Levitt
Levitt is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname,[1] or an English variant Anglo-Norman surname and can refer to:
People
In arts and entertainment
- Alan "Al" Levitt (1932-1994), American jazz drummer
- 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
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt (b. 1981), American actor
- Steve Levitt, American actor
In science and academia
- 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
- 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
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