Orovitz, Orowitz, Orwitz, Orwicz, Urvitz, Urwitz, Urwicz, Urvits is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, a form of the Yiddish surname "Horowitz", see the latter article about its etymology. Notable people with the surname include: O Abraham Orovitz, birth name of Vincent Sherman, American actor and film director Eugene Maurice Orowitz, birth name of Michael Landon, American actor and filmmaker Richard Joseph Orwitz, birth name of Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator U David Urwitz, Swedish singer and musician Tomás Ocaña Urwitz, Spanish investigative journalist
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