Sorkin
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Sorkin (Template:Lang-ru), Slavic feminine form: Sorkina is a matronymic Russian Jewish surname meaning "son of Sorka", where Sorka is a Yiddish diminutive of Sarah. Variants: Surkin, Syrkin.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
- Andrew Ross Sorkin (born 1977), American journalist
- Arleen Sorkin (1956–2023), American actress
- David Sorkin, American historian
- Ina Sorkina (born 1971), Belarusian historian
- Ira Sorkin (born 1943), American attorney
- Ihor Sorkin (born 1967), chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine]
- Leonard Sorkin (1916–1985), American violinist
- Michael Sorkin (1948–2020), American architect
- Naum Sorkin (1899–1980), Soviet general
- Rafael Sorkin (born 1945), American physicist
- Roman Sorkin (born 1996), Israeli basketball player