Auerbach (surname)

Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Another variant is Aberbach. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a town or village called Auerbach. Notable people with this surname include the following:


 * Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi
 * Abraham Dov Auerbach (1926–2008), Israeli rabbi
 * Abraham Dov Auerbach (Tiberias) (1935–2021), Israeli rabbi
 * Alan J. Auerbach (born 1951), American economist
 * Alexander Auerbach (born 1988), German handball player
 * Alexander Andreevich Auerbach (1844–1916), Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist
 * Alfred Auerbach (1873–1954), German actor and writer
 * Arnold Auerbach (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
 * Artie Auerbach (1903–1957), American comedian, press photographer
 * Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
 * Baruch Auerbach (1793–1864), German-Jewish educator
 * Beatrice Fox Auerbach (1887–1968), philanthropist, president and director of G. Fox & Co. from 1938 to 1959
 * Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
 * Benjamin Auerbach (1855–1940), German physician
 * Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German Orthodox rabbi
 * Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
 * Chaim Auerbach (1839–?), Polish rabbi
 * Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), Israeli rabbi
 * Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
 * Christopher Auerbach-Brown (born 1970), American composer and music educator
 * Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach (1900–1997), German musicologist and author
 * Dan Auerbach (born 1979), 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 (born 1952), Israeli electrochemist, materials and surface scientist
 * Eldad Auerbach (1914–2003), Israeli military man and businessman
 * Elizaveta Borisovna Auerbach (1912–1995), Soviet actress of theater and cinema, pop, writer
 * Ella Auerbach (1900–1999), one of the first female German lawyers
 * Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
 * Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
 * Ephraim Auerbach (1892-1973), Yiddish writer, poet, editor and translator
 * Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-born American scholar of literature
 * Felix Auerbach (1856–1933), German physicist
 * Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
 * Friedrich Auerbach (1870–1925), German chemist
 * Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
 * Gerhard Auerbach, German football player
 * Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
 * Herbert S. Auerbach (1882–1945), Jewish businessman and politician
 * Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
 * Ilya Auerbach (also known as Ilya Averbakh), Russian Jewish filmmaker
 * Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with a related name ("someone from a meadow brook")
 * Isaac Auerbach (architect) (1827–1875), German architect
 * Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies
 * Yitzhak Auerbach (1877–1951), Israeli rabbi
 * Itzhak Itzik Auerbach (1846-?), Polish rabbi
 * Ivan Bogdanovich Auerbach (1815–1867), Russian geologist and mineralogist, professor
 * Jacob Auerbach (1810–1887), German educator and writer
 * Jake Auerbach (born 1958), British documentary film maker
 * Jerold Auerbach (born 1936), American historian
 * John Auerbach (1922–2002), Israeli writer in the English
 * Johann Gottfried Auerbach (1697–1753), Austrian painter and etcher
 * Johann Karl Auerbach (1723–1780s), Austrian painter
 * Joseph Danziger Auerbach, Yiddish writer
 * Larry Auerbach (1923–2014), American television director and National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America
 * Leonore Auerbach (born 1933), German politician
 * Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician
 * Leopold Auerbach (jurist) (1847–1925), German jurist and historian
 * Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
 * Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967), American artist
 * Ludwig Auerbach (1840–1882), German merchant, jeweler and poet
 * Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach (1882–1941), Polish classical philologist
 * Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist
 * Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
 * Menachem Nata Auerbach (1858–1930), Rabbi in the Land of Israel
 * Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620–1689), Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator
 * Neil Auerbach (born 1958), private equity investor
 * Nikolai Konstantinovich Auerbach (1892–1930), Soviet scientist, archaeologist, local historian
 * Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
 * Paul Auerbach (1951–2021), American physician who wrote about wilderness medicine
 * Philipp Auerbach (1906–1952), Head of the Bavarian State Compensation Office
 * Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach
 * Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
 * Rokhl Auerbakh (1903–1976), Polish-Israeli writer and Holocaust scholar
 * Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
 * Siegmund Auerbach (1866–1923), German neurologist
 * Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American historian better known as James S. Allen
 * Solomon Heymann Auerbach (died 1836), Hebrew scholar and translator
 * Stephen Auerbach, American filmmaker
 * Stevanne Auerbach (1938–2022), also known as Dr. Toy, American child development expert
 * Tauba Auerbach (born 1981), visual artist
 * Taylor Auerbach (born 1991), Australian journalist and winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat
 * Thomas Auerbach (1947–2020), civil rights activist in the GDR
 * Walter Auerbach (1905–1975), German politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
 * Wilfried Auerbach (born 1960), Austrian rower
 * Willi Auerbach (born 1980), German illusionist
 * Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
 * Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022), Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name


 * A prominent family of Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
 * Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), rosh yeshiva
 * Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), for whom the Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named
 * Shmuel Auerbach (1931-2018), Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi
 * Ezriel Auerbach (or Azriel Auerbach) (born 1937), Haredi rabbi, son of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.