Friedman
Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are surnames of German origin, and from the 17th century were also adopted by Ashkenazi Jews.
They may refer to:
Art
- Arnold Friedman (1874 – 1946), an American painter
- Drew Friedman, cartoonist
- Harold Freedman, artist public murals
- Ken Friedman, seminal figure in Fluxus
- Tom Friedman (artist), American sculptor
Business
- Eugene Freedman, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- George Friedman, the founder of Stratfor
- Joseph Friedman, inventor
- Nat Friedman, programmer
Cryptology
Economics and politics
- Benjamin M. Friedman, leading American political economist
- Bernát Friedmann, Hungarian jurist and criminal lawyer
- Bernie Friedman, attorney in Hollywood, Florida
- Daniel Friedmann, Israeli Minister of Justice
- David D. Friedman, libertarian writer and son of Rose & Milton Friedman
- Don Friedman (Colorado politician) (1930–2013), American politician
- J. Isaac Friedman (1877–1949), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1908 to 1916 and the Louisiana Senate from 1922 to 1924
- Leon Friedman (1886–1948), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1932 to 1940
- Louis L. Friedman (1906–1997), New York politician and judge
- Mark Friedman (FPSI), Director of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute
- Martin Freedman, Manitoba lawyer
- Michel Friedman, German former lawyer
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
- Friedman rule, Milton Friedman's policy regarding cash-in-advance models of monetary systems
- Friedman's k-percent rule, Milton Friedman's policy regarding optimal money supply growth
- Friedman test, non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman
- Morris Friedman, private stenographer
- Patri Friedman, activist, Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, son of David Friedman, grandson of Rose & Milton Friedman
- Rose Friedman, political author and wife of Milton Friedman
- Samuel Freedman, lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Province of Manitoba
- Stephen Friedman (PFIAB), chairman of the U.S. President Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- Stephen J. Friedman, dean of Pace University School of Law
- Sylvan Friedman, member of both houses of the Louisiana legislature from 1944 to 1972
Education
- Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, school
- James O. Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College
- Richard A. Friedman, Director of Psychopharmacology
- Samuel O. Freedman, clinical immunologist, professor
- Stephen J. Friedman, dean of Pace University School of Law
Literature and Journalism
- Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- Celia S. Friedman, science fiction novelist
- David Freedman, playwright and biographer
- David Friedman, a.k.a. Dafydd ab Hugh, writer
- Esther Pauline Friedman, advice columnist also known as Ann Landers
- Frieda Friedman, author
- Hannah Friedman, writer, director, and musician
- David Gerrold, science fiction author, also known as Jerrold David Friedman
- Mia Freedman, former Editor of Australian Cosmopolitan magazine and blogger
- Michael Jan Friedman, author
- Rita Friedman, creator of The Letter People
- Samuel G. Freedman, journalist
- Thomas L. Friedman, columnist
- Friedman (unit), a neologism named after columnist Thomas L. Friedman
Mathematics
- Alexander Friedman, mathematician and cosmologist
- Avner Friedman, mathematician at Ohio State University
- Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist and mathematician specializing in functional languages at Indiana University.
- Harvey Friedman, mathematical logician at The Ohio State University
- Michael Freedman, mathematician at Microsoft Research
- Sy Friedman, logician at the University of Vienna
- Freedman–Diaconis rule, rule used to specify the number of bins to be used in a histogram
- Friedman number, integer, which in a given base, is the result of an expression using all its own digits
Music
- Avraham Fried, Jewish composer and musical entertainer, also known as Avraham Friedman
- Benny Friedman, American Hasidic Jewish singer
- Dean Friedman, singer-songwriter
- Debbie Friedman, musician
- Erick Friedman, violinist
- Gary William Friedman, composer
- Harry Freedman, Canadian composer, musician and educator
- Ignaz Friedman, Polish-Austrian pianist, composer, also known as Ignacy Friedman
- Kinky Friedman, singer and candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election, 2006
- Marc Friedman, electric bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer
- Marty Friedman (guitarist), guitarist
- Ross the Boss Friedman, guitarist
- Tim Freedman, the vocalist and pianist
- Matthew Friedman, musician, singer and performer
- Don Friedman, jazz pianist
Photography
- Glen E. Friedman, photographer
- Robert Capa, 20th century war photographer, also known as Endré Ernő Friedmann
Religion
- Alexander Zusia Friedman (1897-1943), Polish rabbi, educator, activist and journalist
- Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (first Sadigura rebbe)
- Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (third Sadigura rebbe)
- Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (fifth Sadigura rebbe)
- David Noel Freedman, biblical scholar
- Denes Friedmann, Hungarian writer and Chief Rabbi in Újpest
- Edwin Friedman, applied family systems theory to congregational leadership
- Meïr ben Jeremiah Friedmann, Hungarian-Austrian scholar, Jewish theologian
- Richard Elliott Friedman, scholar of biblical criticism
- Manis Friedman, biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker
- Yisrael Friedman, Pashkaner Rebbe
- Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhin (1797-1850), founder of the Hasidic dynasty of Ruzhin
- Yitzchok Friedman (1850-1917), first Rebbe of Boyan
- Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (1891-1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York
Science
- Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric, exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity
- Friedmann equations, equations relating various cosmological parameters
- Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
- Herbert Friedman, rocket science, solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy
- Egon Friedell, Austrian philosopher, also known as Egon Friedmann
- Georges Friedmann (1902-1977), French sociologist
- Hermann Friedmann
- Irving Friedman, geochemist
- Jerome Isaac Friedman, Nobel Prize physicist
- Louis Friedman (born 1941), American astronautics engineer
- Meyer Friedman, medical scientist
- Paul Freedman, historian
- Renee Friedman, American Egyptologist
- Stanton T. Friedman, physicist and ufologist
Social Work
- Freedman's Aid Society, organization
- Freedmen's Bureau, federal agency that was formed during the American Civil War
Sports
- Henryk Friedman, Polish chess master
- Benny Friedman, American Hall of Fame NFL football quarterback
- Birgit Friedmann (born 1960), German runner and 1980 world champion
- Dougie Freedman, Scottish association football manager
- Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer and Olympic gold medalist
- Lee Freedman, prominent Australian racehorse trainer
- Lennie Friedman, American NFL football player for the Cleveland Browns
- Marty Friedman (basketball), Hall of Fame NBA pro basketball player and coach
- Nicole Freedman (born 1972), American Olympic cyclist
- Prahlad Friedman, professional poker player
- Ross Friedman, American Major League Soccer player
- Ze'ev Friedman, Israeli Olympic weightlifter
Television and Film
- Budd Friedman, actor and producer
- Capturing the Friedmans, documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki
- David F. Friedman, American filmmaker and producer
- Josh Friedman, American screenwriter
- Maria Friedman, musical theatre actress
- Sidney Freedman, fictional psychiatrist in the television series M*A*S*H
- Tal Friedman (born 1963), Israeli actor and comedian
- Vivi Friedman, Finnish filmmaker
Other
- Battle-Friedman House, an antebellum town home located Alabama
- Friedman Memorial Airport, public airport located in the town of Hailey in Blaine County, Idaho
- Friedrich Franz Friedmann, tuberculosis charlatan
- Hoshea Friedman, brigadier general in the IDF
- Jeffrey Friedman, political scientist
- Sylvan Friedman, Louisiana politician
- Tuviah Friedman, director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa
- Yohanan Friedmann, an Israeli scholar of Islamic studies.