Auerbach and Averbuch is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow brook. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a meadow brook. Notable people with this surname include the following:
Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
Artie Auerbach (1903–1957), American comedian, press photographer
Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish writer
Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-Jewish philologist
Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor
Larry Auerbach (born 1923), iconic American television director
Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German anatomist (see Auerbach's plexus below)
Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Russian composer, pianist and poet.
Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
Stevanne Auerbach (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
Yuri Averbakh (born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster
A prominent family of rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach
Shmuel Auerbach
Ezriel (or Azriel) Auerbach
