Dworkin (surname)
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:
- Aaron Dworkin, American musician and activist
- Alexander Dvorkin, a sectologist, linked to Russian Orthodox Church
- Andrea Dworkin, American feminist writer
- Barbara Lee Dworkin, American preservationist and author
- Cora Dvorkin, Argentine physicist
- Craig Dworkin, American poet and Professor of English
- Dan Dworkin, American screenwriter and television producer
- David Dworkin, American musician
- Dorothy Dworkin, Canadian nurse, businesswoman and philanthropist
- Gerald Dworkin, American legal philosopher
- Howard Dvorkin, American finance expert
- Jeffrey Dvorkin, American journalist
- Judith Dvorkin, American composer and librettist
- Ilya Dvorkin, Russian-Israeli historian
- Keith Dworkin, American playwright
- Mark J. Dworkin, Canadian writer
- Polina Dvorkina, perpetrator of the 2022 Krasnoyarsk kindergarten shooting
- Ronald Dworkin, American legal philosopher
- Ronald W. Dworkin, American anesthesiologist
- , Russian commanding officer, ballistic missiles designer, and statesman