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The surname
Epstein is one of the oldest Jewish
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s in the
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countries. Some people with this name include:
Religion
- Abraham Epstein
Abraham Epstein was a Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar born in Staro Constantinov, Volhynia. Epstein diligently studied the works of Levinsohn, Krochmal, and S. D. Luzzatto, and when he traveled in western Europe for the first time in 1861, he made the acquaintance of J.L. Rapoport, Z. Frankel,...
(born 1841), Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar
- Aryeh Löb Epstein ben Mordecai, Polish rabbi
- Baruch Epstein
Rabbi Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein was a Lithuanian rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah...
, Lithuanian rabbi and the son of Yechiel Michel EpsteinYechiel Michel Epstein , often called "the Aruch ha-Shulchan" , was a Rabbi and posek in Lithuania...
- Isidore Epstein
Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein , was an Orthodox rabbi and rabbinical scholar in England, who served as the longtime principal of Jews' College, London....
, rabbi and biblical scholar
- Moshe Mordechai Epstein
Moshe Mordechai Epstein was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century.-Childhood:...
, rabbi and author of the Levush Mordechai
- Yechiel Michel Epstein
Yechiel Michel Epstein , often called "the Aruch ha-Shulchan" , was a Rabbi and posek in Lithuania...
, Lithuanian rabbi and author of the Arukh HaShulkhan
- Zelik Epstein
Zelik Epstein, also known as Zelig Epstein , was a prominent Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno, a private, Talmudical institution in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, containing a high school, Beis Midrash, and Kollel...
, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno, located in Kew Gardens, New York
Arts
- Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein was a literary editor and a founding co-editor of the New York Review of Books.Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949.Ms...
, literary editor
- Brian Epstein
Brian Samuel Epstein was a British music entrepreneur, and the manager of The Beatles. He also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black and The Remo Four...
(1934-1967), manager of the BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
- Daniel Epstein
Daniel Epstein is an American pianist. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Epstein was launched into international renown when the conductor, Eugene Ormandy,invited him to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973...
, pianist
- Daniel Mark Epstein
Daniel Mark Epstein is an American poet, dramatist and biographer.Epstein earned his B.A. from Kenyon College...
, biographer and poet
- Edward Jay Epstein
Edward Jay Epstein is an American journalist. Epstein attended Cornell University during the 1960s, where he received his BA. Epstein was an early critic of the Warren Commission. His Masters thesis, also at Cornell, was titled Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His...
, author and early critic of the Warren CommissionThe President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22. Its 888-page final report was...
- Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein was an American-born British sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict...
, sculptor
- Joseph Epstein
Joseph Epstein is a Jewish essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's The American Scholar magazine and for his recent essay collection, Snobbery: The American Version. He was also a lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 to 2002...
, American editor and essayist
- Julius Epstein (pianist)
Julius Epstein was a Austro-Hungarian Jewish pianist. He was a pupil at Agram of the choir-director Vatroslav Lichtenegger, and in Vienna of Johann Rufinatscha and Anton Halm...
- Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation - in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others —- of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's that became the screenplay for the film Casablanca , for which its team of...
, Oscar-winning screenwriter, brother of Philip G. EpsteinPhilip G. Epstein was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's that became the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film Casablanca .Epstein was born in New York City and...
- Leslie Epstein
Leslie Donald Epstein is an American novelist.He has written nine novels including King of the Jews , Pandaemonium , and San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory , based on his childhood growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s...
, novelist
- Mel Epstein
Mel Epstein was an American film director and producer. He produced several films, including Secret of the Incas and Alaska Seas.-External links:*New York Times Biography of Mel Epstein ....
, film director and producer
- Jake Epstein
Jacob Lee "Jake" Epstein is a Canadian actor and singer, perhaps best known for playing Craig Manning, a bi-polar musician on Degrassi-Personal life:...
, Canadian actor
- Jason Epstein
Jason Wolkow Epstein is an American editor and publisher.A 1949 graduate of Columbia College, Epstein was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years. He was responsible for the Vintage paperbacks, which published such authors as Norman Mailer,...
, publisher who popularized the trade paperback
- Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein was a film director and early film theoretician.- Career :He started directing his own films in 1922 with Pasteur, followed by L'Auberge rouge and Coeur fidèle...
