Ziv

Ziv (Hebrew: זיו) is a Hebrew language word and name meaning "light" or "glow" and may refer to:

People

• Abraham Ziv (1940–2013), Israeli mathematician
• Amitai Ziv, (born 1958), Israeli physician
• Asaiah Ziv (born 1996), American hip hop musician
• Frederick Ziv (1905–2001), American broadcasting producer, founder of Ziv Television Programs
• Imri Ziv (born 1991), Israeli singer and actor
• Jacob Ziv (born 1931), Israeli computer scientist
• Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), Russian rabbi and a leader of the Musar movement
• Yiftach Ziv (born 1995), Israeli basketball player
• Yitzhak Ziv (born 1937), Israeli politician
• Yoav Ziv (born 1981), Israeli football player
• Ziv Bar-Joseph (born 1971), Israeli computational biologist
• Ziv Better (born 1965), Israeli swimmer
• Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer
• Ziv Koren (born 1970), Israeli photojournalist
• Ziv Rubinstein (born 1970), Israeli musician

Places

• Neve Ziv, also known as Ziv HaGalil, a community settlement in northern Israel
• Ziv Medical Center, or Rebecca Sieff Hospital, a hospital in Safed, Israel

Other uses

• Iyar, a Hebrew month, called Ziv in the Bible
• Ziv Television Programs, an American company that produced syndicated television programs.
• Zeiss Ikon Voigtländer (ZIV), a unit of Carl Zeiss AG that was responsible for developing and marketing the Icarex line of SLR cameras (1966–72)

See also

• Ziwa (Aramaic) (Aramaic cognate)

1. Lempel–Ziv–Welch
2. LZ77 and LZ78
3. Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
4. Jacob Ziv
5. Frederick Ziv
6. Ziv Morgan
7. Lempel–Ziv complexity
8. Roy Ziv
9. Israel Ziv
10. Ziv Television Programs
11. Ziv Aviram
12. Abraham Ziv
13. Aflibercept
14. Yiftach Ziv
15. ZIV International
16. Ziv Company
17. Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer
18. Distributed source coding
19. A Million Dreams
20. Oren Ziv