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Gelfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language, and may refer to:

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It sits within the topics Germanic-language surnames, Russian-language surnames and Surnames.

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Gelfand is a surname meaning "elephant" in the Yiddish language, and may refer to:

== People == Alan Gelfand, inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding move Alan E. Gelfand, statistician Boris Gelfand, chess grandmaster Israel Gelfand, mathematician Israel Lazarevich Gelfand, Russian-born SPD agent Mikhail Gelfand, molecular biologist and bioinformacist, grandson of Israel (mathematician) Vladimir Gelfand, Soviet-Jewish writer

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