Auerbach (surname)

Auerbach and Averbuch is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
• Artie Auerbach (1903–1957), American comedian, press photographer
• Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
• Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
• Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish writer
• Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
• Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
• Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
• Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
• Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-Jewish philologist
• Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
• Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
• Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
• Larry Auerbach (born 1923), iconic American television director
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German anatomist (see Auerbach's plexus below)
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Russian composer, pianist and poet.
• Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
• Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
• Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
• Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
• Stevanne Auerbach (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
• Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
• Yuri Averbakh (born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster

• A prominent family of rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
  • Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
  • Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
  • Shmuel Auerbach
  • Ezriel (or Azriel) Auerbach

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