Shlomo or Szlomo is the English form of שְׁלֹמֹה, the

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name of the

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King

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. It is a popular name among

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, especially in

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As a mononym

, king of ancient Israel * Shlomo (beatboxing artist) or Simon Shlomo Kahn (born 1983) * Shlohmo or Henry Laufer, an American electronic musician

As a given name

Shlomo

* Shlomo Amar (born 1948), former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of

and current Sephardi Chief Rabbi of

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

* Shlomo Argov (1929–2003), Israeli diplomat whose attempted assassination led to the

1982 Lebanon War The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

* Shlomo Aronson (disambiguation), multiple people * Shlomo Artzi (born 1949), Israeli singer and composer * Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), Rosh Yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Israel * Shlomo Aviner (born 1943), Israeli Rosh Yeshiva of the Ateret Cohanim *

Shlomo Avineri Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew: שלמה אבינרי; born Jerzy Wiener; 20 August 1933 – 30 November 2023) was an Israeli political scientist. He was a professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Israel A ...

(1933-2023), Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem * Shlomo Bar (born 1943), Israeli musician and composer * Shlomo Baum (1929–1999), Israeli military commando fighter * Shlomo Ben-Ami (born 1943), Israeli diplomat, politician and historian * Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir (1910–1971), Israeli politician and member of the Knesset * Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913–1938), member of the

Revisionist Zionist Revisionist Zionism is a form of Zionism characterized by territorial maximalism. Revisionist Zionism promoted expansionism and the establishment of a Jewish majority on both sides of the Jordan River. Developed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in the 1920s ...

underground

Irgun The Irgun (), officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel, often abbreviated as Etzel or IZL (), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of th ...

Shlomo Benizri Shlomo Benizri (; born 7 February 1961) is an Israeli politician and member of the Shas party. He represented Shas in the Knesset between 1992 and 2008, serving as Deputy Health Minister, Minister of Health, and Labor and Social Welfare Ministe ...

(born 1961), former Israeli Labour and Welfare Minister *

Shlomo Bentin Shlomo Bentin (; August 26, 1946 – July 13, 2012) was an Israeli neuropsychologist and recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology. Bentin was a professor of psychology and education, and a member of the Center for Neural Computation at ...

(1946–2012), professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *

Shlomo Bohbot Shlomo Bohbot (; born 8 November 1942) is an Israeli politician who was mayor of Ma'alot-Tarshiha from 1976 until 2018 and also served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 1992 and 1996. Biography Born in Morocco in 1942, Boh ...

(born 1942), Israeli politician and member of the Knesset *

Shlomo Breznitz Shlomo Breznitz (; born 3 August 1936) is an Israeli author, psychologist, former professor of psychology, former rector and president of the University of Haifa, and previous member of the Knesset. He is the founder and currently one of the mem ...

(born 1936), Israeli author, psychologist, and president of the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...

* Shlomo Carlebach or Reb Shlomo (1925–1994), American Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, and singe * Shlomo Cohen (born 1941), Israeli diplomat * Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon (1923–2012), Israeli politician and member of the Knesset * Shlomo Cunin, American Hasidic rabbi * Shlomo Dayan (born 1952), Israeli rabbi and former member of the Knesset * Shlomo Dovrat, Israeli high-tech entrepreneur * Shlomo Dykman (1917–1965), Polish-born Israeli translator and classical scholar *

Shlomo Eckstein Shlomo Raber Eckstein (; 1 November 1929 – 12 January 2020) was an Israeli economist, and President of Bar-Ilan University. Biography Eckstein was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. His family emigrated from Germany before World War II to Mexico, whi ...

(1929–2020), Israeli economist and President of

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

* Shlomo Eitan, Hebrew language linguist * Shlomo Eliahu (born 1936), Israeli businessman and former member of the Knesset * Shlomo Elyashiv (1841–1926), Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi * Shlomo Erell (1920-2018), former Commander of the Israeli Navy * Shlomo Freifeld (1925–1990), American Orthodox rabbi * Shlomo Ganzfried (1804–1886), Hungarian Orthodox rabbi and author *

Shlomo Gazit Shlomo Gazit (; 22 October 1926 – 8 October 2020) was an Israeli military officer and academic. A Major General in the Israel Defense Forces, he headed Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate. He later served as president of Ben-Gurion Univ ...

(1926-2020), Israeli former head of IDF

military intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis List of intelligence gathering disciplines, approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist Commanding officer, commanders in decision making pr ...

, President of

Ben-Gurion University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli national founder David Ben-Gurion, the university was founded in 1969 and currently has f ...

* Shlomo Glickstein (born 1958), former Israeli tennis player * Shlomo Goldman or Zvhil-Sanzer rebbe (1947-2017), American Hasidic rabbi *

Shlomo Goren Shlomo Goren (; 3 February 1918 – 29 October 1994), was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Talmud#Scholarship, Talmudic scholar. An Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jew and Religious Zionism, Religious Zionist, he was considered a foremost Posek, rabbin ...

(1917–1994), former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel * Shlomo Grofman, Israeli real estate developer * Shlomo Gronich (born 1949), Israeli composer, singer-songwriter, and choir conductor * Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross (1908–2003), Israeli politician and member of the Knesset * Shlomo HaKohen (Vilna) (1828–1905), Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi *

Shlomo HaKohen of Greece Shlomo Hacohen of Greece may refer to two people: *Rabbi Shlomo Hacohen author of responsa, published Salonika-Venice 1586–1730. *Another Shlomo Hacohen, possibly ca. 1800, mekubal and posek, known for his commentary to the kabbalistic works ...

