Lebanon.
Origins
As a Greek name, Spiro may also be spelled Spyro. It comes from the ''Greek'' Spiros/Spyros/ ...
/Spyro (in
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
),
Szapiro/
Szpiro (in
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
) and Chapiro (in
French), is a Jewish
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 ...
surname.
Etymology
The surname is derived from the
medieval
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...
name of
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, compare Spire, the French name for that city. Other name variants attributed to Speyer include Sapiro,
Spira, Spire,
Spiro,
Spero,
Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Szpiro, Sapir and Spear. The
Jewish community of Speyer
The history of the Jews in Speyer reaches back over 1,000 years. In the Middle Ages, the city of Speyer (formerly Spira), Germany, was home to one of the most significant Jewish communities in the Holy Roman Empire. Its significance is attested to ...
was one of three leading cities central to the development of
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 ...
culture, referred to as the , an acronym based on the names of the cities. The family name Speyer (based on the modern German name for the same city) has also become a well-known surname that was spread by Jews from Frankfurt to England, the United States and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some suggest that the surname derives from the Aramaic word () meaning "handsome".
Notable people surnamed Shapiro
*
Adam Shapiro (disambiguation) Adam Shapiro is the name of:
* Adam Shapiro (activist) (born 1972), American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
*Adam Shapiro (television reporter), American television reporter and investigative journalist
*Adam Shapiro, Ame ...
, several people
*
Alan Shapiro (b. 1952), American poet
*
Alan Shapiro (education reformer)
Alan Shapiro (January 15, 1926 – January 28, 2011) was an American educator and educational reformer who became a leading contributor to Teachable Moment, a New York City-based teacher education project of the Morningside Center for Teaching Soci ...
, American education reformer
*
Alan N. Shapiro (born 1956), American science fiction and media theorist
*
Alex Shapiro
Alex Shapiro (born January 11, 1962) is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music favoring combinations of modal harmonies with chromatic ones, and often emphasizing strong pulse and rhythm.
Shapiro was born in New York City. She was e ...
, American composer
*
Allen Shapiro
Allen Shapiro is a media executive and investor. He is the former executive chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions (DCP), a former chairman of TV Guide, and a former entertainment lawyer. Shapiro was the executive producer of DCP's flagship p ...
, American investor
*
Andrew H. Schapiro, American diplomat
*
Ari Shapiro
Ari Michael Shapiro (born September 30, 1978) is an American radio journalist. In September 2015, Shapiro became one of four rotating hosts on National Public Radio's flagship drive-time program ''All Things Considered''. He previously se ...
, American reporter with National Public Radio
*
Arnold Shapiro
Arnold Shapiro (born February 1, 1941) is an American television producer and writer.
His best known work is the 1978 Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary, ''Scared Straight!'' His other productions include the CBS reality series, '' Rescue 911 ...
(born 1941), American television producer and writer
*
Arnold S. Shapiro
Arnold Samuel Shapiro (1921, Boston, Massachusetts – 1962, Newton, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician known for his eversion of the sphere and Shapiro's lemma. He also was the author of an article on Clifford algebras and periodicit ...
, American mathematician
*
Arthur Shapiro, entomologist and ecologist
*
Arthur K. Shapiro
Arthur K. Shapiro, M.D., (January 11, 1923 – June 3, 1995) was an American psychiatrist and expert on Tourette syndrome. His "contributions to the understanding of Tourette syndrome completely changed the prevailing view of this disorder"; Co ...
, psychiatrist and expert on the Tourette syndrome (1923–1995)
*
Artie Shapiro (1916–2003), American jazz bassist
*
Ascher H. Shapiro
Ascher Herman Shapiro (May 20, 1916 – November 26, 2004) was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He grew up in New York City.
Early life and education
Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish Lithuanian immigrant ...
, MIT professor and expert in fluid dynamics (1916–2004)
*
Ben Shapiro
Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American attorney, businessman, columnist, conservative political commentator, and media personality. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. ...
, American conservative political commentator
*
Bernard Shapiro
Bernard Jack Shapiro, (born June 8, 1935) is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007.
Bi ...
, Canadian academic, civil servant
*
Beth Shapiro
Beth Alison Shapiro (born 1976) is an American evolutionary molecular biologist. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ...
