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Shapiro is a traditionally Ashkenazi Jewish surname derived from the German town known today as Speyer. Another meaning to the name is from the Hebrew word שפיר, meaning good, or pretty. Thus, the family is a play on the name of the town, and the hebrew word. The Jews took the name when they expelled. Since the name derives from an area, not all Shapiros are related, rather, they come from a common area within Germany.
People named Shapiro include:
- Adam Shapiro, American activist
- Alex Shapiro, American composer
- Arthur K. Shapiro, psychiatrist and expert on the Tourette syndrome(1923-1995)
- Ben Shapiro, conservative American political columnist
- Bernard Shapiro, academic, civil servant
- Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist
- Carol Harris-Shapiro, Reconstructionist rabbi
- Chaim Elazar Shapiro, rabbi
- Charles S. Shapiro, American diplomat
- Christian Shapiro, American writer
- Darin Shapiro, American wakeboarder
- David Shapiro, American poet
- Ehud Shapiro, scientist
- Florence Shapiro, American politician
- Garry Shapiro, engineer, psychonaut
- Harold T. Shapiro, American university president
- Harvey Shapiro
- Helen Shapiro, British singer
- Ian Shapiro
- Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro, mathematician
- Irwin Shapiro (Irwin I. Shapiro)
- James Shapiro, director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the University of Alberta
- James S. Shapiro, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and non-fiction author
- Jeff Shapiro
- Jeffrey Shapiro
- Jeremy Shapiro
- Jeremy J. Shapiro
- Jim Shapiro, lawyer
- Jim Shapiro, musician (Veruca Salt)
- Joel Shapiro
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Justine Shapiro
- Karl Jay Shapiro, United States poet
- Leonard Schapiro, British historian
- Linda Hopkins Shapiro
- Mark Shapiro, general manager of the Cleveland Indians baseball team
- Meir Shapiro, Orthodox rabbi
- Mendel Shapiro
- Meyer Shapiro
- Michael Shapiro
- Michael G. Shapiro
- Michael J. Shapiro
- Neal Shapiro
- Neil Shapiro
- Norman Shapiro, mathematician
- Paul Shapiro
- Rashi Shapiro, Orthodox Rabbi, Jewish Folk-Rock Artist, Psychologist
- Refael Shapiro, Orthodox rabbi
- Robert Shapiro, celebrity defense lawyer
- Robert J. Shapiro, economist
- Sam Shapiro
- Saul Shapiro
- Sidney Shapiro
- Stanley J. Shapiro
- Steve Shapiro
- Stewart Shapiro, philosopher
- Sumner Shapiro, Former US Director of Naval Intelligence, August 1978 - August 1982
- Ted Shapiro
- Theodore Shapiro
- William Shapiro, noted government attorney
There are also a number of variant spellings of this name, generally with the same pronunciation:
- Shapira
- Anita Shapira
- Rabbi Avraham Shapira
- David Shapira
- Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira
- Moses Shapira
- Moses Wilhelm Shapira
- Schapira
A number of other names have been derived from Shapiro:
- Edward Sapir (although there is a possibility of Sapphirstein = sapphire)
- Szapiro
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"Shapiro"