Petachia
Petachja is the name of the following people:
- Petachja (Levite) , one of the Jewish returnees from Babylon, who had to cast his foreign wife at the behest of Ezra (Ezra 10:23)
- Petachja from Regensburg (Petachia von Regensburg, Petachja ben Jacob from Regensburg), Jewish traveler of the Middle Ages
- Karpel Lippe (actually Nathan Petachja; 1830–1915), doctor in Jassy, Romania, and Zionist