Rappaport (surname)

Rappaport is an Ashkenazi surname, with the individuals bearing it being descendants of the Rabbinic Kohenic Rappaport family. Variants of the name include Rapaport, Rapa Porto, Rappeport, Rappoport and Rapoport.

Rappaport

• Alfred Rappaport (diplomat) (1868–1946), Austrian diplomat and writer
• Alfred Rappaport (economist) (b. 1932), American economist
• Andrew S. Rappaport (b. 1957), American Silicon Valley venture capitalist
• Ben Rappaport (b. 1986), American television actor
• Bruce Rappaport (1922–2010), Palestinian-born international banker and financier
• Daniel Rappaport (b. 1970), American film producer
• David Rappaport (1951–1990), English actor
• David Rappaport (designer) (1914–2010), American fashion manufacturerer, designer, artist
• Edward Rappaport (b. ca. 1957), acting director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center
• Emil Stanisław Rappaport (1877–1965), Polish Supreme Court judge
• Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), Austrian-born screenwriter and film director (known as Gerbert Rappaport in USSR)
• Helen Rappaport (b. 1947), English actress, author, historian
• Jerome Lyle Rappaport (1927–2021), American attorney and civic figure in Massachusetts
• Jill Rappaport (b. 1964), American author, journalist, television personality
• Jim Rappaport (b. 1956), American real estate developer in Massachusetts
• Kurt Rappaport (b. ca. 1958), American real estate developer
• Mark Rappaport (b. ca. 1942), American film director
• Mark Rappaport (creature effects artist) (b. 1954), American special-effects specialist
• Mat Rappaport (b. 1971), American artist, curator, educator
• Ray Rappaport (1922–2010), American scientist in cell biology
• Roy Rappaport (1926–1997), American anthropologist
• Ruth Rappaport (1923–2010), German-born American librarian (U.S. Library of Congress)
• Samuel Rappaport (1932–2016), American political figure in Pennsylvania
• Saul Rappaport (b. ca. 1940), American physics professor at MIT
• Sheeri Rappaport (b. 1977), American television actress
• Solomon Anski, Yiddish writer (born Solomon Zangwill Rappaport, Rappoport)
• Summer Rappaport (b. 1991), American professional triathlete
• Theodore Rappaport (b. 1960), American electrical engineer and professor
• Uriel Rappaport (1935–2019), Israeli historian

Rappoport

• Boris Rappoport, Russian professional football coach
• Charles Rappoport, Russian naturalized French politician and intellectual
• Julius Rappoport, Russian silversmith
• Kseniya (Xenia) Rappoport, Russian actress
• Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky)—a Russian Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist.

Rapaport

• Alexandra Rapaport (b. 1971), Swedish film and stage actress
• Amir Rapaport (b. 1970), Israeli journalist, media personality
• David Rapaport (psychologist) (1911–1960), Hungarian-born U.S. (Kansas, Massachusetts) psychologist
• Eldar Rapaport (b. ca. 1970), Israeli film director
• Martin Rapaport (b. 1952), Belgian-American diamond dealer
• Matilda Rapaport (1986-2016), Swedish skier
• Michael Rapaport (b. 1970), U.S. actor, media personality
• Rosemary Rapaport (1918–2011), English musical educator
• Rudolf Ray Rapaport (1891–1984), Latvian-born international artist
• William J. Rapaport (b. ca. 1945), U.S. educator (New York)

Rapoport

• Aaron Rapoport (b. 1954), American photographer
• Abraham Rapoport (Schrenzel) (1584–1651), Polish Talmudic scholar
• Adam Rapoport (b. 1969), former editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit magazine
• Alek Rapoport (1933–1997), Ukrainian-born U.S. artist
• Amos Rapoport (b. 1929), Polish-born professor of architecture
• Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), Russian-born U.S. mathematical psychologist and game theorist
• Bernard Rapoport (1917–2012), American businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist
• Chaim Rapoport (b. 1963), British rabbi, author, educator
• Dan Rapoport (b. ca. 1964), Latvian-born American international financier and philanthropist
• David C. Rapoport (b. 1929), American political scientist, specializing in terrorism
• Eda Rapoport (1890–1968), Latvian-born American composer, musical conducator, pianist
• Eduardo H. Rapoport (1927–2017), Argentinian ecologist
• Henry Rapoport (1918–2002), American chemist
• I. C. Rapoport (b. 1937), American photojournalist and screenwriter
• Ian Rapoport (b. 1980), U.S. sports journalist, media personality
• Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017), Cameroon-born German pediatrician and neonatologist
• Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport, 18th century rabbi
• Leo Port (Rapoport; changed on arrival to Australia) (1922–1978), Polish-born Lord Mayor of Sydney 1975–1978
• Lev Pavlovich Rapoport (1920–2000), Russian nuclear physicist
• Louis Rapoport (1942–1991), U.S.-born Israeli newspaper editor
• Michael Rapoport (b. 1948), German mathematician
• Miles S. Rapoport (b. 1949), American politician and nonprofit executive
• Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987), Polish-born sculptor
• Paul Rapoport (1940–1987), American attorney, gay-rights advocate
• Paul Rapoport (music researcher) (b. 1948), Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
• Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), Russian-born German physician, biochemist, and communist
• Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (1786–1867), Galician Jewish rabbi and scholar
• Sonya Rapoport (1923–2015), American artist, computer-artistry pioneer
• Tom Rapoport (b. 1947), German-born U.S. cell biologist at Harvard Medical School
• Vladimir Rapoport (1907–1975), Soviet cinematographer

See also

• Rapoport's rule, an ecological hypothesis
• 16180 Rapoport, a main-belt asteroid