Kaplan or Caplan is a Jewish or Turkish family name that may also refer to one of the following: The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... A family name, surname, or last name is the part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ...

An interesting point is that immigrants of Jewish origin arriving at the port of Baltimore received a "C" - Caplan, whereas those who arrived at the port of New York City (Ellis Island), received a "K" - Kaplan^[1]. For more history on the name, see Kaplan. Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main immigration port for immigrants entering the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Kaplan or Caplan is a Jewish family name styled from Cohen or a Turkish surname, where it means tiger. ...

For the for-profit education company, see Kaplan, Inc. Kaplan, Inc. ...

Kaplan

People

• Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian artist and painter
• Aryeh Kaplan
• Boruch Kaplan, Rabbi and educator.
• Bruce Eric Kaplan
• David Kaplan (radio)
• David Kaplan (author)
• David Kaplan (film critic)
• David Kaplan (philosopher)
• David L. Kaplan
• Drew Alan Kaplan, founder of DAK Industries
• Edith Kaplan, led the creation of a neuropsychological test battery.
• Fanya Kaplan
• Gabe Kaplan
• Gilbert Kaplan
• Irving Kaplan, an MIT professor
• Kivie Kaplan
• Marty Kaplan
• Matt Kaplan, film producer, writer
• Melissa Kaplan, musician/singer, Splashdown (band) and Universal Hall Pass
• Melvin Kaplan, oboist and founder of the [[Vermont Mozart

Festival]] Anatoli (Tankhum) Lvovich Kaplan was a Russian Jewish painter, sculptor and printmaker, born 26th December, 1902 in Rogachev (now in Belarus), died 1980 in Leningrad, (now St. ... Aryeh Kaplan (1934 - 1983) was a noted rabbi and author, who had a background in both physics and Judaism. ... Boruch Kaplan (also spelled Borach Kaplan) was a survivor of the 1929 Hebron massacre who notably blamed Zionists for inciting the violence. ... Bruce Eric Kaplan, known as BEK, is an American cartoonist whose single panel cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker. ... David Kaplan is an American radio personality. ... David Kaplan is a scholar of new religious movements, among other things. ... David Kaplan is a film critic published as part of the Kaplan vs. ... David Benjamin Kaplan (1933) is an American philosopher and logician teaching at UCLA. He is known in particular for his work on demonstratives, on propositions, and on reference in opaque (intensional) contexts. ... David Leon Kaplan (born December 12, 1923) is a Canadian professor, performer and conductor. ... The DAK Catalog was published by DAK Industries a discount electronics importer in the United States, and was named after the initials of the companys owner, Drew Alan Kaplan. ... Edith Kaplan is a respected pioneer of neuropsychological tests who did most of her work in the Boston area. ... Neuropsychological tests are specifically designed tasks used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. ... Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan, in 1907 Faina Yefimovna Kaplan (Фаина Ефимовна Каплан; 1883–September 3, 1918), a. ... Gabe Kaplan at the 1979 World Series of Poker Gabe Kaplan (born March 31, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and professional poker player. ... Gilbert Kaplan is a businessman and amateur conductor. ... Irving Kaplan worked in the United States Department of the Treasury and for the Foreign Economic Administration. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Kivie Kaplan (1904–1975) was a Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist from Boston, Massachusetts he led the NAACP. He served as president of the NAACP from 1966 to 1975. ... Marty Kaplan is Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Splashdown, formed in Allston, Massachusetts in 1996, was an American pop rock band. ... Universal Hall Pass is a one-person band based out of Los Angeles, California which was first formed in 2004 by Melissa Kaplan, formerly of Splashdown. ... Melvin (Mel) Kaplan is a renowned American oboist, concert manager, and teacher at the Juilliard School for 25 years. ...

