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* Alan "Al" Levitt (1932–1994), American jazz drummer *

Alfred Levitt Alfred Levitt (August 15, 1894 - May 25, 2000), born Avraham Levitt in Starodub, Russia, was a painter and an expert on prehistoric art who migrated to the U.S. in 1911 and was made a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the govern ...

(1894–2000), Russian–American painter and art historian *

Andrew Levitt Nina West is the stage name of Andrew Robert Levitt, an American drag queen, activist, actor, and singer-songwriter based in Columbus, Ohio. She rose to national prominence with her appearance on the eleventh season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race'', ...

(1970), American drag queen *

Alfred Lewis Levitt Alfred Lewis Levitt (June 3, 1916 – November 16, 2002) was an American film and television screenwriter. He attended New York University, and served in a camera unit of the United States Air Force during the Second World War. Following the ...

(1916–2002), American screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s *

Gene Levitt Eugene Levitt (May 28, 1920 – November 15, 1999) was an American television writer, producer and director. Life and career Levitt was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Charles and Teresa Levitt. He had an older sister, Betty Ruth. His mot ...

(1920–1991), American film director *

Helen Levitt Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009) was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City. David Levi Strauss described her as "the most celebrated and least ...

(1913–2009), American photographer *

Helen Slote Levitt Alfred Lewis Levitt (June 3, 1916 – November 16, 2002) was an American film and television screenwriter. He attended New York University, and served in a camera unit of the United States Air Force during the Second World War. Following th ...

(1916–1993), American screenwriter * Igor Levit (born 1987) Russian-German pianist * Joseph Gordon-Levitt (b. 1981), American actor *

Saul Levitt Saul Levitt (March 13, 1911 – 1977) was an American playwright and author, best known for his successful play ''The Andersonville Trial'', based on MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel '' Andersonville''. Levitt's play was later made ...

(1911–1977), American playwright * Steve Levitt, American actor

In science and academia

Herschel Levit Herschel "Harry" Levit (May 29, 1912 – June 1, 1986) was an American Social realism, social realist artist, designer, illustrator, author, and educator. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was active in the Federal Art Project sponsored by the Works Progr ...

(1912–1986), American artist, designer, professor *

Malcolm Harris Levitt Malcolm Harris Levitt is a British physical chemist and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist. He is Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. Education and ...

(b. 1957), British physical chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist. * Michael Levitt (b. 1947), British biophysicist, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, California, and one of the founders of modern computational biology * Norman Levitt (1943–2009), American mathematician * Peggy Levitt (?), American sociologist *

Steven Levitt Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book ''Freakonomics'' and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Dubner). Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the ...

(b. 1967), American economist, author of ''Freakonomics'' *

Theodore Levitt Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the ''Harvard Business Review'', noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizin ...

(1925–2006), American business theorist; coined the term "marketing myopia" *

Toby Levitt Tobias Levitt (2 February 1908 – 22 February 1958) was a South African medical doctor who wrote a textbook on the thyroid. Career A distinguished student at the University of Cape Town, obtaining first class honours in anatomy (1929) and physi ...

(1908–1958), South African-born endocrinologist and author of a standard textbook on the thyroid

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Arthur Levitt Arthur Levitt Jr. (born February 3, 1931) is the former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He served from 1993 to 2001 as the twenty-fifth and longest-serving chairman of the commission. Widely hailed as a c ...

(b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission * Chad Levitt (b. 1975), American NFL football player *

Dorothy Levitt Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt (born Elizabeth Levi; 5 January 1882 – 17 May 1922) was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's world lan ...

(1882–1922), English female racing driver * Tom Levitt (b. 1954), British politician * William Levitt (1907–1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittowns

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