Lipschitz
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Lipschitz or Lipshitz is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz).
The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz (Lifschitz), Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lipshits, Lopshits, Lipschutz (Lipschütz), Lipshutz, Lüpschütz; Libschitz; Livshits; Lifszyc, Lipszyc. It is commonly Anglicized as Lipton, and less commonly as Lipington.
The surname may refer to:
People
- Daniel Lipšic, former Minister of Interior in Slovakia
- Israel Lipschitz (1782–1860), rabbi and biblical scholar
- Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973), Cubist sculptor
- Lippy Lipshitz (1903–1980), South African sculptor, painter and printmaker
- Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), German mathematician
- Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher, born as Imre Lipschitz
- Hal Linden, American actor, and television personality, born Harold Lipschitz
Fictional characters
- Dr. Werner P. Lipschitz, fictional character of the Rugrats series