Margulis

Margulis is a surname that, like its variants,^{[note 1]} is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word Margalit (מרגלית, Israeli Hebrew: [maʁɡaˈlit])), meaning 'pearl.' Notable people and characters with the name include:

• Berl Broder (born Margulis; 1817–1868), Broder singer
• Dan Margulis (born 1951), author, expert on color correction and image retouching
• David Margulis [ru], Hero of the Soviet Union
• Evgeny Margulis (born 1955), Russian musician
• Grigory Margulis (born 1946), Russian mathematician, known for the Margulis lemma
• Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), American evolutionary biologist
• Margulis, a villain from the game series Xenosaga