Eliezer (disambiguation)

Eliezer (Hebrew: אליעזר, "God is my help") was the name of at least three biblical personalities.

Eliezer may also refer to:

Rabbinic sages

Tannaim

• Eliezer ben Hurcanus, Tanna (sage) of 1st and 2nd century Judea
• Eliezer ben Jacob I, Tanna of the 1st century
• Eliezer ben Jacob II, Tanna of the 2nd century
• Eleazar ben Judah of Bartota, Tanna of the first and second centuries

Tosafists

• Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi (1140–1225), Rabbinic scholar in Germany
• Eliezer ben Yose Haglili (2nd century), Jewish rabbi who lived in Judea
• Eliezer ben Samuel (died 1175), French author of the halachic work Sefer Yereim
• Eliezer of Touques (13th century), French tosafist

Other people with first name Eliezer

• Eliézer Alfonzo (born 1979), American baseball player
• Eliezer Adler (1866–1949), English Jewish community founder
• Eliezer Avtabi (born 1938), Israeli politician
• Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512–1585), Talmudist
• Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol, 11th-century German rabbi
• Eliezer ben Nathan (1090–1170), Rishon
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), Hebrew lexicographer
• Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992), rabbi
• Eliezer Berland (born 1937), Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Eliezer Cadet (born 1897), Haitian Vodou priest
• Eliezer Cogan (1762–1855), English scholar and divine
• Eliezer Cohen (born 1934), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1879) (1879–1965), Lithuanian rabbi
• Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1965), Israeli rabbi
• Eliezer Kahana (?–?), 18th-century Jewish preacher
• Eliezer Margolin (1875–1944), Russian-Australian businessman and military officer
• Eliezer Melamed (born 1961), Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva
• Eliezer Mizrahi (born 1945), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Moses (born 1946), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Marom (born 1955), Israeli Navy commander
• Eleazar of Worms (1176-1238), Talmudist
• Eliezer Palchinsky (1912–2007), rosh yeshiva
• Eliezer Papo (1785–1826), Bulgarian rabbi and author
• Eliezer Peri (1902–1970), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Zusia Portugal (1898–1982), first Skulener Rebbe
• Eliezer Poupko (1886–1961), Russian rabbi
• Eliezer Preminger (1920–2001), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Pugh (1814–1903), Welsh philanthropist
• Eliezer Rafaeli (born 1926), Israeli founding President of the University of Haifa
• Eliezer Rivlin (born 1942), Israeli judge
• Eliezer Ronen (1931–2016), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Sandberg (born 1962), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Schweid (born 1929), Israeli scholar
• Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
• Eliezer Shkedi (born 1957), CEO of El Al Airlines
• Eliezer Shostak (1911–2001), Israeli politician
• Eliezer Silver (1882–1968), American rabbinic leader
• Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953), Israeli archeologist
• Eliezer Waldenberg (1915–2006), rabbi and dayan, known as the Tzitz Eliezer
• Eliezer Waldman (born 1937), Israeli rabbi and politician
• Eliezer Weishoff (born 1938), Israeli artist
• Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), Jewish-American professor, political activist, and author
• Eliezer Williams (1754–1820), Welsh clergyman and genealogist
• Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979), American decision theorist
• L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), Polish-Jewish doctor, linguist, and creator of Esperanto
• Eliezer Zussman-Sofer (1830–1903), Hungarian rabbi

People with last name Eliezer

• Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer (1918–2001), mathematician, physicist and academic

Other uses

• Yad Eliezer, a poverty-relief organization in Israel

See also

• Eleazar (disambiguation), a name with a similar etymology
• Lazar (name), a name that is an abbreviation of Eliezer or Eleazar