Levitt

Levitt is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, 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
• Saul Levitt (1911 - 1977), American playwright
• Steve Levitt, American actor

In science and academia

• Malcolm Harris Levitt (b. 1957), British physical chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist.
• 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

See also

• Levitt & Sons
• Leavitt (disambiguation)