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Lifshitz Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipch ...

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Lifschitz Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchit ...

Lifshits Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchit ...

Lifshuts Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipch ...

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Lipshits Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, ...

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Lipschütz Lipschutz is a Jewish surname. It is a variant of Lifshitz. Notable people with this surname * Gerdi E. Lipschutz (1923–2010), New York politician * S. Lipschütz (1863–1905), US chess champion * Seymour Lipschutz (born 1931), American mathe ...

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Lüpschütz Lipschitz, Lipshitz, or Lipchitz, is an Ashkenazi Jewish (Yiddish/German-Jewish) surname. The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz (Lifschitz), Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lipshits, Lopshits, Lipschutz (Lipschütz ...

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Libschitz Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, ...

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Lifszyc Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz (Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, Li ...

Lipszyc Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz). The surname has many variants, including: , , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz ( Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, ...

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Lipton Lipton is a brand named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton, Tom Lipton, who started an eponymous grocery retail business in the United Kingdom in 1871. The brand was used for various consumer goods sold in Lipton stores, including tea from 1 ...

, and less commonly as Lipson and Lipington. There are several places in Europe from where the name may be derived. In all cases, ''Lip'' or ''Lib'' is derived from the Slavic root ''lipa'' (linden tree, see also

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

), and the ''itz'' ending is the Germanisation of the Slavic place name ending ''ice''. In the Czech Republic: *

Libčice nad Vltavou Libčice nad Vltavou () is a town in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,600 inhabitants. Etymology The name Libčice is derived from the old personal Slavic name Lubek (Ľúbek, Líbek), meani ...

(German: Libschitz an der Moldau) *

Liběšice u Litoměřic Liběšice may refer to places in the Czech Republic: * Liběšice (Litoměřice District), a municipality and village in the Ústí nad Labem Region * Liběšice (Louny District), a municipality and village in the Ústí nad Labem Region *Liběši ...

(German: Liebeschitz bei Leitmeritz) *

Liběšice u Žatce Liběšice may refer to places in the Czech Republic: *Liběšice (Litoměřice District), a municipality and village in the Ústí nad Labem Region *Liběšice (Louny District), a municipality and village in the Ústí nad Labem Region *Liběšice ...

(German: Libeschitz bei Saaz) In Germany: *

Gera Gera () is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of ...

-Liebschwitz *

Liebschützberg Liebschützberg is a municipality in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Until 1991 the territory of Liebschützberg and its 1,600 residents were part of the town of Borna. During the administrative reform of Saxony which followed the ...

-Liebschütz *

Remptendorf Remptendorf is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and th ...

-Liebschütz In Poland: *

Głubczyce Głubczyce ( or sparsely ''Glubčice'', or ''Gubczycy'', ) is a town in Opole Voivodeship in south-western Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the administrative seat of Głubczyce County and Gmina Głubczyce. Geography Głu ...

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: Lischwitz, German: Leobschütz) In mathematics, the name can be used to describe a function that satisfies the

Lipschitz condition In mathematical analysis, Lipschitz continuity, named after German mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz, is a strong form of uniform continuity for functions. Intuitively, a Lipschitz continuous function is limited in how fast it can change: there e ...

, a strong form of continuity, named after

Rudolf Lipschitz Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14 May 1832 – 7 October 1903) was a German mathematician who made contributions to mathematical analysis (where he gave his name to the Lipschitz continuity condition) and differential geometry, as well as numbe ...

. The surname may refer to:

People

Daniel Lipšic Daniel Lipšic (born 8 July 1973) is a Slovak politician and Jurist. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and former Minister of Interior. Until 28 May 2012 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), in wh ...

, former Minister of Interior in Slovakia *

Israel Lipschitz Yisrael Lifschitz (; 1782–1860) was a leading 19th-century Ashkenazi rabbi, first in Dessau and then in the Jewish Community of Danzig. He was the author of the commentary "Tiferes Yisrael" on the Mishnah. Biography Lipshitz's father's nam ...

(1782–1860), rabbi and biblical scholar *

Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, domi ...

(1891–1973), Cubist sculptor *

Lippy Lipshitz Israel-Isaac Lipshitz (8 May 1903 – 17 May 1980) was a South African sculptor, painter and printmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important South African sculptors, along with Moses Kottler and Anton van Wouw. Russia 1903 – 1908 ...

(1903–1980), South African sculptor, painter and printmaker *

(1832–1903), German mathematician *

Imre Lakatos Imre Lakatos (, ; ; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stage ...

, Hungarian philosopher, born as Imre Lipschitz *

Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren ( ; ; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for founding the brand Ralph Lauren (brand), Ralph Lauren, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He stepped do ...

, American fashion designer, born as Ralph Lifshitz *

Hal Linden Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz, March 20, 1931) is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. Linden began his career as a big band musician and singer in the 1950s. After a stint in the United States Army, he began ...

, American actor, and television personality, born Harold Lipschitz *

Solomon Lefschetz Solomon Lefschetz (; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equatio ...

(1884–1972), Russian–US mathematician * Joachim Lipschitz, German politician

Fictional characters

* Dr. Werner P. Lipschitz, fictional character of the ''Rugrats'' series

Berlin subway station

* There is a subway station Lipschitzallee (Lipschitz Avenue) in Berlin, named after politician Joachim Lipschitz {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin Jewish toponymic surnames