, evolutionary biologist
* Cal Shapiro, vocalist,
Timeflies
Timeflies is an American pop-rap duo formed in October 2010 consisting of Cal Shapiro (b. October 3, 1988) and Rob Resnick (b. May 26, 1989). They are known for their popular original music and popular YouTube covers. They first performed togeth ...
*
Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro (born 20 March 1955) is an American economist and academic who serves as the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He is the co-author, along with Hal Varian ...
, (born 1955) UC Berkeley economist and mathematician
*
Carl J. Shapiro
Carl J. Shapiro (February 15, 1913 – March 7, 2021) was an American businessman and philanthropist. In 1939 he founded Kay Windsor, Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and built it into one of the largest women's clothing companies in the cou ...
(born 1913), Boston philanthropist
*
Carol Harris-Shapiro, Reconstructionist rabbi
*
Charles S. Shapiro
Charles Samuel Shapiro (born May 30, 1949) is an American diplomat (serving since 1977 in a variety of capacities, primarily relating to Latin America) and a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela (2002 - 2004). He was President of the Institute ...
, American diplomat
*
Daniel B. Shapiro
Daniel Benjamin "Dan" Shapiro (born August 1, 1969) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on March 29, 2011, and confirmed by the Senate on May 29. ...
, U.S. ambassador to Israel
*
David Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Dmitry Shapiro
Dmitry Shapiro is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of GoMeta, Inc., based in San Diego. GoMeta owns Koji an App Store of social mini-apps that are added to various Links In Bios. He also created the video sharing site Veoh in 200 ...
, entrepreneur, inventor, Googler
*
Ehud Shapiro
Ehud Shapiro ( he, אהוד שפירא; born 1955) is a multi-disciplinary scientist, artist, entrepreneur and Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. With international reputation, he made fundamental cont ...
, Israeli computer scientist
*
Florence Shapiro
Florence Donald Shapiro (born May 2, 1948) is an American politician from Texas, a Republican former member of the Texas Senate. From 1993 to 1995, she represented the 2nd District and from 1995 to 2013, the 8th District, which includes several ...
, American politician
*
Francine Shapiro
Francine Shapiro (February 18, 1948 – June 16, 2019) was an American psychologist and educator who originated and developed eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a form of psychotherapy for resolving the symptoms of traumati ...
, American psychologist
*
Fred R. Shapiro
Fred Richard Shapiro is an American academic and writer working as the editor of ''The Yale Book of Quotations'', ''The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations'', and several other books.
Education
Shapiro earned a Bachelor of Science de ...
, American legal librarian and editor
*
George Shapiro
George Shapiro (May 18, 1931 – May 26, 2022) was an American talent manager and television producer. He was among the most successful managers in show business in the United States, best known for representing Jerry Seinfeld, Carl Reiner and A ...
, American talent producer
*
Gerald Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Harold S. Shapiro (1928–2021), mathematics professor
*
Harold T. Shapiro, president of Princeton University
*
Harvey Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Helen Shapiro, British singer
*
Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is a Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventions i ...
, American political scientist
*
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that sp ...
, mathematician (1929–2009)
*
Irwin Shapiro (1911–1981), American writer and translator
*
Irwin I. Shapiro
Irwin Ira Shapiro is an American astrophysicist and Timken University Professor at Harvard University. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1982.
He was the director of the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian from 1982 to 20 ...
, astrophysicist
* Irving Shapiro (1904–1931), one of the
Shapiro Brothers
Meyer (1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and William Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg. Well established in ...
, New York City labor racketeers
*
Irving S. Shapiro
Irving Saul Shapiro (July 15, 1916 – September 13, 2001) was an American lawyer and businessman, best known for being the first lawyer to become CEO of DuPont. Shapiro served as DuPont chairman from December 1973 to 1981. In 1987, he took over ...
, attorney, former CEO of Dupont
*
J. David Shapiro, American filmmaker and stand-up comedian
*
Jacob Shapiro
Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro (May 5, 1899 – June 9, 1947) was a New York mobster who, with his partner Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for two decades and established the Murder, Inc. organization.
Early ...
, mobster
*
James S. Shapiro
James S. Shapiro (born 1955) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University who specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Shapiro has served on the faculty at Columbia University since 1985, teaching Shakes ...
