Dworkin (surname)

Dworkin or Dvorkin (Russian: Дворкин) is a Jewish (Eastern Ashkenazic) surname originating from the diminutive Dvorke/Dvorka of the Yiddish form Dvoyre/Dviyra of the Hebrew given name Deborah.^[1] In Slavic countries it is strictly masculine, with the feminine counterpart being Dworkina or Dvorkina. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aaron Dworkin (born 1970), American musician and activist
• Alexander Dvorkin, a sectologist, linked to Russian Orthodox Church
• Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), American feminist writer
• Barbara Lee Dworkin (born 1932), American preservationist and author
• Cora Dvorkin, Argentine physicist
• Craig Dworkin, American poet and Professor of English
• Dan Dworkin (born 1972), American screenwriter and television producer
• David Dworkin (born 1934), American musician
• Dorothy Dworkin (1889–1976), Canadian nurse, businesswoman and philanthropist
• Gerald Dworkin (born 1937), American legal philosopher
• Howard Dvorkin, American finance expert
• Jeffrey Dvorkin, American journalist
• Judith Dvorkin (1928–1995), American composer and librettist
• Ilya Dvorkin, Russian-Israeli historian
• Keith Dworkin, American playwright
• Mark J. Dworkin (1946–2012), Canadian writer
• Polina Dvorkina (born 2002), perpetrator of the 2022 Krasnoyarsk kindergarten shooting
• Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013), American legal philosopher
• Ronald W. Dworkin, American anesthesiologist
• Vladimir Dvorkin [ru] (born 1936), Russian commanding officer, ballistic missiles designer, and statesman