Rabinovich or Rabinovitch (Рабино́вич, רבינוביץ), is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz.
People
People bearing the surname include:
- Abraham Rabinovich, American historian and journalist
 - Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943), Russian chess player
 - Adolphe Rabinovitch (1918–1944), American Special Operations Executive agent executed by the Germans in World War II
 - Birth name of Aharon Yariv ( 1920 – 1994), Israeli general and politician
 - Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (born 1945), Russian-born composer
 - Aviva Rabinovich (1927-2007), professor of botany, chief scientist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, environmental activist.
 - Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinovich (1913–1999), Chassidic Rabbi
 - Daniel Rabinovich (1943–2015), Argentine musician and humorist, founding member of Les Luthiers
 - Dina Rabinovitch (1963–2007), British journalist and writer
 - Gérard Rabinovitch, French philosopher and sociologist
 - Gabriel A. Rabinovich (born 1969), Argentine biochemist
 - Frida Schahar-Rabinovich (born 1950), Israeli chess master
 - Ilya Rabinovich (1891–1942), Russian chess player
 - Itamar Rabinovich (born 1942), Israeli politician and president of Tel Aviv University
 - Jack Rabinovitch (1930-2017), Canadian philanthropist
 - Mikhail Rabinovich (born 1941), Russian-American scientist
 - Moshe Leib Rabinovich (born 1940), Munkacs Rebbe
 - Nahum Rabinovich (1928-2020), Israeli rabbi
 - Raquel Rabinovich (born 1929), Argentine artist
 - Robert Rabinovitch, (born 1943), Canadian public servant
 - Roman Rabinovich, Israeli pianist
 - Samuel Rabinovich (1909–1988), Soviet radiolocation engineer
 - Samuel Rabinovitch, (1903–1991), British sculptor, artist, singer and wrestler (also known as Sam Rabin)
 - Sholem Aleichem (born Sholem Yakov/Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich) (1859–1916), Russian-Ukrainian Yiddish writer
 - Vadim Rabinovich (born 1953), Ukrainian gangman and godfather
 - Victor Rabinovitch, Canadian public servant
 
Fictional characters
- Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich, non-existent figure cited in antisemitic works
 - Russian jokes § Rabinovich, stereotypical Russian Jew
 
See also
- Rabinowitz
 - Rabin
 - Rabinow (surname)
 - All pages with titles containing Rabinovich
 
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