Rappaport is an Ashkenazi surname, with the individuals bearing it being descendants of the Rabbinic Kohenic Rappaport family. Variants of the name include Rapaport, Rapa Porto, Rappeport, Rappoport and Rapoport.

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* Alfred Rappaport (diplomat) (1868–1946), Austrian diplomat and writer *

Alfred Rappaport (economist) Alfred Rappaport (born 1932) is an American economist, educator and author. He is the Leonard Spacek Professor Emeritus at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is best known for further developing the idea of shareholder va ...

(b. 1932), American economist * Andrew S. Rappaport (b. 1957), American Silicon Valley venture capitalist *

Ben Rappaport Ben Rappaport (born ) is an American actor. He played the role of Todd Dempsy in the NBC sitcom '' Outsourced'', which aired during the 2010–11 television season. The series marked Rappaport's debut acting role on screen. Life and career Rapp ...

(b. 1986), American television actor *

Bruce Rappaport Baruch "Bruce" Rappaport (February 15, 1922 – January 8, 2010) was an international banker and financier. He was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine to Russian-Jewish emigre parents. Bank of New York-InterMaritime His Bank of New York-InterMari ...

(1922–2010), Palestinian-born international banker and financier *

Daniel Rappaport Daniel Rappaport is an American producer. He is a founding partner, with Guymon Casady Guymon Patrick Casady is an American media executive, motion picture and television producer and talent manager. Casady is a four time Emmy Award-winning co ...

(b. 1970), American film producer *

David Rappaport David Stephen Rappaport (23 November 1951 – 2 May 1990) was an English actor with achondroplasia. He appeared in the films '' Time Bandits'' and '' The Bride'', and television series '' L.A. Law'', '' The Wizard'' and ''Captain Planet and the ...

(1951–1990), English actor * David Rappaport (designer) (1914–2010), American fashion manufacturerer, designer, artist *

Edward Rappaport Edward Neil "Ed" Rappaport (born November 18, 1957) served as the acting director of the National Hurricane Center from 2007 to 2008 and again from 2017 to 2018. He replaced former director Bill Proenza on July 9, 2007. Rappaport was replaced by ...

(b. ca. 1957), acting director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center *

Emil Stanisław Rappaport Emil Stanisław Rappaport (8 July 1877 – 10 August 1965) was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent. He was a specialist in criminal law and a founder of the doctrine of international criminal law. In 1930, he was awarded the Order of Polonia Resti ...

(1877–1965), Polish Supreme Court judge *

Herbert Rappaport Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director. Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now L ...

(1908–1983), Austrian-born screenwriter and film director (known as Gerbert Rappaport in USSR) *

Helen Rappaport Helen F. Rappaport (née Ware; born June 1947), is a British author and former actress. She specialises in the Victorian era and revolutionary Russia. Early life and education Rappaport was born Helen Ware in Bromley, grew up near the River Med ...

(b. 1947), English actress, author, historian *

Jerome Lyle Rappaport Jerome Lyle Rappaport (August 17, 1927 – December 6, 2021) was an American lawyer, developer, political leader, and landlord. Rappaport is also known for his philanthropy in Boston, Massachusetts, and Stuart, Florida. He was the general part ...

(1927–2021), American attorney and civic figure in Massachusetts *

Jill Rappaport Jill Rappaport (born September 27, 1956) is an American journalist, animal advocate, and author. She has reported for ''The Today Show'' for over 22-years as well as ''NBC Nightly News'' and NBC affiliates. She was the creator, host, and exec ...

(b. 1964), American author, journalist, television personality * Jim Rappaport (b. 1956), American real estate developer in Massachusetts * Kurt Rappaport (b. ca. 1958), American real estate developer *

Mark Rappaport Mark Rappaport (born January 15, 1942 in New York City, United States) is an American independent/ underground film director and film critic, who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s. Biography Born and raised in Brighton Beach, ...

(b. ca. 1942), American film director *

Mark Rappaport (creature effects artist) Mark Rappaport (born 1954) is an American special make-up effects artist. Working in film and theater, Rappaport and his company ''Creature Effects, Inc'' specialize in creating hyper-realistic make-up effects and animatronic animals, includin ...

(b. 1954), American special-effects specialist * Mat Rappaport (b. 1971), American artist, curator, educator * Ray Rappaport (1922–2010), American scientist in cell biology *

Roy Rappaport Roy A. Rappaport (1926–1997) was an American anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to ecological anthropology. Biography Rappaport received his Ph.D. at Columbia University and held a tenured posi ...

