Berkowitz (Berkovich) Paul (21 September 1894, Riga – 16 November 1975, Vilnius) - a cellist and physician.

Paul Berkowitz studied at the Alexandrovsky Gymnasium and, from 1904, at the Riga Music School of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. He began performing concerts at the age of 10. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tartu.

From 1912 to 1914, he studied under the cellist Julius Klengel in Leipzig, and from 1914 to 1915, at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. From 1915, he played in the orchestra of the Vanemuine theatre and taught at the music school of the Imperial Russian Musical Society in Tartu.

In 1926, Paul Berkowitz returned to Riga. From 1926 to 1929, he worked as the principal cellist of the Latvian National Opera and taught at the First Riga Music Institute. From 1926, he participated in concerts of the Riga Symphony Orchestra, performed as a soloist in Jūrmala and Riga, and played under the direction of conductors E. Lindner, T. Veiss, V. Berdyaev, and others.

From 1929, he lived in Kaunas, where he was the principal cellist of the Kaunas Opera Orchestra and taught at a music school. From 1933, he taught at the Kaunas Conservatory, and from 1948, he was a professor at the Vilnius Conservatory.