Dworkin or Dvorkin () is a Jewish (Eastern Ashkenazic) surname originating from the diminutive Dvorke/Dvorka of the Yiddish form Dvoyre/Dviyra of the Hebrew given name Deborah. In Slavic countries it is strictly masculine, with the feminine counterpart being Dworkina or Dvorkina. Notable people with the surname include:
Aaron Dworkin (born 1970), American musician and activist Alexander Dvorkin, a sectologist, linked to Russian Orthodox Church Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), American feminist writer Barbara Lee Dworkin (born 1932), American preservationist and author Cora Dvorkin, Argentine physicist Craig Dworkin, American poet and Professor of English Dan Dworkin (born 1972), American screenwriter and television producer David Dworkin (born 1934), American musician Dorothy Dworkin (1889–1976), Canadian nurse, businesswoman and philanthropist Gerald Dworkin (born 1937), American legal philosopher Howard Dvorkin, American finance expert Jeffrey Dvorkin, American journalist Judith Dvorkin (1928–1995), American composer and librettist Ilya Dvorkin, Russian-Israeli historian Keith Dworkin, American playwright Mark J. Dworkin (1946–2012), Canadian writer Polina Dvorkina (born 2002), perpetrator of the 2022 Krasnoyarsk kindergarten shooting Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013), American legal philosopher Ronald W. Dworkin, American anesthesiologist (born 1936), Russian commanding officer, ballistic missiles designer, and statesman
See also Dorkin Dwoskin Dvořák (name), including Dworzak, Dworak
References (cited by ancestry.com: Dworkin Name Meaning)