(1926–1997), American anthropologist * Ruth Rappaport (1923–2010), German-born American librarian (U.S. Library of Congress) * Samuel Rappaport (1932–2016), American political figure in Pennsylvania *

Saul Rappaport Saul Rappaport is a professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rappaport became Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Physics in 1969 and became a full professor in 1981. From 1993 to 1995, he was head of the ...

(b. ca. 1940), American physics professor at MIT *

Sheeri Rappaport Sheeri Rappaport (born October 27, 1977) is an American actress. She is most famous for portraying lab technician Mandy Webster on '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. Rappaport made her television debut with a guest role on ''Clarissa Explains I ...

(b. 1977), American television actress * Solomon Anski,

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ve ...

writer (born ''Solomon Zangwill Rappaport, Rappoport'') *

Summer Rappaport Summer Rappaport (née Cook) is an American professional triathlete. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she competed in the women's triathlon race, placing 14th. During the 2019 ITU World Triathlon Series Rappaport took fifth in the final rankings. E ...

(b. 1991), American professional triathlete *

Theodore Rappaport Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport (born November 26, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American electrical engineer and the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering an ...

(b. 1960), American electrical engineer and professor * Uriel Rappaport (1935–2019), Israeli historian

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* Boris Rappoport, Russian professional football coach *

Charles Rappoport Charles Rappoport (14 June 1865 – 17 November 1941) was a Russian and French militant communist politician, journalist and writer. A Jewish intellectual, and a multilingual scholar, he's been referred to as "a grand man of French radicalism". ...

, Russian naturalized French politician and intellectual * Julius Rappoport, Russian silversmith * Kseniya (Xenia) Rappoport, Russian actress * Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky)—a Russian Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist.

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Alexandra Rapaport Alexandra Susanna Rapaport (born 26 December 1971 in Bromma) is a Swedish film and stage actress. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm, from which she graduated in 1997. She then worked for Uppsala Theatre before becoming engaged b ...

(b. 1971), Swedish film and stage actress *

Amir Rapaport Amir Rapaport ( he, עמיר רפפורט; born 11 March 1970) is an Israeli analyst, journalist, entrepreneur, and cyber expert. Personal life Amir Rappaport was born in Beersheba, Israel and holds a B.A. in economics from Ben-Gurion Universit ...

(b. 1970), Israeli journalist, media personality * David Rapaport (psychologist) (1911–1960), Hungarian-born U.S. (Kansas, Massachusetts) psychologist * Eldar Rapaport (b. ca. 1970), Israeli film director * Martin Rapaport (b. 1952), Belgian-American diamond dealer *

Matilda Rapaport Matilda Rapaport (29 January 1986 – 18 July 2016) was a Swedish alpine free-skier. She was married to Swedish alpine skier Mattias Hargin, and was the niece of Swedish actress Alexandra Rapaport. Early life Career Rapaport was the winner of ...

(1986-2016), Swedish skier *

Michael Rapaport Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, he has made over 100 appearances in film and television. His film roles include ''True Romance'' (1993), '' Higher Learning ...

(b. 1970), U.S. actor, media personality * Rosemary Rapaport (1918–2011), English musical educator * Rudolf Ray Rapaport (1891–1984), Latvian-born international artist * William J. Rapaport (b. ca. 1945), U.S. educator (New York)

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Aaron Rapoport Aaron Rapoport (born May 22, 1954) is an American photographer, best known for his photographs of musicians. Biography In a career that spans over three decades, Rapoport has photographed in a wide variety of areas including commercial photogr ...

(b. 1954), American photographer *

Abraham Rapoport Abraham Rapoport (Schrenzel) was a Polish Talmudist; born at Lemberg (currently Lviv, Ukraine) in 1584; died in 1651 (June 7); son of Rabbi Israel Jehiel Rapoport of Cracow and son-in-law of R. Mordecai Schrenzel of Lemberg. Rapoport was a pupil ...

(Schrenzel) (1584–1651), Polish Talmudic scholar *

Adam Rapoport Adam Rapoport (born 1969) is an American former magazine editor. After serving as a Style Editor at '' GQ'', Rapoport was the editor-in-chief of '' Bon Appétit'' magazine from 2010 until his resignation in 2020. Early life and education Rapo ...

