Shleifer is a form of the
German surname
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname'').
The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the " Western or ...
Schleifer
Schleifer is a German-language surname. Its Polonized form is Szlajfer, Russified of Yiddish: Shleifer.
Notable people with this surname include.
* Abdallah Schleifer v S. Abdallah Schleifer (b. Marc Schleifer, 1935), prominent Middle East exp ...
. Notable people with the surname include:
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Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer ( ; born February 20, 1961) is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in ...
(born 1961), Russian-American economist
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Scott Shleifer (born 1977), American billionaire hedge fund manager
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Shlomo Shleifer Shloime Mikhelevich (Solomon Mikhailovich) Shleifer was born on December 23, 1889, in Moscow. His father was the rabbi of Alexandria, a town near Kherson. During the First World War, the Shlifer family moved to Moscow, where Rabbi Shleifer worked a ...
(1889–1957), Rabbi from Moscow
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German-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames