Horwitz is a surname, current among

Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

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s. It is derived from the

Yiddish Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

pronunciation of the name of the town of

Hořovice Hořovice (; ) is a town in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,100 inhabitants. The town is known for the Hořovice Castle. Geography Hořovice is located about southwest of Beroun and southwest ...

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. For detailed historical background see the

Horowitz Horowitz (, ) is a Levitical Ashkenazi surname deriving from the Horowitz family, though it can also be a non-Jewish surname as well. The name is derived from the town of Hořovice, Bohemia. Other variants of the name include Harowitz, Harowicz, ...

page . Notable people with the surname include: *

Alan Horwitz Alan Horwitz (born January 16, 1944) is an American businessman and the founder and chairman of Campus Apartments, a student housing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Horwitz is also a superfan of the Philadelphia 76ers of t ...

(born 1944), American businessman * Arnold Horwitz (later

Arnold Horween Arnold Horween (originally Arnold Horwitz; also known as A. McMahon; July 7, 1898 – August 5, 1985) was an American football player and coach. He played and coached both collegiately for Harvard University and professionally in the National ...

), American football player for Harvard Crimson and in the NFL *

Bella Horwitz Bella Ḥazzan, , was an 18th-century Bohemian Yiddish writer. She was the daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died in Prague in 1713. In 1705 she published ''Geshikhte des hoyzes ...

, 18th century Bohemian writer *

Bernhard Horwitz Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885 in London) was a German and British chess master, chess writer and chess composer. Horwitz was born in Neustrelitz and went to school in Berlin, where he studied art. From 1837 to 1843, he was part ...

(1807-1885), German chess player *

Brian Horwitz Brian Jeffery Horwitz, nicknamed "The Rabbi", (born November 7, 1982) is an American former baseball outfielder who played for the San Francisco Giants in 2008, and won two minor league batting titles. Baseball career High school A native of Sa ...

(born 1982), American major league baseball outfielder * Jacob H. Horwitz (1892–1992), American businessman, philanthropist and fashion innovator. * Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903–1952), Curly Howard, American of the ''Three Stooges'' *

David Horwitz David Jason Horwitz (born 30 September 1994), commonly referred to as Dave, is an Australian rugby union player who plays as a Centre for Sydney rugby club Randwick. He formerly played for Irish rugby club Connacht and domestically New South Wa ...

(born 1994), Australian rugby union player *

Dominique Horwitz Dominique Horwitz (born 23 April 1957) is a French film and television actor and singer. Life Horwitz was born on 23 April 1957 in Paris, France, to German Jewish refugee parents, who had both fled Nazi Germany. In 1971 the family moved to Berl ...

(born 1957), French film and television actor and singer * Howard Horwitz (1918 – 1976), American television producer *

Jay Horwitz Jay Edward Horwitz (born August 14, 1945) is an American professional baseball executive for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He was their media relations director for nearly four decades, and is the team's current historian and vice p ...

(born 1945), American executive for the New York Mets *

Kai Horwitz Kai Horwitz (born 9 April 1998) is a Chilean Olympic alpine skier. Early and personal life Horwitz was born in Santiago, Chile, and is Jewish. His sister Nadja Horwitz represented Chile in sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, ...

(born 1998), Chilean Olympic alpine skier *

Maksymilian Horwitz Maksymilian Horwitz (pseudonym: ''Henryk Walecki''; 6 September 1877 – 20 September 1937) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish socialist and communist movement. Biography Maksymilian Horwitz was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, the ...

, aka Henryk Walecki (1877–1937), leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement *

Morton Horwitz Morton J. Horwitz (born 1938) is an American legal historian and law professor at Harvard Law School. The recent past dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan, relates that during her time at law school, students often nicknamed him as "Mort the T ...

(born 1938), legal historian and law professor * Moses Harry Horwitz, a.k.a. Moe Howard, American of the ''Three Stooges'' * Phineas Jonathan Horwitz (1822–1904), former

Surgeon General of the United States Navy The surgeon general of the Navy (SGN) is the most senior commissioned officer of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy and is the principal advisor to the United States secretary of the navy, chief of naval operations and director of the ...

Ralph Horwitz Ralph Horween (born Ralph Horwitz; also known as Ralph McMahon or B. McMahon; August 3, 1896 – May 26, 1997) was an American football player and coach. He played fullback and halfback and was a punter and drop-kicker for the unbeaten Harvard ...

(later "Ralph Horween), American football player for Harvard Crimson and in the NFL *

Ronald Horwitz Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for wh ...

(born 1934), known as Ronald Harwood, South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter * Samuel Horwitz, a.k.a. Shemp Howard, American of the ''Three Stooges'' *

Spencer Horwitz Spencer Elliott Horwitz (born November 14, 1997) is an American professional baseball first baseman and second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue ...

(born 1997), American Major League Baseball first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays *

Steven Horwitz Steven G. Horwitz (February 7, 1964 – June 27, 2021) was an American economist of the Austrian School. Horwitz was the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the department of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State Uni ...

(born 1964), American economist * Susan B. Horwitz 1955 – 2014), American computer scientist *

Susan Band Horwitz Susan Band Horwitz is an American biochemist and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she holds the Falkenstein chair in Cancer Research as well as co-chair of the department of Molecular Pharmacology. Horwitz is a pioneer i ...

, American biochemist *

Tony Horwitz Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author, widely known for his articles and books on subjects including American history and society. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. ...

(1958–2019), American journalist *

William Horwitz William Horwitz (1918 – September 27, 2006, in Olney, Maryland) was an analytical chemist who is notable for formulating a description of the relationship between the variability of chemical measurements and the concentration of the analyte. ...

(1918 – 2006), American analytical chemist, formerly at the US Food and Drug Administration *

Yosef Yozel Horwitz Yosef Yozel Horowitz (), also Yosef Yoizel Hurwitz, known as the Alter of Novardok (1847–December 9, 1919), was a student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Musar movement. The Alter was also a student of Rabbis Yitzchak Blazer and ...

, rabbi

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