Horwitz
Appearance
Horwitz is a surname, current among Ashkenazi Jews. It is derived from the Yiddish pronunciation of the name of the town of Hořovice in Bohemia. For detailed historical background see the Horowitz page .
Notable people with the surname include:
- Arnold Horwitz (later Arnold Horween), American football player for Harvard Crimson and in the NFL
- Bella Horwitz, 18th century Bohemian writer
- Bernhard Horwitz (1807-1885), German chess player
- Brian Horwitz (born 1982), American major league baseball outfielder
- Jacob H. Horwitz (1892–1992), American businessman, philanthropist and fashion innovator.
- Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903 – 1952), a.k.a. Curly Howard, of the Three Stooges
- David Horwitz (born 1994), Australian rugby union player
- Kai Horwitz (born 1998), Chilean Olympic alpine skier
- Maksymilian Horwitz, aka Henryk Walecki (1877–1937), leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement
- Morton Horwitz (born 1938), legal historian and law professor
- Moses Harry Horwitz, a.k.a. Moe Howard, of the Three Stooges
- Phineas Jonathan Horwitz (1822–1904), former Surgeon General of the United States Navy
- Ralph Horwitz (later "Ralph Horween), American football player for Harvard Crimson and in the NFL
- Ronald Horwitz (born 1934), known as Ronald Harwood
- Samuel Horwitz, a.k.a. Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges
- Steven Horwitz (born 1964), American economist
- Susan B. Horwitz 1955 – 2014), American computer scientist
- Susan Band Horwitz, American biochemist
- Tony Horwitz (1958–2019), American journalist
- William Horwitz (1918 – 2006), analytical chemist, formerly at the US Food and Drug Administration
- Yosef Yozel Horwitz, rabbi
See also
- Horwitz Publications, an Australian publisher
- Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- Horowitz
- Horovitz
- Horvitz
- Hurwitz