Levitt

Levitt is an English variant Anglo-Norman surname or an Ashkenazi Jewish surname,[1] and can refer to:

People

In arts and entertainment

  • Alan "Al" Levitt (1932–1994), American jazz drummer
  • Alfred Levitt (1894–2000), Russian–American painter and art historian
  • Andrew Levitt (1970), American drag queen
  • Alfred Lewis Levitt (1916–2002), American screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s
  • Gene Levitt (1920–1991), American film director
  • Helen Levitt (1913–2009), American photographer
  • Helen Slote Levitt (1916–1993), American screenwriter
  • Igor Levit (born 1987) Russian-German pianist
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt (b. 1981), American actor
  • Saul Levitt (1911–1977), American playwright
  • Steve Levitt, American actor

In science and academia

  • Herschel Levit (1912–1986), American artist, designer, professor
  • Malcolm Harris Levitt (b. 1957), British physical chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist.
  • Michael Levitt (b. 1947), British biophysicist, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, California, and one of the founders of modern computational biology
  • Norman Levitt (1943–2009), American mathematician
  • Peggy Levitt (?), American sociologist
  • Steven Levitt (b. 1967), American economist, author of Freakonomics
  • Theodore Levitt (1925–2006), American business theorist; coined the term "marketing myopia"
  • Toby Levitt (1908–1958), South African-born endocrinologist and author of a standard textbook on the thyroid

In other fields

  • Arthur Levitt (b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Chad Levitt (b. 1975), American NFL football player
  • Dorothy Levitt (1882–1922), English female racing driver
  • Tom Levitt (b. 1954), British politician
  • William Levitt (1907–1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittowns

References

  1. ^ The Levitt Surname, Levitt Name Meaning and History, Ancestry.com

See also

Surname list
This page lists people with the surname Levitt.
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