Auerbach (surname)
Auerbach and Averbuch is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow brook. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a meadow brook. Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Abraham Auerbach, German rabbi
- , Israeli rabbi
- , Israeli rabbi
- , German handball player
- , Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist
- , German actor and writer
- Arnold Auerbach, multiple people
- Arnold M. Auerbach, American screenwriter
- Artie Auerbach, American comedian, press photographer
- Auerbach, a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
- , German-Jewish educator
- Beatrice Fox Auerbach, philanthropist, president and director of G. Fox & Co. from 1938 to 1959
- Ben Auerbach, American professional basketball player
- , German physician
- Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach, German rabbi and one of the most prominent leaders of modern Orthodox Judaism
- Berthold Auerbach, German-Jewish poet and author
- ,Polish rabbi
- Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach, Israeli rabbi
- Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish geneticist
- , American composer and music educator
- , German musicologist and author
- Dan Auerbach, American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
- Dathan Auerbach, author of the novel Penpal
- David Auerbach, American writer with a background in software engineering
- Doron Aurbach, Israeli electrochemist, materials and surface scientist
- , Israeli military man and businessman
- , Soviet actress of theater and cinema, pop, writer
- Ella Auerbach,, one of the first female German lawyers
- Ellen Auerbach, German-born American photographer
- Erich Auerbach , Czech-Jewish photographer
- , Yiddish writer, poet, editor and translator
- Erich Auerbach, German-born American scholar of literature
- Ezriel Auerbach, prominent Haredi rabbi and posek
- Felix Auerbach, German physicist
- Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
- Friedrich Auerbach, German chemist. He was the son of anatomist Leopold Auerbach and the brother of physicist Felix Auerbach. He was the father of geneticist Charlotte Auerbach
- Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
- , German football player
- Heinrich Auerbach , physician and senator of Leipzig
- Herbert S. Auerbach, prominent Jewish businessman in Salt Lake City and also a member of the Utah House of Representatives
- Herman Auerbach, Polish mathematician
- Ilya Auerbach, Russian Jewish film maker often known by the Russianized version of the name
- Inge Auerbacher, German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with essentially the same name
- ,German architect
- Isaac L. Auerbach, early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies, holder of 15 patents, founding president of the International Federation for Information Processing, a member of the National Academy of Science, an executive at the Burroughs Corporation and a developer of first computers at Sperry Univac
- , Israeli rabbi
- , Polish rabbi
- , Russian geologist and mineralogist, professor
- Jake Auerbach, British film maker specialising in documentary subjects. Though his films have ranged across the cultural spectrum he is best known for his portraits of artists both contemporary and historical
- Jerold Auerbach, American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College
- ,Israeli writer in the English
- Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter and etcher
- Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter
- Larry Auerbach, American television director and National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America
- , German politician
- Leopold Auerbach, German physician
- , German jurist and historian
- Lera Auerbach, Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
- Lisa Anne Auerbach, American artist
- , German merchant, jeweler and poet
- Marian Auerbach, also known as Majer Auerbach, Polish classical philologist of Jewish background
- Max Auerbach, German zoologist known for his research of Cnidospora
- Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
- , Rabbi in the Land of Israel
- Menahem Mendel Auerbach, Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator born in Vienna at the beginning of the 17th century
- Neil Auerbach, private equity investor known for his leadership role in clean energy investment
- , Soviet scientist, archaeologist, local historian, public figure
- Oscar Auerbach, Jewish-American pathologist
- Paul Auerbach, American physician and author in the discipline, wilderness medicine
- , Head of the Bavarian State Compensation Office
- Red Auerbach, Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
- Rick Auerbach, American baseball player
- Rokhl Auerbakh, Polish-Israeli writer, essayist, historian, and Holocaust scholar
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel
- Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
- , German neurologist
- Sol Auerbach, American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
- Stephen Auerbach, Santa Monica, California based American filmmaker best known for two documentary films that aired on A+E Networks in 2015: "The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case," and "O.J. Speaks: The Lost Deposition Tapes."
- Stevanne Auerbach, also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
- Tauba Auerbach, visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists' books, photography, and sculpture, lives and works in New York
- Taylor Auerbach, Australian journalist who rose to prominence after becoming the youngest ever winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat game show, a spinoff version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- , Civil rights activist in the GDR and until 2009 employee of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi documents
- , German social-democratic politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
- Wilfried Auerbach, Austrian rower
- Yael Averbuch, American soccer player
- Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name
- A prominent family of rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
- *Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named after Rabbi Auerbach
- *Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
- *Shmuel Auerbach, prominent Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel
- *Ezriel Auerbach , prominent Haredi rabbi and posek. He is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, two renowned poskim. He was considered Rabbi Elyashiv's right-hand man in matters of halakha