Avigdor (name) explained

Avigdor (he|אביגדור, also Abigdor, Awigdor, from I Chronicles 4.18, = Avi Gedor) is a Hebrew masculine given-name.

See also: Victor (name).

Given name

• Avigdor Aptowitzer
• Avigdor Arikha (1929–2010), Israeli-French painter, printmaker, and art historian
• Avigdor Ben-Gal (1936–2016), Israeli general
• Abigdor Cohen of Vienna, Austrian Talmudist
• Avigdor Dagan (1912–2006), also known as Viktor Fischl, Israeli writer, playwright and diplomat
• Avigdor Eskin, Russian-Israeli political activist
• Avigdor Glogauer (–1810), German grammarian and poet
• Avigdor Kahalani, Israeli soldier and politician
• Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party
• Avigdor Miller (1908–2001), American rabbi, author and lecturer
• Avigdor Moskowitz (born 1953), Israeli basketball player
• Avigdor Nebenzahl, former chief rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem
• Avigdor Stematsky (1908–1989), Israeli painter
• Avigdor Yitzhaki, Israeli politician, former member of the Knesset for Kadima
• Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

Surname

• Avigdor family (or d'Avigdor), Italian-French and later German and British Jewish pedigree; (de)
• Abraham Abigdor (born 1350), French-Jewish physician, philosopher, and translator
• Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
• James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
• Jacob Avigdor (1896–1967), also known as Yaakov Avigdor, author and rabbi in Poland and Mexico
• Isaac C. Avigdor (1920–2010), rabbi, son of Jacob Avigdor
• Solomon Avigdor (born 1384), French-Jewish translator of Hebrew