Rivlin

The Rivlin family originated from Vienna, Austria and has over 50,000 members.^[1]

The Rivlin family has held major reunions in Jerusalem in 1980 and 2009. These reunions drew thousands of family members to Jerusalem. A film, The Tribe, was made about the 1980 reunion by Lilly Rivlin.

Chronologically:

• Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), rabbi and student of the Vilna Gaon, revitalized the Ashkenazi community in Palestine
• Yosef Rivlin (1836–1896), rabbi and secretary of the Jerusalem-based Central Committee of Knesseth Israel under Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shmuel Salant
• Yosef Yoel Rivlin (1889–1971), Oriental studies scholar, Hebrew U. professor and translator
• Ronald Rivlin (1915–2005), Anglo-American physicist, developer of the Mooney-Rivlin model for calculating the mechanical behaviour of rubber and similar materials
• Jule Rivlin (1917–2002), American college men's basketball coach and professional basketball player
• Theodore J. Rivlin (1926–2006), American mathematician
• Leanne Rivlin (born 1929), an originator of the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA
• Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official
• Lilly Rivlin, (born 1936), Israeli filmmaker
• Reuven Rivlin (born 1939), President of Israel
  • Nechama Rivlin (1945–2019), First Lady of Israel
• Eliezer Rivlin (1942–2013), deputy-president of the Supreme Court of Israel and chairman of the Central Elections Committee
• Sefi Rivlin (1947–2013), Israeli actor and comedian
• Gary Rivlin (born 1958), American journalist and author
• Michal Rivlin-Etzion, Israeli neuroscientist (graduated from the Hebrew University in 2001)^[2]
• Yermi Kaplan (born 1961), son of Orah Rivlin Kaplan; Israeli singer and musician ^[3]

• Related surnames
  • Rifkind
  • Rivkin