Ehrlich is a German/Yiddish surname, meaning "honest" or "honorable". Notable people with the surname include:
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Abel Ehrlich
Abel Ehrlich (Hebrew: אבל ארליך; September 3, 1915 – October 30, 2003) was an Israeli composer. In 1997, Ehrlich won the Israel Prize for Music.
Biography
Erlich was born in 1915 in Cranz, East Prussia. In 1934 he and his family fl ...
(1915–2003), Israeli composer of symphony music
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Alojzy Ehrlich
Alojzy "Alex" Ehrlich (1914 – 7 December 1992), also called "King of the Chiselers," was a Polish table tennis player, widely regarded as one of the best players in Polish history of this sport, who three times won silver in the World Tab ...
(1914–1992), Polish table tennis player
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Anne H. Ehrlich
Anne Howland Ehrlich (born Anne Fitzhugh Howland; November 17, 1933) is an American senior research scientist emeritus in conservation biology in the Department of Biology at Stanford University and co-author of more than thirty books on overpopu ...
(born 1933), U.S. author of books on overpopulation and ecology
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Arnold Ehrlich
Arnold Bogumil Ehrlich (15 January 1848 in Volodovka, Brest-Litovsk – November 1919 in New Rochelle, New York) was a scholar of bible and rabbinics whose work spanned the latter part of the 19th and the early 20th century. A formidable scho ...
(1848–1919), biblical and rabbinical scholar who was born in Poland and immigrated to the U.S.
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David Ehrlich
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, senior film critic at
IndieWire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Holl ...
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Dieter Ehrlich
Dieter Walter Ehrlich (born 20 September 1941) is a German former field hockey player who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dohna, Saxony, Germany.
Olympic events
1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, ...
(born 1941), German field hockey player
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Eugen Ehrlich
Eugen Ehrlich (14 September 1862 – 2 May 1922) was an Austrian legal scholar and sociologist of law. He is widely regarded as one of the primary founders of the modern field of sociology of law.
Biography
Ehrlich was born in Czernowitz (now ...
(1862–1922), Austrian legal scholar
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Eugene Ehrlich (1922–2008), U.S. lexicographer and author
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Felix Ehrlich
Felix Ehrlich (16 June 1877 in Harriehausen (today incorporated into Bad Gandersheim) – 23 January 1942 in Obernigk near Breslau) was a German chemist and biochemist.
Life and work
Felix Ehrlich studied in Berlin and Munich. After receiving ...
(1877–1942), German chemist and biochemist
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Franz Ehrlich
Franz Ehrlich (28 December 1907 in Reudnitz near Leipzig – 28 November 1984 in Bernburg) was a German architect, calligrapher and graphic designer. He was a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1930. Ehrlich was a Communist and was ...
(1907-1984), German architect
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Gertrude Ehrlich
Gertrude Ehrlich (born January 7, 1923) is an Austrian-American mathematician, specializing in abstract algebra and algebraic number theory. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Early life and ...
(born 1923), Austrian-American mathematician
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Georg Ehrlich
Georg Ehrlich (22 February 1897 – 1 July 1966) was an Austrian sculptor. He lived in London from 1938 and became a British citizen in 1947.
Life
Ehrlich was born in Vienna. From 1912 until 1915 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, or sch ...
(1897-1966), Austrian-born sculptor, also active in the UK
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Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet and essayist.
Biography
Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming r ...
(born 1946), U.S. travel writer
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Howard J. Ehrlich
Howard J. Ehrlich (1932–2015) was a sociologist, educator, and author.
Early life and career
Howard J. Ehrlich was born and raised in New York City. He later graduated from Columbus, Ohio, public schools. He studied sociology at Ohio St ...
, U.S. sociologist and anarchist activist
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Jacques Ehrlich
Sous Lieutenant Jacques Louis Ehrlich (1893-1953) was a French World War I flying ace credited with 19 aerial victories; he was one of the leading balloon busters of the war.
Biography
Jacques Louis Ehrlich was born in Paris on 25 October 1893. ...
, (1893-1953), World War I
flying ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...
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Jake Ehrlich
Jake W. Ehrlich (October 15, 1900 – December 24, 1971) was an American lawyer and writer.
Biography
Ehrlich was born near Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. He earned a law degree and later a doctorate at Georgetown University. He marr ...
, (1900–1971), U.S. attorney and author who was the model for ''
Perry Mason
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and 4 short stories, all of which involve a cli ...
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Sam Benedict
''Sam Benedict'' is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. The character Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jake Ehrlich, who served as ...
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Jakob Ehrlich
Jakob Ehrlich (15 September 1877 – 17 May 1938) was an early Zionist and leader of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria. Ehrlich represented the city's 180,000 Jewish citizens in the city government before World War II, and was among those ...
(1877–1938), Austrian Zionist killed in the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau
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Jonathan Erlich
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich ( he, יונתן דאריו "יוני" ארליך, born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the ...
(born 1977), Israeli tennis player
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Joseph Ehrlich
EMC Motorcycles or the Ehrlich Motor Co was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Based in Isleworth, the business was founded by Joseph Ehrlich who emigrated to the United Kingdom from Austria in the 1930s.
A specialist engine tuner, Joe Ehrlich ...
(1914–2003) (Dr Joe Ehrlich), founded
EMC Motorcycles
EMC Motorcycles or the Ehrlich Motor Co was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Based in Isleworth, the business was founded by Joseph Ehrlich who emigrated to the United Kingdom from Austria in the 1930s.
A specialist engine tuner, Joe Ehrlich ...
after emigrating from Austria to Great Britain in 1930s
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Kendel Ehrlich
Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich (born 1961) is a former First Lady of Maryland, having served from 2003 to 2007 during the administration of Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich. She is the first woman of Polish descent to have been Maryland's First Lady.
