Lieberman, Liebermann, or Liberman are names deriving from ''Lieb'', a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) nickname for a person from the German ''lieb'' or Yiddish ''lib'', meaning 'dear, beloved'.

Patrick Hanks Patrick Hanks (born 24 March 1940) is an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated at Ardingly College, ...

and Flavia Hodges, ''A Dictionary of Surnames'' xford UP, 1988 p. 325 Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

or Cyrillic characters, so variations in the spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet.

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Benjamin Liebermann Benjamin Liebermann was a German textile manufacturer.Carl Theodore Liebermann Carl Theodore Liebermann (23 February 1842 – 28 December 1914) was a German chemist and student of Adolf von Baeyer. Life Liebermann first studied at the University of Heidelberg where Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was teaching. He then joined th ...

(1842–1914), German chemist *

Charles H. Liebermann Charles H. Liebermann (September 15, 1813 – March 27, 1886) was a Russian-American physician and one of the co-founders of the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Biography Liebermann was born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire. Hi ...

, Russian-American physician * Eliezer Dob Liebermann, Russian-Jewish writer *

Felix Liebermann Felix Liebermann (20 July 1851 – 7 October 1925) was a Jewish German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law. Born in 1851, Ber ...

, historian (brother to Max Liebermann) *

Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961 in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1. He studied at the Juilliar ...

, composer *

Max Liebermann Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...

, painter *

Oren Liebermann Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as a Pentagon correspondent for CNN. Biography Liebermann was born in Virginia on October 13, 1982. He spent his childhood in Virginia and Israel until he was raised in the Wayside section ...

, American-Israeli journalist *

Rolf Liebermann Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also Artistic Director of ...

, composer and opera director

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Avigdor Lieberman Avigdor Lieberman (, ; russian: Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман, Evet Lvovich Liberman, ; born 5 June 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician serving as Minister of Finance since 2021, having previously served twice as Deput ...

, Moldavian-born Israeli politician, former Minister of Foreign affairs *

Daniel Lieberman Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his re ...

, paleoanthropologist *

Evelyn S. Lieberman Evelyn May Lieberman ( Simonowitz; July 9, 1944 – December 12, 2015) was an American public affairs professional who, during the Clinton administration, became the first woman to serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and was the first Uni ...

, American public official *

Fredric Lieberman Fredric Lieberman (1940 - died May 4, 2013) was an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author. As a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he was affiliated with the Music Department (including the unde ...

, an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author *

Hadassah Lieberman Hadassah Lieberman ( Freilich; born March 28, 1948) is the second wife of former United States Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Life and work Hadassah Freilich Lieberman was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (a past report erroneously stated ...

, wife of Joe Lieberman * Hendel Lieberman, Russian-American artist *

Herman Lieberman Herman Lieberman (4 January 1870 – 21 October 1941) was a Polish lawyer and socialist politician. Life Lieberman was born into a Jewish family in Drohobycz, Galicia, then part of Austro-Hungary. From 1907 to 1914 and from 1917 to 1918, he was ...

, Polish lawyer and Socialist politician *

Jeff Lieberman Jeff Lieberman (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for his cult horror and thriller films '' Squirm'' (1976), '' Blue Sunshine'' (1978) and '' Just Before Dawn'' (1981). Biography Jeff Lieberman was bor ...

(born 1947), American filmmaker *

Jeffrey Lieberman Jeffrey Alan Lieberman (born 1948) is an American psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and related Psychosis, psychoses and their associated neuroscience (biology) and Pharmacology, pharmacological treatment (psychiatric drugs). He was pr ...

, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University *

Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; born February 24, 1942) is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee for V ...

, US Senator from Connecticut, husband of Hadassah Lieberman *

Jon Lieberman Jon Leiberman is an American reporter, television producer, and radio news personality. Career Leiberman has been a reporter for WBFF in Baltimore and the newsman at WIYY 98 Rock radio in Baltimore. He has also worked as a reporter in New Mexico ...

, reporter and producer * Judith Lieberman, educator and the wife of Saul Lieberman *

Lori Lieberman Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano. She first came to public attention in the early 1970s with a series of albums on Capitol Records, the first of which featured t ...

