Shraga

Shraga (Talmudic Aramaic: שרגא) is a Jewish given name (meaning "candle" in Talmudic Aramaic) and may refer to:

• Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the 17th century
• Shraga Bar (born 1948), former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between 1968 and 1972
• Shraga Feivish Hager the rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator
• Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath
• Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, the ABD (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead
• Shraga Goren (1898–1972), Israeli politician
• Shraga Simmons (born 1961), influential rabbi involved in kiruv (Jewish outreach)
• Shraga Weil (1918–2009), Israeli painter
• Shraga Weinberg (born 1966), Israeli wheelchair tennis player
• Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, (1813–1898), the eldest son of the Divrei Chaim, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
• Shraga Weiss, (1981–present), the middle son of Jacob and Susan Weiss. Renowned international animated film artist and philanthropist.