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(born 1961), former first lady of Maryland
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Lambert Ehrlich
Lambert Ehrlich (18 September 1878 – 26 May 1942)Mlakar, Boris. 1989. “Lambert Ehrlich”. ''Enciklopedija Slovenije,'' vol. 3. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. was a Carinthian Slovene Roman Catholic priest, political figure, and ethnologist.
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(1878–1942), Slovene Roman Catholic priest, political figure, and ethnologist
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Marty Ehrlich
Marty Ehrlich (born May 31, 1955) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinets, flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz.
Biography
Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent i ...
(b. 1955), U.S. jazz musician
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Max Ehrlich
Max Michaelis Ehrlich (7 December 1892 – 1 October 1944) was a German actor, screenwriter, and director on the German theater, comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s.
Ehrlich began his career in the 1920s at various theatres, including leadin ...
(1892–1944), German actor, director and master of ceremony
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Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...
(1854–1915), German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and developed the
ehrlich reagent
Ehrlich's reagent or Ehrlich reagent is a reagent containing ''p''-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (DMAB) and thus can act as an indicator to presumptively identify indoles and urobilinogen. Several Ehrlich tests use the reagent in a medical test; ...
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Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of S ...
(born 1932), U.S. biologist and Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University
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Ricardo Ehrlich
Ricardo Ehrlich (Montevideo, born 4 November 1948) is a Uruguayan biologist and a political figure.
Biography
From 2005 until 2010 he was Mayor (styled ''Intendente Municipal'' in Uruguayan vernacular Spanish) of Montevideo. He is from the promin ...
, (born 1948), Uruguayan politician
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Robert "Bob" Leroy Ehrlich (born 1957), U.S. politician and former governor of Maryland
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Robert Ehrlich (physicist) (born 1938)
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Rotem Erlich
Rotem Erlich (רותם ארליך; born April 10, 1969) is an Israeli former basketball player, who played for Israel and in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. In 1997 he was the Israeli Premier League Assists Leader.
Basketball career
He p ...
(born 1969), Israeli basketball player
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S. Paul Ehrlich Jr. (1937–2005), acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1973 to 1977
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Steven Ehrlich
Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, RIBA (born June 12, 1946) is an American architect based in Culver City, California. He is the founding partner of the practice Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, formerly known as Ehrlich Architects.
Life and career
Eh ...
(born 1946), American architect
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Thomas Ehrlich
Thomas Ehrlich (born March 4, 1934) is a consulting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He has been married to Ellen R. Ehrlich since 1957. They have three children David, Elizabeth, and Paul, and nine grandchildren. They live ...
(born 1934) consulting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, president of Indiana University 1987-1994
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Walter Ehrlich (1896–1968), German philosopher
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William Ehrlich
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed schoolshistory.org.uk, accessed 2008-05-31.Known in German as the or was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and othe ...
(1894–1923), German Nazi who was killed in the attempted coup of 1923 called the Beer Hall Putsch
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Yakov Ehrlich
Yakov Nikolayevich Erlikh (russian: Яков Николаевич Эрлих; born 3 June 1988) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He works as a conditioning coach for FC Ufa.
Biography
He made his Russian Football Na ...
(born 1988), Russian professional football (soccer) player
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Yom-Tov Ehrlich
Rabbi Yom-Tov Ehrlich ( he, יום-טוב עהרליך) (1914–1990) was a renowned Hasidic musician, composer, lyricist, recording artist, and popular entertainer known for his popular Yiddish music albums. He was born in a small village, Kozha ...
(1914–1990), Hasidic musician born in Poland who immigrated to the U.S.
Erlich, Erlikh
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Dennis Erlich
There are a number of disputes concerning the Church of Scientology's attempts to suppress material critical of Scientology on the Internet, utilizing various methods primarily lawsuits and legal threats, as well as front organizations. In l ...
, U.S. scientologist
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Esther Erlich
Esther Erlich (born 1955) is a Melbourne-based Australian artist who has been exhibiting since 1985. She won the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with her painting, "Gaunt and Glorious" a portrait of Steve Moneghetti. In 2000 Esther won the ...
, Australian artist
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Jonathan Erlich
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich ( he, יונתן דאריו "יוני" ארליך, born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the ...
(born 1977), Israeli tennis player
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Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich (born 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an internationally exhibited Argentine conceptual artist.
Career
In 2001 he represented his nation at the Venice Biennial and was included in the main section of the biennial once again ...
, Argentine conceptual artist
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Paul Erlich
Paul Erlich (born 1972) is a guitarist and music theorist living near Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his seminal role in developing the theory of regular temperaments, including being the first to define pajara temperament Accessed 2013 ...
(born 1972), American music theorist
*Erlich Bachman, fictional character in
Silicon Valley (TV series)
''Silicon Valley'' is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. It premiered on HBO on April 6, 2014, and concluded on December 8, 2019, running for six seasons for a total of 53 episodes ...
Ehrlichmann, Ehrlichman, Erlichman
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John Ehrlichman
John Daniel Ehrlichman (; March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American political aide who served as the White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important ...
, (1925-1999), assistant to U.S. President Richard Nixon, convicted in Watergate scandal
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Jonathan Erlichman
Jonathan Erlichman, nicknamed "J-Money", is a Canadian professional baseball coach for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the first analytics coach in MLB.
Career
Erlichman grew up in the Yonge-Eglinton area in Toronto, ...
, Canadian baseball coach
See also
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Ehrich (disambiguation), a similarly spelled surname
{{surname, Ehrlich
German-language surnames
Jewish surnames
Surnames from nicknames