Kálmán

Kálmán is a Hungarian surname and male given name, also current among Jews in other countries (קלמן in Hebrew) .^[1] Outside Hungary, the name occurs sometimes in the form Kalman. Its English equivalent is Coloman. See: Hungarian King Coloman I of Hungary

It may refer to:

Surname

• Attila Kalman (Hungarian: Attila Kálmán, born 1968), Hungarian, organist, pianist; (de)
• Charles (Károly) Kálmán (1929–2015), Hungarian-Austrian Jewish composer; (de)
• Debra Kalman, a U.S. Jewish television actress
• Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), composer of operettas
• Maira Kalman (born 1949), an Israeli-U.S. graphic designer and illustrator
• Oszkár Kálmán (1887–1971), a Hungarian bass singer
• Rudolf E. Kálmán (born 1930), Hungarian mathematician and electrical engineer
• Tibor Kalman (1949–1999), Hungarian graphic designer

Given name

• Kalman J. Cohen (died 2010), an American Jewish economist
• Kálmán Bartalis (1889–?), a Hungarian polo player
• Kalman Bloch (1913–2009), a US Jewish clarinetist
• Kálmán Darányi (1886–1939), a Hungarian politician
• Kálmán Ferenczfalvi (1921-2005 in Debrecen) was a Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations
• Kálmán Giergl (1863–1954), a Hungarian architect
• Kálmán Gőgh (German: Koloman Gögh, 1948, Kladno–1995)
• Kálmán Hazai (1913–1996), a Hungarian water polo player
• Kálmán Hunyady de Kéthely (1828–1901), a Hungarian nobleman
• Kálmán Ihász (born 1941), a Hungarian footballer
• Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976)
• Kálmán Kandó (1869–1931)
• Kálmán Kánya (1869–1945), a Foreign Minister of Hungary
• Kálmán Katona (born 1948), a Hungarian politician
• Kálmán Kertész (1867–1922), a Hungarian entomologist
• Kálmán Kittenberger (1881–1958), a Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist
• Kálmán Konrád (1896–1980), a Hungarian football player
• Kalman Konya (born 1961, Zürich), a Switzerland-born Hungarian-German shot putter
• Kálmán Kovács (born 1965), a Hungarian football player
• Kálmán Kovács (canoer), a Hungarian sprint canoer
• Kálmán Kubinyi (1906, Cleveland–1973, Stockbridge, Massachusetts), an Hungarian-US influential etcher
• Kalman Kahana (1910–1991; Hebrew: קלמן כהנא‎), an Israeli politician and journalist
• Kalman Mann (1912-1997), 8th director general of Hadassah Medical Organization
• Kálmán Markovits (born 1931), a Hungarian water polo player
• Kalman Menyhart (born 1955), a Hungarian football player
• Kálmán Mészöly (born 1941), a former Hungarian football (soccer) player
• Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910), a Hungarian novelist, journalist, politician
• Kálmán Petrikovics, a Hungarian sprint canoer
• Kalman Packouz, a US orthodox rabbi
• Kalman Mayer Rothschild (1788-1855), founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
• Kálmán Rózsahegyi (1873–1961), a Hungarian actor and teacher
• Kálmán Sóvári (born 1940), a Hungarian footballer
• Kálmán Sóvári (wrestler) (1910–1996), a Hungarian wrestler
• Kálmán Szabó (born 1980), a Hungarian football player
• Kálmán Széll (1843–1915), a Hungarian politician
• Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), a Hungarian poet, historian and politician
• Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer, inventor
• Kálmán Tisza (1830–1902)
• Kálmán Tóth (1831–1891), a Hungarian poet

Middle name

• Kalonymus Kalman Epstein (born c. 1753, Neustadt, now Poland)
• Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943), a Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno
• Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963), an Icelandic author
• Karl Kalman Targownik (1915 - 1996), a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.

Mononym

• Coloman of Hungary, king of Hungary (1095–1116)
• Prince Kálmán (Coloman) of Lodomeria (1208–1241), a Hungarian member of the Árpád dynasty, Prince of Halych

Asteroid

• 4992 Kálmán, a main belt asteroid

Signal processing

• Kalman decomposition
• Kalman filter
  • Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF), a recursive filter
  • Extended Kalman filter
  • Fast Kalman filter (FKF)
• Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma
• All named for the American engineer Rudolf E. Kálmán, one of their inventors.

See also

• Kalmann (Kallmann, Kallman, Calman (disambiguation), Callmann, Callman)–other Jewish given names (Hebrew: קלמן‎) and variants
• Kalmanson, Kalmanovitz, etc.
• Kolomann, Koloman (Coloman)

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