Ginsberg
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Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Ginsburgh, Ginsparg, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the same surname
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Surname
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Ginsberg
- Allen GinsbergAllen GinsbergIrwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
, Beat poet - Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Achad ha'am), Zionist writer and philosopher
- Benjamin Ginsberg (businessman)Benjamin Ginsberg (businessman)In 1904, Benjamin Ginsberg, a Russian immigrant and pioneer in the Cederberg region of the Cape, South Africa, became the first to trade Rooibos tea and cultivate it under production....
- Benjamin GinsbergBenjamin GinsbergBenjamin L. Ginsberg is a partner and lobbyist for Patton Boggs LLP, where he has represented political parties, political campaigns, candidates, members of Congress and state legislatures, Governors, corporations, trade associations, businesses, and individuals participating in the political...
, attorney and lobbyist - Edward Ginsberg, Chairman of American Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteeAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteeThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is a worldwide Jewish relief organization headquartered in New York. It was established in 1914 and is active in more than 70 countries....
(1972—1974) - Louis Ginsberg (poet), Allen Ginsberg's father, also a poet
- Morris GinsbergMorris GinsbergMorris Ginsberg was a UK sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question...
(1889-1970), British sociologist - Harold Louis GinsbergHarold Louis GinsbergHarold Louis Ginsberg, , commonly known as H. L. Ginsberg, was a professor of rabbinic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City in the 20th century.-Biography:...
, Jewish bible scholar, died 1990
Ginsburg
- Chad I. Ginsburg, lead guitarist and mixer/producer of the modern rock band CKY
- Charles GinsburgCharles GinsburgCharles Ginsburg was an engineer and the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders....
, leader of a research team that developed one of the first practical videotape recorders - Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg, best known as Charlotte GainsbourgCharlotte GainsbourgCharlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
, English-French actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg - Christian David GinsburgChristian David GinsburgChristian David Ginsburg was a Polish-born, British Bible scholar and student of the masoretic tradition in Judaism....
(1831-1914), Polish-UK Hebrew language scholar - Douglas H. GinsburgDouglas H. GinsburgDouglas Howard Ginsburg is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to this court in October 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. He served as its Chief Judge from July 16, 2001 until February 10, 2008...
, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit - Lucien Ginsburg, best known as Serge GainsbourgSerge GainsbourgSerge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...
, French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director - Moe Ginsburg, birth name of Mark GaynMark GaynMark Gayn was an American left wing journalist and a Soviet spy.He was born in China to Russian-Jewish parents who had migrated from Russian Empire. He went to school in Vladivostok and was proponent of the Chinese Communists...
, Russia-born American left-wing journalist - Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader GinsburgRuth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice.She is generally viewed as belonging to...
, American jurist and United States Supreme Court justice - Saul Moiseyevich Ginsburg, Russian lawyer and author
- Seymour GinsburgSeymour GinsburgSeymour Ginsburg was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, anddatabase theory, in particular; and computer science, in general...
(1928-2004), computer science pioneer of automata, formal language, and database theories - William H. GinsburgWilliam H. GinsburgWilliam H. Ginsburg is an American lawyer, best known for representing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky in her controversy regarding sexual activities with then-President Bill Clinton in 1998....
, American lawyer - Solomon L. Ginsburg, (1860-1926) Southern Baptist Missionary in Brazil. Autobiograhpy: "A Wandering Jew in Brazil"
Ginsburgh
- Stephane GinsburghStephane GinsburghStephane Ginsburgh is a Belgian pianist.- Studies:Ginsburgh was born in Brussels. After graduating from the Royal Music Conservatories of Mons and Liège in piano and chamber music, Ginsburgh studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly Margulis and particularly Claude Helffer in Paris for contemporary...
, Belgian pianist - Victor GinsburghVictor GinsburghVictor Alexandre Ginsburgh is a Belgian economist of Austrian origin.Ginsburgh studied at the Solvay Business School at the Free University of Brussels and mastered in econometrics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, 1972. He is professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles since 1975...
, Belgian economist - Yitzchak GinsburghYitzchak GinsburghYitzchak Ginzburg is an American born Israeli rabbi. He is a follower of the Chabad Lubavich movement and currently Rosh Yeshivah of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the Settlement Yitzhar in the West Bank, and the leader of the kabbalistic Gal Einai organization. He has published numerous books...
