Orovitz
Orovitz, Orowitz, Orwitz, Orwicz, Urvitz, Urwitz, Urwicz, Urvits is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, a Russian form of the Yiddish surname "Horowitz", see the latter article about its etymology. Notable people with the surname include:
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- Abraham Orovitz, birth name of Vincent Sherman, American actor and film director
- Eugene Maurice Orowitz, birth name of Michael Landon, American actor and filmmaker
- Richard Joseph Orwitz, birth name of Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
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- David Urwitz, Swedish singer and musician
- Tomás Ocaña Urwitz, Spanish investigative journalist
Category:Yiddish-language surnames