Asher (name)

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This is a list of people named Asher, either as a given name or surname:

• Aaron ben Moses ben Asher (10th century-c.960), Hebrew linguist
• Alexander Asher (1835–1905), Scottish politician
• Allan Asher, Australian public affairs official and activist
• Arthur (Asher) Miller (1915–2005), American playwright and essayist
• Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg, aka Shaagat Aryeh (c.1700-1785), Rabbinical casuist
• Asher Asher (1837–1889), Scottish medicine doctor
• Asher ben Jehiel (1250 or 1259-1328), rabbi and Talmudist
• Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), American architect
• Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886), American painter
• Asher D (disambiguation)
• Asher Gould (1971-), British radio Producer and Presenter
• Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (1856 - 1927), pseudonym Ahad Ha'am, essayist
• Asher Hucklesby, mayor of Luton, Bedfordshire, UK and hat manufacturer
• Asher Karni (1954-), Hungarian-Israeli-South African businessman
• Asher Kirshenbaum (1975-), Israeli entrepreneur
• Asher Lämmlein, German who proclaimed himself a forerunner of the Jewish Messiah in 1502
• Asher Levy, butcher who left Recife, Brazil for New Amsterdam, U.S. in 1654
• Asher Peres (1934-2005), Israeli physicist
• Asher Robbins (1757-1845), United States Senator
• Asher Sims (1990-), British student
• Asher Tarivona Mutsengi (1983-),Zimbabwean human rights activist
• Bahya ben Asher (middle 13th century-1340), rabbi
• Barbara Asher (c.1950-), professional dominatrix
• Hank Asher (c.1951-), businessman
• Herb Asher, university professor
• Iraena Asher (1979-), New Zealand trainee teacher and model, disappeared
• Irving Asher (1903-1985), motion picture producer
• Jack Asher (1916-1991), British cinematographer
• Jacob ben Asher (1270-c.1340), rabbinic authority
• Jane Asher (1946-)m English actress and novelist
• John Mallory Asher (1971-), American actor and director
• Lee Asher (1976-), magician
• Levi Asher, New York, U.S.-based writer and web designer
• Max Asher, drummer of the band Warrant
• Maxine Asher (1930-), researcher and businesswoman
• Michael Asher (artist), an American conceptual artist
• Michael Asher (explorer), a British explorer and author
• Neal Asher (1961-), English science fiction writer
• Neil Asher Silberman (1950-), American archaeologist and historian
• Peter Asher (1944-), artist and record producer
• Ralph Asher Alpher (1921-2007), U.S. cosmologist
• Simon A. (Asher) Levin (1941-), American ecologist
• Tony Asher, American lyricist
• William Asher (1921-), American producer, director and writer

See also: Ascher