Halevi, HaLevi, or Halévy (, ) means an Israelite man descended
patrilineally from the tribe of
Levi
Levi ( ; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelites, Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron ...
. Notable people with the surname include:
*Rabbi
Abraham ibn Daud ha-Levi
*Rabbi
Aaron ben Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan
*Rabbi
Aharon HaLevi (1235 – c. 1290; )
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Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
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Dana Elazar-HaLevi, Israeli children's writer
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Daniel Halévy, French historian
*Rabbi
David HaLevi Segal
David ha-Levi Segal (c. 1586 – 20 February 1667), also known as the Turei Zahav (abbreviated Taz []) after the title of his significant ''halakha, halakhic'' commentary on the ''Shulchan Aruch'', was one of the greatest Jews of Poland, Polish ...
*Efraim Halevy (; born 1934)
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Élie Halévy, French philosopher and historian
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Élie Halévy (Chalfan), French Hebrew poet and author
*Rabbi
Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi
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Fromental Halévy, French composer
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Geneviève Halévy
Marie-Geneviève Raphaëlle Halévy-Bizet-Straus (26 February 1849 – 22 December 1926) was a French salonnière who was the wife of composer Georges Bizet. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes in his novel '' À ...
, French salonnière, daughter of Fromental Halévy and wife of Georges Bizet.
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Herzl Halevi, Major General, Israel Defence Forces, Director of Israeli Military Intelligence.
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Ilan Halevi (1943–2013), French-Israeli Jewish pro-Palestinian journalist and politician
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Joseph Halévy, French Orientalist (Hebraist) and traveller
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Léon Halévy, French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromental Halévy
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Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French people, French author and playwright, known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on the libretto, libretti for Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' and comic operas by Jacques Offenbach, inc ...
, French dramatist
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Moses Isaac Ha-Levi Horowitz
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Odelya Halevi, Israeli actress
*Rabbi
Samuel Neta HaLevi
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Shai Halevi, Israeli computer scientist
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Tzachi Halevy (born 1975), Israeli film and television actor and singer
*Rabbi
Yehuda Halevi ()
* Rabbi
Yihya Yitzhak Halevi (1867–1932),
Yemenite Rabbi and President of Rabbinic Court
*Rabbi
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
*Rabbi
Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Jewish historian, and founder of the
Agudath Israel organization.
*Rabbi
Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes,
Polish Rabbi
A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ...
*Rabbi
Yosef Zvi HaLevy (1874–1960), Israeli rabbi
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Yossi Klein Halevi (; born 1953), American author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture
*Rabbi
Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona (1115-1186)
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Saadia Kobashi
Saadia Kobashi (; , 1902–24 January 1990) was a leader of the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel, and one of the signatories of the country's declaration of independence.
Biography
Saadia Qobshi was born in the village of Shahel in the A ...
(1904–1990), the Levite
Yemenite Jewish leader who signed the
Israeli Declaration of Independence
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war phase and ...
using the name "Saadia Kobashi HaLevi".
Fictional characters
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Louise Halévy, a character in ''
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
is a Japanese anime television series, the eleventh installment in Sunrise studio's long-running ''Gundam'' franchise comprising two seasons. The series is set on a futuristic Earth and is centered on the exploits of the fictional paramilit ...
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Hebrew-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Levite surnames