Lourie is a family name. In Scotland, Northern England and Ireland,
it often appears as
Laurie and
Lowry. In the
pale of settlement
The Pale of Settlement was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (''de facto'' until 1915) in which permanent settlement by Jews was allowed and beyond which the creation of new Jewish settlem ...
it refers to the descendants of
Isaac Luria
Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria (; #FINE_2003, Fine 2003, p24/ref>July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mysticism, Jewish mystic in the community of Saf ...
.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Arthur Lourié (1892–1966), Russian composer
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Don Lourie (1899–1990), American football player
* Eugene Lourié (1903–1991), Parisian Art Director born in Ukraine
* Evgeniya Lourié (Евгения Лурье) - married
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...
in 1922.
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Joel Lourie (born 1962), Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate
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John Lourie Beveridge (1824–1910), governor of Illinois
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Serge Lourie (born 1946), English councillor and Leader of Richmond upon Thames Council
James Lourie(born 1952), Washington State artist
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Peter Lourie (born 1952), Michigan writer
See also
* Lourie-Love Field, now
Roberts Stadium (soccer stadium)
Roberts Stadium is a rebuilt 2,356 seat soccer-specific stadium located on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It is the home to the Princeton Tigers Princeton Tigers men's soccer, men's and women's association football, ...
at Princeton University, United States
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Grey lourie, a southern African bird
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Knysna lourie, an African bird
References
{{surname, Lourie
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category:surnames of Jewish origin