Efim is a given name, also spelled as Yefim. It is derived from the
Greek name
In the modern world, Greek names are the personal names among people of Greek language and Greek culture, culture, generally consisting of a given name and a family name.
History
Ancient Greek personal names, Ancient Greeks generally had a sin ...
''Euthymios'' (Εὐθύμιος; ;
latinized as ''Euthymius''). Notable people with the name include:
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Efim Alexandrov
Efim Alexandrov (born Efimian Ziсerman; 13 May 1960, Pidvolochysk Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian artist of the "spoken word” genre (stand-up comedian) and performer of Jewish music. He focuses in particular on Yiddish fol ...
(born 1960), Russian-Jewish comedian
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Efim Bogoljubov
Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster.
Early career
Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and dev ...
(1889–1962), Russian-German chess grandmaster
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Efim Dzigan
Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (14 December 189831 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Filmography Director
* '' First Cornet Streshnev'' (1928, co-directed with Mikheil Chiaureli)
* '' T ...
(1898–1981), Soviet film director
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Efim Etkind
Efim Etkind (, 26 February 1918, Petrograd – 22 November 1999, Potsdam) was a Soviet philologist and translation theorist.Efim Fradkin
Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (Russian: ''Ефим Самойлович Фрадкин'') (November 30, 1924 – May 25, 1999) was a Russian physicist.
Biography
Fradkin was born in Shchedrin near Zhlobin (now Belarus), then in the Soviet Union, ...
(1924–1999), Russian physicist
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Efim Geller
Efim Petrovich Geller (; ; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occa ...
(1925–1998), Soviet chess grandmaster
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Efim Jourist
Efim Jourist (January 13, 1947 – January 13, 2007, born Yukhym Yukhymovych Yuryst) was a Soviet and German composer, accordionist and bajan player.
Life
Efim Jourist was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, graduated fr ...
(1947–2007), Ukrainian composer
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Efim Kolbintsev
Efim Grigoryevich Kolbintsev (; 18 January 1875, Orenburg Governorate — after 1917) was a peasant, a treasurer, a merchant and a deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from Orenburg Governorate between 1912 and 1917. December 3, 1913 he was a mem ...
(1875–), Russian peasant, treasurer, merchant and deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from Orenburg Governorate
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Efim Motpan
Efim Motpan (Efim Moțpan; born 10 February 1971) is a Moldovan racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded ...
(born 1971), Moldovan racewalker
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Efim Shifrin
Efim (Yefim, born Nakhim) Zalmanovich Shifrin (; born March 25, 1956) is a Soviet and Russian actor, humorist, singer. He is the creator and artistic director of " Shifrin-Theater".
Biography
Efim Shifrin was born in 1956 in the village of Neksi ...
(born 1956), Russian actor
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Efim Zelmanov
Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (; born 7 September 1955) is a Russian-American mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the Burnside problem, restricted Burnside p ...
(born 1955), Russian-American mathematician
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(1774–1842) and (1803–1849), Russian inventors, father and son
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Yefim Bronfman
Yefim Naumovich Bronfman (; born April 10, 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.
Biography
Bronfman was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He was born into a musical Jewish family. His father Naum ...
(born 1958), Russian-Israeli pianist
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Yefim Chaplits
Yefim Ignatyevich Chaplits/Tschaplitz (; 1768–1825), born Eufemiusz Czaplic, was a Polish military commander in the service of the Russian Empire.
Life
Eufemiusz Czaplic was born into an old Polish noble family Czaplic (Kierdeja coat of arms) ...
(1768–1825), ethnic Pole, general of the Russian Empire
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Yefim Chulak
Yefim Aronovich Chulak (, born 15 July 1948) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the G ...
(born 1948), Russian former volleyball player
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Yefim Golïshev
Yefim Golyshev (), variously transliterated as ''Golyscheff'', ''Golyschev'', ''Golishiff'', ''Golishev'', etc., 8 September 1897 – 25 September 1970) was a Ukrainian-born painter and composer who was mainly active in Europe.
After a successf ...
(1897–1970), Ukrainian-born painter and composer
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Yefim Karskiy
Yefim Fyodorovich Karsky (, ; , older name form) ( – 29 April 1931) was a Belarusian linguist, Slavist, ethnographer, and paleographer, founder of Belarusian linguistics, literary studies and paleography, a member of numerous scientific in ...
(1861–1931), linguist-Slavist, ethnographer and paleographer
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Yefim Kopelyan
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leningrad. He performed bright, characteristic roles in the films ''The Elusi ...
(1912–1975), Russian actor of theater and cinema
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Yefim Moiseevich Fomin
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin (; ; 15 January 1909 – 26 June 1941) was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him.
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(1909–1941), Jewish-Soviet Political Commisar
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