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Ze'ev. Ze'ev ( Hebrew: זְאֵב, Zeév ), also spelled Zeev or Zev, is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning wolf. The name is used primarily among Ashkenazi Jews, [citation needed] and often paired with the name Benjamin (referencing the description of Benjamin in Genesis as a "wolf that raveneth") or the Yiddish name "Volf ...
Randall (given name) Randall is derived from a medieval name composed of two elements: "shield" or "rim" + "wolf". Randall / ˈrændl / is a masculine given name in English, Irish and German. Its modern use as a given name originates from the transferred use of the English–language surname Randall, which in turn is derived from Randolph .
Lazar. Lazar ( JPA: לִיעֶזֶר or לָעְזָר, romanized: Lāzār, Russian: Лазарь, romanized : Lazar; Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian: Лазар, romanized: Lazar) is a male given name or a surname. An abbreviation of the Hebrew name אֶלְעָזָר Eleazar or אֱלִיעֶזֶר Eliezer meaning 'God has helped' [ 1 ...
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Volkov (b. 1954), Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Volkov (crater), a lunar crater bearing his name. 1790 Volkov, an asteroid bearing his name. Yefim Volkov (1844–1920), Russian landscape painter.
Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology. The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America (corresponding to the historical extent of the habitat of the gray wolf), and also plays a role in ancient European cultures. The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf arises from ...
Anglicisation of non-English-language names was common for immigrants, or even visitors, to English-speaking countries. An example is the German composer Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach", who was known as "John Bach" after emigrating to England.
Vuk ( Serbian Cyrillic: Вук) ( listen ⓘ) is a male Slavic given name, predominantly recorded among Serbs as well as Croatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Slovenes. The name literally means "wolf". [1] Vuk Karadžić, 19th-century Serbian philologist and ethnographer, explained the traditional, apotropaic use of the name: a woman who had ...
Rudolf Wolf (1816–1893), Swiss astronomer and mathematician Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995), British physicist Rudolf Wagner (1805–1864), German anatomist and physiologist and the discoverer of the germinal vesicle