Efron Explained

Efron is a Jewish surname.^[1] It is taken from the Biblical place name, he|עפרון. Another version to it is the demonym Efroni (Hebrew: עפרוני).

Notable people with the surname include:

• Bradley Efron (born 1938), American statistician
• Edith Efron (1922–2001), American libertarian
• Inés Efron (born 1984), Argentine actress
• Jonathan Efron, U.S. colorectal surgeon
• Marshall Efron (1938-2019), American actor
• Nora Ephron (1941–2012) playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director
• Paloma Efron (1912–1977), Argentine singer
• Sergei Efron (1893–1941), Russian poet, officer of White Army and later NKVD agent
• Zac Efron (born 1987), American actor

See also

• Efron's dice, a set of four nontransitive dice invented by Bradley Efron
• Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
• Ephron
• Effron
• (born 1959), an editor and author in Sweden

Notes and References

1. Web site: Efron Name Meaning & Efron Family History at Ancestry.com. ancestry.com. 2014-08-30.