Levy
Levy , Lévy or Levý is a Jewish family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the Israelite tribe Levi .
variants
Name bearer
A.
- Adolf Magnus-Levy (1865–1955), German internist (research area metabolism)
- Alan Levy (1932-2004), American journalist
- Albert Levy (1862–1922), German social worker
- Alexander Levy (1883–1942), German architect
- Alexandre Levy (1864-1892), Brazilian composer and pianist
- Alfred Lévy (Rabbi) (1840–1919), French Grand Rabbi
- Alfred Levy (politician) (1885–1938), German politician (SPD, USPD, KPD)
- Alfred Johann Levy (1901–1987), German politician (FDP)
- Alicia Levy (1963–2007), American singer and guitarist
- Alphonse Levy (pseudonym Alphonse Müller, Ernst Maurer ; 1838–1917), German publicist
- Alphonse Lévy (1843–1918), French draftsman and caricaturist
- Amy Levy (1861-1889), British author
- Andrea Levy (1956-2019), British author
- Ariel Levy (author) (* 1974), American writer and journalist
- Ariel Levy (actor) (born 1984), Chilean actor
- Armand Lévy (1795–1841), French physician, mineralogist and mathematician
- Arnold Levy (pseudonym Armand Levilliers ; 1893–1978), German businessman and bookseller
- Arthur Lévy (historian) (1847–1931), French historian
- Arthur Levy , real name of Arthur Liebert (1878–1946), German philosopher
- Arthur Levy (Rabbi) (1881–1961), German rabbi
- Artur Levy (1902–1993), Brazilian engineer and industrial manager
- Asser Levy († 1682), settler in Nieuw Nederland
- Assi Levy (* 1969), Israeli actress
- Auguste Michel-Lévy (1844–1911), French petrographer, mineralogist and geologist
- Azriel Levy (* 1934), Israeli mathematician
B.
- Barrington Levy (born 1964), Jamaican musician
- Benny Lévy (1945–2003), French philosopher and publicist, private secretary to Jean-Paul Sartre
- Bernard-Henri Lévy (* 1948), French publicist
- Betty Levy , real name of Bess Brenck-Kalischer (1878–1933), German poet
- Burt Levy (1936–2010), American composer and music teacher
C.
- Carl Levy (1856–1938), see Carl Hagen (banker) , German banker and patron
- Carl Levy (* 1951), British-American political scientist and university professor
- Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy (* 1951), Brazilian art critic and art historian
D.
- Dani Levy (* 1957), Swiss actor, screenwriter and director
- Daniel Levy (football official) (* 1962), British entrepreneur and football official
- Daniel Levy (actor) (* 1983), Canadian film actor and screenwriter
- David Levy (politician) (* 1937), Israeli politician
- David Levy (chess player) (* 1945), Scottish chess master
- David Levy (producer) , film producer
- David Levy (bassist) (* 1960), British bassist
- David A. Levy (* 1953), American lawyer and politician
- David H. Levy (* 1948), Canadian astronomer and science journalist
- DeAndre Levy (born 1987), American football player
- Deborah Levy (* 1959), British writer
- Don Levy (1932–1987), Australian film director and film scholar
- Dorothea Lévy-Hillerich (1938–2015), German trainer for German as a foreign language
E.
- Edmond Levy (1929–1998), Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham (1833-1916), British newspaper publisher
- Else Levy (1891 – after 1942), German doctor
- Emil Levy (1855–1917), German Romanist
- Ernst Levy (physician) (1864-1919), German microbiologist
- Ernst Levy (lawyer) (1881–1968), German lawyer and legal historian
- Ernst Levy (composer) (1895–1981), Swiss composer
- Ernst Levy von Halle (1868–1909), German admiralty and economist
- Erwin Levy (1907–1991), German psychoanalyst
- Eugene Levy (born 1946), Canadian actor and comedian
F.
- Fabien Lévy (* 1968), French composer
- Francine Levy , French artist
- Francois Levy , French rugby athlete
- Frida Levy (1881–1942), German civil rights activist
- Friedrich Levy (1874–1936), German lawyer and politician (SPD)
- Friedrich Levy (1892–1944), also under the name Friedrich Leyden , German geographer and diplomat
- Friedrich Walter Levy (1896–1969), German classical philologist
- Fritz Levy (1901–1982), German cattle dealer, the last Jew from Jever
G
- Gabby Levy (* 1944), Israeli diplomat
- Gabriel Levy (1881–1965), German film producer and film salesman
- General Levy (* 1971), British ragga / jungle singer
- Georges Lévy (politician) (1874–1961), French politician
- Georges Lévy (banker) (1891–1953), French banker and aviator
- Georges Lévy (film architect) (1920 – after 1990), French film architect
- Gerhard Levy (1928–2017), American pharmacologist
- Gershom Levy (1937–2009), Israeli biologist and arachnologist
- Gideon Levy (* 1953), Israeli journalist
H
- Hank Levy (1927–2001), American composer and jazz saxophonist
- Hank Levy (computer scientist) (* 1952), American computer scientist
- Hanna Levy-Hass (1913–2001), Yugoslav author
- Hanni Lévy (1924–2019), Holocaust survivor
- Hans Levy (1911–2005), German resistance fighter, communist, trade unionist and contemporary witness, see Hans Vieregg
- Hans Levy (1916–2011), American entrepreneur and company founder of German origin (1937–1947 exile in Shanghai)
- Harel Levy (* 1978), Israeli tennis player
- Harry Louis Levy (1906–1981), American classical philologist
- Heinrich Levy (1885–1950), German neurologist
- Henri Arthur Levy (1913-2001), American chemist
- Henri Lévy (rabbi) (1883–1942), French rabbi
- Henri Lévy-Bruhl (1884–1964), French legal sociologist
- Henri Léopold Lévy (1840–1904), French painter
- Henry Levy (* 1933), French chef
- Hermann Levy (1881–1949), German economist
- Howard Levy (* 1951), American harmonica player
- Hyman Levy (1889–1975), British mathematician, philosopher and political activist
I.