, Israeli rabbi
Ginzberg
- Rabbi Louis GinzbergLouis GinzbergRabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City.-Biographical background:...
, one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the twentieth century.
Ginzburg
- Alexander GinzburgAlexander GinzburgAlexander Ilyich Ginzburg , was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited the samizdat poetry almanac Sintaksis. Between 1961 and 1969 he was sentenced three times to labor camps...
, Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident - Carlo GinzburgCarlo GinzburgCarlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...
, historian and pioneer of microhistory, son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg - Grigory GinzburgGrigory GinzburgGrigory Romanovich Ginzburg was a Jewish-born, Russian pianist.-Biography:Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw International Frederick Chopin Competition...
(1904–1961), Jewish-born Russian pianist - Ilya Ginsburg (1882–1965), Russian/Soviet geochemist and mineralogist
- Leo GinzburgLeo GinzburgLeo Moritsevich Ginzburg was a Russian conductor and pianist of Polish origin. He conducted the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra after Lev Steinberg and Nikolai Anosov....
(1901–1979), Russian conductor and pianist of Polish origin - Leone GinzburgLeone GinzburgLeone Ginzburg was an Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement...
, Russian-born Italian Jewish writer and anti-fascist - Lev Ginzburg (1921–?), Soviet writer and translator
- Lidiya Ginzburg, major Soviet literary critic and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad
- Moisei GinzburgMoisei GinzburgMoisei Yakovlevich Ginzburg was a Soviet constructivist architect, best known for his 1929 Narkomfin Building in Moscow.-Education:Ginzburg was born in Minsk in a Jewish real estate developer's family. He graduated from Milano Academy and Riga polytechnic institute . During Russian Civil War he...
(1892–1946), Belarus-born Russian architect - Natalia GinzburgNatalia GinzburgNatalia Ginzburg née Levi was an award-winning Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize...
(born Levi), Italian author - Oren GinzburgOren GinzburgOren Ginzburg is the owner of Hungry Man Books and the author of several books. He works for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and has spent time working on human trafficking in Asia for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project Against Human Trafficking.-Books Written:*Le...
, author/illustrator - Ralph GinzburgRalph GinzburgRalph Ginzburg was an American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist. He was best known for publishing books and magazines on erotica and art and for his conviction in 1963 for violating federal obscenity laws....
, publisher of Eros Magazine - Semyon Alexandrovich GinzburgSemyon Alexandrovich GinzburgSemyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg , attended the Dzerzhinsky Military Technical Academy in Leningrad. He worked in the GKB and in the KB-3 in Moscow...
(?–1943), Soviet armored vehicles designer - Semyon Sergeyevich Ginzburg (1907–?), Soviet cinema historian
- Victor GinzburgVictor GinzburgVictor Ginzburg is a Russian American mathematician who works in representation theory and in noncommutative geometry. He is mostly known for his contribution to geometric representation theory, especially, for his works on representations of quantum groups and Hecke algebras, on the geometric...
, American mathematician, born in Russia - Vitaly GinzburgVitaly GinzburgVitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb...
(1916–2009), Russian physicist and laureate of the Nobel Prize of Physics- Ginzburg-Landau theoryGinzburg-Landau theoryIn physics, Ginzburg–Landau theory, named after Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg and Lev Landau, is a mathematical theory used to model superconductivity. It does not purport to explain the microscopic mechanisms giving rise to superconductivity...
, mathematical theory used to model superconductivity in physics
- Ginzburg-Landau theory
- Yevgenia GinzburgYevgenia GinzburgYevgenia Ginzburg was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.-Family and early career:...
, Russian historian and writer, mother of Vasily Aksyonov
Ginsparg
- Paul GinspargPaul GinspargPaul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive and for contributions to theoretical physics.-Career in physics:...
, physicist, founder of the first-ever online scientific papers repository, arXiv.org
See also
- Günzburg (surname)Günzburg (surname)-History of the name:The Günzburg Yiddish: גינצבורג ,גינזבורג Ginzburg, Gintsburg) family originated in the town of Günzburg, Bavaria...
- Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem, certain class of combinatorial questions in number theory