Auerbach (surname)

Auerbach and Averbuch is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a meadow-brook. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi
• Abraham Dov Auerbach (1926-2008), Israeli rabbi
• Abraham Dov Auerbach (Tiberias) (born 1935), Israeli rabbi
• Alan J. Auerbach (born 1951), American economist
• Alexander Auerbach (born 1988), German handball player
• Alexander Andreevich Auerbach (1844-1916), Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist
• Alfred Auerbach (1873-1954), German actor and writer
• Arnold Auerbach (disambiguation), multiple people
• Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
• Artie Auerbach (1903–1957), American comedian, press photographer
• Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
• Baruch Auerbach (1793-1864), German-Jewish educator
• Beatrice Fox Auerbach (1887–1968), philanthropist, president and director of G. Fox & Co. from 1938 to 1959
• Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
• Benjamin Auerbach (1855-1940), German physician
• Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German rabbi and one of the most prominent leaders of modern Orthodox Judaism
• Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
• Chaim Auerbach (1839-?), Polish rabbi
• Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883-1954), Israeli rabbi
• Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
• Christopher Auerbach-Brown (born 1970), American composer and music educator
• Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach (1900-1997), German musicologist and author
• Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
• Dathan Auerbach, author of the novel Penpal
• David Auerbach, American writer with a background in software engineering
• Doron Aurbach (born 1952), Israeli electrochemist, materials and surface scientist
• Eldad Auerbach (1914-2003), Israeli military man and businessman
• Elizaveta Borisovna Auerbach (1912-1995), Soviet actress of theater and cinema, pop, writer
• Ella Auerbach, (1900-1999), one of the first female German lawyers
• Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
• Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
• Ephraim Auerbach (1892-1973), Yiddish writer, poet, editor and translator
• Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-born American scholar of literature
• Ezriel Auerbach (born 1937), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek
• Felix Auerbach (1856–1933), German physicist
• Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
• Friedrich Auerbach (1870–1925), German chemist. He was the son of anatomist Leopold Auerbach and the brother of physicist Felix Auerbach. He was the father of geneticist Charlotte Auerbach
• Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
• Gerhard Auerbach, German football player
• Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
• Herbert S. Auerbach (1882–1945), prominent Jewish businessman in Salt Lake City and also a member of the Utah House of Representatives
• Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
• Ilya Auerbach (also known as Ilya Averbakh), Russian Jewish film maker often known by the Russianized version of the name
• Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with essentially the same name (meaning "someone from a meadow brook")
• Isaac Auerbach (1827-1875), German architect
• Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies, holder of 15 patents, founding president of the International Federation for Information Processing (1960–1965), a member of the National Academy of Science, an executive at the Burroughs Corporation and a developer of first computers at Sperry Univac
• Yitzhak Auerbach (1877-1951), Israeli rabbi
• Itzhak Itzik Auerbach (1846-?), Polish rabbi
• Ivan Bogdanovich Auerbach (1815-1867), Russian geologist and mineralogist, professor
• Jake Auerbach (born 1958), British film maker specialising in documentary subjects. Though his films have ranged across the cultural spectrum he is best known for his portraits of artists both contemporary and historical
• Jerold Auerbach, American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College
• John Auerbach (1922-2002), Israeli writer in the English
• Johann Gottfried Auerbach (1697–1753), Austrian painter and etcher
• Johann Karl Auerbach (1723–1780s), Austrian painter
• Joseph Danziger Auerbach, Yiddish writer
• Larry Auerbach (1923-2014), American television director and National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America
• Leonore Auerbach (born 1933), German politician
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician
• Leopold Auerbach (Jurist) (1847-1925), German jurist and historian
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
• Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967), American artist
• Ludwig Auerbach (1840-1882), German merchant, jeweler and poet
• Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach (1882–1941), Polish classical philologist of Jewish background
• Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist known for his research of Cnidospora
• Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Menachem Nata Auerbach (1858-1930), Rabbi in the Land of Israel
• Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620–1689), Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator born in Vienna at the beginning of the 17th century
• Neil Auerbach (born 1958), private equity investor known for his leadership role in clean energy investment
• Nikolai Konstantinovich Auerbach (1892-1930), Soviet scientist, archaeologist, local historian, public figure
• Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
• Paul Auerbach (1951–2021), American physician and author in the discipline, wilderness medicine
• Philipp Auerbach (1906-1952), Head of the Bavarian State Compensation Office
• Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
• Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
• Rokhl Auerbakh (1903–1976), Polish-Israeli writer, essayist, historian, and Holocaust scholar
• Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910-1995), Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel
• Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
• Siegmund Auerbach (1866-1923), German neurologist
• Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
• Solomon Heymann Auerbach (died 1836), Hebrew scholar and translator
• Stephen Auerbach, Santa Monica, California based American filmmaker best known for two documentary films that aired on A+E Networks in 2015: "The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case," and "O.J. Speaks: The Lost Deposition Tapes."
• Stevanne Auerbach (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
• Tauba Auerbach (born 1981), visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists' books, photography, and sculpture, lives and works in New York
• Taylor Auerbach (born 1991), Australian journalist who rose to prominence after becoming the youngest ever winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat game show, a spinoff version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Thomas Auerbach (born 1947), Civil rights activist in the GDR and until 2009 employee of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi documents
• Walter Auerbach (1905-1975), German social-democratic politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
• Wilfried Auerbach (1960), Austrian rower
• Willi Auerbach (born 1980), German illusionist, magician
• Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
• Yuri Averbakh (born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name

• A prominent family of rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
  • Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named after Rabbi Auerbach
  • Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
  • Shmuel Auerbach (1931-2018), prominent Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel
  • Ezriel Auerbach (or Azriel Auerbach) (born 1937), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek. He is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, two renowned poskim. He was considered Rabbi Elyashiv's right-hand man in matters of halakha