Slonimsky is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname popular among people of Belarusian, Polish and Russian people of Jewish origin. It means "a person from the city of Slonim". Persons with this surname include the following: Antoni Słonimski: Polish poet Piotr Słonimski: Polish-French geneticist Hayyim Selig Slonimski: Hebrew publisher, astronomer, inventor, and science author (known as Zinovy Slonimsky in Russia) Lee Slonimsky: American poet Ludvig Slonimsky: Russian economist, journalist and editor, son of Hayyim Selig (Zinovy) Slonimski Mikhail Slonimsky: Soviet writer; younger brother of Nicolas Slonimsky Nicolas Slonimsky: Russian-American musicologist and music critic Sergei Slonimsky: Russian composer, son of Mikhail Slonimsky Yuri Slonimsky (1902-1978), dancer, choreographer, historian, head of Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema after WWII A surname with a similar meaning is Slonim: Anthony Slonim: American author, physician and healthcare executive Mark Slonim: Russian politician, literary critic, scholar and translator Reuben Slonim: Canadian rabbi and journalist Vered Slonim-Nevo: professor of social work at the Spitzer Department of Social Work in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Menucha Rochel Slonim: rebbetzin Véra Nabokov (née Slonim): wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov See also Slonim (Hasidic dynasty) Slonimsky's Earbox Jewish surnames Slonim