(born 1955), American professor of English Literature
*
Jeremy J. Shapiro
Jeremy J. Shapiro (born 1940), is an American academic, a professor emeritus at Fielding Graduate University who works in the area of critical theory, critical social theory with emphasis on the social and cultural effects of information technolo ...
, professor at Fielding Graduate University.
*
Jesse Shapiro
Jesse M. Shapiro is an American economist and academic. He is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University, having previously held the George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professorship at Brown University. In ...
, American economist
*
Jim Shapiro (attorney), attorney
*
Jim Shapiro (drummer)
Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack. They are best known for their first single, " Seether", th ...
, American musician, drummer of Veruca Salt
*
Joel Shapiro
Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly ...
, artist and sculptor
*
Jordan Shapiro
Jordan Shapiro (born November 15, 1977) is an American author known for his work on parenting, education, gender, and technology.
Early life and education
Shapiro grew up in Philadelphia. He earned a B.A. from Bard College, an M.A. and a Ph.D. ...
, American author and educator
*
Joseph N. Shapiro (1887—1961), urologist, one of the founders of the urologic oncology in Russia
*
Josh Shapiro
Joshua David Shapiro (born June 20, 1973) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the Pennsylvania Attorney General since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the governor-elect of Pennsylvania.
Raised in Montgomery ...
, American politician and lawyer
*
Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro (born 27 October 1958) is a South African cartoonist, known as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions. He is the nephew of British magician ...
, South African political cartoonist
*
Judith Shapiro
Judith R. Shapiro (born January 24, 1942) is a former President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women at Columbia University; as President of Barnard, she was also an academic dean within the university. She was also a professor ...
, former president of Barnard College
*
Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry
Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born September 3, 1942) is a former long distance runner. Shapiro-Ikenberry won the 1967 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Las Vegas Marathon, and was the first USA Marathon Championships winner for women in 1974, at the AAU Nat ...
(born 1942), American long-distance runner
*
Justine Shapiro
Justine Shapiro (born March 20, 1963) is a South African-born American actress, filmmaker, writer, hostess and producer, who was one of several main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel/adventure series '' Globe Trekker'' (also called ''Pilot Gu ...
, Documentary Filmmaker and Globe Trekker host
*
Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection ''V-Letter and Other Poems''. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to th ...
, United States poet
*
Laurie Gwen Shapiro, American novelist and filmmaker
*
Lee Shapiro
Lee Shapiro (1949–1987) was an American documentary filmmaker. His one feature-length film, ''Nicaragua Was Our Home'', was released in 1986. It was filmed in Nicaragua among the Miskito people, Miskito Indians who were then fighting against Nica ...
, American film maker, killed by the Soviet military in Afghanistan
*
Les Shapiro (1956–2022), American sports announcer
*
Linda Hopkins Shapiro, better known as Tera Patrick, former American pornographic actress
*
Lisa Shapiro (born 1967), American and Canadian philosopher
*
Louis Shapiro (communist), American Communist Party organizer
*
Louis Shapiro, Connecticut Supreme Court justice
*
Marc B. Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro (Hebrew: מלך שפירא, born 1966) is a professor and the author of various books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, theology, and rabbinic literature.
Education and career
Shapiro received his BA at Brandeis Unive ...
, professor of Judaic Studies at University of Scranton
*
Mark Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Marla Shapiro
Marla Shapiro CM, is a Canadian medical doctor, best known as a health journalist for CTV News Channel and formerly''The Globe and Mail''. Her reports on health and medical issues have also aired on ''Canada AM'' and on CTV's daytime talk show ' ...
, Canadian medical doctor, author and health journalist (print, television)
*
Meir Shapiro
Yehuda Meir Shapiro ( pl, Majer Jehuda Szapira; March 3, 1887 – October 27, 1933), was a prominent Polish Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, also known as the Lubliner Rav. He is noted for his promotion of the Daf Yomi study program in 1923, a ...
, Orthodox rabbi
*
Mendel Shapiro
Mendel Shapiro is a Jerusalem lawyer and Modern Orthodox Rabbi. He is the author of a halakhic analysis arguing that women could be called to read from the Torah in prayer services with men on Shabbat under certain conditions. His minority viewpo ...
, Modern Orthodox rabbi
* Meyer Shapiro (1908–1931), one of the
Shapiro Brothers
Meyer (1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and William Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg. Well established in ...
