Margulies

Margulies (occasionally Margolies or Margolyes) is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות (Israeli Hebrew: [maʁɡaliˈjot]), meaning 'pearls'. Notable people with the surname include:

Ben Margulies, American songwriter and record producer
David Margulies (1937–2016), American actor
Donald Margulies (born 1954), American playwright
Jimmy Margulies (born 1951), American award-winning editorial cartoonist
Joseph Margulies (artist) (1896–1984), Vienna-born American painter and printmaker
Joseph Margulies (lawyer), American attorney and law professor
Julianna Margulies (born 1966), American actress
Lazar C. Margulies (1895–1982), physician and inventor of a type of Intrauterine device
Leo Margulies (1900–1975), American editor and publisher
Martin Margulies (born 1948), American musician/film producer better known as Johnny Legend
Martin Margulies, real-estate developer and collector of contemporary art and photography
Roni Margulies (1955–2023), Turkish poet and activist
Samuel Hirsch Margulies (1858–1922), rabbi and Jewish scholar
Susan Margulies, American engineer and professor
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941), British-Australian actress

See also