Greenberg
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| Greenberg | |
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| Family name | |
| Meaning | green hill |
| Region of origin | Eastern Europe, Pale of Settlement |
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Greenberg is a surname common in North America, with anglicized spelling of the German Grünberg (green mountain) or the Jewish Ashkenazi Yiddish Grinberg, an artificial surname.[1]
Notable people with the surname Greenberg include:
[edit] A–C
- Adam Greenberg (baseball), American major league baseball outfielder
- Adam Greenberg (cinematographer), cinematographer
- Andrew Greenberg, game designer
- Andrew C. Greenberg, video game designer
- Bernard Greenberg, programmer and computer scientist
- Bryan Greenberg, American actor
- Brooke Greenberg, Child mystery
- Carl Greenberg, American journalist
- Clement Greenberg, American art critic
[edit] D–G
- Dan Greenberg, American politician and Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
- Daniel Greenberg (educator), American columnist and educator
- Daniel Greenberg (game designer), role-playing and video game designer
- Evan G. Greenberg, president and CEO of ACE Limited
- Gerald B. Greenberg (film editor: Academy Award for Film Editing#1970s, Apocalypse Now)
[edit] H–I
- Hank Greenberg, US Major League Hall of Fame baseball player
- Harold Greenberg, Canadian film producer
- Hayim Greenberg (1889-1953), US Judaism thinker
- Irving Greenberg, Modern Orthodox rabbi and author
[edit] J–L
- Jack Greenberg (McDonald's), president and CEO of McDonald's Corporation.
- Jack Greenberg (lawyer), American civil rights attorney
- Jay Greenberg, American child prodigy composer
- Jeffrey W. Greenberg, former chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies
- Jill Greenberg, American photographer
- Joanne Greenberg, American writer
- Joseph Greenberg, American linguist
- Joshua Greenberg, digital strategist for New York Public Library (NYPL)
[edit] M–R
- Marc L. Greenberg, American scholar of Slavic languages (sl)
- Martin Greenberg, American science fiction anthologist and founder of Gnome Press
- Martin H. Greenberg, American speculative fiction anthologist
- Maurice Greenberg (d. by 1985), Russian-American founder of Coleco
- Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman and former chairman and CEO of American International Group
- Michael Greenberg (economist), British economic historian who worked in the Roosevelt administration
- Mike Greenberg, American television news anchor and radio host for ESPN
- Moshe Greenberg, Biblical scholar at the Hebrew University
- Noah Greenberg, (1919-1966), American choral conductor
- Oscar W. Greenberg, American physicist at University of Maryland, College Park
- Richard Greenberg, American playwright
- Robert Greenberg, American composer, pianist, and musicologist
- Roman Greenberg, Israeli heavyweight boxer
[edit] S–Z
- Seymour Greenberg, tennis player
- Shawn Greenberg, Manitoba judge
- Stan Greenberg, American political strategist
- Steven Greenberg (musician), American musician
- Steven Greenberg (rabbi), American rabbi, educator and author
- Steve Greenberg (record producer), noted for "discovering" popular musical acts such as Hanson, Baha Men and Joss Stone
[edit] See also
- Greenberg (film), a 2010 film
- Greenburg
- Grünberg (also Grunberg, Grynberg)
- Grinberg
[edit] References
- ^ Beider, Alexander (1993). A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. Teaneck: Avotaynu, pages 53–57.
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