Chomsky (Belarusian: Хомскі, Russian: Хомский, Ukrainian: Хомський, Hebrew: חומסקי, "from (Vyoska) Khomsk (nearby Brest, now Belarus)") is a Belarus'-origin surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aviva Chomsky (born 1957), American historian
- Carol (Schatz) Chomsky (1930–2008), American linguist and wife of Noam Chomsky
- Elsie Chomsky, American educator
- Judith Chomsky (born 1942), American human rights lawyer and co-founder of the Juvenile Law Center
- Marvin J. Chomsky (born 1929), American television and film director
- Avram Noam Chomsky (born 1928), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at MIT, known for early work in transformational grammar and A.I.
- William Chomsky (1896–1977), American scholar of Hebrew
- Pavel Osipovich Khomsky (Russian: Павел Осипович Хомский)
It might be noted that Elsie, William, Avram Noam, Carol, Marvin, and Aviva are all closely related. William and Elsie were husband and wife. Avram Noam is their son. Carol and Avram Noam were married until Carol's death in 2008; Aviva is their daughter. Marvin is Avram Noam's cousin. Also, Judith is Avram Noam's sister in-law.
Famous quotes containing the word chomsky:
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)