Efim is a given name, also spelled as Yefim. It is possibly derived from the Greek name Euthymios (Εὐθύμιος; ; latinized as
Euthymius). Notable people with the name include:
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Efim Alexandrov (born 1960), Russian-Jewish comedian
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Efim Bogoljubov (1889–1962), Russian-German chess grandmaster
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Efim Dzigan Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (russian: Ефим Львович Дзиган; 14 December 1898 – 31 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
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(1898–1981), Soviet film director
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Efim Etkind
Efim Etkind (russian: Ефи́м Григо́рьевич Э́ткинд, 26 February 1918, Petrograd – 22 November 1999, Potsdam) was a Soviet philologist and translation theorist.Efim Fradkin
Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Russian: ''Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин'') (November 30, 1924 – May 25, 1999) was a Russian physicist.
Fradkin was born in Shchedrin near Zhlobin (now Belarus), then in the Soviet Union, in 1924.
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(1924–1999), Russian physicist
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Efim Geller (1925–1998), Soviet chess grandmaster
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Efim Jourist
Efim Jourist (January 13, 1947 – January 13, 2007) was a Russian and German composer, accordionist and bajan player.
Life
Efim Jourist was born in Siberia. From 1966 until 1971 he studied at the conservatory of Gorky where he made the acquai ...
(1947–2007), Ukrainian composer
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Efim Kolbintsev
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(1875–), Russian peasant, treasurer, merchant and deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from Orenburg Governorate
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Efim Motpan (born 1971), Moldovan racewalker
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Efim Shifrin (born 1956), Russian actor
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Efim Zelmanov (born 1955), Russian-American mathematician
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(1774–1842) and (1803–1849), Russian inventors, father and son
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Yefim Bronfman
Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman (russian: Ефим Наумович Бронфман; born April 10, 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.
Biography
Bronfman was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 15. H ...
(born 1958), Russian-Israeli pianist
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Yefim Chaplits
Eufemiusz Czaplic () (1768–1825) was a Polish general and military commander in the service of the Russian Empire.
Eufemiusz Czaplic was born into an old Polish noble family Czaplic (Kierdeja coat of arms) and began military service in the Poli ...
(1768–1825), ethnic Pole, general of the Russian Empire
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Yefim Chulak
Yefim Aronovich Chulak (russian: Ефим Аронович Чулак , born 15 July 1948) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics
Events Januar ...
(born 1948), Russian former volleyball player
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Yefim Golïshev
Yefim Golyshev ( uk, Юхим Голишев), variously transliterated as ''Golyscheff'', ''Golyschev'', ''Golishiff'', ''Golishev'', etc., 8 September 1897 – 25 September 1970) was a Ukrainian-born painter and composer who was mainly active in ...
(1897–1970), Ukrainian-born painter and composer
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Yefim Karskiy
Yefim Fyodorovich Karsky ( be, Яўхім Фёдаравіч Карскі, Jaŭchim Fiodaravič Karski, russian: Ефим Фёдорович Карский; russian: Евфимий Феодорович Карский, older name form) (1 January 1 ...
(1861–1931), linguist-Slavist, ethnographer and paleographer
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Yefim Kopelyan
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (russian: Ефим Захарович Копелян; 12 April 1912 – 6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leni ...
(1912–1975), Russian actor of theater and cinema
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Yefim Moiseevich Fomin
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin ( Russian: Ефим Моисеевич Фомин), (15 January 1909 – 26 June 1941), was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captur ...
(1909–1941), Jewish-Soviet Political Commisar
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