Rappaport (surname)

Rappaport is an Ashkenazi surname, with the individuals bearing it being descendants of the Rabbinic Kohenic Rappaport family. Variants of the name include Rapaport, Rapa Porto, Rappeport, Rappoport and Rapoport.

Rappaport

• Alfred Rappaport (diplomat) (1868–1946), Austrian diplomat and writer
• Alfred Rappaport (economist) (b. 1932), American economist
• Andrew S. Rappaport (b. 1957), American Silicon Valley venture capitalist
• Assaf Rappaport, Israeli billionaire entrepreneur
• Ben Rappaport (b. 1986), American television actor
• Bruce Rappaport (1922–2010), Israeli international banker and financier
• Daniel Rappaport (b. 1970), American film producer
• David Rappaport (1951–1990), English actor
• David Rappaport (designer) (1914–2010), American fashion manufacturer, designer, artist
• Edward Rappaport (b. ca. 1957), acting director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center
• Emil Stanisław Rappaport (1877–1965), Polish judge
• Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), Austrian-born screenwriter and film director (known as Gerbert Rappaport in USSR)
• Helen Rappaport (b. 1947), English actress, author, historian
• Jerome Lyle Rappaport (1927–2021), American attorney and civic figure in Massachusetts
• Jill Rappaport (b. 1964), American author, journalist, television personality
• Jim Rappaport (b. 1956), American real estate developer in Massachusetts
• Kurt Rappaport (b. c. 1958), American real estate developer
• Mark Rappaport (b. c. 1942), American film director
• Mark Rappaport (creature effects artist) (b. 1954), American special-effects specialist
• Mat Rappaport (b. 1971), American artist, curator, educator
• Ray Rappaport (1922–2010), American scientist in cell biology
• Roy Rappaport (1926–1997), American anthropologist
• Ruth Rappaport (1923–2010), German-born American librarian
• Samuel Rappaport (1932–2016), American politician in Pennsylvania
• Saul Rappaport (b. c. 1940), American physicist
• Sheeri Rappaport (b. 1977), American television actress
• S. An-sky, Yiddish writer (born Solomon Zangwill Rappaport)
• Summer Rappaport (b. 1991), American triathlete
• Theodore Rappaport (b. 1960), American electrical engineer
• Uriel Rappaport (1935–2019), Israeli historian

Rappoport

• Boris Rappoport, Russian football coach
• Charles Rappoport, Russian naturalized French politician and intellectual
• Julius Rappoport, Russian silversmith
• Kseniya (Xenia) Rappoport, Russian actress
• Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky)—a Russian Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist.

Rapaport

• Alexandra Rapaport (b. 1971), Swedish film and stage actress
• Amir Rapaport (b. 1970), Israeli journalist, media personality
• David Rapaport (psychologist) (1911–1960), Hungarian-born American psychologist
• Eldar Rapaport (b. c. 1970), Israeli film director
• Martin Rapaport (b. 1952), Belgian-American diamond dealer
• Matilda Rapaport (1986-2016), Swedish skier
• Michael Rapaport (b. 1970), American actor, media personality
• Rosemary Rapaport (1918–2011), English musical educator
• Rudolf Ray Rapaport (1891–1984), Latvian-born artist
• William J. Rapaport (b. c. 1945), American educator

Rapoport

• Aaron Rapoport (b. 1954), American photographer
• Abraham Rapoport (Schrenzel) (1584–1651), Polish Talmudic scholar
• Adam Rapoport (b. 1969), former editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit magazine
• Alek Rapoport (1933–1997), Ukrainian-born U.S. artist
• Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022) Israel-born professor of quantitative psychology and interactive decision-making behavior
• Amos Rapoport (b. 1929), Polish-born professor of architecture
• Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), Russian-born U.S. mathematical psychologist and game theorist
• Bernard Rapoport (1917–2012), American businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist
• Chaim Rapoport (b. 1963), British rabbi, author, educator
• Dan Rapoport (b. ca. 1964), Latvian-born American international financier and philanthropist
• David C. Rapoport (b. 1929), American political scientist, specializing in terrorism
• Eda Rapoport (1890–1968), Latvian-born American composer, musical conducator, pianist
• Eduardo H. Rapoport (1927–2017), Argentinian ecologist
• Henry Rapoport (1918–2002), American chemist
• I. C. Rapoport (b. 1937), American photojournalist and screenwriter
• Ian Rapoport (b. 1980), U.S. sports journalist, media personality
• Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017), Cameroon-born German pediatrician and neonatologist
• Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport, 18th century rabbi
• Leo Port (Rapoport; changed on arrival to Australia) (1922–1978), Polish-born Lord Mayor of Sydney 1975–1978
• Lev Pavlovich Rapoport (1920–2000), Russian nuclear physicist
• Louis Rapoport (1942–1991), U.S.-born Israeli newspaper editor
• Michael Rapoport (b. 1948), German mathematician
• Miles S. Rapoport (b. 1949), American politician and nonprofit executive
• Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987), Polish-born sculptor
• Paul Rapoport (1940–1987), American attorney, gay-rights advocate
• Paul Rapoport (music researcher) (b. 1948), Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
• Rhona Rapoport (1927–2011), South African social scientist
• Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), Russian-born German physician, biochemist, and communist
• Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (1786–1867), Galician Jewish rabbi and scholar
• Sonya Rapoport (1923–2015), American artist, computer-artistry pioneer
• Tom Rapoport (b. 1947), German-born U.S. cell biologist at Harvard Medical School
• Vladimir Rapoport (1907–1975), Soviet cinematographer

See also

• Rapoport's rule, an ecological hypothesis
• 16180 Rapoport, a main-belt asteroid