, 18th century

mekubal Kabbalah or Qabalah ( ; , ; ) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (). Jewi ...

and

posek In Jewish law, a ''posek'' ( , pl. ''poskim'', ) is a legal scholar who determines the application of ''halakha'', the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are incon ...

* Shlomo HaKohen of Lissa, 18th century rabbi and biblical commentator *

Shlomo Halberstam (first Bobover rebbe) Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (, ; 1847 –1905) was a community rabbi and a Hasidic Rebbe, founder of the Hasidic dynasty of Bobov (Hasidic dynasty), Bobov. He was the son of Rabbi Myer Noson Halberstam (1827-1855). Rabbi Shlomo was a grandson of ...

(1847–1905), first Bobover

Rebbe A Rebbe () or Admor () is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.Heilman, Samuel"The Rebbe and the Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism."''Religion and Spirituality (Audio)''. UCTV, 20 Oct 2011. web. ...

* Shlomo Halberstam (third Bobover rebbe) (1907–2000), third Bobover Rebbe * Shlomo Havlin (born 1942), professor in the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel * Shlomo Heiman (1892–1944), rabbi, Talmudist, and rosh yeshiva * Shlomo Helbrans (1962–2017), Israeli-born cult leader * Shlomo Hillel (1923-2021), former Israeli Police and Interior Minister and Speaker of the Knesset * Shlomo Jin, one of the first of the Kaifeng Jews to make

aliyah ''Aliyah'' (, ; ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine (region), Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the Israel ...

; see Chinese in Israel * Shlomo Kaplansky (1884–1950), Israeli politician and President of the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...

* Shlomo Katz (born 1980), contemporary religious Jewish singer in Israel * Shlomo Lahat (1927–2014), eighth mayor of

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

* Shlomo Lahiani (born 1965), business owner and former Israeli politician * Shlomo Levi (1934-2003), Israeli footballer * Shlomo Levinger, American magician * Shlomo Lipetz (born 1979), Israeli baseball player * Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550–1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator * Shlomo Miller, a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages) * Shlomo Mintz (born 1957), highly regarded Israeli violin virtuoso * Shlomo Molla (born 1965), Israeli politician * Shlomo Moussaieff (rabbi) (1852–1922), one of the founders of the Bukharian Quarter in Jerusalem * Shlomo Moussaieff (businessman) (1925-2015), Israeli born millionaire businessman * Shlomo Nahari (born 1934), Israeli footballer * Shlomo Pines (1908–1990), Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy * Shlomo Rabinowicz (1801 – 1866), the first Rebbe of the Radomsk Hasidic dynasty * Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz (1882–1942), fourth Radomsker

in Poland * Shlomo Rechnitz, American businessman and philanthropist *

Shlomo Riskin Shlomo Riskin (; born May 28, 1940) is an Orthodox rabbi, and the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, which he led for 20 years; founding chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Is ...

(born 1940), founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City * Shlomo Sand (born 1946), Israeli historian * Shlomo Sawilowsky (1954-2021), professor of educational statistics, Wayne State University * Shlomo Scharf (born 1943), Israeli football manager * Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn (1830 – 1900), Ukrainian Habad Hasidic rabbi * Shlomo Shirazi (born 1960), Israeli former footballer *

Shlomo Simcha Shlomo Simcha Sufrin, better known as Shlomo Simcha (Hebrew: שלמה שמחה) is a UK-born Canadian Hasidic Jewish cantor and singer. Shlomo Simcha began his career in a small kollel in Montreal, where he was discovered by a local wedding band ...

, UK-born Canadian Hasidic Jewish cantor and singer *

Shlomo Sternberg Shlomo Zvi Sternberg (January 20, 1936 – August 23, 2024) was an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory. He also wrote some well-known textbooks. Education and career Sternber ...

(1936-2024), leading American mathematician known for his work in geometry * Shlomo Sztencl (1884–1919), Rav of Tzelodz and Sosnowiec, Poland * Shlomo Tzemah (born 1981), Israeli footballer * Shlomo Veingrad, formerly Alan Veingrad (born 1963), American NFL football player * Shlomo Venezia (1923–2012), Greek-born Italian Jew * Shlomo Weber (born 1949), economics professor and president, New Economic School in Moscow, Russia * Shlomo Wiesel, the father of

Elie Wiesel Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates#1980, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel bibliogra ...

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators before and during World War II ...

* Shlomo Elisha Wiesel (born 1972), chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel * Shlomo Zilberstein (born 1960), Israeli-American computer scientist * Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft (1915–2005), Rosh Hashochtim of Poland, Chief Rabbi of

Hannover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

* Shlomo Shekelstein, pseudonym of the manager of the JIDF

Szlomo

* Szlomo Benjamin Fisz (1922–1989), Polish film producer and writer * Szlomo Szmajzner (1927–1989), survivor of the

Sobibór extermination camp Sobibor ( ; ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ext ...

* Szlomo Zalman Lipszyc (1765–1839), Orthodox rabbi, and first Chief Rabbi of Warsaw

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