Gurvich
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Gurvich, Gurovich, Gurwich, Gurwitch, Gurwitsch, Gurevich, or Gourevitch is a Yiddish surname, a Russian form of the surname "Horowitz", see the latter article about its etymology.
The surname may refer to:
Gurvich
- Abram Gurvich (1897–1962), Russian chess composer
- Jose Gurvich (1927–1974), Lithuanian-Uruguayan plastic artist
- Alexander Gurwitsch (1874–1954), Russian biologist
- Aleksandr Gurevich (1930–2023), Russian physicist
- Aron Gurevich (1924–2006), Russian medievalist
- Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973), Lithuanian-American philosopher
- Georges Gurvitch (1894–1965), Russian-French sociologist
- Liubov Gurevich (1866–1940), Russian editor, translator, author, and critic
- Leib Gurwicz (1906–1982), influential Orthodox Rabbi
- Naum Gurvich, Soviet-Jewish inventor of defibrillator
- Fedor Dan (born Gurvich) (1871–1949), Russian revolutionary and Menshevik
Gurevich
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Aharon Gurevich, Chief Rabbi of Russian Army
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Anatoly Gurevich Soviet espionage agent
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Boris Maksovich Gurevich (1931–1995), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler
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Boris Michail Gurevich (1937–2020), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler
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David Gurevich (b. 1951), Russian-American writer
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Dmitry Gurevich (b. 1956), Russian-American chess grandmaster
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Maria Gurevich (born 1964), Israeli puppet designer
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Michelle Gurevich, Canadian singer of Russian descent
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Mikhail Gurevich (chess player) (b. 1959), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
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Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft designer) (1893–1976), Soviet aircraft designer
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Mikhail Gurevich (psychiatrist) (1878–1953), Soviet psychiatrist
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Valery Solomonovich Gurevich is Vice-chairman of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast
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Yuri Gurevich, American computer scientist and mathematician
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Jessica Gurevitch, American plant ecologist
Gurwitch
- Annabelle Gurwitch (born 1961), American comedic actress
- Janet Gurwitch (born 1954), founder of Gurwitch Products
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