Temkin

Temkin, Tyomkin, or Tiomkin (feminine: Temkina, Tyomkina, Temkina, or Tiomkina) are different transliterations of a Russian-language surname Тёмкин/Тёмкина.

In at least in one case – Elizabeth Temkina – the surname is the truncation of the surname Potemkin, which was sometimes done when naming illegitimate children of aristocrats in the Russian Empire.

Notable people with the surname include:

*Aaron Temkin Beck (1921–2021), American psychiatrist *Ann Temkin, American art curator *Binyamin Temkin (born 1945), Israeli politician *Brad Temkin, American photographer *Deborah Temkin (born 1985), American child development scientist *Dimitri Tiomkin (1894–1979), Russian and American film composer and conductor *Dimitri Tyomkin (born 1977), Canadian chess grandmaster *Elizabeth Temkina (1774–1854), alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin *Jonathan Tiomkin (born 1979), American Olympic foil fencer *Larry Temkin, American philosopher *Merle Temkin, American painter, sculptor and installation artist *Michal Temkin Martinez, American linguist *Nancy Temkin, American statistician *Owsei Temkin (1902–2002), Russian-born American medical historian *Moshik Temkin, American historian *Richard J. Temkin (born 1945), American physicist *Todd Temkin (born 1964), American poet Provided by Wikipedia