Feigin (Feygin, Fejgin, Faygin) is a Jewish surname. It is a matronymic surname derived from the Yiddish female name Feig, Feige, Feiga. "Feigins" is the legal Latvian spelling of the surname according to the law on Latvian names.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexandra Feigin (born 2002), Bulgarian figure skater
- Anatol Fejgin (1909–2002), Polish communist
- Ralph Feigin, (1938–2008), American pediatrician
- Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski (born Fejgin; 1935–2012), Polish journalist
- Dov Feigin, (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor
- Leo Feigin, also known as Aleksei Leonidov, disk jockey and musical producer, founder of Leo Records
- Mark Feygin, (born 1971), Russian lawyer and human rights activist
- Moisey Feigin, (1904–2008), Russian artist
- Movsas Feigins, (1908–1950), Latvian chess master
See also
edit- All pages with titles containing Feigin
- All pages with titles containing Feygin
- All pages with titles containing Feigins
- All pages with titles containing Fejgin
- All pages with titles containing Faygin
- Fagin, fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist
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