- Ian Christopher Levy (* 1967), American theologian
- Ian Hideo Levy (* 1950), American translator and writer
- Isaac Lévy (also Georges Lévy ; 1833–1913), photographer, see Léon & Lévy
- Isidor Levy (1852–1929), German journalist and editor-in-chief
- Itamar Levy (* 1956), Hebrew writer
- Itzhak Levy (* 1982), Israeli ice hockey player
J
- Jack Levy (* 1948), American political scientist specializing in international relations
- Jackie Levy (* 1960), Israeli politician
- Jacques Levy (1935–2004), American songwriter, theater director and psychologist
- Jakob Levy (1819–1892), German rabbi and lexicographer
- Jane Levy (* 1989), American actress
- Jean-Bernard Lévy (manager) (born 1955), French manager
- Jean Bernard-Lévy (1897–1940), French football official
- Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (* 1940), French physicist and university professor
- Jean-Pierre Lévy (1911–1996), French resistance fighter
- Jed Levy (* 1958), American jazz musician
- Jefferson Monroe Levy (1852-1924), American politician
- Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (* 1967), American film producer
- Jeremy Levy (born 1965), American actor
- Jiří Levý (1926–1967), Czech historian
- Jitzchak Levy (* 1947), Israeli politician
- Joachim Levy (* 1976), Swiss film director, screenwriter and photographer
- John Levy (1912–2012), American jazz bassist and producer
- Jonathan Levy (* 1982), American basketball player
- Josef Benjamin Levy (1870–1950), German educator, cantor and music writer
- Joseph Moses Levy (1812–1888), English publicist and entrepreneur
- Josephine Levy-Rathenau (1877–1921), German social worker and women's rights activist
- Juan Levy (* 1932), German pianist, conductor and music writer
- Jules Levy (1838–1903), British-American composer and cornetist
- Julien Levy (1906–1981), American gallery owner and art dealer
- Jura Levy (* 1990), Jamaican athlete
- Justine Lévy (* 1974), French writer
K
- Karl Levy (* 1967), Australian author
- Karl Oskar Levy , see Charles Oscar Brink (1907-1994), British classical philologist and university professor of German origin
- Krishna Levy (* 1964), French film composer
- Kurt Levy (1911–1987), German painter, lithographer and illustrator
L.
- Lazare Lévy (1882–1964), French musician
- Len Levy (1921-1999) American football player
- Lou Levy (1928–2001), American jazz musician
- Louis Levy , real name of Ludwig Loewe (1837–1886), German-Jewish entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag
- Louis Levy (screenwriter) (1875-1940), Danish screenwriter for Danish and German silent films
- Louis Levy (film composer) (1894–1957), British composer, film composer and musical director
- Louis Levy, mistakenly associated with the signature LL , see the postcard publisher Léon & Lévy
- Louis A. Levy , birth name of Lou Levy (1928–2001), American jazz musician and pianist
- Lucien Lévy (1892–1965), French engineer and inventor
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857–1939), French philosopher and ethnologist
- Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865–1953), French painter
- Ludwig Levy (1854–1907), German architect, building officer and university professor
- Ludwig Levy-Lenz (1892–1966), German physician and sex reformer
M.
