Pitman
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Pitman may refer to:
- Pitman, New Jersey
- Pitman Shorthand, a system of shorthand
- Pitman arm, a vehicle steering component
- A connecting rod in an engine
- Pitman (Game Boy), a Game Boy game
- Pitman Press, a British publisher
- Pitman Publishing, a British publishing company
as a surname:
- Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses
- Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist
- Brett Pitman, a professional footballer currently playing for AFC Bournemouth
- E.J.G. Pitman, a statistician noted for the Pitman-Koopman-Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions
- 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
- MC Pitman, an East Midlands English rapper
- Walter Pitman, an educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada
- Walter C. Pitman, III, a geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University