Zweig (German for "twig" or "branch") is a German and Yiddish surname. A shortening of Rosenzweig ("Rose branch").[American Surnames by Elsdon C. Smith, page 263 in the 1972 printing, book first published in 1969] It is the surname of:
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Alan Zweig, Canadian documentary filmmaker
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Ann Strickler Zweig, American scientist
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Arnold Zweig (1887–1968), German writer and pacifist
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Esther Zweig (1906-1981), American author, composer and translator
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George Zweig (born 1937), American particle physicist and neurobiologist
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Martin Zweig (1942–2013), American stock investor and financial analyst
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Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian writer
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Stefan Jerzy Zweig (born 1941) Austrian (formerly Polish) author and camera operator, Holocaust survivor
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Stefanie Zweig (1932–2014), German writer
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Rabbi Yochanan Zweig (born 1942), American Rosh Yeshiva
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Zachi Zweig, birth name of Zachi Dvira, Israeli archaeologist
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