Montefiore

Montefiore, Montifiore, and Montefiori is a surname associated with the Montefiore family, Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from the Iberian Peninsula, namely Spain and Portugal, and also France, Morocco, England, and Italy. Meaning "flower mountain", its Ashkenazi equivalent would be "Blumberg" or "Bloomberg". Notable people with the surname include:

People

• Adam Montefiore (born 1957), British-born Israeli wine trade veteran and wine critic
• Alan Montefiore (born 1926), British philosopher and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1875–1954), British civil servant and historian, chief immigration officer in British Palestine 1921–1934
• Claude Montefiore (1858–1938), philosopher
• Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer
• Eliezer Levi Montefiore, businessman and art collector in Melbourne and Adelaide (nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow)
• Fausto Montefiore (1906–not known), Italian boxer
• Georges Montefiore-Levi (1832–1906), Belgian politician, inventor and philanthropist
• Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (born 1955), author, attorney, and journalist
• Hugh Montefiore (1920–2005), bishop of Birmingham 1977–1987 and environmentalist (born Hugh Sebag-Montefiore)
• Jacob Barrow Montefiore (1801–1895), Colonial Commissioner for South Australia resident in London (brother of Joseph Barrow, cousin to Sir Moses)
• Jacob Levi Montefiore (1819–1885), Australian politician (brother of Eliezer Levi, nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow)
• John Israel Montefiore (1807–1898), New Zealand trader and merchant
• Joseph Barrow Montefiore (1803–1893), merchant and financier in the Australian colonies (brother of Jacob Barrow, cousin to Sir Moses)
• Joseph Sebag-Montefiore (1822–1903) financier
• Judith Montefiore (1786–1862), British linguist, musician, and philanthropist, wife of Sir Moses
• Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885), prominent British financier, stockbroker, banker and philanthropist, husband of Judith
• Moses Eliezer Montefiore (born 1798?), probably brother of Jacob and Joseph Barrow
• Leonard A. Montefiore (1853–1879), British author and philanthropist
• Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961), Anglo-Jewish community leader and philanthropist
• Karlo Montefiore Gordeziani (1938–2005), Professor of Physics at Tbilisi State University, Georgia
• Santa Montefiore (born 1970), British author
• Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), British historian and author

Places

• Montefiore, a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, north of the Central Station
• Montefiore Conca, a municipality in the Province of Rimini, Italy
• Montefiore dell'Aso, a municipality in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in Italy
• Montefiore Hill, small hill with lookout and memorial in North Adelaide, South Australia, and named after Jacob Barrow Montefiore
• Montefiore Road, continuation of Morphett Street, Adelaide which leads up to Montefiore Hill

Hospitals

• Montefiore Medical Center, teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, located in the Norwood section of the Bronx
• Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, a teaching hospital in New Rochelle, New York
• Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, residential elderly care facilities in Hunters Hill and Woollahra
• The Montefiore Hospital in Hove, United Kingdom
• UPMC Montefiore, part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Schools

• Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine, one of the oldest primary care training programs in the U.S., active in Bronx
• Moses Montefiore Academy, special school of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for students with severe emotional disorders
• Montefiore House, Wessex Lane Halls of the University of Southampton
• The Montefiore Institute, the EECS département of the University of Liège

Synagogues

• B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery, in Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Congregation Montefiore Synagogue, historic synagogue in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah
• Montefiore Cemetery, Jewish cemetery in St. Albans, Queens, New York
• Moses Montefiore Congregation, synagogue in Bloomington, Illinois
• Montefiore Synagogue the former private synagogue of Sir Moses Montefiore, an 1833, Grade II* listed building in Ramsgate, Kent, England

Other

• Montefiore Club, a private social and business association, catering to the Jewish community, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Montefiore Windmill, a landmark windmill in Jerusalem, Israel

See also

• 782 Montefiore, minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Montefiore Hospital (disambiguation)