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( Yiddish/German-Jewish) surname. The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz (

Lifschitz Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, Lipsch ...

), Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lipshits, Lopshits,

Lipschutz Lipschutz is a Jewish surname. It is a variant of Lifshitz. Notable people with this surname * Gerdi E. Lipschutz (1923–2010), New York politician * S. Lipschütz Samuel or Salomon Lipschütz (July 4, 1863 in Ungvár – November 30, 1905 i ...

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Lipshutz Lipshutz is a surname. It is a variant of Lifshitz. Notable people with the surname include: * Bruce H. Lipshutz (born 1951), American chemist *Robert Lipshutz (1921–2010), American lawyer See also *Lipschutz Lipschutz is a Jewish surname. It i ...

, Lüpschütz; Libschitz;

Livshits Benedikt Konstantinovich Livshits (russian: Бенеди́кт Константи́нович Ли́вшиц, 24 December 1886 ( Old Style)/6 January 1887 ( New Style) – 21 September 1938) was a poet and writer of the Silver Age of Russian ...

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Lifszyc Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz (Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, Lipschutz (L ...

Lipszyc Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz (Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, Lipschutz (L ...

. It is commonly Anglicized as

Lipton Lipton is a British brand of tea, owned by Ekaterra. Lipton was also a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, later sold to Argyll Foods, after which the company sold only tea. The company is named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton, who fo ...

, and less commonly as Lipington. There are several places in Europe from where the name may be derived. In all cases, ''Lip'' or ''Lib'' is derived from the Slavic root ''lipa'' (linden tree, see also

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

), and the ''itz'' ending is the Germanisation of the Slavic place name ending ''ice''. In the Czech Republic: *

Libčice nad Vltavou Libčice nad Vltavou (german: Libschitz an der Moldau) is a town in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,500 inhabitants. It lies on the left bank of the Vltava River. Notable people * Miroslav ...

(German: Libschitz an der Moldau) * Liběšice u Litoměřic (German: Liebeschitz bei Leitmeritz) *

Liběšice u Žatce Liběšice may refer to the following places in the Czech Republic: * Liběšice (Litoměřice District) * Liběšice (Louny District) Liběšice (german: Libeschitz) is a municipality and village in Louny District in the Ústí nad Labem Region ...

(German: Libeschitz bei Saaz) In Germany: *

Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...

-Liebschwitz * Liebschützberg-Liebschütz * Remptendorf-Liebschütz In Poland: *

Głubczyce Głubczyce ( cs, Hlubčice or sparsely ''Glubčice'', german: Leobschütz, Silesian German: ''Lischwitz'') is a town in Opole Voivodeship in southern Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the administrative seat of Głubczyce C ...

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Silesian German Silesian (Silesian: ', german: Schlesisch), Silesian German or Lower Silesian is a nearly extinct German dialect spoken in Silesia. It is part of the East Central German language area with some West Slavic and Lechitic influences. Silesian ...

: Lischwitz, German: Leobschütz) In mathematics, the name can be used to describe a function that satisfies the

Lipschitz condition In mathematical analysis, Lipschitz continuity, named after German mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz, is a strong form of uniform continuity for functions. Intuitively, a Lipschitz continuous function is limited in how fast it can change: there e ...

, a strong form of continuity, named after Rudolf Lipschitz. The surname may refer to:

People

* Daniel Lipšic, former Minister of Interior in Slovakia * Israel Lipschitz (1782–1860), rabbi and biblical scholar *

Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Cubism, Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic sty ...

(1891–1973), Cubist sculptor * Lippy Lipshitz (1903–1980), South African sculptor, painter and printmaker * Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), German mathematician *

Imre Lakatos Imre Lakatos (, ; hu, Lakatos Imre ; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its p ...

, Hungarian philosopher, born as Imre Lipschitz *

Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren, ( ; ; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He has become well known for his c ...

, American fashion designer, born as Ralph Lifshitz *

Hal Linden Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz, March 20, 1931) is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. Linden began his career as a big band musician and singer in the 1950s. After a stint in the United States Army, he began ...

, American actor, and television personality, born Harold Lipschitz *

Solomon Lefschetz Solomon Lefschetz (russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ...

(1884–1972), Russian–US mathematician * Joachim Lipschitz, German politician

Fictional characters

* Dr. Werner P. Lipschitz, fictional character of the ''Rugrats'' series

Berlin subway station

* There is a subway station Lipschitzallee (Lipschitz Avenue) in Berlin, named after politician Joachim Lipschitz {{surname Jewish surnames