Horovitz
Horovitz is one of the variants of a surname originating in the Jewish community of Bohemia – bearers of that surname apparently migrated in the Middle Ages from a small town Hořovice in Bohemia. For detailed historical background see the Horowitz page. It can also be a non-Jewish surname as well.
It may refer to:
- Ad-Rock, stage name of Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys
- Adam Horovitz , British poet
- Béla Horovitz, Hungarian-born British publisher
- David Horovitz, an author and political commentator
- Frances Horovitz English poet and broadcaster
- Gillian Horovitz, English long-distance runner
- Hannah Horovitz, British classical music promoter
- Israel Horovitz, American playwright and screenwriter
- Josef Horovitz, German orientalist
- Joseph Horovitz, Austrian-English composer
- Michael Horovitz, English poet
- Robert Horovitz, a medical biologist and Nobel Prize winner