- Marc Levy (* 1961), French writer
- Maria Benvinda Levy , Mozambican politician (FRELIMO) and judge at the Mozambique Supreme Court
- Marion Joseph Levy junior (1918–2002), American sociologist
- Marv Levy (* 1925), American football coach and official
- Marvin Levy (* 1928), American marketing and PR specialist
- Marvin David Levy (1932-2015), American composer
- Maurice Lévy (mathematician) (1838–1910), French mathematician, physicist and engineer
- Maurice Lévy (physicist) (* 1922), French physicist
- Maurice Lévy (entrepreneur) (* 1942), French entrepreneur
- Max Levy (engineer) (1869–1932), German electrical engineer and manufacturer
- Max Levy-Dorn (1863–1929), German radiologist
- Max Levy-Suhl (1876–1947), German neurologist and psychoanalyst
- Maximilian Levy (* 1987), German racing cyclist
- Megan Moulton-Levy (* 1985), American tennis player
- Meyer Levy (1833–1896), German legal scholar and lawyer
- Michael Levy, Baron Levy (* 1944), British politician, entrepreneur and manager
- Michel Lévy (1809–1872), French general physician
- Michel Lévy (bookseller) (1821–1875), French bookseller
- Mike Levy (* 1985), French DJ, musician and music producer, see Gesaffelstein
- Moritz Abraham Levy (1817–1872), German orientalist
- Morris Levy ( Moishe Levy ; 1927–1990), American producer
N
- Neil Levy , Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University
O
- O'Donel Levy (1945-2016), American guitarist
- Orly Levy-Abekasis (* 1973), Israeli politician
- Oscar Levy (1867–1946), German philosopher and author
- Otakar Levý (1896–1946), Czech writer
P
- Paul Levy (1844–1937), French singer and music teacher, see Paul Lhérie
- Paul Levy (railway engineer) (1876–1943), German railway engineer
- Paul Lévy (mathematician) (1886–1971), French mathematician
- Paul Lévy (linguist) (1887–1962), French linguist and historian
- Paul Ernst Levy (1875–1956), German chemist and metallurgical expert
- Peter Levy (cameraman) (* 1955), Australian cameraman
- Peter Levy (presenter) (born 1955), British radio presenter
- Peter B. Levy (* 1956), American historian and university professor
- Pierre Lévy (philosopher) (* 1956), French philosopher
- Pierre Lévy-Corti (1910–1975), French screenwriter
- Pierre G. Lévy (1894–1945), Swiss publisher
R.
- Ralph Levy (1919–2001), American film director and television producer
- Raoul Lévy (1922–1966), Belgian film producer and film director
- Raphaël Lévy (1612–1670), victim of an anti-Semitic judicial murder
- Renée Lévy (1906–1943), French resistance fighter
- Richard S. Levy (* 1940), American historian and anti-Semitism researcher
- Robert Levy (* 1953), American trumpeter, conductor, composer and music teacher
- Roland Alexis Manuel Lévy , known as Roland-Manuel (1891–1966), French music critic and composer
- Ronald Levy (* 1941), American oncologist
- Ronald Levy (athlete) (born 1992), Jamaican hurdler
- Ronny Levy (* 1966), Israeli soccer player and coach
- Rudolf Levy (1875–1944), German expressionist painter
- Ruth Levy-Berlowitz (* 1925), Israeli interpreter
S.
- Samuel Levy (politician) (1876–1953), American lawyer, businessman and politician
- Samuel Levy , birth name of Sammy Lee (choreographer) (1890–1968), American dancer, choreographer and film director
- Samuel Levy (musician) French musician
- Samuel Levy (artist) (* 1978), Belgian painter, active in Luxembourg
- Samuel Salomon Levy (1760–1806), German banker
- Sara Levy (1761-1854), German harpsichordist
- Sarah Levy (journalist) (* 1985), German journalist
- Sarah Levy (actress) (* 1986), Canadian actress
- Sarah Levy (artist) (* 1989), American artist
- Sarah Levy (rugby player) (* 1995), American rugby player
- Sarah Levy-Tanai (1911–2005), Israeli composer and choreographer
- Scott Anthony Levy (born 1964), American wrestler; see Raven (wrestler)
- Sharron Levy (* 1977), Israeli pop singer
- Shawn Levy (* 1967), Canadian-American director, actor and producer
- Shlomo Levy (* 1976), Israeli ice hockey player
- Simone Michel-Lévy (1906–1945), French resistance fighter
- Stacy Levy (* 1960), American sculptor and Land Art artist
- Stanislav Levý (* 1958), Czech football player
- Steven Levy (born 1951), editor of Newsweek
- Stuart Levy , American film editor
- Susanne Levy (1921–2009), Swiss painter, graphic artist, draftsman, sculptor and photographer
T
- Tatiana Salem Levy (* 1979), Brazilian writer
U
- Uriah P. Levy (1792-1862), American naval officer
V
- Václav Levý (1820–1870), Czech sculptor
W.
- Waldemar Levy Cardoso (1900–2009), Brazilian field marshal
- Wilhelm Levy (1894–1944), German doctor (murdered in Auschwitz )
- William Levy (Author) (1939-2019), American writer
- William Levy (actor) (born 1980), Cuban actor
- William Alexander Levy (1909–1997), American architect
- William M. Levy (1827-1882), American politician
Y
- Yasmin Levy (* 1975), Israeli singer
- Yitzhak Isaac Levy (1919–1977), Turkish-Israeli musicologist and composer
- Yvette Lévy (* 1926), French Holocaust survivor
Z
- Ze'ev Levy (1921-2010), Israeli philosopher