Pevsner or Pevzner is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aihud Pevsner (1925–2018), American physicist
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Antoine Pevsner
Antoine Pevsner (12 April 1962) was a Russian-born sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo. Both Antoine and Naum are considered pioneers of twentieth-century sculpture.
Biography
Pevsner was born as Natan Borisovich P ...
(1886–1962), Russian sculptor, brother of Naum Gabo
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David Pevsner
David Pevsner (born December 31, 1958) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and writer. Pevsner appeared in the 1990 revival of ''Fiddler on the Roof'', 1991 revival of ''Rags'', and some other theatrical productions. He also wrote three songs fo ...
, American actor, singer, dancer and writer
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Keren Pevzner
Keren Pevzner ( he, קרן פבזנר, née ''Kira Gennadievna Konovalova''; born May 8, 1961, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) who also goes by the pen name Katerina Vrublevskaya as vintage crime fictions author, is an Israeli novel and essay w ...
(born 1961), Israeli writer
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Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, '' The Buildings of England'' ...
(1902–1983), German-born British historian and critic of art and architecture
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Pavel A. Pevzner
Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner (russian: Павел Аркадьевич Певзнер) is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego. , computer scientist
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Shmuel Pevzner
Shmuel Pevzner (; December 17, 1878 – May 7, 1930) was a Russian-born Jewish writer and industrialist. He was a delegate to the First World Zionist Congress in 1897, and one of the pioneers of settlement in Eretz Israel.
Biography
Shmuel Pev ...
(1878–1930), Russian-born Jewish writer and industrialist
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Stella Pevsner, author of children's books
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Tom Pevsner
Thomas Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.
He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of ...
(1926–2014), German-born British film producer, son of Nikolaus
Fictional people
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"Baldy" Pevsner
The fortnightly British satirical magazine ''Private Eye'' has long had a reputation for using euphemistic and irreverent substitute names and titles for people, groups and organisations and has coined a number of expressions to describe sex, d ...
, legendary player for Neasden FC, in the North Circular Relegation League, as depicted in ''
Private Eye
''Private Eye'' is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism ...
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Jacob Pevsner
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Jacob in Islam, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel (name), Israel, is regarded as a Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religi ...
, a character in ''Ninjago''
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