Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Notable people with this surname include the following:

Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi (1926–2008), Israeli rabbi (1935–2021), Israeli rabbi Alan J. Auerbach (born 1951), American economist (born 1988), German handball player (1844–1916), Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist (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 (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 (1855–1940), German physician Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German Orthodox rabbi Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author (1839–?), Polish rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), Israeli rabbi Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist (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 (1914–2003), Israeli military man and businessman (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 (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 , 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") (1827–1875), German architect Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies (1877–1951), Israeli rabbi (1846-?), Polish rabbi (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 (1922–2002), Israeli writer in 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 (born 1933), German politician Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician (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 (1840–1882), German merchant, jeweler and poet Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach, Polish classical philologist Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (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 (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 (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 Shmuel Auerbach (1931–2018), Israeli rabbi Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer (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 (1947–2020), civil rights activist in the GDR (1905–1975), German politician and resistance fighter against Nazism Wilfried Auerbach (1960–2025), 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 A prominent family of Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem, including: Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), rosh yeshiva Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), for whom the Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named Shmuel Auerbach (1931–2018), Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi Ezriel Auerbach (or Azriel Auerbach) (born 1937), Haredi rabbi, son of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

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