Levin is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname derived from the tribe of Levi, whose descendants the Levites had distinctive duties in the Temple period.
It may also be a transliteration without diacritics of the Russian surname Лёвин (Lyovin).
People with the name "Levin" (and East Slavic feminine variant Levina) include:
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People
A–I
A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Adam K. Levin, former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and businessman in consumer credit-related businesses
Adam Levin, fiction author
Alan Levin (business), American businessmen, CFO of drug maker Pfizer
Alan Levin (filmmaker) (1926–2006), American filmmaker and journalist
Alan Levin (Internet governance), South African computer scientist and Internet activist
Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Levin (1871–1929), Russian chess player
Alter Levin (1883–1933), Hebrew writer and poet
Andy Levin (born 1960), US Democratic Representative from Michigan; son of Sander and nephew of Carl
Arnold Levin, New Yorker cartoonist
Aubrey Levin, psychiatrist and head of The Aversion Project
Bengt Levin (1958–2020), Swedish orienteering competitor
Benjamin Levin (born 1988), American record producer and songwriter known professionally as Benny Blanco
Bernard Levin, (1928–2004), British writer and broadcaster
Beth Levin (linguist), American linguist
Beth Levin (musician), American pianist
Bobby Levin, American bridge player
Burton Levin (1930–2016), American diplomat, former Ambassador to Burma
Camille Levin (born 1990), American soccer player
Carl Levin (1934–2021), US Democratic Senator from Michigan; brother of Sander Levin, cousin of Charles Levin and uncle of Andy Levin
Charles Levin (actor) (1949–2019), American actor
Charles Levin (judge) (1926–2020), American jurist; cousin of Carl and Sander Levin
Corey Levin (born 1994), American football player
Daniel Levin (attorney) (active 2004–2005), Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Justice Department
Daniel Levin (writer) (born c. 1980), American attorney and novelist
David L. Levin (born 1949), American politician from Missouri
David Levin (businessman) (born 1962), British businessman
David Levin (born 1999), Israeli ice hockey player
David Levin (singer), American singer-songwriter
David N. Levin (1948–2017), American balloonist
David P. Levin (born 1958), American producer, director, writer and editor
Diane Levin (born 1947), American author and educator
Diane Levin, American author and educator
Douglas Levin
Elinor Levin (born 1987), American politician
Eyal Levin (born 1986), Israeli Olympic sailor
Ezra G. Levin, American lawyer
Fred Levin (1937–2021), American lawyer
Gabe Levin (born 1994), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Gerald M. Levin (1939–2024), American businessman with Time Warner
Gilbert Levin, American engineer
Hanoch Levin (1943–1999), Israeli writer and theater director
Harold Levin, American violist, composer, and conductor
Harry Levin (1912–1994), American literary critic
Harvey Levin, TV and movie producer
Helen Phillips Levin, (1924–1985) disability rights activist and philanthropist
Hjördis Levin (born 1930), Swedish historian and author
Ingeborg Levin, German geoscientist and climatologist
Ira Levin (1929–2007), American novelist, playwright and songwriter
J–Z
Jack Levin, professor at Northeastern University and sociologist
Janice H. Levin (1913–2001), American philanthropist and art collector from New York City
Janna Levin, theoretical cosmologist
Jennifer Levin (1968–1986), murder victim in New York City's Central Park
Jill Levin (born 1961), American bridge player
Joe Levin, American lawyer
Jon Levin (born 1966), physicist (incorrect?)
Jonathan Levin (economist) (born 1972), American economist and academic
Jonathan Levin (footballer), Mexican footballer
Jonathan Levin (teacher) (1966–1997), American murder victim
Josef Lhévinne (1874–1944), Russian pianist
Kenneth Levin (born 1944), American psychiatrist and author
Leonid Levin (born 1948), Russian-born computer scientist
Lev Levin (1870–1938) Physician, born Odessa, executed during Stalin's purges
Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), first Jewish Representative to the U.S. Congress
Lori Levin, American computer scientist and computational linguist
Fictional characters
Kevin Levin, protagonist/antagonist from the television series Ben 10"
Konstantin Levin, a protagonist in Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina
Patti Levin, character in The Leftovers
Jack Levin, a character in the racing video game series F-Zero