Kuznets (surname)

Kuznets or Kusnets (Russian: Кузнец, meaning "blacksmith") is a gender-neutral Russian surname^[1] that may refer to:

Albert Kusnets (1902–1942), Estonian wrestler
George Kuznets (1909–1986), Belarusian-American economist
Lois Rostow Kuznets, American professor of English literature
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), American economist, statistician, demographer and economic historian

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v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith
Celtic	Goff Goffe Gow Gowan Gowans Le Goff Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan
Germanic	Brenneis De Smedt De Smet Eisen Eisler Eisner Kleinschmidt Klier Klingbeil Klinkhamer Klinkhammer Nagel Pinkert Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmiedel Schmiedl Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smed Smeets Smet Smets Smidt Smit (Smith, list) Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt Šmíd
Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferreyra Ferrier Ferriero Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre
Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad
Slavic	Covaci Coval Covali Covaliov Kavalyow Kovač Kováč Kovach Kovačević Kovačevič Kovačovič Kovačev Kovachev Kovačec Kovačevski Kovačić Kovačič Kovačik¹ Kováčik¹ Kovack Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic¹ Kovalik¹ Kovalkov Kovals Kovalsky Kovalyov Kovalyuk Kovář Kovařík¹ Kowal Kowalik¹ Kowalczyk Kowalczuk Kowalewicz Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov Kuźniar
Other	Armenian: Darbinyan Baltic Kalējs Kalvaitis (Kalwejt, Kallweit, etc.) Kavaliauskas Šmits Finnic Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä Seppäläinen Indic: Lohar Kartvelian Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili Turkic Demirci Demircioğlu
From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funk Funke Vonck Vonk
¹ "Kovalik" etc. may be derived from the name of the bird of genus of nuthatches

Kuznets (surname)

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