Pitman (surname)

Pitman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Almira Hollander Pitman Almira Hollander Pitman (1854 – December 17, 1939) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. Pitman was largely active in New England and Massachusetts suffrage organizations. She was also instrumental in working for women's suf ...

(1854-1939), American suffragist *

Andrew Pitman Andrew John Pitman is a British-Australian atmospheric scientist. He was born in Bristol in 1964 and educated at Liverpool University (B.Sc. Hons and Ph.D.). He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership (Higher Education) from ...

, Australian climate scientist *

Benjamin Pitman Benjamin Pitman (July 24, 1822 – December 28, 1910), also known as Benn Pitman, was an English-born author and popularizer in the United States of Pitman shorthand, a form of what was then called phonography (shorthand). He was also active i ...

, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States * Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii judge), New England and Hawaiian businessman *

Bill Pitman William Keith Pitman (February 12, 1920 – August 11, 2022) was an American guitarist and session musician. As a first-call studio musician working in Los Angeles, Pitman played on some of the most celebrated and influential records of the ro ...

, American guitarist and session musician * Charles Pitman (game warden) (1890–1975), British herpetologist and ornithologist *

Charles H. Pitman Charles Henry Pitman Sr. (20 October 1935 – 13 February 2020) was a Lieutenant general (United States), lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps who served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation. He was also involved in the 1980 Oper ...

(born 1935), American Marine Corps general *

Chris Pitman Chris Pitman (born November 16, 1961) is an American musician best known for his involvement with the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. A multi-instrumentalist, Pitman is known to play keyboards, guitar and drums, in addition to his role as a lead o ...

, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses *

Brett Pitman Brett Douglas Pitman (born 31 January 1988) is a footballer who plays as a forward for AFC Portchester. He has spent most of his career at AFC Bournemouth in two separate spells, totalling 102 goals in 301 games. After starting his career on ...

, 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 Frederick Archibald Hugo Pitman (1 June 1892 – 25 July 1963) was a Scottish rower who competed for Great Britain and Ireland in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Pitman was born in Edinburgh, the son of Frederick I Pitman, an eminent rowe ...

, British Olympic rower *

Frederick I Pitman Frederick (Freddie) Islay Pitman (18 April 1863 – 22 January 1942) was a British rower who rowed in the Boat Race three times and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls and the Wingfield Sculls in 1886. Biography Pitman was born at Edinb ...

, 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 Herbert John "Bert" Pitman MBE (20 November 1877 – 7 December 1961) was an English Merchant Navy seaman, who was the Third Officer of RMS ''Titanic'' when it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with heavy loss of life after striking an iceb ...

, third officer on the RMS ''Titanic'' *

Isaac Pitman Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897) was a teacher of the :English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in ''Stenographic Soundhand'' in 183 ...

, inventor of Pitman Shorthand *

Jacob Pitman Jacob Pitman (28 November 1810 – 12 March 1890) was an architect, builder and educator in the colonies of South Australia and New South Wales. He was a brother of Isaac Pitman and was associated with his development of shorthand transcription. ...

, brother of Isaac, brought shorthand and Swedenborgianism to South Australia *

James Pitman Sir Isaac James Pitman (known as James), KBE (14 August 1901 – 1 September 1985) was a distinguished publisher, senior civil servant, prominent educationalist, and leading politician, whose lifetime pursuit was the study of etymology, o ...

, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet *

Jenny Pitman Jenny may refer to: * Jenny (given name), a popular feminine name and list of real and fictional people * Jenny (surname), a family name Animals * Jenny (donkey), a female donkey * Jenny (gorilla), the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of h ...

, British racehorse trainer and author *

Kent Pitman Kent M. Pitman (KMP) is a programmer who has been involved for many years in the design, implementation, and use of systems based on the programming languages Lisp and Scheme. , he has been President of HyperMeta, Inc. Pitman was chair of the ad h ...

, expert on Lisp programming language * Marie J. Davis Pitman (1850–1888), American author who used the pen-name "Margery Deane" *

Mary Pitman Ailau Mary Ann Kinoʻole Kaʻaumokulani Pitman (1838/March 1841 – February 11, 1905), later Mary Pitman Ailau, was a high chiefess of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi of part Native Hawaiian and American descent. She was raised and educated in Hilo and Hon ...

, Hawaiian noblewomen *

MC Pitman MC Pitman is a rapper and hip-hop producer from Coalville, Leicestershire, UK. MC Pitman is the alter-ego of Styly Cee, a former Pirate Radio DJ based in Nottingham. Prior to creating Pitman, he was member of Lost Island, with another rapper call ...

, East Midlands English rapper *

Primrose Pitman Primrose Vera Pitman (1902 – 13 September 1998) was a British artist known for her detailed paintings, etchings and drawings of her native Exeter and Devon. Biography Pitman was born in Exeter and studied art at the local Royal Albert Memoria ...

(1902-1998), English artist *

Robert Carter Pitman Robert Carter Pitman (March 16, 1825 – March 5, 1891) was a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts, a temperance advocate, and a legislator in the Massachusetts General Court. Pitman was born in Newport, Rhode Island on March 16, 1825, the so ...

, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author * Rose M. M. Pitman (1868-1947), English illustrator *

Walter Pitman Walter George Pitman (May 18, 1929 – June 12, 2018) was an educator and politician in Ontario, Canada. Background Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1952 and a Master of Arts in 1954 from the University of Toronto. He ...

, educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada *

Walter C. Pitman, III Walter Clarkson Pitman III (21 October 1931 – 1 October 2019) was an American geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University. His measurements of magnetic anomalies on the ocean floor supported the Morley–Vine–Matthews hypothe ...

, geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University {{surname, Pitman Occupational surnames