Lapid is a surname with multiple origins:
*, ''lit.'' "torch"), a Hebrew-language surname.
*"Lapid" is also a
Hiligaynon language
Hiligaynon, also often referred to as Ilonggo or Binisayâ/Bisayâ nga Hiniligaynon/Inilonggo, is an Austronesian language family, Austronesian regional language spoken in the Philippines by about 9.1 million people, predominantly in Panay, Pan ...
(Philippines) word denoting a galley with three banks of oars,
lapid
/ref> also known as balangay
A balangay, or barangay, is a type of lashed-lug boat built by joining planks edge-to-edge using pins, dowels, and fiber lashings. They are found throughout the Philippines and were used largely as trading ships up until the colonial era. The ...
.
Notable people with the surname include:
* (1948–2018), Israeli film editor and lecturer in cinema
* Erez Lapid
Erez M. Lapid (Hebrew: ארז לפיד; born May 1971 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli mathematician, specializing in automorphic forms, L-functions, representation theory, and the Selberg–Arthur trace formula.
In 1989 Lapid received from Tel Aviv ...
(born 1971), Israeli mathematician
* Jess Lapid Jr.
Jesse Lloyd Flake Lapid (born March 22, 1962), commonly known as Jess Lapid Jr., is a film and television actor, film and fight director, scuba course director of CMAS Philippines, and underwater director of photography.
More popularly known ...
(born 1962), Filipino actor
* Jess Lapid Sr. (1933–1968), Filipino actor
* Lihi Lapid
Lihi Lapid (; born 12 May 1968) is an Israeli author, photojournalist, and newspaper columnist. She is an activist for people with disabilities. Her husband is Yair Lapid, the former Prime Minister of Israel.
Biography
Lihi Mann () was born an ...
(born 1968), Israeli author, photojournalist, and columnist
* Lyn Lapid (born 2002), Filipino singer-songwriter
* Manuel "Lito" Lapid (born 1955), Filipino actor and politician
* Marco "Mark" Lapid (born 1980), Filipino actor and politician
* Nadav Lapid
Nadav Lapid () is an Israeli screenwriter and film director. Film critics consider him to be among the most internationally acclaimed filmmakers from Israel.
Early life
Lapid was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. ...
(born 1975), Israeli film director and screenwriter
* Percival "Percy Lapid" Mabasa (1959–2022), Filipino radio anchor
* Shulamit Lapid
Shulamit Lapid (, ; born 9 November 1934) is an Israeli novelist and playwright.
Biography
Lapid was born in Tel Aviv. She majored in Oriental studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her father, David Giladi (born in Transylvania, Austria ...
(born 1934), Israeli novelist and playwright
* Tommy Lapid
Joseph "Tommy" Lapid (; born Tomislav Lampel sr-Cyrl, Томислав Лампел 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and Ca ...
(1931–2008), Israeli journalist and politician
* Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid ( ; born 5 November 1963) is an Israeli politician of the centrist Yesh Atid party and a former journalist who has been the Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in t ...
(born 1963), 14th prime minister of Israel
See also
References
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Hebrew-language surnames
Surnames of Filipino origin
Surnames of Philippine origin