Meir

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Meir (meˈʕir) is a Jewish given name ( Hebrew 'enlightened'; 'shining', 'radiant'), which is also common as a family name. The name Meir wear

as a first name

  • Meir Amit (1921–2009), Israeli general, 1963–1968 director of the Israeli secret service Mossad
  • Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), 19th century Jewish scholar, rabbi and Ashkenazi chief rabbi
  • Meir Bar-Ilan (1880–1949), Orthodox rabbi and a leader of religious Zionism
  • Meir Dagan (1945–2016), Israeli general and head of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad (2002–2011)
  • Meir Dizengoff (1861–1936), Jewish engineer and businessman, co-founder and first, long-time mayor of Tel Aviv
  • Meir Lubor Dohnal (* 1938), Czech screenwriter, dramaturge, director, actor and university professor
  • Meir Eshel (* 1964; † 1993), maiden name of the Israeli artist Absalon
  • Meir Jelin (1910–2000), Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish and Lithuanian
  • Meir Kahane (1932–1990), rabbi, founder of the Kach movement; radical nationalist and Zionist
  • Meir Katzenellenbogen (* around 1482, † 1565; also called Meir of Padua, Maharam Padua), Jewish scholar, rabbi of Padua and Venice
  • Meir Kessler (* 1961), Grand Rabbi in Modi'in Illit
  • Meir Lublin (1558–1616), Polish rabbi and Talmudist
  • Meir von Rothenburg (actually Meir ben Baruch von Rothenburg, also MaHaRam; * around 1215, † 1293), rabbi and Talmudic scholar
  • Meir ben Simon ha-Me'ili , Halachist who worked in Narbonne in the 13th century and a sharp critic of the emerging Kabbalah
  • Meir Shalev (* 1948), Israeli writer
  • Meir Wiener (historian) (1819–1880), German teacher and historian
  • Meir Wiener (literary scholar) (1893–1941), Polish-Austrian writer and literary scholar
  • Meir Zorea (1923–1995), General of the Israel Defense Forces and Member of the Knesset

as a middle name

as a surname

  • Eric Van Meir (* 1968), Belgian national football player (the family name is Van Meir )
  • Gerhard Meir , German hairdresser and author
  • Golda Meir (originally Golda Meirson, née Mabowitsch; 1898–1978), Israeli politician
  • Jacob Meir (1857–1939), Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Jerusalem
  • Jessica Meir (* 1977), American-Swedish astronaut
  • Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meïr (1286 – after 1328), Provencal Jewish author and translator; see Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
  • Rabbi Meir (Hebrew Enlightener, Er 13b, also: Meascha or miracle worker ), Tannaite of the 4th generation (2nd century)
  • Schlomo Jisra'el Ben Me'ir (1910–1971), Israeli lawyer, rabbi and politician
  • Sharone Meir (* 1965), Israeli cameraman
  • Yehuda ben Meir (also Yehuda ha-Kohen or Judah von Mainz), German rabbi, Talmud teacher and traveler of the late 10th and early 11th centuries
  • Yehuda Ben-Meir (* 1939), Israeli politician, psychologist and lawyer


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