Friedman
Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are common surnames.
They may refer to:
In music
- Avraham Fried(man), Jewish composer and musical entertainer
- Dean Friedman, singer-songwriter
- Debbie Friedman, musician
- Gary William Friedman, composer
- Harry Freedman, Canadian composer, musician and educator
- Ignaz Friedman/Ignacy Friedman, Polish-Austrian pianist, composer
- Kinky Friedman, singer and candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election, 2006
- Marc Friedman, electric bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer
- Marty Friedman, guitarist
- Ross "The Boss" Friedman, guitarist
- Tim Freedman, the vocalist and pianist
- Matthew Friedman, musician, singer and performer
- Don Friedman, jazz pianist
In mathematics
- Alexander Friedman, mathematician and cosmologist
- Freedman-Diaconis rule, rule used to specify the number of bins to be used in a histogram
- Friedman number, integer which, in a given base, is the result of an expression using all its own digits
- Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist and mathematician specializing in functional languages at Indiana University.
- Harvey Friedman, mathematical logician at The Ohio State University
- Michael Freedman, mathematician at Microsoft Research
- William F. Friedman, cryptologist
In sports
- Henryk Friedman, Polish chess master
- Benny Friedman, American football quarterback
- Dougie Freedman, Scottish professional association footballer
- Lee Freedman, prominent Australian racehorse trainer
- Lennie Friedman, American football player for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL
- Marty Friedman (basketball), pro basketball player and coach
- Prahlad Friedman, professional poker player
In economics
- Benjamin M. Friedman, leading American political economist
- Daniel Friedman, Economics professor at UCSC and director of LEEPS (Learning and Experimental Economics Projects) of Santa Cruz
- David D. Friedman, libertarian writer
- Emanuel Friedman, banker
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
- Friedman rule, Milton Friedman's policy regarding cash-in-advance models of monetary systems
- Friedman's k-percent rule, Milton Friedman's policy regarding optimal money supply growth
- Friedman test, non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman
- Rose Friedman, political author and the wife of Milton Friedman
- Stephen Friedman, chairman of the U.S. President Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
In law
- Bernát Friedmann, Hungarian jurist and criminal lawyer
- Bernie Friedman, attorney in Hollywood, Florida
- Daniel Friedmann, Israeli Minister of Justice
- David D. Friedman, libertarian writer
- Martin Freedman, Manitoba lawyer
- Michel Friedman, German former lawyer
- Samuel Freedman, lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Province of Manitoba
- Stephen J. Friedman, dean of Pace University School of Law
- Morris Friedman, private stenographer
In literature
- Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- Celia S. Friedman, science fiction novelist
- David Freedman, the first child, and only son of Sara and Israel Freedman
- David Friedman, writer
- Elizebeth Friedman, cryptanalyst and author
- Esther Pauline Friedman, advice columnist also known as Ann Landers
- Frieda Friedman, author
- Jerrold David Friedman, science fiction author
- Michael Jan Friedman, author
- Rita Friedman, creator of The Letter People
- Samuel G. Freedman, journalist
- Thomas L. Friedman, columnist
In television and film
- Budd Friedman, actor and producer
- Capturing the Friedmans, documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki
- David F. Friedman, American filmmaker and producer
- Josh Friedman, American screenwriter
- Maria Friedman, musical theatre actress
- Sidney Freedman, psychiatrist in the television series M*A*S*H
In science
- Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity
- Friedmann equations, equations relating various cosmological parameters
- Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
- Herbert Friedman, rocket science, solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy
- Egon Friedmann, Austrian philosopher
- Georges Friedmann (1902-1977), French sociologist
- Hermann Friedmann
- Irving Friedman, geochemist
- Jerome Isaac Friedman, Nobel Prize physicist
- Stanton T. Friedman, physicist and ufologist
- Meyer Friedman, medical scientist
In art
- Arnold Friedman (1874 – 1946), an American painter
- Drew Friedman, cartoonist
- Harold Freedman, artist public murals
- Ken Friedman, seminal figure in Fluxus
- Tom Friedman (artist), American sculptor
In photography
- Glen E. Friedman, photographer
- Endré Ernő Friedmann, 20th century war photographer
In religion
- Yisroel Friedman, Hasidic rebbe of Ruzhin
- David Noel Freedman, biblical scholar
- Meïr ben Jeremiah Friedmann, Hungarian-Austrian scholar, Jewish theologian
- Richard Elliott Friedman, scholar of biblical criticism
- Israel Friedmann, founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty
- Manis Friedman, biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker
In history
- Renee Friedman, American Egyptologist
- Paul Freedman, historian
In education
- Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, school
- James O. Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College
- Richard A. Friedman, Director of Psychopharmacology
- Samuel O. Freedman, clinical immunologist, professor
- Stephen J. Friedman, dean of Pace University School of Law
In business
- Eugene Freedman, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- George Friedman, the founder of Stratfor
- Joseph Friedman, inventor
- Nat Friedman, programmer
- Scott Friedman, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seegrid Corporation
In social work
- Freedman's Aid Society, organization
- Freedman's Bureau, federal agency that was formed during the American Civil War
In other fields
- Yohanan Friedmann,an Israeli scholar of Islamic studies.
- Friedman Memorial Airport, public airport located in the town of Hailey in Blaine County, Idaho, USA
- Tuviah Friedman, director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa
- Thomas Friedman, journalist
- Jeffrey Friedman, political scientist
See also
- Freedman, a former slave
- Fried
- Friedman (unit), a tongue-in-cheek neologism named after columnist Thomas L. Friedman
- Fridman
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Friedman". Image Credit.
