Pitman

Pitman may refer to:

• Pitman, New Jersey
• Pitman, Pennsylvania
• Pitman, Saskatchewan
• Pitman Shorthand, a system of shorthand
• Pitman arm, a vehicle steering component
• A connecting rod in an engine
• Pitman (video game), a videogame for the Game Boy

as a surname:

• Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States
• Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii), New England and Hawaiian businessman
• Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses
• Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist
• Brett Pitman, a professional footballer currently playing for Bristol City FC
• E.J.G. Pitman, a statistician noted for the Pitman-Koopman-Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions
• Frederick Pitman, British Olympic rower
• Frederick I Pitman, British rower and Boat Race umpire (father of Frederick)
• Herbert Pitman, third officer on the RMS Titanic
• Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand
• James Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet
• Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer and author
• Kent Pitman, Lisp expert
• Marie J. Davis Pitman (pen name Margery Deane), United States author of the 19th century (see  "Pitman, Marie J.". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. )
• MC Pitman, an East Midlands English rapper
• Robert Carter Pitman, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author
• Walter Pitman, an educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada
• Walter C. Pitman, III, a geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University