Lieberman and Liebermann 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 Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names.
Background
Hanks was educated a ...
and Flavia Hodges, ''A Dictionary of Surnames'', Oxford University Press, 1988, p. 325 Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
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Cyrillic
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...
characters, so variations in the spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet.
Carl Theodore Liebermann
Carl Theodor 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 the ...
Eliezer Dob Liebermann
Eliezer Dob Liebermann (; 12 April 1820 – 15 April 1895) was a Russian '' maskilic'' writer and scholar.
Biography
Liebermann was born in Pilvischok in the region of Suwałki. His father was a '' shoḥet'', and gave him a traditional Jewish ...
, Russian-Jewish writer
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Felix Liebermann
Felix Liebermann (20 July 1851 – 7 October 1925) was a 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.
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, historian (brother to Max Liebermann)
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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
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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 ...
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 the artistic director ...
(1910–1999), Swiss composer and opera director
Lieberman
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Avigdor Lieberman
Avigdor Lieberman (, ; born 5 June 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician who served as Ministry of Finance (Israel), Minister of Finance between 2021 and 2022, having previously served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to ...
, Moldavian-born Israeli politician, former Minister of Foreign affairs
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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 ...
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
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Hadassah Lieberman
Hadassah Lieberman ( Freilich; born March 28, 1948) is the widow 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 she w ...
, wife of Joe Lieberman
* Hendel Lieberman, Russian-American artist
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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 ...
, Polish lawyer and Socialist politician
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Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for his cult film, cult horror film, horror and thriller films ''Squirm'' (1976), ''Blue Sunshine (film), Blue Sunshine'' (1977) and ''Just Before Dawn ...
(born 1947), American filmmaker
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Jeffrey Lieberman
Jeffrey Alan Lieberman (born 1948) is an American psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and related psychoses and their associated neuroscience (biology) and pharmacological treatment (psychiatric drugs). He was principal investigator for ...
, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
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Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Dem ...
, US Senator from Connecticut, husband of Hadassah Lieberman
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Judith Lieberman
Doctor Judith Lieberman, (August 14, 1904 — December 1978), was an American educator and school administrator. She served as Hebrew principal and later dean of Hebrew studies of Shulamith School for Girls in New York City, the first Jewish day ...
, educator and the wife of Saul Lieberman
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Lori Lieberman
Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano. She co-wrote and recorded the first version of "Killing Me Softly with His Song", which became a hit single for Roberta Flack in ...
, American singer-songwriter
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Lou Lieberman
Louis Stuart Lieberman (23 May 1938 – 17 May 2024) was an Australian politician and was a member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives.
Born on 23 May 1938 at Swan Hill, Lou Lieberman was ...
, Australian politician
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Louise Lieberman
Louise Kristina Lieberman (born May 6, 1977) is an American soccer coach and former player. She is the former head coach of the San Diego Toreros women's team. Lieberman played for the Washington Freedom of the Women's United Soccer Association ...
(born 1977), American soccer coach and former player
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Matthew Lieberman
Matthew Dylan Lieberman is a Professor and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Director at UCLA Department of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Personal life and education
Lieberman was born on May 5, 1970, in Atlantic City, New J ...
, professor of social cognitive neuroscience
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Nancy Lieberman
Nancy Ilizabeth 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
* Nick Lieberman, American filmmaker
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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 to ...
, linguist
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Robert Lieberman
Robert Lieberman (July 16, 1947 – July 1, 2023) was an American film and television director.
Career
Lieberman was the founder of the commercial production company Harmony Pictures and directed close to two thousand commercials. He received ...
, film and television director
* Robert C. Lieberman, American political scientist
* Robert H. Lieberman, scientist, educator, novelist and movie director
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Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman (; 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 Professor of Talmud at the Jewish T ...
, rabbi and scholar and the husband of Judith Lieberman
* Simcha Lieberman (1926–2009), Israeli Talmud scholar
* Syd Lieberman, storyteller
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Zvi Lieberman
Zvi Lieberman (also Zvi Liberman) (; 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 aliyah, immigrated to Palestine during the Second Aliyah pe ...
, Hebrew children's book author
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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 ''Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies''
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Lieberman clause
The Lieberman clause is a clause included in a ''ketubah'' ( Jewish wedding document), created by and named after Talmudic scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor Saul Lieberman, that stipulates that divorce will be adjudicat ...
Liebmann Liebmann is a surname that may refer to:
* Axel Liebmann (1849–1876), Danish composer
* Barry Liebmann (1953–2017), comedy writer for ''MAD Magazine''
* Charles Liebmann (1837–1928), German-born, American brewer
* Frederik Michael Liebmann ...
Libman Libman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Andrea Libman (born 1984), Canadian actress and voice actor
* Emanuel Libman (1872–1946), American physician
* Leslie Libman
Leslie Libman is an American television director. She ...