Gurvich

Gurvich, Gurovich, Gurwich, Gurwitch, Gurwitsch or Gurevich is a Yiddish surname, a Russian form of the surname "Horowitz" (Гу́рвич), see the latter article about its etymology.

The surname may refer to:

Gurvich

• Abram Gurvich (1897–1962), Russian chess composer.
• Jose Gurvich (1927–1974), Lithuanian-Uruguayan plastic artist.
• Alexander Gurwitsch (1874–1954), Russian biologist
• Aleksandr Gurevich (1930–2023), Russian physicist.
• Aron Gurevich (1924–2006), Russian medievalist.
• Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973), Lithuanian-American philosopher.
• Georges Gurvitch (1894–1965), Russian-French sociologist.
• Liubov Gurevich (1866–1940), Russian editor, translator, author, and critic.
• Leib Gurwicz (1906–1982), influential Orthodox Rabbi.
• Naum Gurvich, Soviet-Jewish inventor of defibrillator
• Fedor Dan (born Gurvich) (1871–1949), Russian revolutionary and Menshevik.

Gurevich

• Aharon Gurevich, Chief Rabbi of Russian Army.
• Anatoly Gurevich Soviet espionage agent during world war two.
• Boris Maksovich Gurevich (1931–1995), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler
• Boris Michail Gurevich (1937–2020), Soviet Olympic champion wrestler
• David Gurevich (b. 1951), Russian-American writer.
• Dmitry Gurevich (b. 1956), Russian-American chess grandmaster.
• Michelle Gurevich, Canadian singer of Russian descent.
• Mikhail Gurevich (chess player) (b. 1959), Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
• Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft designer) (1893–1976), Soviet aircraft designer.
• Mikhail Gurevich (psychiatrist) (1878–1953), Soviet psychiatrist.
• Valery Solomonovich Gurevich is Vice-chairman of Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
• Yuri Gurevich, American computer scientist and mathematician.

• Jessica Gurevitch, American plant ecologist

Gurwitch

• Annabelle Gurwitch (born 1961), American comedic actress
• Janet Gurwitch (born 1954), founder of Gurwitch Products

Gurwitsch

• Alexander Gurwitsch

See also

• Horowitz