Melamed (surname)

Melamed is a Hebrew surname. "Melamed" translates to "teacher" in the Hebrew language and came into different languages in different spellings, e.g. Malamud, Malamed, Melamid, etc.

Some variants of the spelling should not be confused with "Malamute" or "Malemute".

Those with the surname include:


 * Abraham Melamed, former member of Knesset from National Religious Party
 * Douglas Melamed, American legal scholar
 * Fred Melamed, American actor and writer
 * Guy Melamed, Israeli soccer defender
 * Leo Melamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and executive in the field of global derivatives
 * Rabbi Meir Melamed, financier to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain in the house of Arbarbanel during the Jewish Inquisition in 1492
 * Tatiana Melamed, Ukrainian and German chess grandmaster
 * Vince Melamed, American keyboardist and songwriter
 * Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Israeli-American philosopher
 * Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, the rosh yeshiva of the Beit El yeshiva in Beit El