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'''Horowitz''' ({{langx|he|הוֹרוֹביץ}}, {{langx|yi|האָראָװיץ}}) is a [[Levite|Levitical]] [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] surname deriving from the [[Horowitz family]], though it can also be a non-Jewish surname as well. The name is derived from the town of [[Hořovice]], [[Bohemia]]. Other variants of the name include Harowitz, Harowicz, [[Harrwitz]], Harwitz, [[Horovitz]], [[Horvitz]], Horwicz, [[Horwitz]], Hourwitz, [[Hurewicz]], [[Hurwicz]], [[Hurwitz]], Gerovich, Gurovich, [[Gurevich]], [[Gurvich]], Gourevitch, Gurewitsch, Gorovits, Gorovitz, Orowitz and Urwitz.<ref>{{cite web |title=Origin of Horowitz Name |url=http://www.shlomo.horwitzfam.org/Origin_of_Horowitz_Name.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031210213628/http://www.shlomo.horwitzfam.org/Origin_of_Horowitz_Name.htm |archive-date=2003-12-10}}</ref>

==List of people with the surname Horowitz==
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===Rabbis===
*[[Aaron HaLevi ben Moses of Staroselye]]
*[[Abraham Horowitz]], 16th-century rabbi
*[[Isaiah Horowitz]] (1555–1630), Prague-born rabbi of Germany, Austria, Prague and Palestine, Kabbalist, and author
*[[Levi Yitzchak Horowitz]] (1921–2009), Bostoner rabbi
*[[Mayer Alter Horowitz]] (born 1946), Bostoner rabbi in Har Nof
*[[Moses ha-Levi Hurwitz]] (d. 1820), Lithuanian rabbi
*[[Moshe Meshullam Horowitz Halevy|Moshe Meshullam Halevy Horowitz]] (1832–1894), Galician rabbi
*[[Naftali Yehuda Horowitz]], Bostoner rabbi of Boston
*[[Pinchas Horowitz]] (c.1731–1805), German rabbi and Talmudist
*[[Pinchas David Horowitz]] (1877–1931), First Bostoner rabbi, 1876–1941
*[[Shabbethai Horowitz]] (1590–1660), Volhynia-born Austrian rabbi and Talmudist, son of Isaiah Horowitz.
*[[Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz]] (1565–1619), rabbi and nephew of Isaiah Horowitz
*[[Shmelke of Nikolsburg]] (1726–1778), Galician-born Landesrabbiner of Moravia and kabbalist
*Shmuel Horowitz (1903–1973), compiler and publisher of [[Chayey Moharan|Breslov books]]
*[[Yidele Horowitz]] (1905–1989), Hasidic rebbe of Dzikov
*[[Yosef Yozel Horwitz|Yosef Yoizel Hurwitz]] (1847-1919), Belarusian rosh yeshiva, Alter of Novardok

===Other people===
*[[Adam Horowitz (journalist)]], co-editor of Mondoweiss
*[[Adam Horowitz]] (born 1971), American TV show writer
*[[Alexandre Horowitz]] (1904–1982), Dutch technical engineer and inventor
*[[Andrew Horowitz]] (born 1983), American songwriter, producer and member of the band Tally Hall
*[[Anthony Horowitz]] (born 1955), British author and television scriptwriter
*[[Ariel Horowitz]] (born 1970), Israeli singer-songwriter
*[[Barry Horowitz]] (born 1959), American wrestler
*[[Ben Horowitz]] (born 1966), technology entrepreneur and investor
*[[Bernhard Horwitz]] (1807–1885), German and British chess master, one of the Berlin Pleiades
*[[Curly Howard]] (1903–1952), American comedian, birth name Jerome Horwitz
*[[Charles Horowitz]] (1905–1989), justice of the Washington Supreme Court
*[[Daniel Horowitz]] (born 1954), legal analyst and attorney
*[[David Horowitz]] (1939–2025), American writer and social activist
*[[David Horowitz (author)]] (1903–2002), founder of the United Israel World Union
*[[David Horowitz (consumer advocate)]] (1937–2019), American consumer advocate
*[[David Horowitz (economist)]] (1899–1979), first governor of the Bank of Israel
*[[Donald Horowitz (New Jersey lawyer)]] (born 1936), American lawyer
*[[Donald L. Horowitz]] (born 1939), American professor of law and political science
*[[Eugene Maurice Orowitz]] (1936–1991), American actor, better known by stage name Michael Landon
*[[Harry Horowitz]] (1889–1914), American underworld figure and a leader of the Lenox Avenue Gang in New York City
*[[Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz]] (born 1942), professor emerita of American studies and history at Smith College
*[[Herbert E. Horowitz]] (1930–2019), American diplomat
*[[Isaac Horowitz]] (1920–2005), scientist in automatic control theory, developed quantitative feedback theory
*[[Israel Albert Horowitz]] (1907–1973), American chess master
*[[Jerome Horwitz]] (1919–2012), American scientist
*[[Jordan Horowitz]] (born 1980), American film producer
*[[Joseph Horowitz]] (born 1948), American musicologist and cultural historian
*[[Leah Horowitz (runner)|Leah Horowitz]] (1933–56), Israeli hurdler
*[[Michael C. Horowitz]] (born 1978), American writer and political scientist
*[[Michael D. Horowitz]], American author
*[[Michael E. Horowitz]] (born 1962), American lawyer and Inspector General of the US Department of Justice
*[[Michael J. Horowitz]] (born 1964), American electrical engineer
*[[Moses Horowitz]] (1844–1910), Yiddish playwright
*[[Moe Howard]] (1897–1975), American comedian, birth name Moses Harry Horwitz
*[[Nitzan Horowitz]] (born 1965), Israeli journalist and politician
*[[Norman Horowitz]] (1915–2005), American geneticist and space biologist
*[[Paul Horowitz]] (born 1942), American physicist and electrical engineer
*[[Risa Horowitz]] (born 1970), Canadian visual and media artist
*[[Ryszard Horowitz]] (born 1939), Polish-born American photographer
*[[Scott J. Horowitz]] (born 1957), American astronaut
*{{ill|Shalom Horowitz|he|שלום הורוביץ}} (1881–1956), Israeli lawyer, former head of [[S. Horowitz & Co.]], Israeli law firm
*[[Shemp Howard]] (1895–1955), American actor, birth name Samuel Horwitz
*[[Shmuel Hurwitz]] (1901–1999), Israeli agronomist
* [[Slawa Duldig|Slawa Horowitz Duldig]] (1901–1975), Austrian-Australian inventor, artist, interior designer and teacher
*[[Tamara Horowitz]] (1950–2000), American philosopher
*[[Vladimir Horowitz]] (1903–1989), American classical pianist
*[[Wayne Horowitz]], archeologist
*[[Winona Ryder]] (born 1971), American actress, birth name Winona Horowitz
*[[Jonty Hurwitz]] (born 1969), South African artist and entrepreneur

== See also ==
* [[Horovitz]]
* [[Horvitz]]
* [[Gurvich]]

== References ==
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