Levenstein, Levenshtein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Jim Levenstein, a fictional character in the American Pie film series Matvey Levenstein, Russian-American painter Vladimir Levenshtein (1935-2017), Russian scientist Levenshtein distance, a metric for comparing two strings or words Levenshtein coding, a binary number coding Yechezkel Levenstein, Mashgiach in the Yeshivas Mir and in Ponovezh, known as Reb Chatzkel