Lifshitz

Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz).

The surname has many variants, including:, , Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz (Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, Lipschutz (Lipschütz), Lipshutz, Lüpschütz; Libschitz; Livshits; Livshitz; Lifszyc, Lipszyc.

Notable people with the surname include:


 * Asaf Lifshitz (born 1942), Israeli sculptor
 * Chava Lifshitz (1936–2005), Austrian-Israeli chemist
 * Dovid Lifshitz (1906–1993), Suvalker Rav, taught at Yeshiva University
 * Rabbi Eliezer Meir Lifshitz (1879–1946), for whom the Lifshitz College of Education was named
 * Evgeny Lifshitz (1915–1985), Soviet physicist
 * Ilya Lifshitz (1917–1982), Soviet physicist (brother of Evgeny)
 * J.D. Lifshitz (born 1992), American film director
 * Miguel Lifschitz (1955–2021), Argentine politician, former mayor of the city of Rosario, Santa Fe
 * Mikhail Lifshitz (1905–1983), Soviet literary critic and aesthetics philosopher
 * Mosze Lifszyc (Aleksander Ford, 1908–1980), Polish film director
 * Nechama Lifshitz (1927–2017), Soviet–Israeli singer
 * Ofer Lifschitz (born 1958), chairman of Brit Olam party, Israel
 * Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifshitz 1939), American fashion designer and business executive
 * Sébastien Lifshitz (born 1968), French screenwriter and director
 * Vladimir Lifschitz (born 1947), Soviet-American computer scientist
 * Yaron Lifschitz (born 1970), Australian theatre director most notable for his involvement in the circus arts