HaKohen

HaKohen (Hebrew: "The priest") is a Jewish given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:


 * Nathan HaKohen Adler (1741–1800), German kabbalist
 * Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (1843–1926), rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe
 * Shneur Chaim HaKohen Gutnick (1921–2003), Orthodox Jewish Chabad rabbi in Australia
 * Aaron ben Jacob ben David Hakohen Provençal rabbi, living at Narbonne, France who suffered the expulsion of the Jews in 1306
 * Abraham ben Shabbetai Hakohen (1670–1729), Jewish physician, rabbi, religious philosopher and poet on Zante
 * Akhiyahu HaKohen (fl. 910 CE), rabbi and Hebrew-language grammarian in Tiberias
 * Alexandri HaKohen (died 1349), prominent 14th century rabbinic authority born in Erfurt, Germany
 * David Hakohen, late thirteenth-century Hebrew liturgical poet from Avignon
 * Isaac Hakohen (1013–1103), Moroccan Talmudist and posek
 * Ishmael ben Elisha Hakohen, leader of the first generation of the Tannaim
 * Joseph Hakohen (1496–1575), historian and physician of the 16th century
 * Malachi ben Jacob HaKohen (1695–1772), renowned Talmudist, methodologist, Kaballists
 * Matityahu ben Yochanan HaKohen (died 165 BC), Jewish priest with a role in the Jewish revolt against the Syrian Greeks
 * Shabbatai HaKohen (1621–1662), 17th Century talmudist and halakhist
 * Shlomo HaKohen (Vilna) (1828–1905), the famed Av Beis Din and Posek of Vilna
 * Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, is a major Orthodox yeshiva in the United States based in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York
 * Yisroel Meir HaKohen (1839–1933), influential rabbi of the Musar movement, a Halakhist, posek, and ethicist
 * Yonatan Hakohen (1135–1210), leading French tosafist
 * Zadok HaKohen of Lublin, a significant Jewish thinker and Hasidic leader
 * Abraham HaKohen Kalisker (1741–1810), prominent Chassidic Rabbi of the 3rd generation of Chassidic leaders
 * Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin (1798–1870), of Aleksander, served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim
 * Shlomo HaKohen of Lissa (18th century), rabbi and biblical commentator
 * Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir, German rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE from Mainz
 * Isaac HaKohen Rapoport, 18th-century rabbi who lived in Palestine; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi Hezekiah da Silva
 * Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick (1841–1912), orthodox Russian rabbi and Rosh yeshivah
 * Mnachem Hakohen Risikoff (1866–1960), orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, prolific author of scholarly works
 * Mordechai HaKohen of Safed (1523–1598), scholar and kabbalist who flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century in Safed
 * Aaron HaKohen ibn Sargado, tenth-century AD gaon (Jewish religious leader) in Pumbedita, Babylonia
 * Sholom HaKohen Schwadron (1912–1997), Haredi rabbi and orator
 * Meir HaKohen Shiff (1608–1644), German rabbi and Talmud scholar