Sapira

Sapira, Şapira  and Šapira are variants of the Jewish Ashkenazi surname Shapiro.

Notable people with the surname include:

Sapira

 * Emmanuel Sapira (1900–1943), Romanian-born Belgian chess master
 * Mircea Sapira, participant at 1937 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team of Romania
 * Sylvia Sapira, (1908–1981) American harpsichordist

Șapira

 * Avraham Șapira, deputy of Guttman Landau, president of the Chișinău Ghetto Committee

Šapira

 * Jankelis Šapira, member of the Vilnius Soviet of Workers Deputies, 1919
 * Judal Šapira, killed under Stalin (1937 mass execution of Belarusians)
 * Chaimas Nachmanas Šapira or Haim Nachman Shapira (1895-1943), Semitologist and Zionist, lived mainly in Lithuania
 * Leiba Šapira, member of the Lithuanian Central Bureau of the Young Communist League of Lithuania and Belorussia (1919-1920)
 * Zalmenas Šapira, secretary of the communist Lithuanian People's Aid Union