Levin (surname)

Levin is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname derived from the tribe of Levi, whose descendants the Levites had distinctive duties in the Temple period.

It may also be a transliteration without diacritics of the Russian surname Лёвин (Lyovin).

People with the name "Levin" (and East Slavic feminine variant Levina) include:

People

A–I

• A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Adam K. Levin, former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and businessman in consumer credit-related businesses
• Adam Levin, fiction author
• Alan Levin (business), American businessmen, CFO of drug maker Pfizer
• Alan Levin (filmmaker) (1926–2006), American filmmaker and journalist
• Alan Levin (Internet governance), South African computer scientist and Internet activist
• Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Levin (1871–1929), Russian chess player
• Alter Levin (1883–1933), Hebrew writer and poet
• Andy Levin (born 1960), US Democratic Representative from Michigan; son of Sander and nephew of Carl
• Arnold Levin, New Yorker cartoonist
• Aubrey Levin, psychiatrist and head of The Aversion Project
• Bengt Levin (1958–2020), Swedish orienteering competitor
• Benjamin Levin (born 1988), American record producer and songwriter known professionally as Benny Blanco
• Bernard Levin, (1928–2004), British writer and broadcaster
• Beth Levin (linguist), American linguist
• Beth Levin (musician), American pianist
• Bobby Levin, American bridge player
• Burton Levin (1930 – 2016), American diplomat, former Ambassador to Burma
• Camille Levin (born 1990), American soccer player
• Carl Levin (1934–2021), US Democratic Senator from Michigan; brother of Sander Levin, cousin of Charles Levin and uncle of Andy Levin
• Charles Levin (actor) (1949–2019), American actor
• Charles Levin (judge) (1926–2020), American jurist; cousin of Carl and Sander Levin
• Corey Levin (born 1994), American football player
• Daniel Levin (attorney) (active 2004–2005), Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Justice Department
• Daniel Levin (writer) (born c. 1980), American attorney and novelist
• David L. Levin (born 1949), American politician from Missouri
• David Levin (businessman) (born 1962), British businessman
• David Levin (born 1999), Israeli ice hockey player
• David Levin (singer), American singer-songwriter
• David N. Levin (1948–2017), American balloonist
• David P. Levin (born 1958), American producer, director, writer and editor
• Diane Levin (born 1947), American author and educator
• Diane Levin, American author and educator
• Elinor Levin (born 1987), American politician
• Eyal Levin (born 1986), Israeli Olympic sailor
• Ezra G. Levin, American lawyer
• Fred Levin (1937–2021), American lawyer
• Gabe Levin (born 1994), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Gerald M. Levin (born 1939), American businessman with Time Warner
• Gilbert Levin, American engineer
• Hanoch Levin (1943–1999), Israeli writer and theater director
• Harold Levin, American violist, composer, and conductor
• Harry Levin (1912–1994), American literary critic
• Harvey Levin, TV and movie producer
• Helen Phillips Levin, (1924–1985) disability rights activist and philanthropist
• Hjördis Levin (born 1930), Swedish historian and author
• Ingeborg Levin, German geoscientist and climatologist
• Ira Levin (1929–2007), American novelist, playwright and songwriter

J–Z

• Jack Levin, professor at Northeastern University and sociologist
• Janice H. Levin (1913–2001), American philanthropist and art collector from New York City
• Janna Levin, theoretical cosmologist
• Jennifer Levin (1968–1986), murder victim in New York City's Central Park
• Jill Levin (born 1961), American bridge player
• Joe Levin, American lawyer
• Jon Levin (born 1966), physicist
• Jonathan Levin (economist) (born 1972), American economist and academic
• Jonathan Levin (footballer), Mexican footballer
• Jonathan Levin (teacher) (1966–1997), American murder victim
• Josef Lhévinne (1874–1944), Russian pianist
• Kenneth Levin (born 1944), American psychiatrist and author
• Leonid Levin (born 1948), Russian-born computer scientist
• Lev Levin (1870–1938) Physician, born Odessa, executed during Stalin's purges
• Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), first Jewish Representative to the U.S. Congress
• Maks Levin (1981–2022), Ukrainian photojournalist killed in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Marc Levin, Jewish American filmmaker
• Mark Levin (director) (born 1966), American director and screenwriter
• Mark Levin (born 1957), American conservative radio host, lawyer, author, and political commentator who served in the Reagan administration
• Meyer Levin (1905–1981), U.S. novelist
• Michael Levin (philosopher), professor of philosophy at the City University of New York
• Michael Levin (biologist), professor of biology at Tufts University
• Michael Graubart Levin (born 1958), American author
• Mike Levin (born 1978), California Democratic politician
• Murray Levin (1927–1999), political science professor at Boston University
• Nathaniel Levin (1818–1903), New Zealand businessman and politician
• Neil David Levin (1954–2001), former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the September 11 attacks
• Nora Levin (1916–1989), American Holocaust historian
• Petra Levin, American microbiologist
• Philip J. Levin (c. 1909–1971), American real estate developer and investor
• Rick Levin (born 1947), American economist, president of Yale University
• Rob Levin (1955–2006), founder of the freenode IRC network
• Robert D. Levin (born 1947), U.S. composer and musicologist
• Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist) (1912–1996), Norwegian pianist and composer
• Robert Levin (writer) (born 1939), American fiction writer
• Sander M. Levin (born 1931), US Democratic Representative from Michigan; brother of Carl, cousin of Charles and father of Andy
• Savannah Levin (born 1995), American soccer player
• Simon A. Levin, theoretical ecologist, professor of biology at Princeton University
• Sofia Levin, Australian food journalist
• Susan Bass Levin, New Jersey, US politician
• Tatyana Levina (born 1977), Russian sprinter
• Theodore Levin (1897–1970), U.S. federal jurist
• Tony Levin (born 1946), U.S. bass player
• Vladimir Levin (hacker), Russian mathematician and alleged criminal hacker
• Vladimir Levin (historian), Israeli historian
• Walter Levin (1924–2017), German-born violinist, founder member of the LaSalle Quartet
• William Levin (1845–1893), New Zealand businessman and politician
• Yariv Levin (born 1969), Israeli MK and Deputy Prime Minister
• Yuval Levin, member of White House domestic policy staff
• Zara Levina (1906–1976), Ukrainian composer

Fictional characters

• Kevin Levin, protagonist/antagonist from the television series Ben 10"
• Konstantin Levin, a protagonist in Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina
• Patti Levin, character in The Leftovers
• Jack Levin, a character in the racing video game series F-Zero

See also

• Lavine
• Levene
• Levi
• Levi (surname)
• Levin (given name)
• Levina
• Levine
• Lewin
• Lieven
• Lewinsky
• All pages with titles beginning with Levin
• All pages with titles containing Levin