Gottesman

Gottesman is a surname of Germanic origin meaning man of God. Notable people with the surname include:

• Beyle Schaechter–Gottesman, Yiddish singer, songwriter, and poet
• Blake Gottesman, personal aide and bodyguard to President George W. Bush
• Daniel Gottesman, physicist, Perimeter Institute
• David Gottesman, billionaire, director of Berkshire Hathaway
• David Gottesman (politician)
• Dov Gottesman (1917–2011), Israeli art collector, president of the Israel Museum from 2001–11
• Irving Gottesman, psychiatric geneticist
• Joan Gottesman Wexler (born 1946), American Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
• Michael Gottesman (lawyer), lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University
• Michael M. Gottesman, biochemist, National Institutes of Health
• Moshe Gottesman, rabbi, educator and community leader
• Noam Gottesman (born 1961), founding partner of GLG Partners hedge fund, son of Dov
• Rebecca Gottesman, neurologist and epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins University
• Rubin Gottesman, man found guilty of trafficking in child pornography in United States v. X-Citement Video
• Ruth Gottesman, American educator
• S.D. Gottesman, pen-name of author Cyril M. Kornbluth
• Samuel Gottesman, businessman who brought Central National-Gottesman to prominence
• Sanford Gottesman, president of The Gottesman Company, board member of OPIC, father of Blake
• Susan Gottesman, microbiologist, National Institutes of Health

See also

• 18668 Gottesman, asteroid named after David Alexander Gottesman (born 1986)
• Gottesman–Knill theorem, theoretical result in quantum computing (QC) that states that an important subclass of quantum circuits, called stabilizer circuits, can be simulated efficiently
• Central National-Gottesman, pulp and paper marketer

External links

• Gottesmans on the web
• Gottesman Surname Project