Temkin

Temkin, Tyomkin, or Tiomkin (feminine: Temkina, Tyomkina, Temkina, or Tiomkina) are different transliterations of a Russian-language surname .

In at least in one case – Elizabeth Temkina – the surname is the truncation of the surname Potemkin, which was sometimes done when naming illegitimate children of aristocrats in the Russian Empire.

As a Jewish surname, it can me a matronymic surname derived from the diminutive (see Jewish surnames#Ashkenazi Jewish communities) "Temka" () of the feminine name "Tema" ().

Notable people with the surname include:

• Aaron Temkin Beck (1921–2021), American psychiatrist
• Ann Temkin, American art curator
• Binyamin Temkin (born 1945), Israeli politician
• Brad Temkin, American photographer
• Deborah Temkin (born 1985), American child development scientist
• Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979), Russian and American film composer and conductor
• Dimitri Tyomkin (born 1977), Canadian chess grandmaster
• Elizabeth Temkina (1774–1854), alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin
• Jonathan Tiomkin (born 1979), American fencer
• Larry Temkin, American philosopher
• Merle Temkin, American painter, sculptor and installation artist
• Michal Temkin Martinez, American linguist
• Nancy Temkin, American statistician
• Owsei Temkin (1902–2002), Russian-born American medical historian
• Moshik Temkin, American historian
• Richard J. Temkin (born 1945), American physicist
• Todd Temkin (born 1964), American poet

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