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and Yiddish origin, mostly found among

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; it denotes "

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/ref> Notable persons named Rubinstein include:

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Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...

(1880–1961), Polish chess grandmaster *

Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein ( he, אמנון רובינשטיין, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean ...

(born 1931), Israeli scholar, politician and columnist *

Anton Rubinstein Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein ( rus, Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, r=Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the S ...

(1829–1894), Russian pianist, composer and conductor, brother of Nikolai Rubinstein *

Ariel Rubinstein Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין; born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in economic theory, game theory and bounded rationality. Biography Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the School of ...

(born 1951), game theorist at Tel Aviv University and New York University *

Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist.

(1887–1982), Polish-American pianist * Arthur B. Rubinstein (born 1938), American drama and film score composer and conductor *

Benjamin B. Rubinstein Benjamin Björn Rubinstein (April 12, 1905 – July 12, 1989) was a Finnish Jewish–American physician and psychoanalyst. Benjamin B. Rubinstein was born in the Jewish community of Helsinki, Finland, and he attended school both in his home ...

(1905–1989), Finnish-born American psychoanalyst *

Benny Rubinstein Benny Rubinstein (בני רובינשטיין) is an Israeli former footballer and current real estate developer. He played soccer for Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Netanya. At the 1969 Maccabiah Games, Rubinstein played soccer for Israel, wi ...

, Israeli footballer *

Dave Rubinstein David Rubinstein, also known as Dave Insurgent (September 5, 1964 – July 3, 1993), was an American singer and co-founder of the New York-based hardcore punk band Reagan Youth. Rubenstein founded the band with guitarist Paul Bakija when both w ...

(1964–1993), singer in the band Reagan Youth *

David Rubinstein (pianist) David Rubinstein (born 1949 in New York, New York New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is als ...

(born 1949) *

David Rubinstein (social historian) David Rubinstein (7 August 1932 – 19 August 2019) was a social historian born of Jewish parentage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. His father Beryl Rubinstein was a musician. Biography Rubinstein moved to England in 1952 to study for a PhD at ...

(born 1932), American-born social historian living in England, specializing in the 19th and 20th centuries *

Elyakim Rubinstein Elyakim Rubinstein ( he, אליקים רובינשטיין, born June 13, 1947) is a former Vice President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Beforehand, he served as the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. Rubinstein, a former Israeli di ...

(born 1947), Israeli diplomat, former Attorney General of Israel and vice president of the Supreme Court of Israel * Erna Rubinstein (1903–1966), Hungarian-American classical violinist

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* Gennadii Rubinstein * Gillian Rubinstein (born 1942), English-born Australian author of children's books and for adults as Lian Hearn *

Hadar Rubinstein Hadar Rubinstein (הדר רובינשטיין; born April 11, 1967) is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer. She was born in Israel, and is Jewish. Swimming career Swimming for Israel at the age of 14 at the 1981 Maccabiah Games, she won gold medal ...

(born 1967), Israeli Olympic swimmer *

Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1870 – April 1, 1965) was a Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorpora ...

(1872–1965), Polish-born American cosmetics entrepreneur and art collector *

Hilary Rubinstein Hilary Harold Rubinstein (26 April 1926 – 22 May 2012) was a British publisher and literary agent. He was described by Ion Trewin in an obituary published in ''The Guardian'' as "one of Britain's premier literary agents". Early and private ...

(1926–2012), British literary agent and publisher *

Ida Rubinstein Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (russian: И́да Льво́вна Рубинште́йн; – 20 September 1960) was a Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure. She performed with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1911 an ...

(1885–1960), Russian dancer with the Ballet Russe in Paris * Jacob Leon Rubenstein (1911-1967), birth name of

Jack Ruby Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner and alleged associate of the Chicago Outfit who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was accused of ...

, American nightclub owner who killed

Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 ...

* James Rubinstein (1968), public school teacher in Milwaukee and Racine Wisconsin. *

John Rubinstein John Rubinstein (born December 8, 1946) is an American actor, composer and director. Early life Rubinstein is the son of Polish parents. His mother, Aniela (née Młynarska), a dancer and writer, was a Roman Catholic native of Warsaw, the dau ...

