Wolpe is a

locational surname A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,

of German origin, named after the medieval

County of Wölpe The County of Wölpe () was the territorial lordship of a noble family in the Middle Ages in the Middle Weser Region near Nienburg/Weser which folded in 1302. The seat of the counts of Wölpe was the castle site at Erichshagen-Wölpe on the W ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

AnnMarie Wolpe AnnMarie Wolpe (1 December 1930 – 14 February 2018, née Kantor) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, sociologist, feminist and writer. Her husband Harold Wolpe was also a South African anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned along ...

(1930–2018), South African sociologist, wife of Harold *

Berthold Wolpe Berthold Ludwig Wolpe (29 October 1905 – 5 July 1989) was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England soon after t ...

(1905–1989), German visual designer *

David Wolpe David J. Wolpe (born September 19, 1958) is an American rabbi. He is Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple. He previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, t ...

(born 1958), American rabbi *

Harold Wolpe Harold Wolpe (14 January 1926 – 19 January 1996) was a South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist. He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom. ...

(1926–1996), South African economist, husband of AnnMarie *

Howard Wolpe Howard Eliot Wolpe (November 3, 1939 – October 25, 2011) was an American politician who served as a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, wher ...

(1939–2011), American politician *

Irma Wolpe Irma Wolpe Rademacher (March 15, 1902 – January 6, 1984), née Schoenberg, was a Romanian-born American pianist and teacher. Life and career She was born in 1902 in Galați, Western Moldavia, Romania, into a bourgeois Jewish family, the thir ...

(1902–1984), Romanian-born composer *

Joseph Wolpe Joseph Wolpe (20 April 1915 in Johannesburg, South Africa – 4 December 1997 in Los Angeles) was a South African psychiatrist and one of the most influential figures in behavior therapy. Wolpe grew up in South Africa, attending Parktown Boys' ...

(1915–1997), South African psychiatrist * Lenny Wolpe (born 1951), American actor *

Paul Root Wolpe Paul Root Wolpe (born February 26, 1957), is an American sociologist and bioethicist. He is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics and a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Wolpe served for 15 y ...

(born 1957), American sociologist *

Sholeh Wolpé Sholeh Wolpé (; born 1962) is an Iranian-born American poet, playwright, librettist, and literary translator. She was born in Iran and grew up there until the age of 13. After that she lived in Trinidad and England during her teenage years befo ...

, Iranian-born American poet, literary translator and playwright *

Shalom Dov Wolpo Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, also Sholom Ber Wolpe, (; born February 21, 1948) is a rabbi and an Israelis, Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political ...

, also Sholom Ber Wolpe (born 1948), Israeli rabbi *

Stefan Wolpe Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-born American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz mov ...

(1902–1972), American composer

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