, New York City labor racketeers
*
Michael Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Mordechai Shapiro
Mordechai Shapiro (born 1989) is an American singer, songwriter and entertainer in the Orthodox pop industry. He has been described as having the "ability to do things with his voice no one else in this business can" by Jewish music producer Yitz ...
, American singer
*
Nat Mayer Shapiro
Nathan Mayer Shapiro (June 2, 1919 – December 2, 2005) was an American visual artist.
Art
Nat Mayer Shapiro’s art is best known for his complex paintings on paper and canvas that may incorporate structural and whimsical imagery among ar ...
, American visual artist
*
Neal Shapiro
Neal B. Shapiro (born March 9, 1958) is the President and CEO of WNET. He worked previously as the President of NBC News and the executive producer for ''Dateline NBC''. Prior to this Shapiro spent 13 years as a news producer at ABC News.
Early ...
, president of PBS station Thirteen/WNET New York City.
*
Neal Shapiro (equestrian)
Neal Shapiro (born July 22, 1945) is an American equestrian and was a silver medalist in team jumping and Bronze medalist in individual jumping in the 1972 Munich Olympics, where he became the first American Equestrian jumper to win two medals a ...
(born 1945), American equestrian and Olympic medalist
*
Nevin Shapiro
Nevin Karey Shapiro (born April 13, 1969) is a convicted felon who currently is imprisoned for orchestrating a $930 million Ponzi scheme. According to interviews, he engaged in rampant violations of NCAA rules over eight years as a booster for Un ...
(born 1969), convicted American fraudster and central figure in the 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal
*
Nina Gordon Shapiro, American singer
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Norma Levy Shapiro, United States federal judge
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Norman Shapiro
Norman Zalmon Shapiro was an American mathematician, who was the co-author of the Rice–Shapiro theorem.
Education
Shapiro obtained a BS in Mathematics at University of Illinois in 1952.
Shapiro spent the summer of 1954 at Bell Laboratories in ...
(1932–2021), American mathematician and computer scientist
*
Paul Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Peter Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Ralph Shapiro (1908–1974), New York politician
*
Rashi Shapiro, Orthodox rabbi at
Loch Sheldrake Synagogue, Jewish folk-rock musician, psychologist
*
Refael Shapiro
Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, (now Valozhyn, Belarus), and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the ''Netziv'').Yeshiva Eitz Chaim Volozh ...
, Orthodox rabbi
*
Rick Shapiro
Rick Shapiro (born April 13, 1959) is a Los Angeles-based comedian and actor.
Life and career
Shapiro was born in New Jersey. Spending his early years in New York City and New Jersey, Shapiro started his career in the early 1980s as a comedian ...
, comedian and actor
*
Robert Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Robert Schapire
Robert Elias Schapire is an American computer scientist, former David M. Siegel '83 Professor in the computer science department at Princeton University, and has recently moved to Microsoft Research. His primary specialty is theoretical and app ...
, computer scientist who co-invented AdaBoost, a widely used machine learning meta-algorithm.
*
Roy D. Shapiro, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
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Samantha Shapiro
Samantha "Sami" Shapiro (born May 18, 1993) is an American gymnast. She is a five-time member of the US Women's National Gymnastics Team. She was the 2007 U.S. junior uneven bars champion, 2008 U.S. junior uneven bars and balance beam champion, ...
(born 1993), American gymnast
*
Samantha Harris Shapiro, American TV host (''Dancing with the Stars'', ''Entertainment Tonight'')
*
Samuel Shapiro (disambiguation), several people
*
Saul Shapiro
Saul Taylor Shapiro is the New York City franchisee of Fibrenew doing business as Fibrenew Manhattan Central.
Early life and education
Shapiro was born to Florence and Seymour Shapiro in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
A materials science engineeri ...
, president of the Metropolitan Television Alliance, LLC (MTVA)
*
Scott Shapiro, American political philosopher
*
Seymour Shapiro Seymour Lester Shapiro (1916 - 1961) was an organic chemist best known for his pioneering work on a class of drugs used to treat symptoms of adult-onset diabetes. Phenformin was marketed under the name "DBI" until it was taken off the market after ...
