Avi
Avi is a given name, usually masculine, often a diminutive of Avram, Avraham, etc. It is sometimes feminine and a diminutive of the Hebrew spelling of Abigail.
People with the given name include:
- Avi, Newbery award-winning American author
- Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman, founder, chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios
- Avi Avital, Israeli mandolin player and composer
- Avi Beker, Israel-American political scientist
- Avi Bell, professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law and Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
- Avi Ben-Chimol, Israeli basketball player
- Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer
- Avi Cohen (footballer, born 1962), Israeli former footballer
- Avi Dichter, Israeli politician, former Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Home Front Defense and Shin Bet director
- Avi Gabai, Israeli politician, former Minister of Environmental Protection
- Avi Ivgi, Israeli football goalkeeper
- Avi Kornick, Israeli actor
- Avi Kaplan, American-Jewish a capella singer and songwriter
- Avi Lerner, American-Israeli film producer
- Avi Lewis, Canadian documentary filmmaker and former TV host
- Avi Loeb, Israeli-American theoretical physicist
- Avi Nesher, Israeli film producer, director, screenwriter and actor
- Avi Nimni, Israeli former footballer
- Avi Pazner, Israeli retired diplomat
- Avi Peretz (footballer), Israeli former footballer
- Avi Peretz (singer), Israeli singer in Mizrahi music tradition
- Avi Ran, Israeli footballer
- Avi Rikan, Israeli footballer
- Avi Rubin, American computer scientist and expert in systems and networking security
- Avi Sagild, Danish film actress
- Avi Schafer, Japanese professional basketball player
- Avi Shlaim, Israeli-British professor and historian
- Avi Soffer, Israeli footballer
- Avi Strool, Israeli retired footballer
- Avi Tikva, Israeli former footballer
- Avi Toledano, Israeli singer and songwriter, runner-up in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest
- Avi Wallerstein, Canadian ophthalmologist and laser eye surgeon, co-founder of LASIK MD
- Avi Weiss, American rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer and activist
- Avi Wigderson, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
- Avi Wortzman, Israeli politician, former Deputy Minister of Education
- Avi Yehezkel, Israeli former politician
- Avi Yehiel, Israeli footballer