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Zeitlin

Zeitlin () is a matronymic Jewish surname. It is derived from the female name Zeitl according to the rules of Slavic languages, with the possessive suffix '-in' and literally means "Zeitl's".

When transliterated from Yiddish to Russian to English, the surname may be spelled as follows. Male forms: Tseytlin, Tseitlin, Tsetlin, Tzeitlin. Female forms (usually only for Slavic nationals): Tseytlina, Tseitlina, Tsetlina, Tzeitlina.

When transliterated via Polish, the surname may be spelled as Cejtlin, Cajtlin, Zejtlin, Zajtlin.

The surname may refer to:

  • Aaron Zeitlin (1889/1896/1898–1973), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet
  • Alexandre Zeitlin (1872–1946), sculptor
  • Benh Zeitlin (born 1982), US filmmaker
  • Denny Zeitlin (born 1938), US jazz pianist
  • Froma Zeitlin (born 1933), US classics scholar
  • Harriet Zeitlin (born 1929), American artist
  • Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Polish Yiddish writer
  • Jacob Zeitlin (1902–1987), American bookseller and poet
  • Joshua Zeitlin (1742–1822), Shklov-born Russian-Jewish rabbinical scholar and philanthropist
  • Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin (1823–1888), Kiev-born Russian-Jewish scholar and philanthropist
  • Judith T. Zeitlin (born 1958), American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago
  • Lev Tseitlin (1881-1952), a violinist and teacher
  • Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario
  • Mark Tseitlin (1943–2022), a Russian-Israeli chess grandmaster
  • Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (1924–1966), Russian mathematician and physicist
  • Mikhail Tseitlin (born 1947), Belarusian chess grandmaster
  • Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born 1974), American musician
  • Michail Yulyevich Tseytlin (Михаил Ю́льевич Цейтлин), also as M. Yu. Ceitlin and M. Ju. Zeitlin, a Russian mathematician, who worked on the book Gradshteyn and Ryzhik in the 1960s and early 1970s
  • Solomon Zeitlin (1892–1976), American Jewish historian
  • William Zeitlin (1850–1921), Russian-Jewish scholar and bibliographer
  • Zvi Zeitlin (1922–2012), Russian-US violinist
  • Arkady Tseytlin (born 1956), Russian-British theoretical physicist
  • Vladislav Tseytlin (born 1971), Uzbekistani football FIFA referee
  • Anna Tseytlin (born 1976), of Jewish and Ukrainian descent. Active American Immigration Attorney
  • Michael Tseytlin (born 1964), Russian-US Entrepreneur, executive and inventor