Adelman or Adelmann is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

of German origin, and means "nobleman", being a combination of "adel" (nobility) and "mann" (man). The name may refer to:

People

Adelmann of Liège Adelmann ( la, Adelmannus Leodiensis, it, Adelmanno di Liegi, french: Adelman de Liège, nl, Adelman van Luik, german: Adelmann von Lüttich; ?, - c. 1061, Brescia) was the bishop of Brescia, in Northern Italy, during the eleventh century. Adel ...

(died 1061), Italian bishop *

Bob Adelman Robert Melvin "Bob" Adelman (October 30, 1930 – March 19, 2016) was an American photographer known for his images of the civil rights movement. Career Adelman used his background as a graduate student in applied aesthetics from Columbia Univers ...

(1930–2016), American photographer * David E. Adelman, American lawyer and academic *

David I. Adelman David Isaac Adelman (born May 24, 1964) is an American lawyer, businessman and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is Managing Director and General Counsel of asset ...

(born 1964), American diplomat and lawyer *

David J. Adelman David J. Adelman (born March 11, 1972) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Campus Apartments, the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of FS Investments, and the Founder of Darco Capital Chair. Adelman is also a limited partne ...

(born 1972), American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist *

Georg von Adelmann Georg Franz Blasius von Adelmann (28 June 1811, in Fulda – 16 June 1888, in Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon. He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Würzburg, receiving his doctorate in 1832 with the dissertation ''De ...

(1811–1888), German physician *

Howard Adelman Howard Adelman (born January 7, 1938) is a Canadian philosopher and former university professor. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at York University in 2003. Adelman was one of the founders of Rochdale College, as well as the foun ...

(born 1938), Canadian philosopher *

Irma Adelman Irma Glicman Adelman (March 14, 1930 – February 5, 2017) was a Romanian-American economist. Early life and education Adelman was born in Chernivtsi, Romania in March 1930. In 1939, fleeing the Nazi regime, she moved with her family to Palesti ...

(1930–2017), American economist *

Janet Adelman Janet Ann Adelman (January 28, 1941 – April 6, 2010) was a Shakespearean scholar, a literary critic, and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

(1941–2010), American scholar *

Jeremy Adelman Jeremy Adelman (born 1960) is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, where he is also the director of the Global History Lab. Previously, he served as the director of the Council for Int ...

(born 1960), American historian *

Jeremy Adelman (composer) Jeremy Adelman (born 1973) is an American composer for film and television, trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist, and major-label music producer and arranger in genres including funk, indie and jazz. He is primarily known as the composer and ...

(born 1973), American musician * Kenneth Adelman (born 1946), American diplomat and writer *

Lynn Adelman Lynn S. Adelman (born October 1, 1939) is an Americans, American lawyer, judge, and former politician. He has served as a United States federal judge, United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of W ...

(born 1939), American judge * Martyn Adelman (born 1947), British photographer and former drummer *

Paul Adelman Paul Adelman is a British historian who specialises in British political history of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Adelman has written four volumes in the popular Seminar Studies in History series, intended fo ...

, British historian * Rick Adelman (born 1946), American basketball player and coach *

Saul Adelman Saul Joseph Adelman (born 18 November 1944, in Atlantic City) is an astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina. Adelman received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and his PhD ...

(born 1944), American astronomer * Skippy Adelman (1924–2004), jazz photographer * Uri Adelman (1958–2004), Israeli writer and musician * Warren Adelman (born 1963), American businessman

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