Edelmann

Edelmann is German for 'nobleman', and is a common surname. Edelman, the Dutch equivalent, is a variant common among those of Jewish ancestry in the United States and Canada, the 2nd 'n' having been dropped at the time of immigration.

Famous Persons named Edelmann

• Adolf Edelmann (1885 - 1939), Polish doctor
• Esaias Edelmann (1597 - 1643), Protestant minister
• Hanno Edelmann (1923 -), painter
• Heinz Edelmann, German illustrator and designer
• Jean Frédéric Edelmann (Johann Friedrich Edelmann, 1749 - 1794), composer, see German article
• Johann Christian Edelmann (1698 - 1767), Deist philosopher
• Otto Edelmann (1917 - 2003), Austrian singer (Bass-Bariton), see German article
• Reiner Edelmann (1965 -), German soccer player

Edelman

• Gregg Edelman (1958 - ), American movie, television and theatre actor
• Ed Edelman (born 1961), President and CEO of Ambient Weather
• Edmund D. Edelman, Los Angeles, California politician
• Eric S. Edelman, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey (2003-2005), Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005-)
• Gerald (Maurice) Edelman (born 1929), biologist, 1972 Nobel Prize (Physiology/Medicine) for work on the immune system
• Herb Edelman (1933 – 1996), American actor
• Judith Edelman (born 1964), contemporary American bluegrass/folk musician
• Marek Edelman (born 1922) is a political and social activist, cardiologist, and the last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• Marian Wright Edelman (Marian Wright) (born 1939), founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund
• Maurice Edelman (1911- 1975), British politician and novelist
• Randy Edelman (born 1947), American music composer
• Scott Edelman (born 1955), American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor
• Edelman v. Jordan, 1974 United States Supreme Court (11th amendment)

Eidelman

• Natan Eidelman (Eydel'man), a Russian author, historian

See also

• Edel, Adel, Adle, Adler
• Adelman, Adelmann, Aedelmann, Adleman