Slonimsky is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname popular among people of Belarusian, Polish and Russian people of Jewish origin. It means "a person from the city of Slonim".
Notable persons with this surname include the following:
Polish poet
Polish-French geneticist
Hebrew publisher, astronomer, inventor, and science author (known as Zinovy Slonimsky in Russia)
Russian economist, journalist and editor, son of Hayyim Selig (Zinovy) Slonimski
Soviet writer; younger brother of Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian-American musicologist and music critic
Russian composer, son of Mikhail SlonimskyA surname with a similar meaning is Slonim:
American author, physician and healthcare executive
Russian politician, literary critic, scholar and translator
Canadian rabbi and journalist
professor of social work at the Spitzer Department of Social Work in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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