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) (born 1932), American economist
• Andrew S. Rappaport (born 1957), American Silicon Valley venture capitalist
• Assaf Rappaport (born 1983), Israeli billionaire entrepreneur
• Ben Rappaport (born 1986), American television actor
• Bruce Rappaport (1922–2010), Israeli international banker and financier
• Daniel Rappaport (born 1970), American film producer
• David Rappaport (1951–1990), English actor
• David Rappaport (designer) (1914–2010), American fashion manufacturer, designer, artist
• Edward Rappaport (born ca. 1957), acting director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center
• Emil Stanisław Rappaport (1877–1965), Polish judge
• Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), Austrian-born screenwriter and film director (known as Gerbert Rappaport in USSR)
• Helen Rappaport (born 1947), English actress, author, historian
• Jerome Lyle Rappaport (1927–2021), American attorney and civic figure in Massachusetts
• Jill Rappaport (born 1964), American author, journalist, television personality
• Jim Rappaport (born 1956), American real estate developer in Massachusetts
• Kurt Rappaport (born c. 1958), American real estate developer
• Mark Rappaport (born c. 1942), American film director
• Mark Rappaport (creature effects artist) (born 1954), American special-effects specialist
• Mat Rappaport (born 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
• Samuel Rappaport (1932–2016), American politician in Pennsylvania
• Saul Rappaport (born c. 1940), American physicist
• Sheeri Rappaport (born 1977), American television actress
• Summer Rappaport (born 1991), American triathlete
• Theodore Rappaport (born 1960), American electrical engineer
• Uriel Rappaport (1935–2019), Israeli historian

Rappeport

• Alan Rappeport, American journalist
• Carole MacGillvray Rappeport
• Donald Rappeport, founder of Donlen
• Phyllis Rappeport (1929–2020), American pianist, teacher, and chamber musician
• (1890–1980), Austro-Hungarian Jewish pioneer of the Third Aliyah, chemist, and an author

Rappoport

• Boris Rappoport (born 1946), Russian football coach
• Charles Rappoport (1865–1941), Russian naturalized French politician and intellectual
• Julius Rappoport (born 1851), Russian silversmith
• Kseniya (Xenia) Rappoport (born 1974), Russian actress

Rapaport

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

Rapoport

• Aaron Rapoport (born 1954), American photographer
• Abraham Rapoport (Schrenzel) (1584–1651), Polish Talmudic scholar
• Adam Rapoport (born 1969), former editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit magazine
• Alek Rapoport (1933–1997), Ukrainian-born U.S. artist
• Amnon Rapoport (1936–2022), Israel-born professor of quantitative psychology and interactive decision-making behavior
• Amos Rapoport (born 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 (born 1963), British rabbi, author, educator
• Dan Rapoport (1968–2022), Latvian-born American international financier and philanthropist
• David C. Rapoport (1929–2024), 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 (born 1937), American photojournalist and screenwriter
• Ian Rapoport (born 1980), U.S. sports journalist, media personality
• Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017), Cameroon-born German pediatrician and neonatologist
• Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport, 18th century rabbi
• Judith L. Rapoport (1933–2026), American psychiatrist
• 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 (born 1948), German mathematician
• Miles S. Rapoport (born 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) (born 1948), Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
• Rhona Rapoport (1927–2011), South African social scientist
• Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), Russian-born German physician, biochemist, and communist
• Shloyme Zanvl Rapoport (), birth name of S. An-sky, Russian Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist.
• Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (1786–1867), Galician Jewish rabbi and scholar
• Sonya Rapoport (1923–2015), American artist, computer-artistry pioneer
• Tom Rapoport (born 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