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 (biophysicist) (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

• Levitt & Sons
• Leavitt (disambiguation)