Greenberg
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Greenberg is a surname common in North America, with anglicized spelling of the German Grünberg
(green mountain) or the Jewish
Ashkenazi
Yiddish
Grinberg
, an artificial surname.
Notable people with the surname Greenberg include:
Grünberg
Grünberg is a town in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany.- Neighbouring communities :To the north Grünberg borders the municipality Rabenau and the town Homberg , to the east the municipality Mücke , to the south the town Laubach and to the west the municipality Reiskirchen.- Constituent...
(green mountain) or the Jewish
Jewish surname
Jews have historically used Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ben- or bat- , and then the father's name....
Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for this region and thus for Germany...
Yiddish
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
Grinberg
Grinberg
Grinberg is the surname of:* Adam Grinberg , a cinematographer* Alexandre Danielevich Grinberg , a Russian-French photographer* Anouk Grinberg , a Begian actor...
, an artificial surname.
Notable people with the surname Greenberg include:
A–C
- Adam Greenberg (baseball), American major league baseball outfielder
- Adam Greenberg (cinematographer)Adam Greenberg (cinematographer)Adam Greenberg, A.S.C. is a cinematographer noted for his work in Israel and The United States, including numerous films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger...
, cinematographer - Andrew GreenbergAndrew GreenbergAndrew Greenberg is a game designer of both pen-and-paper role-playing games and computer games. He was one of White Wolf's original developers on Vampire: The Masquerade , particularly the famous supplement Chicago by Night which many credit with setting the tone for the Vampire books that...
, game designer - Andrew C. GreenbergAndrew C. GreenbergAndrew C. Greenberg co-created Wizardry with Robert Woodhead, which was one of the first role-playing games for a personal computer. He was also involved with the production of the game Q-Bert and several of the later Wizardry games in the 1980s. He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he...
, video game designer - Bernard GreenbergBernard GreenbergBernard S. Greenberg is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on Multics and the Lisp machine.-Projects:In 1978, Greenberg implemented Multics Emacs using Multics Maclisp...
, programmer and computer scientist - Bryan GreenbergBryan GreenbergBryan E. Greenberg is an American actor and musician, known for his starring role as Ben Epstein in the HBO original series How to Make It in America as well as a recurring role as Jake Jagielski in the The WB TV series One Tree Hill and as Nick Garrett on the short-lived ABC drama October Road...
, American actor - Brooke GreenbergBrooke GreenbergBrooke Greenberg , is an American from Reisterstown, Maryland, who has remained physically and cognitively similar to a toddler, despite her increasing age. She is about 30 inches tall, weighs about 16 pounds , and has an estimated mental age of nine months to one year...
, Child mystery - Carl GreenbergCarl GreenbergCarl Greenberg was an American newspaper reporter who began as a police reporter; most of his career he was a reporter covering California and U.S. national politics...
, American journalist - Clement GreenbergClement GreenbergClement Greenberg was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century...
, American art critic
D–G
- Dan GreenbergDan GreenbergDaniel "Dan" Greenberg is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2006 through 2011...
, American politician and Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives - Daniel Greenberg (educator)Daniel Greenberg (educator)Daniel A. Greenberg , one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization, and has been described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Grey as the "principal philosopher" among its founders...
, American columnist and educator - Daniel Greenberg (game designer)Daniel Greenberg (game designer)Daniel Greenberg is a video game and role-playing game designer and author. He has worked with publishing companies such as Palladium Books, Mayfair Games, Pulsar Games, and Last Unicorn Games, but probably most extensively with White Wolf on supplements to the Vampire: The Masquerade and other...
, role-playing and video game designer - Evan G. GreenbergEvan G. GreenbergEvan Greenberg is an American business executive. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Zurich based insurance company ACE Limited....
, president and CEO of ACE Limited - Gerald B. GreenbergGerald B. GreenbergGerald B. Greenberg is an American film editor who received both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film The French Connection ....
