Spira (name) explained
Spira is a surname with a variety of origins. In Germany, the surname Spira originated as a corruption of Speyer, the name of a town in the Rhineland. It is one of a number of Jewish surnames that originated this way, along with the better-known Shapiro. Notable people with this name include:
Surname
- Camilla Spira (1906–1997), German film actress
- Chaim Elazar Spira (1868–1937), Polish Orthodox rabbi
- Elijah Spira (1660–1712), Czech rabbi
- Ella Spira, English composer
- Fred Spira (1924–2007), American photography innovator
- Fritz Spira (1881–1943), Austrian actor
- Harry Spira (died c. 2009), Australian veterinarian
- Henry Spira (1927–1988), animal rights activist
- Howard Spira (born 1959), American gambler and mobster
- Joel Spira (born 1981), Swedish actor
- Joel Spira (businessman) (1927–2015), American inventor and businessman
- Jonathan Spira (born 1961), American researcher and industry analyst
- Julie Spira, American author and media personality
- Lotte Spira (1883–1943), German actress
- Michael Spira (born 1944), British medical doctor
- Nathan Nata Spira (1585–1633), Polish rabbi and kabbalist
- Phyllis Spira (1943–2008), South African ballet dancer
- Rupert Spira (born 1960), English studio potter
- Steffie Spira (1908–1995), Austrian-born German actress
- Thomas Spira (1923–2005), Canadian historian
- Yisroel Spira (1889–1989), Polish-American rabbi
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