Horwitz

Horwitz is a surname, current among Ashkenazi Jews. It is derived from the Yiddish pronunciation of the name of the town of Hořovice in Bohemia. For detailed historical background see the Horowitz page .

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Horwitz (born 1944), American businessman
• Arnold Horwitz (later Arnold Horween), American football player
• Bella Horwitz, 18th century Bohemian writer
• Bernhard Horwitz (1807-1885), German chess player
• Brian Horwitz (born 1982), American baseball player
• Jacob H. Horwitz (1892-1992), American businessman, philanthropist and fashion innovator
• Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903-1952), American actor a.k.a. Curly Howard, of the Three Stooges
• David Horwitz (born 1994), Australian rugby player
• Dominique Horwitz (born 1957), French actor and singer
• Howard Horwitz (1918, 1976), American television producer
• Jay Horwitz (born 1945), American baseball executive
• Kai Horwitz (born 1998), Chilean alpine skier
• Maksymilian Horwitz, aka Henryk Walecki (1877-1937), Polish communist
• Morton Horwitz (born 1938), legal historian and professor
• Moses Harry Horwitz, American actor a.k.a. Moe Howard, of the Three Stooges
• Phineas Jonathan Horwitz (1822-1904), surgeon and United States Naval officer
• Ralph Horwitz (later Ralph Horween), American football player
• Ronald Horwitz (born 1934), known as Ronald Harwood, South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter
• Samuel Horwitz, American actor a.k.a. Shemp Howard, of the Three Stooges
• Spencer Horwitz (born 1997), American baseball player
• Steven Horwitz (born 1964), American economist
• Susan B. Horwitz (1955-2014), American computer scientist
• Susan Band Horwitz, American biochemist
• Tony Horwitz (1958, 2019), American journalist
• William Horwitz (1918-2006), American analytical chemist
• Yosef Yozel Horwitz, rabbi