Harry Max Markowitz is an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz is a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.

Where is the last name Markowitz from?

The surname Markowitz is a patronymic surname, which derives from the Latin given name Marcus. In the case of the Jewish surname Markowitz, it is in many cases an Anglicization of any of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.

What does the name Markowitz mean?

Markowitz Surname Definition:

(Czech-Slovakian, Yu. -Slovakian) The son of Mark (belonging to Mars).