Feigin Explained

Feigin (Feygin, Feigins, Fejgin, Faygin) is a Jewish surname. It is a matronymic surname derived from the Yiddish female name Feig, Feige, Feiga. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexandra Feigin (born 2002), Bulgarian figure skater
• Anatol Fejgin (1909–2002), Polish communist
• Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski born Fejgin (1935–2012), Polish journalist
• Dov Feigin, (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor
• Leo Feigin, also known as Aleksei Leonidov, disk jockey and musical producer, founder of Leo Records
• Mark Feygin, (born 1971), Russian human rights activist
• Moisey Feigin, (1904–2008), Russian artist
• Movsas Feigins, (1908–1950), Latvian chess master

See also

• Fagin, a fictional antisemitic character who appears in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist