Pitman (surname)

Pitman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Almira Hollander Pitman (1854-1939), American suffragist
Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist
Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States
Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii judge), New England and Hawaiian businessman
Bill Pitman, American guitarist and session musician
Charles Pitman (game warden) (1890–1975), British herpetologist and ornithologist
Charles H. Pitman (1935–2020), American Marine Corps general
Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses
Brett Pitman, professional footballer for Bournemouth, Bristol City, Ipswich Town and Portsmouth.
E.J.G. Pitman, statistician noted for the Pitman–Koopman–Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions
Frederick Pitman (publisher) (1828–1886), English publisher and writer
Frederick Pitman, British Olympic rower
Frederick I Pitman, British rower and Boat Race umpire (father of Frederick)
Gayle E. Pitman, American author
Henry Alfred Pitman (1808–1908), English physician
Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman (1845–1863), American Civil War soldier of Native Hawaiian ancestry
Herbert Pitman, third officer on the RMS Titanic
Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand
Jacob Pitman, brother of Isaac, brought shorthand and Swedenborgianism to South Australia
James Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet
Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer and author
Kent Pitman, expert on Lisp programming language
Marie J. Davis Pitman (1850–1888), American author who used the pen-name "Margery Deane"
Mary Pitman Ailau, Hawaiian noblewomen
MC Pitman, East Midlands English rapper
Primrose Pitman (1902-1998), English artist
Robert Carter Pitman, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author
Rose M. M. Pitman (1868-1947), English illustrator
Walter Pitman, educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada
Walter C. Pitman, III, geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University

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