# Avi

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'''Avi''' is a given name, usually masculine, often a [diminutive](/source/diminutive) of [Avram](/source/Avram_(given_name)), Avraham, etc. It is sometimes feminine and a diminutive of the Hebrew spelling of [Abigail](/source/Abigail_(name)).

People with the given name include:

* [Avi](/source/Avi_(author)) (born 1937), Newbery award-winning American author 
* [Avi Arad](/source/Avi_Arad) (born 1948), Israeli-American businessman, founder, chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios
* [Avi Avital](/source/Avi_Avital) (born 1978), Israeli mandolin player and composer
* [Avi Beker](/source/Avi_Beker) (1952–2015), Israel-American political scientist
* [Avi Bell](/source/Avi_Bell), professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law and Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
* [Avi Ben-Chimol](/source/Avi_Ben-Chimol) (born 1985), Israeli basketball player
* [Avi Cohen](/source/Avi_Cohen) (1956–2010), Israeli footballer
* [Avi Cohen (footballer, born 1962)](/source/Avi_Cohen_(footballer%2C_born_1962)) (born 1962), Israeli former footballer
* [Avi Dichter](/source/Avi_Dichter) (born 1952), Israeli politician, former Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Home Front Defense and Shin Bet director 
* [Avi Gabai](/source/Avi_Gabai) (born 1967), Israeli politician, former Minister of Environmental Protection (2015–2016)
* [Avi Ivgi](/source/Avi_Ivgi) (born 1978), Israeli football goalkeeper
* [Avi Kornick](/source/Avi_Kornick) (born 1983), Israeli actor
* [Avi Kaplan](/source/Avi_Kaplan) (born 1989), American-Jewish a capella singer and songwriter
* [Avi Lerner](/source/Avi_Lerner) (born 1947), American-Israeli film producer
* [Avi Lewis](/source/Avi_Lewis) (born 1968), Canadian politician
* [Avi Loeb](/source/Avi_Loeb) (born 1962), Israeli-American theoretical physicist
*[Avi Maoz](/source/Avi_Maoz) (born 1956), Israeli politician
* [Avi Nesher](/source/Avi_Nesher) (born 1953), Israeli film producer, director, screenwriter and actor
* [Avi Nimni](/source/Avi_Nimni) (born 1972), Israeli former footballer
* [Avi Pazner](/source/Avi_Pazner) (born 1937), Israeli retired diplomat
* [Avi Peretz (footballer)](/source/Avi_Peretz_(footballer)) (born 1971), Israeli former footballer
* [Avi Peretz (singer)](/source/Avi_Peretz_(singer)) (born 1966), Israeli singer in Mizrahi music tradition
* [Avi Ran](/source/Avi_Ran) (1963–1987), Israeli footballer
* [Avi Rikan](/source/Avi_Rikan) (born 1988), Israeli footballer
* [Avi Rubin](/source/Avi_Rubin) (born 1967), American computer scientist and expert in systems and networking security
* [Avi Sagild](/source/Avi_Sagild) (1933–1995), Danish film actress
* [Avi Schafer](/source/Avi_Schafer) (born 1998), Japanese professional basketball player 
* [Avi Shlaim](/source/Avi_Shlaim) (born 1945), Israeli-British professor and historian
* [Avi Soffer](/source/Avi_Soffer) (born 1986), Israeli footballer
* [Avi Strool](/source/Avi_Strool) (born 1980), Israeli retired footballer
* [Avi Tikva](/source/Avi_Tikva) (born 1976), Israeli former footballer
* [Avi Toledano](/source/Avi_Toledano) (born 1948), Israeli singer and songwriter, runner-up in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest
* [Avi Wallerstein](/source/Avi_Wallerstein), Canadian ophthalmologist and laser eye surgeon, co-founder of LASIK MD
* [Avi Weiss](/source/Avi_Weiss) (born 1944), American rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer and activist
* [Avi Wigderson](/source/Avi_Wigderson) (born 1956), Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
* [Avi Wortzman](/source/Avi_Wortzman) (born 1970), Israeli politician, former  Deputy Minister of Education (2013–2014)
* [Avi Yehezkel](/source/Avi_Yehezkel) (born 1958), Israeli former politician
* [Avi Yehiel](/source/Avi_Yehiel) (born 1979), Israeli footballer
* [Avi Yemini](/source/Avi_Yemini), Australian political commentator 

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