Abram is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning exalted father.[1] In the Bible it was the original name of the person later known as Abraham, the patriarch.
[edit] People with the given name Abram
- Abram Piatt Andrew (Jr.) (1873–1936), United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Abram Samoilovich Besicovitch (Bezikovich) (1891–1970), Russian mathematician
- Abram Purol (born 1895), Polish-Israeli chess master
- Abram Bergson (1914–2003), American economist
- Abram Chasins (1903–1987), American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author
- Abram Comingo (1820–1889), Democratic Representative
- Abram Duryée (1815–1890), Union Army general
- Abram Elam (born 1981), American football safety
- Abram Fulkerson (1834–1902), Confederate officer
- Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781)
- Abram Grushko (1918–1980), Russian painter and art teacher
- Abram Harrison (1898–1979), politician
- Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822–1903), teacher, lawyer, iron manufacturer, and chairman
- Abram Hoffer (1917–2009), Canadian psychiatrist
- Abram Jakira (1889–1931), American socialist political activist, newspaper editor, and Communist Party functionary
- Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (1860–1960), prominent Russian/Soviet physicist
- Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943), Lithuanian–Russian chess master
- (Abram) Harding "Hardy" Richardson (1855–1931), second basemen and outfielder
- Abram Joseph Ryan (1839–1886), American poet, proponent of the Confederate States of America, and Roman Catholic priest
- Abram Smith (died 1930), African American lynching victim
- Abram Trigg (born 1750), American farmer and politician
[edit] People with the surname Abram
- Darren Abram, English rugby league coach
- David Abram (born 1957), American philosopher and ecologist
- Felicity Abram (born 1986), Australian triathlete
- Fletcher Abram (born 1950), American handball player
- Ido Abram (born 1940), Indonesian academic
- Jacques Abram (1915–1998), American classical pianist
- John Abram (born 1959), Canadian composer
- Lester Abram (born 1983), American basketball player
- Michael "Mad Mick" Abram (born 1966), attempted to kill George Harrison on December 30, 1999
- Morris Berthold Abram (1918-2000), American lawyer, civil rights activist, and academic
- Norm Abram (born 1950), American carpenter
[edit] Variant forms
- Abraham (Avraham, Avrohom, also Avrohum, Avrohim, Avruhom, Avrihom, Avruhum), list of people
- Avram (Avrom, Avrum)
- Abramson, Abramsson
- Abramov, and Abramowicz (Abramovich, Abramowitz), etc. (Slavic, Russianised form)
- Abramczyk (surname)
- Abromaitis, Abrameit, Abromeit (Baltic forms)
- Bram, Brams, Brahm, Brahms, etc
- Abiram, another Hebrew-origin given name
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