Levitt is an English variant Anglo-Norman surname or an Ashkenazi Jewish surname,[1] and can refer to:

People

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In arts and entertainment

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In science and academia

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  • 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) (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 (?), American sociologist
  • Steven Levitt (b. 1967), American economist, author of Freakonomics
  • Theodore Levitt (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

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  • Arthur Levitt (b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Chad Levitt (b. 1975), American NFL football player
  • Dorothy Levitt (1882–1922), English female racing driver
  • Tom Levitt (b. 1954), British politician
  • William Levitt (1907–1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittowns

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