Rajchman is a surname; it is a Polish respelling of the German
Reichmann, typically used by Jews in
Congress Poland
Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It ...
, while those in
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
and
Prussian Poland were more likely to use the original German spelling. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aleksander Rajchman
Aleksander Michał Rajchman (13 November 1890 in Warsaw, Poland – July or August 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Germany) was a mathematician of the Warsaw School of Mathematics of the Interwar period. He had origins in th ...
(1890-1940), Polish mathematician
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Jan A. Rajchman
Jan Aleksander Rajchman (London, 10 August 1911 – 1 April 1989) was a Polish electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Biography
Jan Aleksander was son of Ludwik Rajchman and Maria Bojańczyk. His father was a Polish bacteriologist an ...
(1911-1989), Polish-American electrical engineer and computer pioneer
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John Rajchman (born 1946), American philosopher of art history, architecture, and continental philosophy
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Ludwik Rajchman
Ludwik Witold Rajchman (1 November 1881 – 13 July 1965) was a Polish physician and bacteriologist. He is regarded as the founder of UNICEF, and served as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950.
Family
He was born to Aleksander Rajchman, the fo ...
(1881-1965), Polish bacteriologist and one of the founders of UNICEF
See also
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Reichmann
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Richman Richman as a surname may refer to:
* Adam Richman (born 1974), host of the Travel Channel's ''Man v. Food''
* Adam Richman (singer) (born ca. 1983), American indie pop singer-songwriter
* Alfred A. Richman (c. 1892 - December 8, 1984), orthopedic ...
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Polish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Germanic-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames