Szapiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of

Shapiro Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro, Spiro (name)/Spyro (in Greek), Szapiro/ Szpiro (in Polish) and Chapiro (in French), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Etymology The surname is derive ...

. Notable people with this surname include: *Anna Szapiro, mother of

Georges Charpak Georges Charpak (; born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Life Georges Charpak was born Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and ...

*Deborah Szapiro, film producer *Jakub Szapiro, The King of Warsaw (TV series) main character * Gedali Szapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro, Gedalia Shapira, 1929–1972), Polish–Israeli chess master *

Hanna Sawicka Hanka Sawicka, real name Hanna Krystyna Szapiro, pseudonym ''Hanka'' (born 19 December 1917 in Kraków, died 18 March 1943 in Warsaw) was a Polish communist of Jewish background active in the Polish underground, represented in Polish People's Repub ...

(Hanna Krystyna Szapiro 1917–1943), Polish communist * Henoch Szapiro (Henryk Szaro, 1900–1942), Polish screenwriter and film director * Klonimus Kalmish Szapiro (1889–1943), Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland * Marek Szapiro (1884-1942), artist *Salomea Szapiro, mother of

Stefan Kisielewski Stefan Kisielewski (7 March 1911 in Warsaw – 27 September 1991 in Warsaw, Poland), nicknames Kisiel, Julia Hołyńska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Staliński, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one ...

* Salomon Szapiro (1882–1944), Polish chess master *Shayne-Feygl Szapiro (

Dina Blond Dina Blond (1 March 1887 - 1985) was a prominent member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator. She translated over 30 works of world literature into Yiddish from German, English, and Russian. She was born Shayne- ...

, 1887-1985), member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator * Willy Schapiro (also Szapiro or Schapira, 1910–1944), Polish Jew soldier

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