• Metin Kaplan
• Michael Kaplan
• Mordecai Kaplan
• Morton Kaplan
• Murat Kaplan
• Nathan Kaplan
• Philip J. Kaplan
• Robert D. Kaplan, American journalist
• Robert P. "Bob" Kaplan, Canadian politician
• Robert S. Kaplan, business school professor
• Stanley Kaplan, founder of Kaplan, Inc.
• Steve Kaplan, see also Beta Israel.
• Viktor Kaplan, invented Kaplan turbine.
• Vivian Jeanette Kaplan, author - "Ten Green Bottles"

Metin Kaplan (born November 14, 1952, in the Turkish province of Erzurum) is the leader of the radical Islamist movement Kalifatsstaat (caliphate state) which is based in Cologne, Germany. ... There are several people named Michael Kaplan: Michael Kaplan, (b. ... Rabbi Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881- November 8, 1983) founded Reconstructionist Judaism. ... Morton A. Kaplan (born May 9, 1921) is the editor of World&I magazine, which is published by the Washington Times Corporation. ... Murat Kaplan (born Italy, May 25, 1962) is a Belgian criminal of Albanic descent. ... Kid Dropper Nathan Kaplan [Caplan] (1891/1895-August 23, 1923), also known as Jack the Dropper, was a leading Jewish gangster controlling labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-WWI period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s. ... Philip J. Kaplan, a. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Robert E. Bob Kaplan, MHA is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of NCQA, the National Committee for Quality Assurance. ... Robert S. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and co-creator, together with David Norton, of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a companys current actions to its long-term goals. ... Kaplan, Inc. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... The Beta Israel (Hebrew: , Geez ቤተ፡ እስራኤል Bēta Isrāēl, Amharic Bēte Isrāēl, from Aramaic for House of Israel), also known by the term Falasha (Amharic for Exiles or Strangers, as they were called by non-Jewish Ethiopians), a term that may be considered pejorative, are Jews of... Viktor Kaplan Viktor Kaplan (November 27, 1876 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria - August 23, 1934 in Unterach am Attersee, Austria) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. ... A Bonneville Dam Kaplan turbine after 61 years of service The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine that has adjustable blades. ...

Places

• Kaplan, Louisiana
• Mount Kaplan

Kaplan is a small city located in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. ... Mount Kaplan is a massive mountain, the highest in the Hughes Range of Antarctica, standing 5 km (3 mi) southeast of Mount Wexler. ...

Fictional

• George Kaplan, the fabricated American agent for whom Roger O Thornhill is mistaken in North by Northwest

Bradley Carlton (born George Kaplan) is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. ... North by Northwest is a 1959 MGM comic thriller by Alfred Hitchcock and is generally considered one of his best works. ...

Other

• Kaplan, Inc.
• Kaplan Foundation
• Kaplan turbine
• KATC Tower Kaplan

Kaplan, Inc. ... Foundation dedicated to the scholarship and preservation of the music of Gustav Mahler set up by amateur conductor and businessman Gilbert Kaplan. ... A Bonneville Dam Kaplan turbine after 61 years of service The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine that has adjustable blades. ... KATC Tower Kaplan is a 546. ...

Caplan

People

• Arthur Caplan
• Bryan Caplan
• David Caplan
• Elinor Caplan
• Lizzy Caplan
• Philip Caplan
• Scott Allen Caplan

Arthur L. Caplan is Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Bryan D. Caplan Bryan Caplan (b. ... David Caplan (born November 15, 1964) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. ... Hon. ... Elizabeth Anne Caplan (born June 30, 1982 in Los Angeles, California), better known as Lizzy Caplan, is an American actress. ... Philip Caplan is a Jewish American retired physicist and author of The Puzzle of the 613 Commandments - And Why Bother, a book examining the tradition in Judaism that the Torah contains 613 mitzvot (commandments). ... Scott Allen Caplan is a guerilla-style journalist who is a VC^2 producer at Current TV. Two of his videos are currently being aired on their network. ...

Places

• Caplan, Québec (fr:Caplan_(Québec)

References

1. ^ http://www.avotaynu.com/jagenealogy.htm

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