Ephraim (given name)
Ephraim is a masculine given name of Hebrew and Aramaic origin, first used by the Israelite patriarch of that name. In the modern English language, it is typically pronounced. In Hebrew, the name means "fruitful, fertile and productive".
Alternative spellings include Ephrem, Efrem, Efreom, Ephraem, Efren, or Efrén.
People
Ephraim
- Ephraim the Syrian, Syrian Christian theologian, writer, hymnographer, and saint
- Ephraim of Antioch, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and saint
- Ephrem Mtsire, also known as Ephraim the Lesser, Georgian Orthodox monk and saint
- Ephraim the Neomartyr, Greek Orthodox martyr and saint
- Ephraim Amu, Ghanaian composer
- Ephraim Anderson, British bacteriologist
- Ephraim Wales Bull, creator of the Concord grape
- Ephraim Willard Burr, American politician
- Ephraim Chambers, English writer
- Ephraim Clarke, Australian politician
- Ephraim Curzon, English rugby league footballer
- Ephraim Ellis, Canadian actor
- Ephraim Emerton, American medievalist historian
- Ephraim Evron, Israeli diplomat
- Ephraim S. Fisher, American judge
- Ephie Fitzgerald, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager
- Ephraim Grizzard, American lynching victim
- Ephraim Hanson, justice of the Utah Supreme Court
- Ephraim Hart, American merchant
- Ephraim P. Holmes, American admiral
- Ephraim Jones, Canadian judge and politician
- Ephraim Katz, Israeli-born American film historian
- Ephraim Katzir, Israeli politician
- Ephraim Keyser, American sculptor
- Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer
- Ephraim Lederer, American lawyer
- Ephraim Lewis, English singer-songwriter
- Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian
- Ephraim McDowell, American physician
- Ephraim Morse, American businessman
- Ephraim Oshry, Lithuanian-born American rabbi
- Ephraim G. Peyton, American judge
- Ephraim Salaam, American football player
- Ephraim Serrette, Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
- Ephraim Shay, American inventor
- Ephraim Sidon, Israeli author
- Ephraim Sklyansky, Russian revolutionary
- Ephraim M. Sparrow, American engineering professor
- Ephraim Stern, Israeli archaeologist
- Ephraim Titler, Liberian politician
- Ephraim Williams, American soldier
- Ephraim King Wilson, American politician
- Ephraim K. Wilson II, American politician
- Ephraim O. Dikko, Nigerian humanitarian
Efraim
- Efraim (footballer), Brazilian footballer Efraim Gomes Júnior
- Efraim Allsalu, Estonian painter
- Efraim Amira, Israeli football player
- Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman
- Effi Birnbaum, Israeli basketball coach
- Efraím Cardozo, Paraguayan politician and historian
- Efraim Diveroli, American arms dealer
- Effi Eitam, Israeli politician
- Efraim Gur, Israeli politician
- Efraim Halevy, Israeli lawyer and intelligence officer
- Efraim Karsh, Israeli historian
- Efraim Leo, Swedish singer and songwriter
- Efraim Margolin, Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist
- Efraim Medina Reyes, Colombian writer
- Efraim Racker, Austrian biochemist
- Efraím Rico, Colombian cyclist
- Efraim Sevela, Russian writer, Soviet dissident
- Efraim Shalom, Israeli politician
- Efraim Sneh, Israeli politician, physician and military commander
- Efraim Taburi, Israeli Zionist activist and politician
- Effi Wizen, Israeli computer animator and visual effects specialist
- Efraim Zuroff, Israeli historian and Nazi hunter
Efraím
- Efraím Basílio Krevey, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop in Brazil
Fictional characters
- Ephraim Black, in the Twilight series
- Ephraim Brown, in the TV series Everwood
- Ephraim Cabot, in the play Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill, as well as a 1958 film adaptation
- Ephraim Goodweather, in the 2009 horror novel The Strain by Guillermo del Toro
- Ephraim Lapham, in the 1943 novel Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Ephraim Tutt, in the novels of Arthur Train
- Prince Ephraim, one of the two main characters of the 2004 video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- Ephraim Winslow, in the 2019 film ''The Lighthouse''