Levin (surname)
Levin is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname derived from the tribe of Levi, whose descendants the Levites had distinctive duties in the Temple period.
It may also be a transliteration without diacritics of the Russian surname Лёвин.
People with the name "Levin" include:
People
A–I
- A. Leo Levin, American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Adam K. Levin, former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and businessman in consumer credit-related businesses
- Adam Levin, fiction author
- Alan Levin (business), American businessmen, CFO of drug maker Pfizer
- Alan Levin (filmmaker), American filmmaker and journalist
- Alan Levin (Internet governance), South African computer scientist and Internet activist
- Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Levin, Russian chess player
- Alter Levin, Hebrew writer and poet
- Andy Levin, US Democratic Representative from Michigan; son of Sander and nephew of Carl
- Arnold Levin, New Yorker cartoonist
- Aubrey Levin, psychiatrist and head of The Aversion Project
- Bengt Levin, Swedish orienteering competitor
- Benjamin Levin, American record producer and songwriter known professionally as Benny Blanco
- Bernard Levin,, British writer and broadcaster
- Beth Levin (linguist), American linguist
- Beth Levin (musician), American pianist
- Bobby Levin, American bridge player
- Burton Levin, American diplomat, former Ambassador to Burma
- Camille Levin, American soccer player
- Carl Levin, US Democratic Senator from Michigan; brother of Sander Levin, cousin of Charles Levin and uncle of Andy Levin
- Charles Levin (actor), American actor
- Charles Levin (judge), American jurist; cousin of Carl and Sander Levin
- Corey Levin, American football player
- Daniel Levin (attorney), Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Justice Department
- Daniel Levin (writer), American attorney and novelist
- David L. Levin, American politician from Missouri
- David Levin (businessman), British businessman
- David Levin, Israeli ice hockey player
- David Levin (singer), American singer-songwriter
- David N. Levin, American balloonist
- David P. Levin, American producer, director, writer and editor
- Diane Levin, American author and educator
- Diane Levin, American author and educator
- Elinor Levin, American politician
- Eyal Levin, Israeli Olympic sailor
- Ezra G. Levin, American lawyer
- Fred Levin, American lawyer
- Gabe Levin, American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Gerald M. Levin, American businessman with Time Warner
- Gilbert Levin, American engineer
- Hanoch Levin, Israeli writer and theater director
- Harold Levin, American violist, composer, and conductor
- Harry Levin, American literary critic
- Harvey Levin, TV and movie producer
- Helen Phillips Levin, disability rights activist and philanthropist
- Hjördis Levin, Swedish historian and author
- Ingeborg Levin, German geoscientist and climatologist
- Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright and songwriter
J–Z
- Jack Levin, professor at Northeastern University and sociologist
- Janice H. Levin, American philanthropist and art collector from New York City
- Janna Levin, theoretical cosmologist
- Jennifer Levin, murder victim in New York City's Central Park
- Jill Levin, American bridge player
- Joe Levin, American lawyer
- Jon Levin, physicist
- Jonathan Levin (economist), American economist and academic
- Jonathan Levin (footballer), Mexican footballer
- Jonathan Levin (teacher), American murder victim
- Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist
- Kenneth Levin, American psychiatrist and author
- Leonid Levin, Russian-born computer scientist
- Lev Levin Physician, born Odessa, executed during Stalin's purges
- Lewis Charles Levin, first Jewish Representative to the U.S. Congress
- Maks Levin, Ukrainian photojournalist killed in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Marc Levin, Jewish American filmmaker
- Mark Levin (director), American director and screenwriter
- Mark Levin, American conservative radio host, lawyer, author, and political commentator who served in the Reagan administration
- Meyer Levin, U.S. novelist
- Michael Levin (philosopher), professor of philosophy at the City University of New York
- Michael Levin (biologist), professor of biology at Tufts University
- Michael Graubart Levin, American author
- Mike Levin, California Democratic politician
- Murray Levin, political science professor at Boston University
- Nathaniel Levin, New Zealand businessman and politician
- Neil David Levin, former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the September 11 attacks
- Nora Levin, American Holocaust historian
- Petra Levin, American microbiologist
- Philip J. Levin, American real estate developer and investor
- Rick Levin, American economist, president of Yale University
- Rob Levin, founder of the freenode IRC network
- Robert D. Levin, U.S. composer and musicologist
- Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist), Norwegian pianist and composer
- Robert Levin (writer), American fiction writer
- Sander M. Levin, US Democratic Representative from Michigan; brother of Carl, cousin of Charles and father of Andy
- Savannah Levin, American soccer player
- Simon A. Levin, theoretical ecologist, professor of biology at Princeton University
- Sofia Levin, Australian food journalist
- Susan Bass Levin, New Jersey, US politician
- Tatyana Levina, Russian sprinter
- Theodore Levin, U.S. federal jurist
- Tony Levin, U.S. bass player
- Vladimir Levin (hacker), Russian mathematician and alleged criminal hacker
- Vladimir Levin (historian), Israeli historian
- Walter Levin, German-born violinist, founder member of the LaSalle Quartet
- William Levin, New Zealand businessman and politician
- Yariv Levin, Israeli MK and Deputy Prime Minister
- Yuval Levin, member of White House domestic policy staff
- Zara Levina, Ukrainian composer
Fictional characters
- Kevin Levin, protagonist/antagonist from the television series Ben 10"
- Konstantin Levin, a protagonist in Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina
- Patti Levin, character in The Leftovers
- Jack Levin, a character in the racing video game series ''F-Zero''