Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Another variant is Aberbach. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a town or village called Auerbach. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Abraham Auerbach (died 1846), German rabbi
• Abraham Dov Auerbach (1926–2008), Israeli rabbi
• Abraham Dov Auerbach (Tiberias) (1935–2021), Israeli rabbi
• Alan J. Auerbach (born 1951), American economist
• Alexander Auerbach (born 1988), German handball player
• Alexander Andreevich Auerbach (1844–1916), Russian mining engineer, industrialist, creator and organizer of production, scientist
• Alfred Auerbach (1873–1954), German actor and writer
• Arnold Auerbach (disambiguation), multiple people
• Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
• Artie Auerbach (1903–1957), American comedian, press photographer
• Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 19th centuries
• Baruch Auerbach (1793–1864), German-Jewish educator
• Beatrice Fox Auerbach (1887–1968), philanthropist, president and director of G. Fox & Co. from 1938 to 1959
• Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
• Benjamin Auerbach (1855–1940), German physician
• Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach (1808–1872), German rabbi and one of the most prominent leaders of modern Orthodox Judaism
• Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
• Chaim Auerbach (1839–?), Polish rabbi
• Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), Israeli rabbi
• Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
• Christopher Auerbach-Brown (born 1970), American composer and music educator
• Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach (1900–1997), German musicologist and author
• Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
• Dathan Auerbach, author of the novel Penpal
• David Auerbach, American writer with a background in software engineering
• Doron Aurbach (born 1952), Israeli electrochemist, materials and surface scientist
• Eldad Auerbach (1914–2003), Israeli military man and businessman
• Elizaveta Borisovna Auerbach (1912–1995), Soviet actress of theater and cinema, pop, writer
• Ella Auerbach (1900–1999), one of the first female German lawyers
• Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
• Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
• Ephraim Auerbach (1892-1973), Yiddish writer, poet, editor and translator
• Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-born American scholar of literature
• Ezriel Auerbach (born 1937), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek
• Felix Auerbach (1856–1933), German physicist
• Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
• Friedrich Auerbach (1870–1925), German chemist
• Gary Auerbach, American television and film writer, director and producer
• Gerhard Auerbach, German football player
• Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
• Herbert S. Auerbach (1882–1945), Jewish businessman and politician
• Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
• Ilya Auerbach (also known as Ilya Averbakh), Russian Jewish filmmaker
• Inge Auerbacher (born 1934), German-American chemist and Holocaust survivor with essentially the same name (meaning "someone from a meadow brook")
• Isaac Auerbach (architect) (1827–1875), German architect
• Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992), early advocate and pioneer of computing technologies
• Yitzhak Auerbach (1877–1951), Israeli rabbi
• Itzhak Itzik Auerbach (1846-?), Polish rabbi
• Ivan Bogdanovich Auerbach (1815–1867), Russian geologist and mineralogist, professor
• Jacob Auerbach (1810–1887), German educator and writer
• Jake Auerbach (born 1958), British film maker specialising in documentary subjects
• Jerold Auerbach (born 1936), American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College
• John Auerbach (1922–2002), Israeli writer in the English
• Johann Gottfried Auerbach (1697–1753), Austrian painter and etcher
• Johann Karl Auerbach (1723–1780s), Austrian painter
• Joseph Danziger Auerbach, Yiddish writer
• Larry Auerbach (1923–2014), American television director and National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America
• Leonore Auerbach (born 1933), German politician
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German physician
• Leopold Auerbach (jurist) (1847–1925), German jurist and historian
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
• Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967), American artist
• Ludwig Auerbach (1840–1882), German merchant, jeweler and poet
• Marian Auerbach (1882–1941), also known as Majer Auerbach (1882–1941), Polish classical philologist of Jewish background
• Max Auerbach (1879–1968), German zoologist known for his research of Cnidospora
• Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Menachem Nata Auerbach (1858–1930), Rabbi in the Land of Israel
• Menahem Mendel Auerbach (1620–1689), Austrian rabbi, banker, and commentator
• Neil Auerbach (born 1958), private equity investor known for his leadership role in clean energy investment
• Nikolai Konstantinovich Auerbach (1892–1930), Soviet scientist, archaeologist, local historian, public figure
• Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
• Paul Auerbach (1951–2021), American physician and author in the discipline, wilderness medicine
• Philipp Auerbach (1906–1952), Head of the Bavarian State Compensation Office
• Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
• Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
• Rokhl Auerbakh (1903–1976), Polish-Israeli writer, essayist, historian, and Holocaust scholar
• Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel
• Shona Auerbach, British film director and cinematographer
• Siegmund Auerbach (1866–1923), German neurologist
• Sol Auerbach (1906–1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
• Solomon Heymann Auerbach (died 1836), Hebrew scholar and translator
• Stephen Auerbach, American filmmaker
• Stevanne Auerbach (1938–2022), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
• Tauba Auerbach (born 1981), visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists' books, photography, and sculpture
• Taylor Auerbach (born 1991), Australian journalist who rose to prominence after becoming the youngest ever winner of the Australian Millionaire Hot Seat
• Thomas Auerbach (1947–2020), civil rights activist in the GDR and until 2009 employee of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi documents
• Walter Auerbach (1905–1975), German social-democratic politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
• Wilfried Auerbach (born 1960), Austrian rower
• Willi Auerbach (born 1980), German illusionist, magician
• Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
• Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022), Russian chess grandmaster with the Russianized form of the name

• A prominent family of rabbis in Jerusalem, including:
  • Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jerusalem neighborhood Ramat Shlomo is named after Rabbi Auerbach
  • Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883–1954), Ashkenazi rabbi and rosh yeshiva
  • Shmuel Auerbach (1931-2018), prominent Haredi rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel
  • Ezriel Auerbach (or Azriel Auerbach) (born 1937), prominent Haredi rabbi and posek. He is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, two renowned poskim. He was considered Rabbi Elyashiv's right-hand man in matters of halakha

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