What is "axelrod"

n. (surname)

Axelrod or Akselrod is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Barry Axelrod, American sports agent
• Daniel I. Axelrod, an American paleoecologist, botanist, and geologist, known by the author abbreviation "Axelrod"
• David Axelrod, a political consultant who has worked on campaigns of Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley
• David Axelrod (musician) (b. 1936), an American classical musician known for use of drums and incorporation of different styles
• David B. Axelrod (b. 1943), an American award-winning poet and educator
• George Axelrod (1922–2003), an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director
• Herbert R. Axelrod (Dr.) (b. 1927), American author, publisher and ichthyologist
• Jason David Axelrod AKA David Ha'ivri (b. 1967) Jewish-Israeli settler activist and spokesman
• John Axelrod (b. 1966), an American conductor
• Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), an American biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970
• Lyubov Axelrod (1868–1946), a Russian Marxist philosopher and revolutionary
• Meer Akselrod (1902–1970), a Russian painter known for his paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
• Paul Axelrod (b. 1949), an author and a professor and dean at York University
• Pavel Akselrod (1850–1928), also spelled Pavel Axelrod, a Russian Menshevik revolutionary
• Robert Axelrod, an American professor of political science at the University of Michigan who has written about the evolution of cooperation
• Robert Axelrod (actor) (b. 1949), an American actor who has been in many movies and TV shows, often as a voice actor