title: Naum
text: # Naum
  
  Naum may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Saint Naum (c. 830–910), medieval Bulgarian writer and missionary
  * Naum (biblical figure) or Nahum, a minor prophet; or a figure mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus
  * Naum (metropolitan) (born 1961), Macedonian Orthodox metropolitan of the Diocese of Strumica
  * Naum Akhiezer (1901–1980), Soviet mathematician
  * Naum Babaev (born 1977), Russian entrepreneur
  * Naum Batkoski (born 1978), Macedonian footballer
  * Naum Birman (1924–1989), Soviet theater and film director
  * Naum Bozda (1784-1853), Serbian merchant and philanthropist
  * Naum Faiq (1868–1930), Assyrian nationalist
  * Naum Il'ich Feldman (1918–1994), Soviet mathematician
  * Naum Gabo (1890–1977), Russian sculptor
  * Naum Gurvich (1905–1981), Soviet-Jewish cardiac physician
  * Naum Idelson (1885–1951), Soviet astronomer
  * Naum Kleiman (born 1937), Russian historian of cinema
  * Naum Koen (born 1981), UAE-based Israeli-Ukrainian businessman
  * Naum Kove (born 1963), Albanian footballer
  * Naum Krasner (1924–1999), Russian mathematician and economist
  * Naum Krnar (died 1817), secretary to Karađorđe, the leader of the First Serbian Uprising
  * Naum Levin (1933–2020), Ukrainian–Australian chess master and trainer
  * Naum Luria (1892–1966), later changed his name to Artur Luriye, or Arthur Lourié, Russian composer
  * Naum Meiman (1912–2001), Soviet/Israeli mathematician, physicist, dissident, and refusenik
  * Naum Miladinov (1817–1897), of the Miladinov brothers, Albanian folklorists
  * Naum Dhimitër Naçi (1871–1927), Albanian teacher and patriot
  * Naum Olev (1939–2009), Russian lyricist
  * Naum Panovski (born 1950), Macedonian theatre director and writer
  * Naum Prokupets (born 1948), Moldovan-born Soviet world champion sprint canoer
  * Naum Rogozhin (1879–1955), Soviet actor
  * Naum Sekulovski (born 1982), Australian soccer player
  * Naum Senyavin (c. 1680–1738), Russian Royal Navy officer
  * Naum Shopov (1930–2012), Bulgarian actor
  * Naum Z. Shor (1937–2006), Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician
  * Naum Shtarkman (1927–2006), Russian pianist
  * Naum Shusterman (1912–1976), Soviet engineer and Lieutenant Colonel
  * Naum Sluzsny (1914–1979), Swiss pianist
  * Naum Slutzky (1894–1965), Ukrainian goldsmith
  * Naum Sorkin (1899–1980), Soviet military officer and diplomat
  * Naum Terebinsky (1851—after 1908), Russian politician
  * Naum Tomalevski (1882–1930), Bulgarian revolutionary in the Macedonian revolutionary movement
  * Naum Torbov (1880–1952), Bulgarian architect
  * Naum Veqilharxhi (1797–1846), Albanian lawyer and scholar
  * Naum Ya. Vilenkin (1920–1991), Soviet mathematician
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Anton Naum (1829–1917), Moldavian/Romanian poet
  * Dorothy Naum (1928–2008), American baseball player
  * Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet
  * Said Naum (fl. 19th century), Muslim philanthropist in the Dutch East Indies
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Naum (chess), a chess engine
  * Naum Theatre, a theatre and opera house in Istanbul, Turkey, 1839–1870
  