Hurwitz is one of the variants of a surname of Ashkenazi Jewish origin (for historical background see the Horowitz page). Notable people with the surname include:

• Adolf Hurwitz (1859–1919), German mathematician
• Andrew D. Hurwitz (born 1947), American judge
• David Hurwitz (disambiguation), multiple people
• Edward Hurwitz (born 1931), American diplomat
• Emanuel Hurwitz (1919–2006), British violinist
• Gregg Hurwitz, American novelist
• Henry Hurwitz Jr. (1918–1992), nuclear physicist
• Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), professor of Hebrew in England
• Jake Hurwitz (born 1985), American comedian, writer and actor
• Jerard Hurwitz (1928–2019), American biochemist
• Johanna Hurwitz (born 1937), American children's author
• Jon Hurwitz (born 1977), American screenwriter
• Jonty Hurwitz (born 1969), electrical engineer and sculptor
• Justin Hurwitz (born 1985), American composer
• Lazar Lipman Hurwitz (1815–1852), editor and writer
• Leo Hurwitz (1909–1991), American documentary film maker
• Moses ha-Levi Hurwitz (d. 1820), Lithuanian rabbi
• Mitchell Hurwitz, American television writer and producer
• Shelley Hurwitz, American biostatistician
• Shmuel Hurwitz, Israeli agronomist
• Shmuel Hurvits, Yiddish poet
• T. Alan Hurwitz (born 1942), 10th president of Gallaudet University
• William Hurwitz, American pain management physician
• Yosef Yozel Horwitz (1849–1919), the Alter of Navordok
• Zvi Harry Hurwitz, (1924–2008) Israeli diplomat, public servant and biographer

Fictional characters

• Lieutenant Hurwitz, a minor character in the movie Airplane!

See also

• Harrwitz, Harwitz, Horovitz, Horvitz, Horowitz, Horwitz, Hourwitz, Hurewicz, Hurewitz, Hurvits, Hurwicz, Hurvitz, Hurwitz
• Gourevitch, Gurovich, Gurevich, Gurovich, Gurvich, Gurwich, Gurwitsch, Gurevitch, Gurewitsch, Gurwitch, Gorovits, Gorovitz
• Kurvitz, Orovitz/Orowitz/Orwitz/Orwicz/Urwicz/Urwitz

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Hurwitz.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.