, American chemist who pioneered development of pharmaceuticals for use against diabetes
*
Sharon Shapiro
Sharon Shapiro is an American former gymnast. She won five gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games. In 1978, she was the U.S. National Champion in the vault. She was a two-time National Collegiate All-Around Champion. In 1981, she won the Honda-B ...
, American gymnast
*
Shmuel Shapiro (born 1974), French Chassidic-Jewish singer and Hazan.
*
Sidney Shapiro
Sidney Shapiro () (December 23, 1915 – October 18, 2014) was an American-born Chinese lawyer, translator, actor and writer who lived in China from 1947 to 2014. He lived in Beijing for more than 50 years and eventually became a member of the ...
, Chinese author and translator of American descent
*
Stanley J. Shapiro, professor Emeritus of Marketing at Simon Fraser University
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Steve Shapiro
Steve Shapiro (born 1963) is an American music producer, session musician, and jazz vibraphonist.
Biography
Steve Shapiro is a veteran NYC studio vibraphonist, composer, and synth programmer. He has recorded or performed with artists such as ...
, American music producer
*
Stewart Shapiro
Stewart Shapiro (; born 1951) is O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Connecticut. He is a leading figure in the philosophy of mathematics where he defends the a ...
, philosopher and logician
* Stuart Loren Shapiro, better known as
Todd Loren
Todd or Todds may refer to:
Places
;Australia:
* Todd River, an ephemeral river
;United States:
* Todd Valley, California, also known as Todd, an unincorporated community
* Todd, Missouri, a ghost town
* Todd, North Carolina, an unincorporate ...
(1960–1992), American publisher
*
Stuart S. Shapiro, producer, writer, director, and Internet entrepreneur
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Sumner Shapiro, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and former director of the Office of Naval Intelligence
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Ted Shapiro
Ted Shapiro (October 31, 1899 – May 26, 1980) was a United States popular music composer, pianist, and sheet music publisher.
Early life
Shapiro was born on October 31, 1899 in New York City. He became a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and accompa ...
(1899–1980), U.S. popular music composer, pianist, and sheet music publisher
*
Theodore Shapiro (psychiatrist)
Theodore Shapiro is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, where he is a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.. He is a faculty member of the Columbia Unive ...
, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York
*
Theodore Shapiro (composer)
Theodore Michael Shapiro (born September 29, 1971) is an American composer best known for his film scores.
He is a frequent collaborator of directors Ben Stiller, Paul Feig, Jay Roach, Karyn Kusama, and Rawson Marshall Thurber, and won the 2 ...
, American composer
*
Todd Shapiro Todd Michael Shapiro is the CEO of Red Light Holland, a publicly traded company ( ) that is engaged in the legal sale of a premium brand of Truffles in The Netherlands. As CEO, Shapiro, a former Canadian broadcaster, radio host, on SiriusXM Canada's ...
, Canadian radio show host
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Victor L. Shapiro
Victor Lenard Shapiro (16 October 1924, Chicago – 1 March 2013, Riverside, California) was an American mathematician, specializing in trigonometric series and differential equations. He is known for his two theorems (published in 1957) on the uni ...
(1924–2013), American mathematician
*
Walter Shapiro, American journalist and columnist
* William "Willie" Shapiro (1911–1934), one of the
Shapiro Brothers
Meyer (1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and William Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg. Well established in ...
, New York City labor racketeers
Other uses
* "Miss Shapiro", a song by 801 from the album ''
801 Live
''801 Live'' is the first live album by 801. It was originally released by Island Records in the UK (cat. no. ILPS 9444) in November 1976. It was subsequently released by Polydor Records in North America (cat. no PD-1-6148) in March 1978.
In ...
''
See also
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Mikhail Chapiro, artist and painter, emigrated from Russia to Canada
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Schapiro
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Shapeero
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Shapero
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Shapira Shapira is a surname, and may refer to:
* Amitzur Shapira, Israeli runner and track and field coach killed in the 1972 Munich massacre
* Amos Shapira, Israeli former President of El Al Airlines, Cellcom, and the University of Haifa
* Anita Shapir ...
*
Spero
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Spira (family name) Spira is a surname with a variety of origins. In Germany, the surname Spira originated as a corruption of Speyer, the name of a town in the Rhineland. It is one of a number of Jewish surnames that originated this way, along with the better-known Sha ...
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