Bianchi, a plural of bianco, is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rabinovich or Rabinovitch, is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz.
Molloy or O'Molloy is an Irish surname, anglicised from Ó Maolmhuaidh, maolmhuadh meaning 'Proud Chieftain'. They were part of the southern Uí Néill, the southern branch of the large tribal grouping claiming descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fifth-century king who supposedly kidnapped St Patrick to Ireland. They held power over a large part of what is now County Offaly, where the surname is still very common. A second family were the O Maoil Aodha, 'descendant of the devotee of (St) Aodh', from maol, literally 'bald', a reference to the distinctive tonsure sported by early Irish monks. As well as Molloy, this surname has also been anglicised as Mulloy, Malloy, Maloy, 'Miley' and 'Millea'. The name arose in east Connacht, in the Roscommon/east Galway region, and remains numerous there today.
Bernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine writer and journalist.
Fennell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Halperin is a variation of the Jewish surname Heilprin. Both forms are Southern Yiddish for Heilbrun, that is the German city Heilbronn. The name is sometimes transliterated into the Cyrillic alphabet as Galperin. In Russia the pronunciation of an 'h' was difficult and pronounced as 'g'.
Kieffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Horacio Verbitsky is an Argentine investigative journalist and author with a history as a leftist guerrilla in the Montoneros. In the early 1990s, he reported on a series corruption scandals in the administration of President Carlos Menem, which eventually led to the resignations or firings of many of Menem's ministers. In 1994, he reported on the confessions of naval officer Adolfo Scilingo, documenting torture and executions by the Argentine military during the 1976–83 Dirty War. His books on both the Menem administration and the Scilingo confessions became national bestsellers. As of January 2015 Verbitsky is a Commissioner for the International Commission against the Death Penalty.
Petrone is a surname, and may refer to:
Sastre is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bardach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lobo is a surname found in the Galician, Spanish and Portuguese languages meaning "wolf", and in other languages with other meanings. Notable people with the surname include:
Wierzbicki is a noble Polish family name. It derives form the Polish word wierzba, meaning willow and as a toponym of the village of Wierzbica. The Lithuanian form is Verbickas and the Russian is Verbitsky/Verbitski.
Gallego is a Spanish surname. It is a regional name denoting someone from Galicia. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferrara is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferré is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Posse is a German and Swedish surname. Notable people with the name include:
Dworkin or Dvorkin is a Jewish surname originating from the diminutive Dvorke/Dvorka of the Yiddish form Dvoyre/Dviyra of the Hebrew given name Deborah. In Slavic countries it is strictly masculine, with the feminine counterpart being Dworkina or Dvorkina. Notable people with the surname include:
Groisman, Groysman are the Yiddish-language variants of the surname Grossman, variant transliterations of the Cyrillic spelling Гро́йсман, which comes from the pale of settlement in the region of Bessarabia of the Russian Empire. Notable people with the surname include:
Smirnoff is a Germanization of the Russian-language surname Smirnov. Notable people with the surname include:
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