Lefkowitz, also written as Levkowitz or

Lewkowicz Lewkowicz is a surname of Polish origin, often Polish-Jewish, related to Lefkowitz. It can refer to the following persons: * Josef Lewkowicz (1926–2024), Polish-born Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter * Sampson Lewkowicz (born 1951), an Uruguaya ...

, is a surname of German-Jewish & Polish-Jewish origin, meaning "son of Levko". Notable people with the surname include: * Abraham Lefkowitz (1884–1976), Hungarian-born American labor union leader and teacher * Bernard Lefkowitz, author, sociologist, and professor of journalism * Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, American jazz saxophonist * David Lefkowitz (1875–1955), American rabbi in Texas *

Glyph Lefkowitz Glyph Lefkowitz is an American open-source software programmer and creator of the Twisted network programming framework for Python. His work on asynchronous programming techniques influenced the core Python language, as well as the JavaScript P ...

, American open-source software programmer * Hank Lefkowitz (1923–2007), American professional basketball player * Irving Lefkowitz (1921–2015), American control engineer, professor * Jay Lefkowitz (born 1962), American lawyer and Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea * Joseph Lefkowitz (1892–1983), later known as Joseph Leftwich, British critic and translator of Yiddish literature into English * Louis J. Lefkowitz (1904–1996), American lawyer and politician in New York *

Mary Lefkowitz Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American scholar of Classics. She is the Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she previously worked from 1959 to 2005. She has published ten b ...

, professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts * Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913–2011), Russian Empire-born Israeli rabbi, and one of the heads of the Ponevezh yeshiva *

Nat Lefkowitz Nat Lefkowitz (July 24, 1905 – September 4, 1983) was an American talent agency executive who served as co-chairman of the William Morris Agency. Biography Lefkowitz was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Brooklyn. He attended New York ...

(1898–1983), American talent agency executive who served as co-chairman of the

William Morris Agency The William Morris Agency (WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency. It represented some of the best-known 20th-century entertainers in film, television, and music. During its 109-year tenure it came to be regarded as the "first great talent ...

* Robert Lefkowitz, American physician, biochemist, and professor at Duke University *

Rochelle Lefkowitz Rochelle Lefkowitz is president and founder of Pro-Media Communications, a bicoastal public interest public relations firm. Education She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in Latin American studies and a master of arts degree ...

, American businessperson, president and founder of Pro-Media Communications *

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born January 31, 1942) is an American historian and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College. Early life and education Horowitz was born on January 31, 1942, in Shre ...

, history professor at Smith College *

, President of Pro-Media Communications *

, American open-source software programmer and creator of the

Twisted (software) Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, many protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, ...

network programming framework * Zalman King Lefkowitz (1924–2012), American film director, writer, actor and producer

Fictional Characters

* Trevor Lefkowitz, a character on the TV show ''

Ghosts In folklore, a ghost is the soul or Spirit (supernatural entity), spirit of a dead Human, person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from a ...

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