# Auerbach (surname)

Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Another variant is Aberbach. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a town or village called Auerbach. Notable people with this surname include the following:
* Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi
* Abraham Dov Auerbach [he] (1926–2008), Israeli rabbi
* Abraham Dov Auerbach (Tiberias) [he] (1935–2021), Israeli rabbi
* Alan J. Auerbach (born 1951), American economist
* Alexander Auerbach [de] (born 1988), German handball player
* Alexander Andreevich Auerbach [ru] (1844–1916), Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist
* Alfred Auerbach [de] (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 [de] (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 [de] (1855–1940), German physician
* Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German Orthodox rabbi
* Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
* Chaim Auerbach [he] (1839–?), Polish rabbi
* Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), Israeli rabbi
* Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
* Christopher Auerbach-Brown [de] (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 [he] (1914–2003), Israeli military man and businessman
* Elizaveta Borisovna Auerbach [ru] (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 [he] (1892-1973), Yiddish writer, poet, editor and translator
* Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-born American scholar of literature
* Felix Auerbach (1856–1933), German physicist
* Frank Auerbach (1931–2024), German-born British painter
* Friedrich Auerbach (1870–1925), German chemist
* Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
* Gerhard Auerbach [de], German football player
* Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
* Herbert S. Auerbach (1882–1945), Jewish businessman and politician
* Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
* Ilya Auerbach (also known as Ilya Averbakh), Russian Jewish filmmaker
* Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with a related name ("someone from a meadow brook")
* Isaac Auerbach (architect) [de] (1827–1875), German architect
* Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies
* Yitzhak Auerbach [he] (1877–1951), Israeli rabbi
* Itzhak Itzik Auerbach [he] (1846-?), Polish rabbi
* Ivan Bogdanovich Auerbach [ru] (1815–1867), Russian geologist and mineralogist, professor
* Jacob Auerbach (1810–1887), German educator and writer
* Jake Auerbach (born 1958), British documentary film maker
* Jerold Auerbach (born 1936), American historian
* John Auerbach [he] (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 [de] (born 1933), German politician
* Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician
* Leopold Auerbach (jurist) [de] (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 [de] (1840–1882), German merchant, jeweler and poet
* Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach (1882–1941), Polish classical philologist
* Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist
* Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
* Menachem Nata Auerbach [he] (1858–1930), Rabbi in the Land of Israel
* Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620–1689), Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator
* Neil Auerbach (born 1958), private equity investor
* Nikolai Konstantinovich Auerbach [ru] (1892–1930), Soviet scientist, archaeologist, local historian
* Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
* Paul Auerbach (1951–2021), American physician who wrote about wilderness medicine
* Philipp Auerbach [de] (1906–1952), Head of the Bavarian State Compensation Office
* Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach
* Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
* Rokhl Auerbakh (1903–1976), Polish-Israeli writer and Holocaust scholar
* Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
* Siegmund Auerbach [de] (1866–1923), German neurologist
* Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American historian better known as James S. Allen
* Solomon Heymann Auerbach (died 1836), Hebrew scholar and translator
* Stephen Auerbach, American filmmaker
* Stevanne Auerbach (1938–2022), also known as Dr. Toy, American child development expert
* Tauba Auerbach (born 1981), visual artist
* Taylor Auerbach (born 1991), Australian journalist and winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat
* Thomas Auerbach [de] (1947–2020), civil rights activist in the GDR
* Walter Auerbach [de] (1905–1975), German politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
* Wilfried Auerbach (born 1960), Austrian rower
* Willi Auerbach (born 1980), German illusionist
* Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
* Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022), Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name
* Eitan Auerbach(born 2002),Camp Hasc division head