Axelrod

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Axelrod or Akselrod (variant: Axelrad, meaning "axle wheel") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Albert Axelrod (1921–2004), American Olympic medalist foil fencer
  • Barry Axelrod (born 1946), American sports agent
  • Beth Axelrod, American executive
  • Daniel I. Axelrod (1910–1998), American paleoecologist, botanist, and geologist, known by author abbreviation "Axelrod"
  • David Axelrod (born 1955), American political consultant who worked on campaigns of Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley
  • David Axelrod (musician) (1936–2017), American classical musician
  • Donald Axelrod (1916–1999), American academic
  • Dylan Axelrod (born 1985), American MLB baseball player
  • Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod (born 1987), American-Israeli soprano
  • George Axelrod (1922–2003), American screenwriter, producer, playwright, and film director
  • Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), American author, publisher and ichthyologist
  • Jason David Axelrod AKA David Ha'ivri (born 1967), Jewish-Israeli settler activist and spokesman
  • Jim Axelrod (born 1963), American reporter for CBS
  • John Axelrod (born 1966), American conductor
  • Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), American biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970
  • Lyubov Axelrod (1868–1946), Russian Marxist philosopher and revolutionary
  • Max M. Axelrod (1911–2004), American philanthropist and activist
  • Meer Akselrod (1902–1970), Russian painter known for paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
  • Paul Axelrod (born 1949), British author and professor and dean at York University
  • Pavel Akselrod (1850–1928), also spelled Pavel Axelrod, Russian Menshevik revolutionary
  • Robert Axelrod (born 1943), American professor of political science at the University of Michigan who has written about the evolution of cooperation
  • Robert Axelrod (actor) (1949–2019), American actor who has been in movies and TV shows, often as a voice actor
  • Victor Axelrod, American independent music producer and artist