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Lifshitz (or Lifschitz) is a surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz).

The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz, Lifschitz, Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lifshutz, Lefschetz; Lipschitz (Lipshitz), Lipshits, Lipchitz, Lipschutz (Lipschütz), Lipshutz, Lipsitz, Lüpschütz; Libschitz; Livshits; Livshitz; Lifszyc, Lipszyc.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Ada Yonath born Ada Esther Lifshitz (1939–2026), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate
• Asaf Lifshitz (1942–2025), Israeli sculptor
• Chava Lifshitz (1936–2005), Austrian-Israeli chemist
• Deborah Lifchitz or Lifszyc (1907–1942), Polish-French ethnologist and linguist
• Dovid Lifshitz (1906–1993), Suvalker Rav, taught at Yeshiva University
• Rabbi Eliezer Meir Lifshitz (1879–1946), for whom the Lifshitz College of Education was named
• Evgeny Lifshitz (1915–1985), Soviet physicist
• Ilya Lifshitz (1917–1982), Soviet physicist (brother of Evgeny)
• J. D. Lifshitz (born 1992), American film director
• May Simón Lifschitz (born 1995), actress and transgender model of Danish and Argentinian descent
• Miguel Lifschitz (1955–2021), Argentine politician, former mayor of the city of Rosario, Santa Fe
• Mikhail Lifshitz (1905–1983), Soviet literary critic and aesthetics philosopher
• Mosze Lifszyc (Aleksander Ford, 1908–1980), Polish film director
• Nechama Lifshitz (1927–2017), Soviet–Israeli singer
• Ofer Lifschitz (born 1958), chairman of Brit Olam party, Israel
• Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifshitz 1939), American fashion designer and business executive
• Sébastien Lifshitz (born 1968), French screenwriter and director
• Vladimir Lifschitz (born 1947), Soviet-American computer scientist
• Yaron Lifschitz (born 1970), Australian theatre director most notable for his involvement in the circus arts