Temkin

Temkin, Tyomkin, or Tiomkin (feminine: Temkina, Tyomkina, Temkina, or Tiomkina) are different transliterations of a Russian-language surname Тёмкин/Тёмкина.

In at least in one case – Elizabeth Temkina – the surname is the truncation of the surname Potemkin, which was sometimes done when naming illegitimate children of aristocrats in the Russian Empire.

Notable people with the surname include:


 * Aaron Temkin Beck (1921–2021), American psychiatrist
 * Ann Temkin, American art curator
 * Binyamin Temkin (born 1945), Israeli politician
 * Brad Temkin, American photographer
 * Deborah Temkin (born 1985), American child development scientist
 * Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979), Russian and American film composer and conductor
 * Dimitri Tyomkin (born 1977), Canadian chess grandmaster
 * Elizabeth Temkina (1774–1854), alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin
 * Jonathan Tiomkin (born 1979), American Olympic foil fencer
 * Larry Temkin, American philosopher
 * Merle Temkin, American painter, sculptor and installation artist
 * Michal Temkin Martinez, American linguist
 * Nancy Temkin, American statistician
 * Owsei Temkin (1902–2002), Russian-born American medical historian
 * Moshik Temkin, American historian
 * Richard J. Temkin (born 1945), American physicist
 * Todd Temkin (born 1964), American poet