Gottesman

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Gottesman is a fairly uncommon surname originating in Europe. Gottesman is of germanic orgin meaning man of god. Gott meaning god, -es- possessive and -man is man. Variations include Gottesmann, Gott, Gottmann, and Guttmann.

Gottesman may refer to the following people:

• Ann Gottesman, an American writer associated with the Sebastopol Literary Renaissance
• Blake Gottesman, the former personal aide and body man to President George W. Bush (and son of Sanford Gottesman)
• Dave Gottesman, member of the New Hampshire State Senate for District 12[1]
• David Gottesman, board member of Berkshire Hathaway
• Michael Gottesman, a lawyer and a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center
• Noam Gottesman, a founding partner of GLG Partners, a hedge fund
• Samuel Gottesman, a businessman who brought Central National-Gottesman to prominence
• Sanford Gottesman, president of The Gottesman Company and board member of OPIC (and father of Blake Gottesman)[2]
• S.D. Gottesman, a pen-name of author Cyril M. Kornbluth
• Asher Gottesman, former director of the Wise Observatory
• Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, a Yiddish language poet
• Eric Gottesman, a musician in Psyclon Nine
• Evan Gottesman, author of Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge: Inside the politics of Nation Building
• Jessica Ettinger Gottesman, a news anchor providing automated announcements on the R142 (New York City Subway car)
• Michael Gottesman, acting director of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR)
• Polly Gottesman, an actress in The Wind and the Lion
• Robert Gottesman, vice-president of NORPAC
• Rubin Gottesman, a man found guilty of trafficking in child pornography in United States v. X-Citement Video

Gottesman may refer to the following organizations:

• Central National-Gottesman, a pulp and paper marketer [3]
• The Gottesman Company, a real estate development company based in Austin, Texas[4]
• Gottesman Company, an international brokerage firm[5]
• the Central National-Gottesman Foundation — a charitable foundation
• the Gottesman Fund, a charitable foundation
• the DS and RH Gottesman Foundation, a charitable foundation
• the Gottesman Surname Project, a genealogical organization[6]

Gottesman may refer to the following libraries:

• the Gottesman Library (Teachers College Library) at Columbia University
• the D. Samuel Gottesman Library at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
• the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica/Judaica at Yeshiva University
• the D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall of the New York Public Library

Gottesman may also refer to:

• 18668 Gottesman, an asteroid named after David Alexander Gottesman (see Meanings of asteroid names (18001-19000))
• Gottesman-Knill Theorem, a theoretical result in quantum computing (QC)that states that an important subclass of quantum circuits, called stabilizer circuits can be simulated efficiently

[edit] See also

• David Gottesmann, a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom and former Leader of Brentwood Borough Council

[edit] External links

• Gottesmans on the web
• Gottesman Surname Project