Ashkenazi (surname)
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Ashkenazi is a surname, and may refer to:
- Bezalel Ashkenazi, rabbi and Talmud scholar of the 16th century
- Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi, rabbi, Talmudist, and physician
- Gabi Ashkenazi, Chief of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff
- Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, rabbi and author of the Tseno Ureno
- Israel Sarug Ashkenazi, pupil of Isaac Luria
- Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor
- Malkiel Ashkenazi, Sephardic rabbi in Hebron
- Meir Ashkenazi, envoy of the Khan of Crimea
- Mordecai ben Hillel Ashkenazi, German rabbi and legal authority
- Moses Ashkenazi, also known as Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
- Avraham Ashkenazi, Chacham Bashi of Jerusalem
- Motti Ashkenazi, Israeli reserve captain
- Tzvi Ashkenazi, rabbi of Amsterdam
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian conductor and pianist
- Yitzhak Ashkenazi, also called Isaac Luria, rabbi and mystic, founder of an important branch of Kabbalah