Vainshtein

Vainshtein (originally an Eastern European spelling variant of Weinstein) is a German and Yiddish surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Gil Vainshtein (born 1984), Canadian soccer player
 * Lev Vainshtein (1916–2004), Soviet sport shooter
 * Samuil Vainshtein (1894–1942), Russian chess player
 * Sev’yan I. Vainshtein (1926–2008), Russian anthropologist and historian
 * Arkady Vainshtein (born 1942), Russian-American theoretical physicist
 * Leonid Vainshtein (1945–1994), Azerbaijani-Jew composer
 * Boris Vainshtein (1921–1996), Russian crystallographer