# Feigin

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'''Feigin''' (Feygin, Fejgin, Faygin) is a Jewish surname. It is a [matronymic surname](/source/matronymic_surname) derived from the Yiddish female name ''Feig, Feige, Feiga''. "Feigins" is the legal Latvian spelling of the surname according to the law on [Latvian name](/source/Latvian_name)s.

Notable people with the surname include:

* [Alexandra Feigin](/source/Alexandra_Feigin) (born 2002), Bulgarian figure skater
* [Anatol Fejgin](/source/Anatol_Fejgin) (1909–2002), Polish communist
* [Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski](/source/Andrzej_Krzysztof_Wr%C3%B3blewski) (born Fejgin; 1935–2012), Polish journalist
* [Dov Feigin](/source/Dov_Feigin), (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor
* [Leo Feigin](/source/Leo_Feigin), also known as Aleksei Leonidov, disk jockey and musical producer, founder of Leo Records
* [Mark Feygin](/source/Mark_Feygin), (born 1971), Russian lawyer and human rights activist
* [Moisey Feigin](/source/Moisey_Feigin), (1904–2008), Russian artist
* [Movsas Feigins](/source/Movsas_Feigins), (1908–1950), Latvian chess master
* [Ralph Feigin](/source/Ralph_Feigin), (1938–2008), American pediatrician
* [Sarah Feigin](/source/Sarah_Feigin) (1928–2011), Latvian-born Israeli composer

==See also==
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* [Fagin](/source/Fagin), fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel ''Oliver Twist''

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Category:Jewish matronymic surnames
Category:Yiddish-language surnames

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