Brisker
Brisker (Yiddish: בריסק) is Rabbinic name and Jewish surname of:
- Rev Chaim Brisker (Soloveitchik) (1853–1918), a rabbi and Talmudist
- Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty ("Brisker")
- Brisker method (Yiddish: Brisker derekh), a reductionistic approach to Talmud study innovated by Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk
- Brisker Rov ("rabbi of/from Brisk") (1886, Valozhyn – 1959)
- Gordon Brisker (1937, Cincinnati, Ohio – 2004), an American jazz tenor saxophonist
- John Brisker (born 1947, Detroit, Michigan), an American professional basketball player
- Mark Brisker (born 1969), American-Israeli basketball player
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