(film editor: Academy Award for Film Editing#1970s, Apocalypse NowApocalypse NowApocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
)
H–I
- Hank GreenbergHank GreenbergHenry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg , nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank" or "The Hebrew Hammer," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation...
, US Major League Hall of Fame baseball player - Harold GreenbergHarold GreenbergHarold Greenberg, OC, CQ was a Canadian film producer.Harold was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1930. Harold was born into a family of three brothers: Ian, Sydney and Harvey . Greenberg began working in a second-hand camera store when he was thirteen...
, Canadian film producer - Hayim GreenbergHayim GreenbergHayim Greenberg was a US Judaism thinker and Labor Zionist thinker. He was the head of poalei Zion and he was the editor along with Marie Syrkin of the important American Zionist Journal "Jewish Frontiers." Its writers included David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Shertok, Sholom Asch and Maurice Samuel.He...
(1889-1953), US Judaism thinker - Irving GreenbergIrving GreenbergIrving Greenberg, also known as Yitz Greenberg, is a Modern Orthodox rabbi, Jewish-American scholar and author. He is known as a strong supporter of Israel and a promoter of greater understanding between Judaism and Christianity....
, Modern Orthodox rabbi and author
J–L
- Jack Greenberg (McDonald's)Jack Greenberg (McDonald's)Jack M. Greenberg was Chairman and CEO of McDonald's Corporation from 1999 through 2002, when he was replaced by James Richard Cantalupo. He was promoted to CEO in 1998, succeeding Michael R...
, president and CEO of McDonald's Corporation. - Jack Greenberg (lawyer)Jack Greenberg (lawyer)Jack Greenberg is an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall....
, American civil rights attorney - Jay GreenbergJay GreenbergJay "Bluejay" Greenberg is an American composer who entered the Juilliard School in 2002.-Life and work:...
, American child prodigy composer - Jeffrey W. GreenbergJeffrey W. GreenbergJeffrey Wayne Greenberg is an American lawyer and business executive who served as chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies.He earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1973 and his law degree from Georgetown University Law School in 1976. He began his career at Marsh & McLennan...
, former chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies - Jill GreenbergJill GreenbergJill Greenberg is an American photographer and artist. She is known for her portraits and fine art work.-Biography:Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She graduated with honors in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and...
, American photographer - Joanne GreenbergJoanne GreenbergJoanne Greenberg is an American author best known for the bestselling novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden written under the pen name of Hannah Green...
, American writer - Joseph GreenbergJoseph GreenbergJoseph Harold Greenberg was a prominent and controversial American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.- Early life and career :...
, American linguist - Joshua GreenbergJoshua GreenbergJoshua M. Greenberg is an American academic working in sociology of scientific knowledge. Greenberg is Program Director for Digital Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previously he was the Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the...
, digital strategist for New York Public Library (NYPL)
M–R
- Marc L. Greenberg, American scholar of Slavic languages (sl)
- Martin GreenbergMartin GreenbergMartin Greenberg is an American book publisher and editor of science fiction anthologies.-Biography:Greenberg married in 1941. He was in the U.S...
, American science fiction anthologist and founder of Gnome PressGnome PressGnome Press was an American small-press publishing company primarily known for publishing many science fiction classics.The company was founded in 1948 by Martin Greenberg and David A. Kyle. Many of Gnome's titles were reprinted in England by Boardman Books... - Martin H. GreenbergMartin H. GreenbergMartin Harry Greenberg was an American speculative fiction anthologist and writer.-Biography:Dr. Martin H. Greenberg was born March 1, 1941, to Max and Mae Greenberg in South Miami Beach, Florida...
, American speculative fiction anthologist - Maurice Greenberg (d. by 1985), Russian-American founder of ColecoColecoColeco is an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles, the Coleco Telstar and...
- Maurice R. GreenbergMaurice R. GreenbergMaurice Raymond "Hank" Greenberg is an American business executive and former chairman and CEO of American International Group , which was the world's 18th largest public company and its largest insurance and financial services corporation.He is currently chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc....
