Nobel Prize Winners: David

David

Name origin: Hebrew

Name meaning: Beloved

Gross

Name origin: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)

Name meaning: nickname for a big man, from Middle High German grōz ‘large’, ‘thick’, ‘corpulent’, German gross. The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as Gadol, from Hebrew gadol ‘large’.

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