, film director
- Mikhail Epstein
Mikhail N. Epstein is an American literary theorist and critical thinker. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia...
, literary theorist and Emory University professor
- Howie Epstein
Howard Norman Epstein , was a musician best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early life:...
, bass guitarist
- Philip G. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's that became the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film Casablanca .Epstein was born in New York City and...
, Oscar-winning screenwriter, brother to Julius J. EpsteinJulius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation - in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others —- of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's that became the screenplay for the film Casablanca , for which its team of...
- Steven Epstein (music producer)
Steven Epstein, an American producer of classical music received a B.Sc. in Music education from Hofstra University in 1973.Over the years, Epstein has worked with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Plácido Domingo, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Bobby McFerrin,...
, U.S. classical music producer with Sony
- Temi Epstein
Tamar "Temi" Le Anne Epstein is an American former child actress active in the middle 80s. Her best-known movie is in Friday the 13th Part VI, but her more remarkable role was the one of "young Ashton Main" on North and South.Epstein was born in Marietta, Georgia and is a graduate of Northwestern...
, child actress
Science and medicine
- Anthony Epstein
Sir Michael Anthony Epstein CBE, FRS was one of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus.Epstein was educated at St. Paul's School in London, Trinity College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Epstein was Professor of Pathology, 1968-85 , and Head of Department, 1968-82 at the...
, pathologist and co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virusThe Epstein-Barr Virus , also called Human herpesvirus 4 , is a virus of the herpes family and is one of the most common viruses in humans...
- Fred Epstein
Fred J. Epstein, MD was an internationally renowned pediatric neurosurgeon credited for the development of pioneering neurosurgical techniques to treat children threatened by brain and spinal-cord tumors....
, pediatric neurosurgeon
- Mark Epstein
Mark Epstein is also the name of a Mixed Martial Artist, who currently fights in the Cage Rage promotions.Mark Epstein, M.D. , is an American psychiatrist who has written extensively about Buddhism and psychotherapy. Epstein is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. He has...
, psychotherapist
- Sir Michael Anthony Epstein, British pathologist. One of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus
- Samuel Epstein
Samuel S. Epstein is a medical doctor and professor emeritus of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago who is perhaps best known for his contributions to environmental medicine, and his contributions towards cancer prevention...
, doctor and professor of environmental medicine
- Samuel Epstein (geochemist)
Samuel Epstein was a Canadian-American geochemist who developed methods for reconstructing geologic temperature records using stable isotope geochemistry...
, Wollaston Medal winner
- Scott Epstein, Massachusetts based pulmonary doctor and current Dean of Medicine at the Tufts University Medical School
Mathematics
- David B. A. Epstein
David Bernard Alper Epstein is a mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory, amongst other fields. He co-founded David Bernard Alper Epstein (b. 1937) is a mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory, amongst...
, mathematician
- Paul Epstein
Paul Epstein was a German mathematician. He is known for his contributions to number theory, in particular the Epstein zeta function....
, German mathematician
- Paul Sophus Epstein
Paul Sophus Epstein was a Russian-American mathematical physicist...
, American mathematician/physicist of Polish/Russian origin and California Institute of Technology professor.
- Richard A. Epstein
Richard Arnold Epstein , also known under the pseudonym E. P. Stein, is a notable American game theorist.-Education:...
, mathematician, game theorist
Sport
- Charlotte Epstein
Charlotte "Eppie" Epstein was known as "Mother of Women's Swimming in America" after she founded the Women's Swimming Association and coached the Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 1920s.-Career:...
, "Mother of Women's Swimming in America"
- Mike Epstein
Michael Peter Epstein , nicknamed SuperJew, is a former Major League Baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, and California Angels from -....
, baseball player
- Theo Epstein
Theo Nathaniel Epstein is the Executive Vice President/General Manager of the Boston Red Sox. On November 25, 2002, the Red Sox made him the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball by hiring him at the age of 28. In 2004, he engineered the first World Series championship by the Red Sox...
, Executive Vice President/General ManagerIn Major League Baseball, the general manager of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub during contract discussions with players....
of the Boston Red SoxThe Boston Red Sox are a member of the Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Since , the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park. The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature....
.
