Levitt
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Levitt is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, or an English variant Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Norman
The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. A small number of Normans were already settled in England prior to the conquest...

 surname and can refer to:
  • Alan "Al" Levitt
    Al Levitt
    Alan "Al" Levitt was an American jazz drummer.-Education:Levitt studied piano with Moses Chusids in high school, and studied drums under Irv Kluger in 1949-50.-Accompanied:...

     (1932-1994), American jazz drummer
  • Arthur Levitt
    Arthur Levitt
    Arthur Levitt, Jr. was the twenty-fifth and longest-serving Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to 2001. Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for tougher accounting rules. Since May 2001 he has been...

     (b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Alfred Lewis Levitt
    Alfred Lewis Levitt
    Alfred Lewis Levitt was an American screenwriter and television scriptwriter. He attended New York University, and served in a camera unit of the United States Air Force during the Second World War. Following the war, Levitt was the screenwriter for such films as The Boy with Green Hair , Mrs...

     (1916-2002), American screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s
  • Chad Levitt
    Chad Levitt
    Chad Levitt 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...

     (b. 1975), American NFL football player
  • Dorothy Levitt
    Dorothy Levitt
    Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt, was a motorina and sporting motoriste of the early 20th century. On 4 July 1903 she was reported as the first woman ever to compete in a motor race...

     (b.1882-), English female Racing Driver
  • Gene Levitt
    Gene Levitt
    Eugene Levitt was an American television writer, producer and director....

     (1920-1991), American film director
  • Helen Levitt
    Helen Levitt
    Helen Levitt was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."- Biography :...

     (1913-2009), American photographer
  • Helen Slote Levitt (1916-1993), American screenwriter
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor whose career as both a child and adult has included television series and theatrical films....

     (b. 1981), American actor
  • Michael Levitt
    Michael Levitt
    Professor Michael Levitt FRS is a British biophysicist. He has been Professor of Structural biology, Stanford University, California, since 1987 working in computational biology and bioinformatics....

     (b.1947), British biophysicist, Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University, California, and one of the founders of modern computational biology
  • Norman Levitt
    Norman Levitt
    Norman Jay Levitt was a mathematician at Rutgers University. He was born in The Bronx and received a bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1963. He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1967...

     (1943-2009), American mathematician
  • Steve Levitt
    Steve Levitt (actor)
    Steve Levitt is an American actor who has appeared in films and on television. He is best known for his role in the 1987 movie Hunk as Bradley Brinkman and a recurring role in the Showtime TV series The Paper Chase....

    , American actor
  • Steven Levitt
    Steven Levitt
    Steven David "Steve" Levitt is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2004 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B...

     (b. 1967), American economist, author of Freakonomics
    Freakonomics
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. The book has been described as melding pop culture with economics, but has also been described as...

  • Theodore Levitt
    Theodore Levitt
    Theodore Levitt was an American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. He was also editor of the Harvard Business Review and an editor who was especially noted for increasing the Review's circulation and for popularizing the term globalization...

     (1925-2006), American business theorist who coined the term marketing myopia
    Marketing myopia
    Marketing myopia is a term used in marketing as well as the title of an important marketing paper written by Theodore Levitt. This paper was first published in 1960 in the Harvard Business Review; a journal of which he was an editor...

  • Tom Levitt
    Tom Levitt
    Tom Levitt is a British Labour Party politician, and was the longest-serving Labour Member of Parliament for High Peak, from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...

     (b. 1954), British politician
  • William Levitt
    William Levitt
    William Jaird Levitt was an American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. He came to symbolize the new suburban growth with his use of mass-production techniques to construct large developments of houses selling for under $10,000...

     (1907-1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittown
    Levittown
    Levittown is the name of four large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons...

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See also

  • Leavitt (disambiguation)
  • Levit (company)
    Levit (company)
    «Levit» — is a union of private security firms with headquarters in Dnipropetrovsk. The company has seven branches and provides more than three thousand of clients in all regions of Ukraine with security services. It owns the «Agency of Protection» trade mark .- History :The company was founded in...

    — is a union of private security firms with headquarters in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
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