Löw

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Löw (or Loew) is a surname of German or Yiddish origin. Another romanization of the Yiddish name לייב is Leib. It may refer to:

People

  • Benjamin Wolf Löw (1775–1851), a Polish-Hungarian rabbi
  • Franklin M. Loew (1939–2003), a veterinarian
  • Hermann Loew (1807–1879), a German entomologist
  • Immanuel Löw (1854–1944), a Hungarian rabbi, scholar and politician
  • Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759-1849), an Austrian merchant
  • Jacques Loew (1908–1999), a French priest and labor activist
  • Joachim Löw (born 1960), a German former footballer, current head coach of the national football team of Germany
  • Judah Loew ben Bezalel (c. 1520–1609), the "Maharal of Prague", purported creator of the Golem of Prague
  • Maj-Lis Lööw (born 1936), Swedish politician
  • Marcus Loew, an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry
  • Mattias Löw (born 1970), a Swedish film director
  • Michael Loew (1907–1985), an abstract expressionist artist
  • Moritz Löw (Lőw Móric) (1841–1900), a Hungarian-German astronomer
  • Oscar Loew (1844–1941), a German chemist
  • Peter Oliver Loew (born 1967), German historian
  • Samuel Löw (1720–1806), a Czech Talmudist
  • Samuel Löw Brill, a Hungarian rabbi and Talmud scholar
  • Zsolt Lőw (born 1979), a Hungarian footballer

See also

  • Loews (disambiguation)
  • Loewe (disambiguation)
  • Löwe (disambiguation)
  • Loeb (disambiguation)
Surname list
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Family names derived from the word "lion"
Germanic
Romance
  • Latin: Leo
  • French: Lion
  • Iberian: Leon, Leão
  • Italian: Leone, Leotta
  • Romanian: Leu
Slavic
  • Lev, Lew, Lvov, Lvovsky
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