Vinokur is an East Slavic-language
occupational surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
. The word "
винокур" is an archaic name of the profession of spirit distilling.
The name may also be transliterated via German/Yiddish as
Winokur or via French as
Vinocour or
Winocour.
People
Vinokur
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Grigoriy Vinokur
Grigoriy Osipovich Vinokur (; 17 November, 1896, Warsaw – 17 May 1947, Moscow) was a Russian linguist and literary historian. He was educated in Moscow. After a brief spell as an interpreter in Estonia and Latvia he returned there, remaining for ...
(1896–1947), Russian linguist
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Ion Vinokur (1930–2006), Ukrainian archaeologist
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Jeffrey Vinokur (born 1990), American science educator and performer
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Tania Vinokur (born 1982), Israeli violinist
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Vladimir Vinokur
Vladimir Natanovich Vinokur (born 31 March 1948 in Kursk) is a Soviet and Russian entertainer, humorist, singer and actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989).
Early life
Vladimir Vinokur was born on 31 March 1948 in Kursk to Natan Vinokur (1919 ...
(born 1948), Russian actor and comedian
Other forms
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Alice Winocour
Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director.
Life and career
Winocour was born in Paris, France, to a Jewish family. After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Winocour made three short films and wrote the script ...
(born 1976), French screenwriter and director
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Lev Vinocour
Lev Vinocour (; born 3 August 1970) is a pianist from Russia.
He began his studies at the age of six. He studied at the School of Music in Saint Petersburg and continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of Lev Vlassenko.
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(born 1970), Russian pianist
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Valerii Vinokour
Valerii Vinokur (also spelled as Vinokour, or Valery Vinokour; born 26 April 1949) is a condensed matter physicist who works on superconductivity, the physics of vortices, disordered media and glasses, nonequilibrium physics of dissipative syste ...
(born 1949), Russian-American scientist
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Yaroslav Vynokur (born 1974), billiards player
See also
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Vinokurov
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Bronfman
{{surname, Vinokur
Russian-language surnames
Ukrainian-language surnames
Occupational surnames