Klee (surname)
Klee (Yiddish: קליי) is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Variations include Kleefeld, Kleeblatt, Kleiman, Kleeman, and Kleeberg. In German, it means 'clover' and is most likely a topographical name like Feldman.
The Grave of Yakov Klee at Lipany
According to the Beit Hatfutsot, the name Klee originates from the Greek word Kalonymos (Hebrew: קלונימוס), which Jews took as an equivalent for the Hebrew "shem tov" (שם טוב), meaning "good name". Klee and Kleemann are recorded as Jewish family names in late 18th-century Alsace in France. [1]
People with the name Klee
The Stolperstein of Helene Klee, 6 Friedrichstraße, Andernach, Germany
- Alfred Klee (1875–1943), prominent Zionist leader
- Bernhard Klee (born 1936), German conductor
- Carsten Klee (born 1970), German footballer
- Ernst Klee (1942–2013), German teacher, writer, and filmmaker of works about the Holocaust
- de:Esther Eugenie Klee-Rawidowicz (1900–1980), German-Jewish biologist, wife of the Polish-born American Jewish philosopher Simon Rawidowicz (1897–1957)
- de:Flora Klee-Palyi (1893–1961), Jewish Hungarian illustrator, translator, and editor
- Heinrich Klee (1800–1840), German theologian
- Karl Heinz Klee (1930–2008), Austrian sports official
- Ken Klee (born 1971), American professional ice hockey player
- Miguel Klee (born 1977), Guatemalan football goalkeeper
- Ollie Klee (1900–1977), outfielder in Major League Baseball
- Patricia Klee, American politician
- Paul Klee (1879–1940), German-Swiss painter
- Ruth Judith Klee (1901–1942), family friend of Anne Frank
- Victor Klee (1925–2007), mathematician
- Waldemar Gøthrik Klee (1853–1891), Californian horticulturist
People with the name Kleeblatt
- Norman Kleeblatt, curator at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan)
People with the name Kleiman
Naum Kleiman - Odessa International Film Festival - 17 July 2010 - 1
- Ariel Kleiman (born 1985), Australian director
- Bernard Kleiman (1928–2006), lawyer
- Dave Kleiman (1967–2013), American forensic computer expert
- Devra G. Kleiman (1942–2010), American biologist
- Johannes Kleiman (1896–1959), Dutch helper of the Frank family
- Mark A. R. Kleiman (born 1951), American academic drug policy authority
- Michael Kleiman, documentary filmmaker
- Naum Kleiman (born 1937), historian of cinema
- Pascal Kleiman (born 1968), disc jockey
- Steven Kleiman (born 1942), American mathematician
- Vladimir Kleiman (1930–2014), Russian scientist
Käte und Wolfgang Stresemann 1906
People with the name Kleeman
- Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986), American writer
- Jenny Kleeman, Jewish-British documentary film-maker and journalist
- Otto Kleemann (1855–1936), American architect
- Wilhelm Kleemann (1869–1969), Jewish banker
People with the name Kleefeld
- Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, American poet and author
- Hans Kleefeld (1929–2016), Canadian designer
- Käte Stresemann (1883–1970), née Kleefeld, a German woman
- Kurt von Kleefeld (1881–1934), German lawyer
People with the name Kleegman
- Sophia Kleegman, Russian American obstetrician, gynecologist, and sex education advocate
References
- "KLEE Origin of surname". dbs.anumuseum.org.il/skn/he/c6/BH. The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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