, American singer-songwriter *

Lou Lieberman Louis Stuart Lieberman (born 13 May 1938) is an Australian politician and was a member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives. Born on 13 May 1938 at Swan Hill, Lou Lieberman was educated at ...

, Australian politician *

Louise Lieberman Louise Kristina Lieberman (born May 6, 1977) is an American soccer coach and former player. She is currently the head coach of the San Diego Toreros women's team. Lieberman played for the Washington Freedom of the Women's United Soccer Associa ...

(born 1977), American soccer coach and former player *

Nancy Lieberman Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman (born July 1, 1958), nicknamed "Lady Magic", is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) who is currently a broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Thun ...

(born 1958), American basketball player *

Philip Lieberman Philip Lieberman (October 25, 1934 – July 12, 2022) was a cognitive scientist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. His career focused on top ...

, linguist *

Robert Lieberman Robert Lieberman (born July 16, 1947) is an American motion picture and television director. Personal life Lieberman was married from June 27, 1990 to June 7, 2001 to actress Marilu Henner; the divorced couple has two children, Nicholas Morg ...

, film and television director *

Robert C. Lieberman Robert C. Lieberman (born September 26, 1964) is an American political scientist and the former provost of the Johns Hopkins University. A scholar of American political development, Lieberman focuses primarily on race and politics and the Ameri ...

, American political scientist *

Robert H. Lieberman Robert H. Lieberman is a novelist, film director, and a long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University. Initially he came to Cornell to study to be a veterinarian, but ended up becoming an electrical engineer and doing research i ...

, scientist, educator, novelist and movie director *

Saul Lieberman Saul Lieberman (Hebrew: שאול ליברמן, May 28, 1898 – March 23, 1983), also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or, among some of his students, The ''Gra"sh'' (''Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul''), was a rabbi and a Talmudic scholar. He served as Professo ...

, rabbi and scholar and the husband of Judith Lieberman *

Syd Lieberman Sydney Lieberman (1944 – May 12, 2015) was a noted American storyteller who began performing professionally in 1982. He was born in Chicago. He was a frequent performer at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. In 200 ...

, storyteller *

Zvi Lieberman Zvi Lieberman (also Zvi Liberman) ( he, צבי ליברמן) (March 1, 1891 - August 6, 1985) Ben-Ezer, Ehud (1998). Days of Artemisia. Am Oved. p. 543. was a Russian-born Israeli children’s book author. He immigrated to Palestine during the ...

, Hebrew children's book author

Liberman

Alexander Liberman Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publicatio ...

, a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor *

Alvin Liberman Alvin Meyer Liberman (; May 10, 1917 – January 13, 2000) was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Liberman was an American psychologist. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of psychological research in speech perception. Biography Liberman rece ...

, professor of psychology and director of Haskins Laboratories *

Anatoly Liberman Anatoly Liberman (russian: Анато́лий Си́монович Либерма́н; born 10 March 1937) is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic. Liberman is a pro ...

, professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore *

Evsei Liberman Evsei Grigorievich Liberman (russian: Евсей Григорьевич Либерман, , uk, Овсій Григорович Ліберман; 2 October 1897, – 11 November 1981) was a Soviet economist who lived in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is n ...

, Soviet economist *

Jim Liberman Russell James Liberman (September 12, 1945 – September 9, 1977) was an American funny car drag racer, nicknamed "Jungle Jim." In 2001, he was named #17 on the list of the Top 50 NHRA drivers of all time. Liberman was known for driving backward ...

, American drag racer *

M. Charles Liberman Michael Charles Liberman (July 17, 1950) was born to Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman in Storrs, Connecticut. He is now Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, and Harold Schuknecht Profe ...

, professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School *

Mark Liberman Mark Yoffe Liberman is an American linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, and as a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Scienc ...

, professor of linguistics * Simcha Liberman, Talmudist * Tetiana Liberman, Ukrainian singer

Fictional characters

Claire Lieberman Claire Lieberman is an American artist known especially for her sculpture and installations, which explore the relationship between play and violence in contemporary culture. Her expansive body of work also includes prints, photographs, and a ser ...

, the female lead in '' The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones'' film ''Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies''.

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