# Levitas

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**Levitas** is a surname of eastern ashkenazi origins, coming from a Greek form of [Levy](/source/Levy_(surname)).[1] Notable people with the surname include:

- [Andrew Levitas](/source/Andrew_Levitas) (born 1977), American artist
- [Elliott H. Levitas](/source/Elliott_H._Levitas) (1930–2022), American politician and lawyer
- [Eugene Levitas](/source/Eugene_Levitas) (born 1972), Soviet-Israeli composer
- [Ilya Levitas](/source/Ilya_Levitas) (1931–2014), Soviet journalist and humanitarian figure
- [Irving Levitas](/source/Irving_Levitas) (1910–1987), American Jewish scholar
- [Maurice Levitas](/source/Maurice_Levitas) (1917–2001), Irish academic and communist
- [Max Levitas](/source/Max_Levitas) (1915–2018), Irish communist activist
- [Ruth Levitas](/source/Ruth_Levitas) (born 1949), British sociologist
- [Sol Levitas](/source/Sol_Levitas) (1894–1961), Russian-American socialist and magazine editor
- [Valery I. Levitas](/source/Valery_I._Levitas), Ukrainian material scientist

## References

1. *Dictionary of American family names*. Second ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.

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