Levites (Lewites) Viktor (1938, Moscow ― 2008) ― engineer, teacher, public figure.

Viktor Levites was evacuated, after which he moved with his family to Latvia, his mother's homeland. He grew up in Riga. In 1963, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers. From 1965 to 1973, he worked as a sound engineer at the Riga television studio. In 1973, he emigrated to the United States. He worked at recording studios in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, and from 1988 until the end of his life, he was a professor of sound recording at the Department of Film and Television at New York University.

Viktor Levites was a top-class sound engineer, recorded concert albums for many famous artists, and participated in the production of a large number of films as a sound operator. As a professor at New York University, he trained a whole generation of sound engineers. A memorial plaque in memory of Levites has been installed in the lecture hall of the Film and Television Department at New York University.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Jews from the Former Soviet Union and chairman of its New York branch. He helped new immigrants settle into life in the United States.