Zelikovitch, Zelikovich, Zelikowitz (Hebrew: 'זליקוביץ, Yiddish: זעליקאָוויטש, Polish: Zelikowicz), is a Jewish-Ashkenazi common surname. Zelikovich is derived from the personal name Zelig, which is the German translation of the biblical Hebrew male personal name Asher ("happy", "approved" or "blessed" in Hebrew).[citation needed] The Russian suffix "-ovich" means "son of".
The surname may refer to:
- George (Getzel) Selikovitsch (Zelikovitch), a Jewish egyptologist, writer, journalist and translator.
- Elimelekh Zelikovich, commander of the first instructors' course of the Hagana underground during the 1920s.
- Rubin Zelicovici (Zelikovitch, later: Reuven Rubin), Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
- Antonina Viktorovna Makhina Dumcheva Zelikovich, Russian rower.
- Miriam Eshkol (née Zelikovich), Spouse of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol