Tiomkin
Temkin, Tyomkin, or Tiomkin (feminine: Temkina, Tyomkina, Temkina, or Tiomkina) are different transliterations of a Russian-language surname Тёмкин/Тёмкина.
In at least in one case – Elizabeth Temkina – the surname is the truncation of the surname Potemkin, which was sometimes done when naming illegitimate children of aristocrats in the Russian Empire.
As a Jewish surname, it can me a matronymic surname derived from the diminutive (see Jewish surnames#Ashkenazi Jewish communities) "Temka" (טֶמֶקֶה) of the feminine name "Tema" (טֶמֶה).
Notable people with the surname include:
Aaron Temkin Beck (1921–2021), American psychiatrist
Ann Temkin, American art curator
Binyamin Temkin (born 1945), Israeli politician
Brad Temkin, American photographer
Deborah Temkin (born 1985), American child development scientist
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979), Russian and American film composer and conductor
Dimitri Tyomkin (born 1977), Canadian chess grandmaster
Elizabeth Temkina (1774–1854), alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin
Jonathan Tiomkin (born 1979), American fencer
Larry Temkin, American philosopher
Merle Temkin, American painter, sculptor and installation artist
Michal Temkin Martinez, American linguist
Nancy Temkin, American statistician
Owsei Temkin (1902–2002), Russian-born American medical historian
Moshik Temkin, American historian
Richard J. Temkin (born 1945), American physicist
Todd Temkin (born 1964), American poet
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