Temkin
Temkin, Tyomkin, or Tiomkin are different transliterations of a Russian-language surname Тёмкин/Тёмкина.
In at least in one case – Elizabeth Temkina – the surname is the truncation of the surname Potemkin, which was sometimes done when naming illegitimate children of aristocrats in the Russian Empire.
As a Jewish surname, it can me a matronymic surname derived from the diminutive "Temka" of the feminine name "Tema".
Notable people with the surname include:
- Aaron Temkin Beck, American psychiatrist
- Ann Temkin, American art curator
- Binyamin Temkin, Israeli politician
- Brad Temkin, American photographer
- Deborah Temkin, American child development scientist
- Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian and American film composer and conductor
- Dimitri Tyomkin, Canadian chess grandmaster
- Elizabeth Temkina, alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin
- Jonathan Tiomkin, American fencer
- Larry Temkin, American philosopher
- Merle Temkin, American painter, sculptor and installation artist
- Michal Temkin Martinez, American linguist
- Nancy Temkin, American statistician
- Owsei Temkin, Russian-born American medical historian
- Moshik Temkin, American historian
- Richard J. Temkin, American physicist
- Todd Temkin, American poet