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'''Shapiro''' is a [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] [[surname]] which occasionally is said to be derived from the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] name of [[Speyer]], [[Germany]].[http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211201847AAyf0Dn] However, the word Shapiro is [[Aramaic]] (probably derived from the hebrew word ''sapir'' (ספיר), usually translated as "sapphire" but which refers not to the [[sapphire]] gemstone but to the [[lapis lazuli]] and reputed to be the stone which represented the tribe of [[Issachar]] on the breastplate of the high priest of Israel and thus identifying the Shapiro family with that tribe) and appears, for example, in the 11th Century Aramaic-language Jewish religious poem [[Akdamus]] a/k/a Akdamuth (line 45) and in [[Onkelos]]' commentary on [[Genesis]] 29:17. Onkelos' commentary, believed to have been written around 110 CE, long predated the naming of Speyer (as Spira) in approximately 500 CE, and therefore has given rise to a family tradition that the city was renamed for the family and not vice-versa.
Notable people with the surname include:
* [[Adam Shapiro]], American activist
* [[Alex Shapiro]], American composer
* [[Andrew Shapiro]], American composer
* [[Ari Shapiro]], a reporter with [[National Public Radio]]
* [[Arthur K. Shapiro]], psychiatrist and expert on the [[Tourette syndrome]] (1923–1995)
* [[Ascher H. Shapiro]], MIT professor and expert in the [[Fluid Dynamics]] (1916–2004)
* [[Ben Shapiro]], conservative American political columnist
* [[Bernard Shapiro]], academic, civil servant
* [[Beth Shapiro]], evolutionary biologist
* [[Betty Shapiro,DDS]], Dentist and Mother
* [[Carl Shapiro]], economist and mathematician
* [[Carol Harris-Shapiro]], Reconstructionist rabbi
* [[Chaim Elazar Shapiro]], rabbi
* [[Charles S. Shapiro]], American diplomat
* [[Christian Shapiro]], American writer
* [[Darin Shapiro]], American wakeboarder
* [[David Shapiro (poet)]], American poet
* [[David Shapiro]], American documentary maker, (Keep the River on Your Right), brother of Laurie Gwen Shapiro
* [[Dr.Doug Shapiro]], Anesthesiologist
* [[Ehud Shapiro]], scientist
* [[Elisha Shapiro]], American neo-Dada artist & presidential candidate.
* [[Ephraim Shapiro]],Orthodox rabbi
* [[Eric Shapiro]], American writer
* [[Florence Shapiro]], American politician
* [[Fred Shapiro]], American lawyer and fraudster
* [[Fred R. Shapiro]], American legal librarian and editor
* [[George Shapiro]], American Talent Producer
* [[Greg Shapiro]], Broadcast Engineer and Real Estate Investor
* [[Harold S. Shapiro]], mathematics professor
* [[Harold T. Shapiro]], American university president
* [[Helen Shapiro]], British singer
* [[Ian Shapiro]], American political scientist
* [[Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro]], mathematician
* [[Irwin I. Shapiro]], astrophysicist
* [[Ephraim Shapiro#Israel Shapiro|Israel Shapiro]], convicted sex offender
* [[Jacob Shapiro]], [[Jewish]] [[Mobster]]
* [[James Shapiro]], director of the ''Clinical Islet Transplant Program'' at the [[University of Alberta]]
* [[James S. Shapiro]], professor of English and Comparative Literature at [[Columbia University]] and non-fiction author
* [[Jamian Shapiro]], American musician and filmmaker
* [[Jeffrey Shapiro]]
* [[Jeremy Shapiro]]
* [[Jeremy J. Shapiro]]
* [[Jim Shapiro (drummer)|Jim Shapiro]], musician ([[Veruca Salt (band)|Veruca Salt]])
* [[Joel Shapiro]]
* [[Jonathan Shapiro]]
* [[Justine Shapiro]]
* [[Karl Jay Shapiro]], United States poet
* [[Laurie Gwen Shapiro]], American novelist and filmmaker
* [[Lee Shapiro]], American film maker, killed by the Soviet military in Afghanistan
* [[Linda Hopkins Shapiro]]
* [[Mark Shapiro]], general manager of the [[Cleveland Indians]] baseball team
* [[Marvin Shapiro]], Petroleum Geologist and World Traveler
* [[Meir Shapiro]], Orthodox rabbi
* [[Mendel Shapiro]]
* [[Meyer Shapiro]]
* [[Michael Shapiro]]
* [[Michael G. Shapiro]]
* [[Michael J. Shapiro]]
* [[Neal Shapiro]]
* [[Nelson Shapiro]], American musician
* [[Paul Shapiro]]
* [[Rashi Shapiro]], Orthodox rabbi, Jewish folk-rock musician, psychologist
* [[Refael Shapiro]], Orthodox rabbi
* [[Robert Shapiro]], celebrity defense lawyer
* [[Robert J. Shapiro]], economist
* [[Robert H. Shapiro]], (1935-2004) American chemist
* [[Sam Shapiro]]
* [[Saul Shapiro]]
* [[Shapiro (band)]], American pop-rock band
* [[Shel Shapiro]], British singer
* [[Sidney Shapiro]]
* [[Sophiline Cheam Shapiro]], Cambodian classical dance choreographer
* [[Stanley J. Shapiro]]
* Steve Shapiro, American Photographer
* [[Steve Shapiro]],American music producer
* [[Stewart Shapiro]], philosopher and logician
* [[Ted Shapiro]]
* [[Theodore Shapiro]]
* [[William Shapiro]], noted government attorney
==See also==
* [[Schapiro]]
* [[Spira]]
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