, American businessman and former chairman and CEO of American International Group - Michael Greenberg (economist), British economic historian who worked in the Roosevelt administration
- Mike Greenberg, American television news anchor and radio host for ESPN
- Moshe GreenbergMoshe GreenbergMoshe Greenberg was an American Jewish rabbi, Bible scholar, and professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
, Biblical scholar at the Hebrew University - Noah GreenbergNoah GreenbergNoah Greenberg was an American choral conductor.In 1937, aged 18, Greenberg joined the Socialist Workers Party of Max Schachtman, and worked as a lathe operator and party activist. He lost work-related draft deferment in 1944 and joined the U.S. Merchant Marine till 1949. By this time he had lost...
, (1919-1966), American choral conductor - Oscar W. GreenbergOscar W. GreenbergOscar Wallace Greenberg is an American physicist and professor at University of Maryland, College Park. He is famous for positing the existence of a property of subatomic particles called color charge.-Educational background:...
, American physicist at University of Maryland, College Park - Richard GreenbergRichard GreenbergRichard Greenberg is an American playwright. He is the author of over 25 plays including eight South Coast Repertory world premieres: Our Mother's Brief Affair, The Injured Party, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain Richard Greenberg (1958–present) is an American...
, American playwright - Robert GreenbergRobert GreenbergRobert M. Greenberg , is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, NY. He has composed more than 45 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Teaching...
, American composer, pianist, and musicologist - Roman GreenbergRoman GreenbergRoman Greenberg is a British-based Israeli heavyweight boxer, currently International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental heavyweight champion, with a 27–1 record. Greenberg has been nicknamed the "Lion from Zion."-Biography:...
, Israeli heavyweight boxer
S–Z
- Seymour GreenbergSeymour GreenbergSeymour Greenberg was an amateur American clay-court specialist tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s....
, tennis player - Shawn GreenbergShawn GreenbergShawn Deborah Greenberg was appointed a judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench on October 30, 2003. She replaced Mr. Justice T.M. Glowacki, who elected to become a supernumerary judge....
, Manitoba judge - Stan GreenbergStan GreenbergStanley Bernard Greenberg is a leading Democratic pollster and political strategist who has advised the campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry, as well as hundreds of other candidates and organizations in the United States and around the world, including the former Bundeskanzler ...
, American political strategist - Steven Greenberg (musician)Steven Greenberg (musician)Steven Greenberg of Saint Paul, Minnesota is a musician, record producer and the owner of the independent October Records label. He is best known for his 1980 hit song "Funkytown," recorded under the name Lipps Inc...
, American musician - Steven Greenberg (rabbi)Steven Greenberg (rabbi)Steven Greenberg is an American rabbi. He is generally described as the first openly gay Orthodox Jewish rabbi. His being an Orthodox rabbi is disputed by some Orthodox Jews since he publicly disclosed he was gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999 and participated in the 2001...
, American rabbi, educator and author - Steve Greenberg (record producer)Steve Greenberg (record producer)Steve Greenberg is a record producer currently heading the S-Curve Records label. He is noted for "discovering" popular musical acts such as Hanson, Baha Men, Jonas Brothers and Joss Stone. He received a 2000 Grammy Award in the "Best Dance Recording" category as a producer of "Who Let the Dogs...
, noted for "discovering" popular musical acts such as Hanson, Baha Men and Joss Stone
See also
- Greenberg (film)Greenberg (film)Greenberg is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh...
, a 2010 film - Greenburg
- GrünbergGrünberg (disambiguation)Grünberg or Gruenberg may refer to:Places* Grünberg, Hesse, a town in Hesse* Grünberg , a part of Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen, Austria...
(also Grunberg, Grynberg) - GrinbergGrinbergGrinberg is the surname of:* Adam Grinberg , a cinematographer* Alexandre Danielevich Grinberg , a Russian-French photographer* Anouk Grinberg , a Begian actor...