Yoram

Yoram (יֹרָם‎ or יורם‎ ) is a given name derived from Jehoram (יְהוֹרָם‎), meaning "Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew, which was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh; the female version of this name is Athaliah. Notable people with the name include:

• Yoram Aridor (born 1933), former right-wing Israeli politician, Knesset member and minister
• Yoram Barzel (1931-2022), Israeli economist and a professor of economics at the University of Washington
• Yoram Bauman (born 1973), American economist and stand-up comedian
• Yoram Ben-Porat (1937-1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Yoram Chaiter (born 1964), physician, cancer researcher and bass singer
• Yoram Danziger (born 1953), Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, appointed to the Court in 2007
• Yoram Dinstein (1936-2024), Israeli President of Tel Aviv University
• Yoram Dori (born 1950), strategic advisor to Shimon Peres when the latter was President of Israel
• Yoram Globus (born 1941), Israeli director and producer, most famous for his association with Cannon Films Inc
• Yoram Gross (1926-2015), Australian producer of children's and family entertainment
• Yoram Hazony (born 1964), Israeli scholar and founder of Shalem College in Jerusalem
• Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (born 1968), Dutch pianist of Israeli origin
• Yoram Kaniuk (1930-2013), Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic
• Yoram Kochavy (born 1962), Israeli former Olympic swimmer
• Yoram Marciano (born 1964), Israeli Labor politician
• Yoram Moses, 1997 Gödel laureate and Associate Professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• Yoram Schweitzer (fl. 1980s onwards), senior research fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

See also

• Jehoram (disambiguation)