Feigin
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Feigin (Feygin, Feigins, Fejgin, Faygin) is a Jewish surname. It is a matronymic surname derived from the Yiddish female name Feig, Feige, Feiga.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexandra Feigin (born 2002), Bulgarian figure skater
- Anatol Fejgin (1909–2002), Polish communist
- Ralph Feigin, (1938–2008), American pediatrician
- Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski (born Fejgin; 1935–2012), Polish journalist
- Dov Feigin, (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor
- Leo Feigin, also known as Aleksei Leonidov, disk jockey and musical producer, founder of Leo Records
- Mark Feygin, (born 1971), Russian human rights activist
- Moisey Feigin, (1904–2008), Russian artist
- Movsas Feigins, (1908–1950), Latvian chess master
See also
[edit]- Fagin, a fictional antisemitic character who appears in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist