Ephraim (given name)

Ephraim (also Efraim) is a masculine given name of Hebrew and Aramaic origin, first used by the Israelite patriarch of that name. In the modern English language it is typically pronounced /'i:f.rəm/. In Hebrew, the name means "fruitful, fertile and productive".

Alternative spellings include Ephrem, Efrem, Efreom, Ephraem, Efren, or Efrén.

People

Ephraim

  • Ephraim the Syrian (c. 306–373), Syrian Christian theologian, writer, hymnographer and saint
  • Ephraim of Antioch (died 545), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and saint
  • Ephraim the Neomartyr (1384–1426), Greek martyr and saint
  • Ephraim Amu (1899–1995), Ghanaian composer
  • Ephraim Anderson (1911–2006), British bacteriologist
  • Ephraim Wales Bull (1806-1895), creator of the Concord grape
  • Ephraim Willard Burr (1809–1894), American politician
  • Ephraim Chambers (1680–1740), English writer
  • Ephraim Clarke (1846–1921), Australian politician
  • Ephraim Curzon (1883–?), English rugby league footballer
  • Ephraim Ellis (born 1985), Canadian actor
  • Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), American medievalist historian
  • Ephraim Evron (1920–1995), Israeli diplomat
  • Ephraim S. Fisher (1815–1876), American judge
  • Ephraim Grizzard (died 1892), American lynching victim
  • Ephraim Hanson (1872–1952), justice of the Utah Supreme Court
  • Ephraim Hart (1747–1825), American merchant
  • Ephraim P. Holmes (1908–1997), American admiral
  • Ephraim Jones (1750–1812), Canadian judge and politician
  • Ephraim Katz (1932–1992), Israeli-born American film historian
  • Ephraim Katzir (1916–2009), Israeli politician
  • Ephraim Keyser (1850–1937), American sculptor
  • Ephraim Kishon (1924–2005), Israeli writer
  • Ephraim Lederer (1862–1925), American lawyer
  • Ephraim Lewis (1968–1994), English singer-songwriter
  • Ephraim Lipson (1888–1960), British economic historian
  • Ephraim McDowell (1771–1830), American physician
  • Ephraim Morse (1823–1906), American businessman
  • Ephraim Oshry (1914–2003), Lithuanian-born American rabbi
  • Ephraim G. Peyton (1802–after 1876), American judge
  • Ephraim Salaam (born 1976), American football player
  • Ephraim Shay (1839–1916), American inventor
  • Ephraim Sidon (born 1946), Israeli author
  • Ephraim Sklyansky (1892–1925), Russian revolutionary
  • Ephraim M. Sparrow (1928–2019), American engineering professor
  • Ephraim Stern (1934–2018), Israeli archaeologist
  • Ephraim Titler (1800–?), Liberian politician
  • Ephraim Williams (1715–1755), American soldier
  • Ephraim King Wilson (1771–1834), American politician
  • Ephraim K. Wilson II (1821–1891), American politician

Efraim

Efraím

Fictional characters

  • Ephraim Black, in the Twilight series
  • Ephraim Brown, in the TV series Everwood
  • Ephraim Cabot, in the play Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill, as well as a 1958 film adaptation
  • Ephraim Goodweather, in the 2009 horror novel The Strain by Guillermo del Toro
  • Ephraim Lapham, in the 1943 novel Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
  • Ephraim Tutt, in the novels of Arthur Train
  • Prince Ephraim, one of the two main characters of the 2004 video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
  • Ephraim Winslow, in the 2019 film The Lighthouse
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