Grossman
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Grossman is a family name of Germanic and Jewish Ashkenazi origin (in German
Grossmann or Großmann).
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
Grossmann or Großmann).
- Adam GrossmanAdam GrossmanAdam Grossman is the guitarist and singer of the Texas-based Industrial metal band Skrew and the crossover thrash band Angkor Wat, both of which he co-founded with his friend Danny Lohner...
, guitarist and singer for the band Skrew - Albert GrossmanAlbert GrossmanAlbert Bernard Grossman was an American entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music scene and rock and roll. He was most famous as the manager of Bob Dylan between 1962 and 1970.-Biography:...
, entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music scene - Alex GrossmanAlex GrossmanAlexander Grossmann is a Croatian-French physicist at the Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II in Luminy campus who did pioneering work on wavelet analysis with Jean Morlet.-References:...
, Croatian-French physicist - Allan GrossmanAllan GrossmanAllan Grossman was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, for 20 years, a provincial cabinet minister and the father of the late former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Larry Grossman. Together, the father and son represented the downtown Toronto, Ontario,...
, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario - Austin GrossmanAustin GrossmanAustin Grossman [b. ] is a writer and game designer who has contributed to the New York Times and a number of video games.He is the author of the novel Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was published by Pantheon Books in 2007....
, writer and game designer - Bathsheba GrossmanBathsheba GrossmanBathsheba Grossman is an artist in Santa Cruz, California who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures are primarily mathematical in nature, often...
, Santa Cruz, California artist - Blake GrossmanBlake GrossmanBlake Grossman is the chief executive officer of Barclays Global Investors, the investment management arm of Barclays Bank, the British financial institution....
, chief executive officer of Barclays Global Investors - Burt GrossmanBurt GrossmanBurt L. Grossman is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League. Before becoming a professional, Grossman played college football at the University of Pittsburgh where he was a three time All-ECAC selection. In 1989 he was drafted by the San Diego Chargers...
, former American football defensive end - Haika Grossman, Israeli politician
- Dave Grossman (author)Dave Grossman (author)Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman is an author who has specialized in the study of the psychology of killing, which has been termed 'killology'.In February 1998 Grossman retired from the military as Professor of Military Science at Arkansas State University...
- Dave Grossman (game developer)
- David GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
, Israeli author - Edith GrossmanEdith GrossmanEdith Grossman is an award-winning American translator specializing in English versions of Spanish language books. She is one of the most important translators of Latin American fiction in the past century, translating the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate Gabriel García...
, American translator - Eric GrossmanEric GrossmanEric Grossman is an American musician, best known for playing bass and recording gold and platinum albums with the European band K's Choice.-Biography:...
, American musician - Gene GrossmanGene GrossmanGene Michael Grossman is currently the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980...
, the Jacob Viner professor of International Economics at Princeton University - Gheorghe Grossman, Romanian politician
- Henryk GrossmanHenryk GrossmanHenryk Grossmanalternative spelling: Henryk Grossmann , was a Polish-German economist and historian of Jewish descent....
, polish-German economist and historian - Joel GrossmanJoel GrossmanJoel Grossman is a Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, and an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Law.His areas of specialty are American Politics and Constitutional Law...
, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University - Jonathan GrossmanJonathan GrossmanJonathan Hamilton Grossman is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles . He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature.- Biography :...
, Revolutionized Corporal Law Theories - Karl GrossmanKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman is a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. For more than 45 years he has pioneered the combination of investigative reporting and environmental journalism in a variety of media...
, professor of journalism at State University of New York/College at Old Westbury - Karl Grossman (murderer)Karl Grossman (Murderer)Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann, who commonly called himself just Carl Großmann , was a German serial killer...
, serial killer - Larry GrossmanLarry GrossmanLawrence "Larry" Sheldon Grossman was a politician in Ontario, Canada.-Early years:Born in Toronto, Grossman was the son of Allan Grossman, who had represented a downtown Toronto riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for twenty years after defeating Ontario's last Communist Member of...
, politician in Ontario, Canada - Leslie GrossmanLeslie GrossmanLeslie Erin Grossman is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Cherry on the television series Popular and as Lauren in What I Like About You.-Early life and education:...
, American actress - Lev GrossmanLev GrossmanLev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, notably the author of the novels Warp , Codex , The Magicians and The Magician King...
, American writer - Loyd GrossmanLoyd GrossmanLoyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :...
, Anglo-American television presenter and chef - Marc GrossmanMarc GrossmanMarc Grossman is the United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs....
, former American Ambassador to Turkey - Marcel Grossman, mathematician
- Martin GrossmanMartin GrossmanMartin Edward Grossman was convicted of first degree murder for his part in the December 13, 1984, Florida killing of wildlife officer Peggy Park. He was executed by lethal injection...
(1965-2010), American murderer - Nicklas GrossmanNicklas GrossmanNicklas Grossman is a professional ice hockey defenceman, currently with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, Swedish ice hockey player - Randy GrossmanRandy GrossmanCurt Randy Grossman is a former professional American football player who played tight end for eight seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League.-Early life:...
, American NFL football player - Rex GrossmanRex GrossmanRex Daniel Grossman, III is an American football quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League . Grossman played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he has played professionally for the Chicago Bears, Houston Texans and Washington Redskins of...
, quarterback for the Washington Redskins - Richard Grossman (musician)Richard Grossman (musician)Richard Grossman is an Australian rock musician who has played bass guitar for two iconic bands Divinyls and Hoodoo Gurus. Hoodoo Gurus iconic status on the Australian rock scene was acknowledged when they were inducted into the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame. For Grossman, this was his second Hall of Fame...
, bassist for the Hoodoo Gurus and the Divinyls - Robert GrossmanRobert GrossmanRobert Grossman is an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and author.In a career spanning nearly fifty years, Grossman's illustrations have appeared over 500 times on the covers of various national publications...
, American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and author - Sally GrossmanSally GrossmanSally Grossman was the wife of Bob Dylan's former manager, Albert Grossman. According to some Dylan biographers, she introduced Dylan to his first wife Sara ....
- Sanford J. GrossmanSanford J. GrossmanSanford "Sandy" Jay Grossman is an American economist and hedge fund manager specializing in quantitative finance. Dr. Grossman’s research has spanned the analysis of information in securities markets, corporate structure, property rights, and optimal dynamic risk management...
, American economist, John Bates Clark Medal winner in 1987 - Stefan GrossmanStefan GrossmanStefan Grossman is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator, and co-founder of Kicking Mule records.-Early life and influences:Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Herbert and Ruth Grossman...
, American guitarist and singer - Terry Grossman, co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
- Tuvia GrossmanTuvia GrossmanTuvia Grossman is a Jewish American who became an icon of anti-Israel media bias during the Second Intifada in 2000 when the caption of an Associated Press photograph of an Israeli police officer defending a bloodied Grossman from a violent Arab mob wrongly identified him as a Palestinian...
- Vasily GrossmanVasily GrossmanVasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels...
, Soviet writer and journalist - Wendy M. GrossmanWendy M. GrossmanWendy M. Grossman is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger. She graduated from Cornell University in 1975 and Riverdale Country School in 1971...
, journalist, blogger, and folksinger - Yitzchak Dovid GrossmanYitzchak Dovid GrossmanNot to be confused with his distant cousin Rabbi Dovid GrossmanYitzchak Dovid Grossman is the Chief Rabbi of Migdal Ha'Emek, founder and president of Migdal Ohr, and member of the Chief Rabbinate Council.-Early life:Grossman is a sixth generation Jerusalemite, born in 1946...
, Israeli rabbi - the "Disco Rabbi"