The surname Kovarski, Kovarsky, Kowarski, Kowarsky (Russian-language feminine: Kovarskaya, Polish-language feminine: Kowarska, Romanian feminine: Kovarskaia) is typically associated with people of Jewish origin.A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire by Alexander Beider (1993) It is a toponymic surname associated with one of the places named Kowary.Евгений Водолазкин, "Дом и остров, или Инструмент языка", , p. 185 It may be either transliterated from Russian language (spelled with 'v') or from Polish (spelled with 'w').
The surname may refer to:
Alexander Kovarski (born 1944), Russian chemist (1904–1974), Soviet Moldovan Jewish agronomist Brigitta P. Kovarskaia (1930–1998), Soviet Moldovan physicist, computer scientist, historian Felicjan Kowarski (1890–1948), Polish painter and sculptor Kovarska, pen name of Corinne Chochem (1905–1990), Jewish American choreographer and painter Lee Kovarsky, American legal scholar Lew Kowarski (1907–1979), French physicist Ori Kowarsky, Canadian filmmaker Ryan and Dan Kowarsky, Canadian musical duo Simon Kovarski, birth name of Simon Kovar (1890–1970), bassoonist (1929–2000) Soviet Moldovan Jewish physicist
See also Kirk Karwoski, the surname was mangled during emigration
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