Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among
Slavic language
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Ear ...
speaking peoples; it is a common surname among
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally speak Yiddish, a language ...
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[''A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location'', McFarland, 13 May 2004] for whom it is commonly
Hebraized to ''Ben-Avraham'' (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel.
A similar surname of peoples from the former
Yugoslavia
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, p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia
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is
Abramović.
Some people with these names include:
Abramowicz (Polish)
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Andrzej Abramowicz (died 1763), Polish-Lithuanian nobleman.
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Danny Abramowicz (born 1945), American football player
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Daria Abramowicz (born 1987), Polish sports psychologist
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Dawid Abramowicz (born 1991), Polish footballer
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Kazimierz Abramowicz (1889–1936), Polish mathematician
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Leo Abramowicz (1889–1978), Jewish Austrian painter
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Manuel Abramowicz (born 1967), Belgian reporter
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Michel Abramowicz
Michel Abramowicz is a French photographer and cinematographer.
Career
He studied at the Paris Diderot University. Since then he has shot feature films, commercials and video clips. The DVD version of Taken (film), Taken was distributed with a ...
(born 1950), French cinematographer
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Sławomir Abramowicz (born 2004), Polish footballer
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Tomasz Abramowicz (born 1979), Polish footballer
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Witold Abramowicz, Polish scientist, academic
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Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, (1914–2007), Israeli rabbi and politician
Abramovich ()
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Alexander Abramovich (Alexander "Sasha" Argov; 1914–95), Russian-born Israeli composer
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Freddy Nieuchowicz Abramovich (born 1968), Uruguayan radio and television presenter.
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Luis Abramovich (born 1962), Argentine footballer
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Mario Abramovich (1926–2014), Argentine musician
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Roman Abramovich
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (born 24 October 1966) is a business oligarch and politician. He is the former owner of Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, a Premier League football club in London, England, and is the primary owner of the private investment com ...
(born 1966), Russian billionaire businessman, former owner of Chelsea FC
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Vsevolod Abramovich (1890–1913), Russian aviator
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Yuri Abramovich (1935–2017), Soviet aircraft pilot and 'Hero of Russia'
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Raphael Abramovitch
Raphael Abramovitch Rein (Рафаил Абрамович Рейн; 21 July 1880 – 11 April 1963), best known as Raphael Abramovitch, was a Russian socialist, a member of the General Jewish Labour Union, General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuani ...
(1880–1963), Russian socialist
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Max Abramovitz (1908–2004), American architect
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Moses Abramovitz (1912–2000), American economist and professor
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Orit Abramovitz, Israeli Olympic athlete
* S. Y. Abramovitz aka
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim (, ; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917 .S. Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (, ) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Heb ...
(1836–1917), Jewish author from Belarus
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Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz (1902–1995), American Hasidic rebbe
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Dov Ber Abramowitz (1860–1926), American Rabbi
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Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), American mathematician
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Morton I. Abramowitz (1933–2024), American diplomat and U.S. State Department official
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Pinchas Abramowitz (1909–1986), Israeli artist
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Sid Abramowitz (born 1960), American football player
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Yosef Abramowitz (born 1964), Israeli businessman
References
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Belarusian-language surnames
Ashkenazi surnames
Polish-language surnames
Slavic-language surnames
Patronymic surnames