Rivlin () is a primarily

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family originating from

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and

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, which became established in early 19th century

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(now

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). There are also branches of the family in several other countries.

The family

The Rivlin family originated from

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and has over 50,000 members. The Rivlin family has held major reunions in Jerusalem in 1980 and 2009. These reunions drew thousands of family members to Jerusalem. A film, ''The Tribe'', was made about the 1980 reunion by Lilly Rivlin.

Notable Rivlins

Chronologically: * Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), rabbi and student of the

Vilna Gaon Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, ( ''Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman''), also known as the Vilna Gaon ( ''Der Vilner Goen''; ; or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym Gr"a ("Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu": "Our great teacher Elijah"; Sialiec, April 23, 172 ...

, revitalized the

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community in

* Yosef Rivlin (1836–1896), rabbi and secretary of the Jerusalem-based Central Committee of Knesseth Israel under Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shmuel Salant * Yosef Yoel Rivlin (1889–1971), Oriental studies scholar, Hebrew U. professor and translator * Ronald Rivlin (1915–2005), Anglo-American physicist, developer of the Mooney-Rivlin model for calculating the mechanical behaviour of rubber and similar materials * Jule Rivlin (1917–2002), American college men's basketball coach and professional basketball player * Theodore J. Rivlin (1926–2006), American mathematician * Leanne Rivlin (born 1929), an originator of the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA * Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official * Lilly Rivlin, (born 1936), Israeli filmmaker * Reuven Rivlin (born 1939), President of Israel ** Nechama Rivlin (1945–2019), First Lady of Israel * Eliezer Rivlin (1942–2013), deputy-president of the Supreme Court of Israel and chairman of the Central Elections Committee * Sefi Rivlin (1947–2013), Israeli actor and comedian * Gary Rivlin (born 1958), American journalist and author * Michal Rivlin-Etzion, Israeli neuroscientist (graduated from the Hebrew University in 2001) * Yermi Kaplan (born 1961), son of Orah Rivlin Kaplan; Israeli singer and musician

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The family

Notable Rivlins

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