(b. 1969), former editor-in-chief of ''Bon Appétit'' magazine *

Alek Rapoport Alek Rapoport (November 24, 1933, Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR – February 4, 1997, San Francisco) was a Russian Nonconformist artist, art theorist and teacher. Early life and education Alek Rapoport spent his childhood in Kyiv (Ukraine SSR). Dur ...

(1933–1997), Ukrainian-born U.S. artist *

Amos Rapoport Amos Rapoport (28 March 1929, Warsaw) is an architect and one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS). Ingold, Tim (2002) ''Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology'', Taylor & Francis He is the author of over 200 academic publications ...

(b. 1929), Polish-born professor of architecture *

Anatol Rapoport Anatol Rapoport ( uk, Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to genera ...

(1911–2007), Russian-born U.S. mathematical psychologist and game theorist * Bernard Rapoport (1917–2012), American businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist * Chaim Rapoport (b. 1963), British rabbi, author, educator * Dan Rapoport (b. ca. 1964), Latvian-born American international financier and philanthropist *

David C. Rapoport David Charles Rapoport (born January 7, 1929, Pittsburgh, PA) is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) who focuses on the study of terrorism. Biography Rapoport received his Ph.D. at Universit ...

(b. 1929), American political scientist, specializing in terrorism * Eda Rapoport (1890–1968), Latvian-born American composer, musical conducator, pianist * Eduardo H. Rapoport (1927–2017), Argentinian ecologist *

Henry Rapoport Henry Rapoport (November 16, 1918 – March 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for his work in the development of the chemical syn ...

(1918–2002), American chemist * I. C. Rapoport (b. 1937), American photojournalist and screenwriter *

Ian Rapoport Ian Rapoport is an American sportswriter, pundit, and television analyst who primarily covers the National Football League (NFL). Career Rapoport started his career for the '' Jackson Clarion-Ledger'' in 2004 covering the Mississippi State Bulld ...

(b. 1980), U.S. sports journalist, media personality * Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017), Cameroon-born German pediatrician and neonatologist * Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport, 18th century rabbi *

Leo Port Leo Weiser Port (7 September 192226 August 1978) was an Australian businessman, engineer, television personality, and Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1975 until his sudden death in 1978. Biography Leo Weiser Rapoport was born in Kraków, Poland i ...

(Rapoport; changed on arrival to Australia) (1922–1978), Polish-born

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1975–1978 *

Lev Pavlovich Rapoport Lev Pavlovich Rapoport (russian: Лев Павлович Рапопорт, link=no, January 13, 1920 – September 15, 2000) was well known for his pioneering works in nuclear and atomic theoretical physics. Early work His first works in this fiel ...

(1920–2000), Russian nuclear physicist * Louis Rapoport (1942–1991), U.S.-born Israeli newspaper editor *

Michael Rapoport Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian mathematician. Career Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne. He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the Univ ...

(b. 1948), German mathematician * Miles S. Rapoport (b. 1949), American politician and nonprofit executive * Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987), Polish-born sculptor * Paul Rapoport (1940–1987), American attorney, gay-rights advocate *

Paul Rapoport (music researcher) Paul Rapoport (born 1948) is a Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Biography Rapoport was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario. He received his bachelor's degree in linguistics a ...

(b. 1948), Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario * Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), Russian-born German physician, biochemist, and communist *

Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport Solomon Judah Löb HaKohen Rapoport ( he, שלמה יהודה כהן רפאפורט; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar. Rapoport was known by an acronym "Shir", שי"ר occasionally שיל ...

(1786–1867), Galician Jewish rabbi and scholar *

Sonya Rapoport Sonya Rapoport (October 6, 1923 – June 1, 2015) was an Visual arts of the United States, American conceptual art, conceptual, Feminist art, feminist, and New media artist. She began her career as a painter, and later became best known for comput ...

(1923–2015), American artist, computer-artistry pioneer *

Tom Rapoport Tom Abraham Rapoport (born June 17, 1947) is a German-American cell biologist who studies protein transport in cells. Currently, he is a professor at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Born in Cincinnati, OH ...

(b. 1947), German-born U.S. cell biologist at Harvard Medical School *

Vladimir Rapoport Vladimir Abramovich Rapoport (russian: Владимир Абрамович Рапопорт, link=no; 6 November 1907, Vitebsk – 17 June 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer. Vladimir Rapoport received the Stalin Prize four times: in 1942, ...

(1907–1975), Soviet cinematographer

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