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In arts and entertainment

* Alan "Al" Levitt (1932–1994), American jazz drummer * Alfred Levitt (1894–2000), Russian–American painter and art historian * Andrew Levitt (1970), American drag queen * Alfred Lewis Levitt (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 lea ...

(1913–2009), American photographer * Helen Slote Levitt (1916–1993), American screenwriter *

Igor Levit Igor Levit (; born 10 March 1987) is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt. He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover. He lives in Berlin. Biography Born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) to ...

(born 1987) Russian-German pianist *

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (; born February 17, 1981) is an American actor. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his leading perform ...

(b. 1981), American actor * Saul Levitt (1911–1977), American playwright * Steve Levitt, American actor

In science and academia

* Herschel Levit (1912–1986), American artist, designer, professor * Malcolm Harris Levitt (b. 1957), British physical chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist. *

Michael Levitt (biophysicist) Michael Levitt, (; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin ...

(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 Peggy Levitt is the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and a co-founder of thGlobal (De)Centre Her latest book, ''Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders'' (co-authored with Erica Dobbs, Ken ...

(?), 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 th ...

(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 popularizi ...

(1925–2006), American business theorist; coined the term "marketing myopia" * Toby Levitt (1908–1958), South African-born endocrinologist and author of a standard textbook on the thyroid

In other fields

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 ...

(b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission *

Chad Levitt Chad Aaron Levitt (born November 21, 1975) is an American former NFL football player. He is Jewish, was born in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, is 6'1", and had a playing weight of 231 pounds. He played high school football, and wrestled and comp ...

(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 land ...

(1882–1922), English female racing driver *

Tom Levitt Tom Levitt (born 10 April 1954) is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak from the 1997 to 2010 general elections. Early life Born in Crewe in 1954, Levitt was raised in Leek, Staffords ...

(b. 1954), British politician *

William Levitt William Jaird Levitt (February 11, 1907 – January 28, 1994) was an American real-estate developer and housing pioneer. As president of Levitt & Sons, he is widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. In 1998 he was named one of ...

(1907–1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittowns

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