Sirota
Sirota is a Slavic last name. In Russian, "сирота" means "orphan". The following people share this last name:
- Leo Sirota (1855–1965), a Ukrainian-born pianist
- Beate Sirota (1923–2012), a former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society; daughter of Leo Sirota
- Gershon Sirota (1874–1943), a Jewish-Ukrainian cantor (chazzan)
- David Sirota (born November 2, 1975 ), an American radio host, author and journalist
Fiction
- Sirota, an earth-bound demon in the TV series The Dresden Files
Sirotta
- Milton Sirotta (born about 1929), who coined the word "googol", a number represented in base-ten by a one with a hundred zeroes after it. Later, another mathematician coined the term "googolplex", which represents ten to the power of a googol, a substantially larger number.