Gottesman is a surname of Germanic origin meaning ''man of God''. Notable people with the surname include: *

Beyle Schaechter–Gottesman Beyle (or Bella) "Beyltse" Schaechter-Gottesman (August 7, 1920 – November 28, 2013) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter. Biography She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukrain ...

, Yiddish singer, songwriter, and poet *

Blake Gottesman Blake Lanier Gottesman (born March 6, 1980) served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff to former U.S. President George W. Bush, becoming, at age 28, the youngest member of the Bush senior staff. He previously served in the Bush administration as ...

, personal aide and bodyguard to President George W. Bush * Daniel Gottesman, physicist, Perimeter Institute *

David Gottesman David Sanford Gottesman (April 26, 1926 – September 28, 2022) was an American businessman and billionaire. He founded First Manhattan Co. (FMC), and was noted for his friendship with Warren Buffett. Early life and education Gottesman was b ...

, billionaire, director of Berkshire Hathaway *

David Gottesman (politician) David Gottesman (born February 3, 1948) is a former Democratic member of the New Hampshire Senate The New Hampshire Senate has been meeting since 1784. It is the upper house of the New Hampshire General Court, alongside the lower New Hampshi ...

* Dov Gottesman (1917–2011), Israeli art collector, president of the Israel Museum from 2001–11 *

Irving Gottesman Irving Isadore Gottesman (December 29, 1930 – June 29, 2016) was an American professor of psychology who devoted most of his career to the study of the genetics of schizophrenia. He wrote 17 books and more than 290 other publications, mostly ...

, psychiatric geneticist * Joan Gottesman Wexler (born 1946), American Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School *

Michael Gottesman (lawyer) Michael H. Gottesman is a lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of labor law, constitutional law, and civil rights. He practiced and became a partner with the Washington, D.C., firm Bredhoff and ...

, lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University *

Michael M. Gottesman Michael M. Gottesman (born October 7, 1946, in Jersey City, New JerseyBiography
as a speaker at the 1999 Conf ...

, biochemist, National Institutes of Health *

Moshe Gottesman Rabbi Moshe Gottesman was born in Canada and has worked in Israel, Chicago and Long Island, New York. He held the position of dean for the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County for almost 20 years. Gottesman was also the director of tours for Camp Sde ...

, rabbi, educator and community leader * Noam Gottesman (born 1961), founding partner of GLG Partners hedge fund, son of Dov * Rebecca Gottesman, neurologist and epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins University * Rubin Gottesman, man found guilty of trafficking in child pornography in United States v. X-Citement Video *

Ruth Gottesman David Sanford Gottesman (April 26, 1926 – September 28, 2022) was an American businessman and billionaire. He founded First Manhattan Co. (FMC), and was noted for his friendship with Warren Buffett. Early life and education Gottesman was b ...

, American educator * ''S.D. Gottesman'', pen-name of author

Cyril M. Kornbluth Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, W ...

* Samuel Gottesman, businessman who brought Central National-Gottesman to prominence *

Sanford Gottesman Blake Lanier Gottesman (born March 6, 1980) served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff to former U.S. President George W. Bush, becoming, at age 28, the youngest member of the Bush senior staff. He previously served in the Bush administration as ...

, president of The Gottesman Company, board member of OPIC, father of Blake *

Susan Gottesman Susan Gottesman is a microbiologist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Gottesman has been the editor of the ''Annual Review of Microbiology'' since 2008. She is a pioneer in the area of ...

, microbiologist, National Institutes of Health

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Gottesmans on the web

Gottesman Surname Project
{{surname, Gottesmann, Gottesman German-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin

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