Auerbach
Auerbach, a German language generic toponym coming from Aue + Bach, meaning "floodmeadow brook", can refer to:
Places
In Austria
In Germany
- Auerbach, Erzgebirgskreis, in the Erzgebirgskreis district, Saxony
- Auerbach (Albtal), a part of Karlsbad in the Karlsruhe district
- Auerbach (Allgäu), a part of Stetten, Bavaria in the Unterallgäu district
- Auerbach (Bauland), a part of Elztal in the Neckar-Odenwald district
- Auerbach (Bensheim), a part of Bensheim in the Bergstraße district
- Auerbach (Horgau), a part of Horgau in the Augsburg district
- Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, in the Amberg-Sulzbach district
- Auerbach, Lower Bavaria, in the Deggendorf district
- Auerbach (Vogtland), in the Vogtlandkreis district, Saxony
Persons named Auerbach
- Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
- Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 18th century
- Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
- Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish writer
- Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
- Dan Auerbach (born 1956), American Director of Photography
- Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American-Jewish guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
- Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
- Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
- Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-Jewish philologist
- Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
- Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
- Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
- Larry Auerbach (born 1923), iconic American television director
- Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German anatomist (see Auerbach's plexus below)
- Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Russian composer, pianist and poet.
- Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
- Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
- Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
- Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, famous Jewish Rabbi from Jerusalem
- Sol Auerbach (1906-1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
- Stevanne Auerbach (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
- Yuri Averbakh (born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster
Other
- Auerbach Castle, one of several dramatic castles along the Bergstraße in southern Hesse, Germany
- Auerbachs Keller, a historic restaurant in Leipzig, made famous by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
- Auerbach's plexus, a plexus of sympathetic nerve fibers