(born 1946), American actor, singer, composer, director; son of pianist Arthur Rubinstein *

Jolyon Rubinstein Jolyon Rubinstein (born 22 April 1981) is a British actor, writer, producer and director. He is best known for writing and performing on '' The Revolution Will Be Televised'', a show on BBC Three, alongside Heydon Prowse. He acted in a popul ...

(born 1981), English satirist, director and writer *

Jon Rubinstein Jonathan J. "Jon" Rubinstein (born October 1956) is an American electrical engineer who played an instrumental role in the development of the iMac and iPod, the portable music and video device first sold by Apple Computer Inc. in 2001. He left ...

(born 1956), American computer scientist and electrical engineer instrumental in the creation of the iPod *

J. Hyam Rubinstein Joachim Hyam Rubinstein FAA (born 7 March 1948, in Melbourne) an Australian top mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology; he is currently serving as an honorary professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Unive ...

(born 1948), Australian mathematician primarily interested in topology

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Lev Rubinstein Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein (russian: link=no, Лев Семёнович Рубинштейн) is a Russian poet, essayist, and social activist. He is a founder and member of Moscow Conceptualism.Marcos Rubinstein Marcos Rubinstein is a professor and chair at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. Education Rubinstein obtained his Bachelor's degree in electronics from Simon Bolivar University i ...

, Swiss engineer *

Mark Rubinstein Mark Edward Rubinstein (June 8, 1944 – May 9, 2019) was a leading financial economist and financial engineer. He was ''Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis'' at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, B ...

, American financial economist and financial engineer * Michael Rubinstein (born 1973), birth name of

Michael Weston Michael Weston (born Michael Rubinstein; October 25, 1973) is an American television and film actor. His best-known roles are the private detective Lucas on ''House'', the deranged and sadistic kidnapper Jake in the HBO serial drama '' Six Feet ...

, American television and film actor and son of John Rubinstein and Judi West * Nicolai Rubinstein (1911–2002), Russian historian *

Nikolai Rubinstein Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (russian: Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн; – ) was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tc ...

(1835–1881), Russian pianist and composer, brother of Anton Rubinstein

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Pablo Rubinstein Pablo Rubinstein is a pioneer (during the 1980s) in freezing of umbilical cord blood or placental blood cells for the use for unrelated donors to treat diseases like leukemia and genetic diseases such as Tay–Sachs disease and sickle cell anemia ...

, Chilean doctor who pioneered the preservation and medical use of placenta blood as a form of stem cell technology * Robert A. Rubinstein (born 1951), American anthropologist *

Robert J. Rubinstein Robert J. Rubinstein (born 1952) is a social entrepreneur and the founder and driving force behind the TBLI ( Triple Bottom Line Investing Group), a group that specializes in environmental, social and governance, ESG and impact investing, using tr ...

(born 1952), entrepreneur and founder of the TBLI group * Roman Rubinshteyn (born 1996), Belarusian-Israeli basketball player *

Sergei Rubinstein Sergei Leonidovich Rubinstein (Russian: Сергей Леонидович Рубинштейн; 18 June 1889 – 11 January 1960) was a Soviet psychologist and philosopher and one of the founders of the Marxist tradition in Soviet psychology.Ya ...

, Soviet psychologist, critic to Lev Vygotsky *

Seymour I. Rubinstein Seymour Ivan Rubinstein (born 1934) is an American businessman and software developer. With the founding of MicroPro International in 1978, he became a pioneer of personal computer software, publishing under it the extremely popular word processi ...

(born 1934), American software developer *

Susanna Rubinstein Susanna or Susanne Rubinstein (20 September 1847 – 29 March 1914) was an Austrian psychologist and the first woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Bern in Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but t ...

(1847–1914), Austrian psychologist *

William Rubinstein William D. Rubinstein (born 12 August 1946) is a historian and author. His best-known work, ''Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution'', charts the rise of the ' super rich', a class he sees as expanding ex ...

(born 1946), British historian *

Yaakov Rubinstein Ya’akov Rubinstein (Hebrew: יעקב רובינשטיין) is an Israeli violinist. He has performed concerts in Europe, Israel, Japan, China and in the United States since he was seven years of age. As a student of the Jerusalem Music Center, ...

, Israeli violinist * Zdenka Rubinstein (1911–1961), Croatian operatic soprano *

Zelda Rubinstein Zelda May Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the ''Poltergeist'' film series. Playing "Ginny", she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emm ...

(1933–2010), American actress

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