Pitman (surname)
Pitman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Almira Hollander Pitman (1854-1939), American suffragist Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii judge), New England and Hawaiian businessman Bill Pitman, American guitarist and session musician Charles Pitman (game warden) (1890–1975), British herpetologist and ornithologist Charles H. Pitman (born 1935), American Marine Corps general Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses Brett Pitman, professional footballer for Bournemouth, Bristol City, Ipswich Town and Portsmouth. E.J.G. Pitman, statistician noted for the Pitman–Koopman–Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions Frederick Pitman, British Olympic rower Frederick I Pitman, British rower and Boat Race umpire (father of Frederick) Gayle E. Pitman, American author Henry Alfred Pitman (1808–1908), English physician Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman (1845–1863), American Civil War soldier of Native Hawaiian ancestry Herbert Pitman, third officer on the RMS Titanic Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand Jacob Pitman, brother of Isaac, brought shorthand and Swedenborgianism to South Australia James Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer and author Kent Pitman, expert on Lisp programming language Marie J. Davis Pitman (1850–1888), American author who used the pen-name "Margery Deane" Mary Pitman Ailau, Hawaiian noblewomen MC Pitman, East Midlands English rapper Primrose Pitman (1902-1998), English artist Robert Carter Pitman, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author Rose M. M. Pitman (1868-1947), English illustrator Walter Pitman, educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada Walter C. Pitman, III, geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University Occupational surnames