Melamed is a Hebrew surname. "Melamed" translates to "teacher" in the Hebrew language and came into different languages in different spellings, e.g. Malamud, Malamed, Melamid, etc.
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Language(s) | Hebrew |
Some variants of the spelling should not be confused with "Malamute" or "Malemute".
Those with the surname include:
- Abraham Melamed, former member of Knesset from National Religious Party
- Douglas Melamed, American legal scholar
- Fred Melamed, American actor and writer
- Guy Melamed, Israeli footballer
- Leo Melamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and executive in the field of global derivatives
- Nico Melamed, Spanish footballer
- Rabbi Meir Melamed, financier to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain in the house of Arbarbanel during the Jewish Inquisition in 1492
- Tatiana Melamed, Ukrainian and German chess grandmaster
- Vince Melamed, American keyboardist and songwriter
- Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Israeli-American philosopher
- Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, the rosh yeshiva of the Beit El yeshiva in Beit El