Aron (name)
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Aron is a masculine
given name
and a surname
. It is an alternate spelling of Aaron
, prominent biblical figure in the Old Testament
. The name means "mountaineer", or "mount of strength". There are given name and surname variants.
People with the name Aron include:
Masculine
Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
and a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
. It is an alternate spelling of Aaron
Aaron
In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, Aaron : Ααρών ), who is often called "'Aaron the Priest"' and once Aaron the Levite , was the older brother of Moses, and a prophet of God. He represented the priestly functions of his tribe, becoming the first High Priest of the Israelites...
, prominent biblical figure in the Old Testament
Old Testament
The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...
. The name means "mountaineer", or "mount of strength". There are given name and surname variants.
People with the name Aron include:
Given name
- Aron Bogolyubov (b. 1938), Soviet Olympic medalist judoka
- Per Aron BorgPer Aron BorgPär Aron Borg was a Swedish pedagogue and a pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf.Borg was a teacher. After having seen a play where a deaf boy communicated by gestures, he was inspired to create a manual alphabet...
- Aron EisenbergAron EisenbergAron Eisenberg is an American actor best known for his role as "Nog" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Personal life:...
- Aron Erlichman
- Aron GurwitschAron GurwitschAron Gurwitsch was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American philosopher working in the field of phenomenology. He wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology...
- Aron KaderAron KaderAron Kader is a comedian of Palestinian and American heritage. He is one of four members of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. He has performed in the New York Arab American Comedy Festival, started by fellow tour member Dean Obeidallah. Comedians from the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour such as Ahmed Ahmed...
- Aron KatsenelinboigenAron KatsenelinboigenAron Katsenelinboigen, , a founder of Predispositioning Theory, was born in September 1927 in a Ukrainian town of Izyaslavl.-Background :...
- Aron KincaidAron KincaidAron Kincaid was an American actor perhaps best known for playing Killer Croc on Batman: The Animated Series and Sky Lynx on The Transformers. He also voiced characters for The Smurfs, and DuckTales, among others...
- Aron NimzowitschAron NimzowitschAron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...
- Aron PumnulAron PumnulAron Pumnul was a Romanian philologist and teacher, national and revolutionary activist in Transylvania and later in Bucovina...
- Aron RalstonAron RalstonAron Lee Ralston is an American mountain climber and inspirational public speaker. He is widely known for having survived a 2003 canyoneering accident in Utah in which he was forced to amputate his own right arm with a dull pocketknife in order to free himself from a dislodged boulder.The incident...
- Aron StrobelAron StrobelAron Strobel is best known as the lead guitarist for Münchener Freiheit, who had several big hits throughout Europe.-Background:Aron has been a member of the group since their debut in 1982...
- Aron TagerAron TagerAron Tager is an American actor and artist.- Background :As an artist, Tager has had numerous exhibitions of his work and has sculptures installed at the following locations: Mount Anthony Union High School, Bennington, VT; Shaftsbury Elementary School, VT; Delaware County Community College,...
- Aron TiranulAron TiranulAaron the Tyrant , sometimes credited as Aron Emanoil or Emanuel Aaron , was twice Moldavian Voivode : between September 1591 and June 1592, and October 24, 1592 to May 3, 1595. He was Alexandru Lăpuşneanu's son....
- Aron WarnerAron WarnerAron J. Warner is an actor and producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as a producer of the animated blockbuster Shrek, in which he also voices Big Bad Wolf.- Life and career :...
Middle Name
- Elvis Aron PresleyElvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
(sometimes written AaronAaronIn the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, Aaron : Ααρών ), who is often called "'Aaron the Priest"' and once Aaron the Levite , was the older brother of Moses, and a prophet of God. He represented the priestly functions of his tribe, becoming the first High Priest of the Israelites...
), American musician
Surname
- Bill AronBill AronBill Aron is an American photographer known for his photographs of Jewish communities around the world.- Background :Aron's first book, From the Corners of the Earth, features photographs of Jews living in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles. The book's introduction was...
, an American photographer - Hermann AronHermann AronHermann Aron [a:ron] was a German researcher of electrical engineering.- Background :Aaron was born in Kempen , in modern-day Poland, at the time a shtetl in the Province of Posen. His father was a chazzan and merchant...
(1845-1913), a German Jewish electrical engineer and physicist - Jean-Paul AronJean-Paul AronJean-Paul Aron was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the...
, a French writer - Pal AronPal AronPal Aron is a British actor, best known for playing Adam Osman in Casualty, Brandon Kane in The Bill, Jayesh Parekh and Sonny Dhillon in Coronation Street. Before turning professional he performed with the Theatre of the Unemployed in Birmingham...
, a British actor - Petru AronPetru AronPeter III Aaron , bastard son of Alexandru cel Bun, was a Voivode of Moldavia on three separate occasions: October 1451 to February 1452, August 1454 to February 1455, and May 1455 to April 1457...
- Pietro AronPietro AronPietro Aron, also known as Pietro Aaron , was an Italian music theorist and composer. He was born in Florence and probably died in Bergamo .-Biography:...
- Raymond AronRaymond AronRaymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...
, a French Jewish philosopher - Robert AronRobert AronRobert Aron was a French writer who authored a number of works on politics and history.-Early life:...
, a French Jewish writer - Ruthann AronRuthann AronRuthann Greenzweig Aron is a former politician and real estate developer who ran unsuccessfully for the 1994 Republican U.S. Senate nomination from Maryland. A member of the Montgomery County Planning Board, she lost the nomination to former Tennessee Senator Bill Brock, who was in turn defeated...
, a politician
See also
- Aaron (disambiguation)Aaron (disambiguation)- People :* Aaron, brother of Moses, Biblical figure* Y-chromosomal Aaron, the hypothesised most recent common ancestor of many Kohanim* Aaron , name origin, variants, and people with the given name...