Axelrod or Akselrod (variant:
Axelrad) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Albert Axelrod
Albert "Albie" Axelrod (February 12, 1921 – February 24, 2004) was an American foil fencer.
He was a five-time Olympian for the US, won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, and was the only American men's foil fencer to reach the finals at th ...
(1921–2004), American Olympic medalist foil fencer
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Barry Axelrod (born 1946), American sports agent
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Beth Axelrod
Beth Axelrod is an American human resources leader. She is currently an advisor at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. From 2017 to 2021, she was the Vice President of Employee Experience at Airbnb. Previous to that, ...
, American executive
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Daniel I. Axelrod
Daniel Isaac Axelrod (July 16, 1910 – June 2, 1998) was an American paleoecologist specializing in Tertiary Cordilleran floras, in particular correlating fossil evidence of specific floras with climate change indicators.
Biography
He received ...
(1910–1998), American paleoecologist, botanist, and geologist, known by author abbreviation "Axelrod"
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David Axelrod
David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant and analyst. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for being the chief strategist to Barack Obama during his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. In ...
(born 1955), American political consultant who worked on campaigns of Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley
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David Axelrod (musician)
David Axelrod (April 17, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and producer. After starting out as a staff producer for record companies specializing in jazz, Axelrod became known by the mid-1960s in soul and jazz circles ...
(1936–2017), American classical musician
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Donald Axelrod (1916–1999), American academic
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Dylan Axelrod
Dylan Davis Haines Axelrod (born July 30, 1985) is an American pitching performance and integration coordinator for the Detroit Tigers. He is also a former professional baseball pitcher, as well as a former pitcher for Team Israel. He played in ...
(born 1985), American MLB baseball player
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Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod (born 1987), American-Israeli soprano
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George Axelrod
George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter and producer. His play '' The Seven Year Itch'' (1952), was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod was nominated for an Academy Award ...
(1922–2003), American screenwriter, producer, playwright, and film director
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Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), American author, publisher and ichthyologist
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David Ha'ivri
David Ha'ivri (; born Jason David Axelrod, 1967) is an Israeli independent political strategist, who focuses on foreign relations, working closely with Christian Zionists and leading politicians in Washington DC. He emigrated as a child with hi ...
(born 1967), Jewish-Israeli settler activist and spokesman
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Jim Axelrod
Jim Axelrod (born January 25, 1963) is the Chief Investigative Correspondent for CBS News and reports across all CBS News programs and platforms.
Axelrod was one of CBS News' embedded correspondents in Iraq and was the first TV reporter to broa ...
(born 1963), American reporter for CBS
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John Axelrod
John Neal Axelrod (born March 28, 1966, in Houston, Texas) is a Swiss/American conductor. In 2024, Axelrod was named Music Director and Principal Conductor of the newly created Swiss National Orchestra. Axelrod was elected Principal Conductor of ...
(born 1966), American conductor
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Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the ...
(1912–2004), American biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970
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Lyubov Axelrod (1868–1946), Russian Marxist philosopher and revolutionary
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Max M. Axelrod (1911–2004), American philanthropist and activist
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Meer Akselrod (1902–1970), Russian painter known for paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
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Paul Axelrod (born 1949), British author and professor and dean at York University
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Pavel Axelrod
Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (; 25 August 1850 – 16 April 1928) was an early Russian Marxist revolutionary. Along with Georgi Plekhanov, Vera Zasulich, and Leo Deutsch, he was one of the members of the first organization of Russian Marxists, Ema ...
(1850–1928), Russian Menshevik revolutionary
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Robert Axelrod (political scientist)
Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on ...
(born 1943), American professor of political science at the University of Michigan who has written about the evolution of cooperation
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Robert Axelrod (actor)
Robert Axelrod (May 29, 1949 – September 7, 2019), also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included ''Digimon'', having started voice acting for the English-languag ...
(1949–2019), American actor who has been in movies and TV shows, often as a voice actor
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Victor Axelrod
Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias ...
, American independent music producer and artist
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Surnames from given names
Surnames of Jewish origin