Military
- Giora Epstein
Colonel Giora "Hawkeye" Epstein , today Giora Even , is a retired colonel in the Israeli Air Force believed to have shot down more jet aircraft than any other pilot. Epstein was credited with 17 kills, all against Egyptian aircraft...
, "ace of aces" Israeli fighter pilot.
- Joseph Epstein
Joseph Epstein , also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.- Communist organizer :Joseph Epstein was born in Zamość, Congress Poland He also studied law at Warsaw...
, French resistance leader
Other
- Jacob Epstein (student)
Jacob Epstein, also Jake Bermanen, was born in Brooklyn, New York of Russian parents. He graduated from Cornell University in 1924, where he became friends with Anna Colloms, who was also a student. In 1938, Epstein volunteered for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and...
, alleged Soviet intelligence agent
- Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein is an American Objectivist intellectual and an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute. He received an B.A. in philosophy from Duke University in 2002. He contributes articles to the Capitalism Magazine website, and his writings have been published in a variety of newspapers such as The...
, objectivist philosopher
- Gavin Epstein, businessman
- Howard Epstein
Howard Epstein is a Canadian politician, lawyer and part-time law professor.Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he is an environmentalist, serving as the director of the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax from 1991-1994....
, Canadian politician
- Israel Epstein
Israel Epstein was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author...
, Polish-Chinese journalist
- Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein is an American financier, billionaire and philanthropist and convicted child sex offender.Epstein was raised in Coney Island and attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, New York...
, Billionaire financier
- Kathleen Epstein, daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman, was once married to Lucian Freud
- Michael Epstein, businessman, CEO of eDimensional
- David Epstein (law professor)
David G. Epstein is a professor of law at Southern Methodist University.Epstein received a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1964, a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1966, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1969...
- Richard Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the Faculty Director for Curriculum, and the Director, Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford...
, law professor
- Steven Epstein (academic)
Steven Epstein is an American academic and the John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities andProfessor in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University....
, sociologist
- William Epstein
William "Bill" Epstein, OC was a Canadian international civil servant who worked at the United Nations for 54 years and was considered an expert on disarmament....
, Canadian international civil servant
Variant surnames
- David Eppstein
David Arthur Eppstein is an English-born American professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine and a mathematician. His is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics....
, computer scientist
- Katja Ebstein
Katja Ebstein, is a German singer. She was born in Girlachsdorf . She achieved success with songs such as Theater or Es war einmal ein Jäger. She was married to Christian Bruhn, who wrote many of her songs...
, German singer
- Wilhelm Ebstein
Wilhelm Ebstein was a German physician.He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau and Berlin, graduating from the latter in 1859...
(1836–1912), German Jewish physician and nutritionist
See also
- Eppstein
- Geographical situation :Eppstein lies west of Frankfurt am Main, around 12 km north east of the state capital Wiesbaden, and is at the edge of the Taunus mountains.- Neighbouring municipalities and areas :...
, town in HesseHesse is a state of Germany with an area of and just over six million inhabitants. The state capital is Wiesbaden. Hesse's largest city is nearby Frankfurt am Main.Hesse contributes the largest share to the Rhine Main Area....
, GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
- Lords of Eppstein
The Lords of Eppstein were a family of German nobility in the Middle Ages. From the 12th century they ruled extensive territories in the Rhine Main area from their castle in Eppstein, northwest of Frankfurt, Germany.-History:...
, family of Germany nobility
- Le château d'Eppstein, story by Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world...
- Ebstein's anomaly
Ebstein's anomaly is a congenital heart defect in which the opening of the tricuspid valve is displaced towards the apex of the right ventricle of the heart.-Presentation:...
- Epstein-Barr virus
The Epstein-Barr Virus , also called Human herpesvirus 4 , is a virus of the herpes family and is one of the most common viruses in humans...
- Louis Epstein
Louis Epstein is a worldwide clothing manufacturer. Trading under the name of Louis Epstein Jeans, they are a manufacturer of a wide range of metro clothing, including production of a limited edition of blue jumpers.-References:...
, worldwide clothing manufacturer
- Palais Epstein
Palais Epstein is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna. It was built for the industrialist and banker Gustav Ritter von Epstein. The architect was Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, who also designed the adjacent Austrian Parliament Building...
in Vienna