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The surname Levin or Levina is of non-Jewish Russian origin, associated with the Russian name Lev. However, it was adopted by many Russian Jews, especially those claiming descent from the Biblical Levites. Due to the immigration of many Jewish and Russian people out of the country during the communist revolution and during World War 2, the name is now borne by many worldwide, including the well-known people listed below:
- Alan Levin, an American businessmen, CFO of Pfizer, Inc.
- Alan Levin, a South African internet governor
- Alan Levin (1926-2006), an American filmmaker and journalist
- Anna Levin, an American cosmologist
- Arnold Levin, a New Yorker cartoonist
- Bernard Levin (1928–2004), British writer and broadcaster
- Bernice Levin, a Soviet Union spy in America
- Boris Levin, a mathematician
- Burton Levin, an American diplomat, former Ambassador to Burma
- Carl Levin (born 1934), U.S. Democratic Senator from Michigan
- Charles Leonard Levin (born 1926), a Michigan jurist
- David Levin (born 1962), a British businessman
- David Levin, American singer-songwriter
- Diane Levin, an American author and educator
- Ezra G. Levin, an American lawyer
- Fred Levin (born 1937), U.S. plaintiffs' attorney in the state of Florida
- Gerald M. Levin (born 1939), U.S. businessman with Time Warner
- Gilbert Levin, an American engineer
- Hanoch Levin (1943–1999), Israeli writer and theater director
- Harold Levin, an American violist, composer, and conductor
- Harry Levin (1912–1994), U.S. literary critic
- Harvey Levin, a TV and movie producer
- Janna Levin, a theoretical cosmologist
- Ilya O. Levin, a security and cryptography specialist
- Ira Levin (born 1929), U.S. novelist, playwright and songwriter
- Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University
- Jennifer Levin (1978–1986), a murder victim in New York City's Central Park
- Joe Levin, an American lawyer
- Jonathan Levin (1966–1997), a public school teacher at the Bronx and a murder victim
- Joseph Levin, an American lawyer, real estate developer and politician
- Leonid Levin (born 1948), Russian-born computer scientist
- Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), first Jewish Representative to the U.S. Congress
- Marc Levin, a Jewish filmmaker
- Mark Levin (born 1957), U.S. conservative radio talk show host
- Meyer Levin (1905–1981), U.S. novelist
- Michael Levin, a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York
- Neil Levin, former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Noel Arnold Levin, (1930-1986), attorney and labor law expert.
- Nora Levin (1916-1989), a Holocaust historian
- Richard B. Levin (born 1951), an American attorney and co-author of the Bankruptcy Code and the Bankruptcy Code.
- Richard Charles Levin (born 1947), an American economist, president of Yale University
- Roland Levin (born 1957), a Latvian photographer
- Robert Levin (1912–1996), Norwegian pianist and composer
- Robert D. Levin (born 1947), U.S. composer and musicologist
- Sander M. Levin (born 1931), U.S. Democratic Representative from Michigan
- Simon A. Levin, theoretical ecologist, Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University
- Susan Bass Levin, a politician in New Jersey
- Tatyana Levina (born 1977), a Russian sprinter
- Theodore Levin (1897–1970), a U.S. federal jurist
- Tony Levin (born 1946), U.S. bass player
- Vladimir Levin, Russian mathematician and alleged criminal hacker
- Yuval Levin, a member of the White House domestic policy staff
- Zara A. Levina (1906-1976), a Ukrainian composer
[edit] Fictional characters
- Konstantin Dmitrich Levin, the protagonist in Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina
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[edit] In Language
- In Middle English, Levin means lightning.
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