Lieberman, Liebermann, or Liberman are names deriving from ''Lieb'', a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) nickname for a person from the German ''lieb'' or Yiddish ''lib'', meaning 'dear, beloved'.Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, ''A Dictionary of Surnames'' [Oxford UP, 1988], p. 325 Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew or Cyrillic alphabets, Cyrillic characters, so variations in the spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet.

Liebermann

* Benjamin Liebermann, German manufacturer * Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist * Charles H. Liebermann, Russian-American physician * Eliezer Dob Liebermann, Russian-Jewish writer * Felix Liebermann, historian (brother to Max Liebermann) * Lowell Liebermann, composer * Max Liebermann, painter * Oren Liebermann, American-Israeli journalist * Rolf Liebermann, composer and opera director

Lieberman

* Avigdor Lieberman, Moldavian-born Israeli politician, former Minister of Foreign affairs * Daniel Lieberman, paleoanthropologist * Evelyn S. Lieberman, American public official * Fredric Lieberman, an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author * Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Joe Lieberman * Hendel Lieberman, Russian-American artist * Herman Lieberman, Polish lawyer and Socialist politician * Jeff Lieberman (born 1947), American filmmaker * Jeffrey Lieberman, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University * Joe Lieberman, US Senator from Connecticut, husband of Hadassah Lieberman * Jon Lieberman, reporter and producer * Judith Lieberman, educator and the wife of Saul Lieberman * Lori Lieberman, American singer-songwriter * Lou Lieberman, Australian politician * Louise Lieberman (born 1977), American soccer coach and former player * Nancy Lieberman (born 1958), American basketball player * Philip Lieberman, linguist * Robert Lieberman, film and television director * Robert C. Lieberman, American political scientist * Robert H. Lieberman, scientist, educator, novelist and movie director * Saul Lieberman, rabbi and scholar and the husband of Judith Lieberman * Syd Lieberman, storyteller * Zvi Lieberman, Hebrew children's book author

Liberman

* Alexander Liberman, a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor * Alvin Liberman, professor of psychology and director of Haskins Laboratories * Anatoly Liberman, professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore * Evsei Liberman, Soviet economist * Jim Liberman, American drag racer * M. Charles Liberman, professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School * Mark Liberman, professor of linguistics * Simcha Liberman, Talmudist * Tetiana Liberman, Ukrainian singer

Fictional characters

*List of Indiana Jones characters#Claire Lieberman, Claire Lieberman, the female lead in ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones'' film ''Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies''.

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