Pitman (surname)

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

• Almira Hollander Pitman (1854-1939), American suffragist
• Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist
• Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States
• Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii judge), New England and Hawaiian businessman
• Bill Pitman, American guitarist and session musician
• Charles Pitman (game warden) (1890–1975), British herpetologist and ornithologist
• Charles H. Pitman (1935–2020), American Marine Corps general
• Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses
• Brett Pitman, 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, British Olympic rower
• Frederick I Pitman, 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, third officer on the RMS Titanic
• Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand
• Jacob Pitman, brother of Isaac, brought shorthand and Swedenborgianism to South Australia
• James Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet
• Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer and author
• Kent Pitman, expert on Lisp programming language
• Marie J. Davis Pitman (1850–1888), American author who used the pen-name "Margery Deane"
• Mary Pitman Ailau, Hawaiian noblewomen
• MC Pitman, East Midlands English rapper
• Primrose Pitman (1902-1998), English artist
• Robert Carter Pitman, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author
• Rose M. M. Pitman (1868-1947), English illustrator
• Walter Pitman, educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada
• Walter C. Pitman, III, geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University