Goldstein (; (, )) is a

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and

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origin, that is widespread among

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. It translates to "gold stone" in English. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

* Adam Goldstein (1973–2009), American musician and disc jockey known as DJ AM * Alisa M. Goldstein, American genetic epidemiologist * Boris Goldstein (1922–1987), Soviet violinist *

Brett Goldstein Brett Goldstein (born July 17th, 1980) is an English actor, comedian, writer, producer, and podcaster. Known for his role as Roy Kent in the Apple TV+ sports comedy series ''Ted Lasso'', he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Suppo ...

(born 1980), British actor and comedian * Chaim Itsl Goldstein (born 1900), Polish author *

Doug Goldstein Douglas Goldstein (born September 12, 1971) is an American screenwriter and television producer and director, primarily known for his work as co-head writer on the late-night animated series ''Robot Chicken''. He won three Emmy Awards for episode ...

(born 1971), American TV screenwriter, producer and director * Elliot Goldstein (born 1938), American actor known as Elliott Gould * Fanny Goldstein (1895–1961), American librarian * Harvey Goldstein (born 1944), American bass guitarist known as Harvey Brooks *

Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein (September 27, 1945 – March 14, 2003) was a Canadian born, California and New York-based performance and conceptual artist turned post-conceptual painter in the 1980s. Early life and education Goldstein was born to a Jewish ...

, (1945–2003), Canadian-American performance and conceptual artist * Jack Goldstein (born 1986), vocalist for the British band Fixers * Jean-Isidore Goldstein (1925–2007), Romanian-French poet known as Isidore Isou *

Jenette Goldstein Jenette Elise Goldstein (born February 4, 1960) is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with director James Cameron, she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, Saturn Award for her portrayal of List of Alien (franchise) char ...

(born 1960), American actress * Jerry Goldstein (born 1940), American producer * Johnny Goldstein (born 1991), Israeli musician * Jonathan Goldstein, British solicitor and entrepreneur * Jonathan Goldstein (1968–2019), British composer * Jonathan Goldstein (born 1964), American actor * Jonathan Goldstein (born 1969), American author * Jonathan Goldstein (born 1968), American filmmaker * Lisa Goldstein (born 1953), American fantasy and science fiction writer * Lisa Goldstein (rabbi) (born 1965) *

Lisa Goldstein (actress) Lisa Erin Goldstein (born July 30, 1981) is a retired American television, film and theatre actress. She is most known for her role as Millicent Huxtable on ''One Tree Hill (TV series), One Tree Hill''. Personal life and education Goldstein w ...

(born 1981) *

Martha Goldstein Martha Goldstein (born Martha Svendsen; June 10, 1919 – February 14, 2014) was an American harpsichordist and pianist, who gave concerts in the United States, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. She performed works by George Frideric Han ...

(1919–2014), American harpsichordist and pianist * Marvin Goldstein (born 1950), American pianist * Mikhail Goldstein (1917–1989), composer and violinist * Philip Goldstein (1913–1980), American painter known as Philip Guston * Robert Goldstein (1903 - 1974), film producer * Róza Goldstein (1832–1892), Hungarian mezzo-soprano known as Róza Csillag * Shaike Goldstein-Ophir (1928–1987), Israeli actor, comedian and screenwriter known as Shaike Ophir *

Sheldon Goldstein Sheldon Goldstein (born October 24, 1947, in Augusta, Georgia) is an American theoretical physicist. He introduced the term " Bohmian mechanics". Biography Goldstein graduated from Yeshiva University with a B.A. in 1969, a B.S. in 1971, and a Ph. ...

(born 1947), American theoretical physicist * Sokher Goldstein (1859–1887), Romanian singer and actor * Sophie Goldstein (1861–1904), Romanian actress known as Sophia Karp

Religion

Clifford Goldstein Clifford R. Goldstein (born in 1955) is an American author and editor. He is a leading figure in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and espouses mainline Adventist beliefs. Biography Goldstein was born in Albany, New York in the United St ...

(born 1955), Seventh-day Adventist author and editor *

Herbert S. Goldstein Herbert S. Goldstein (February 8, 1890 – January 2, 1970) was a prominent American rabbi and Jewish leader. He was the only person to have been elected president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the Rabbinical Council of ...

(1890–1970), American Orthodox rabbi * Isabella Goldstein (1849–1916), Australian suffragist and social reformer *

Jonathan A. Goldstein Jonathan A. Goldstein (1929–2004) was a biblical scholar and author who wrote for the Anchor Bible Series. He was the author of books on I Maccabees and II Maccabees, as well as a book about competing religions in the ancient world. Goldstein ...

(1929–2004), American biblical scholar * Josef Goldstein (1836–1899), Austro-Hungarian cantor *

Joseph Goldstein (writer) Joseph Goldstein (born May 20, 1944) is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, a contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (se ...

(born 1944) * Lisa Goldstein (rabbi) * Nachman Goldstein (1825–1894), (aka Tcheriner Rav), Ukrainian rabbi * Samuel Goldstein (rabbi) (1852–1935) *

Warren Goldstein Warren Goldstein (born 1971) is the chief rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa since 2005. Born in Pretoria, he currently lives in Johannesburg. He is the first chief rabbi of South Africa who was born in South Africa and ...

(born 1971), Chief Rabbi of South Africa

Sport

Abe Goldstein Abe Goldstein (September 10, 1898 – February 12, 1977) was an American Undisputed World Bantamweight Champion boxer from New York. He defeated Joe Lynch to become World Bantamweight champion on March 21, 1924, in Madison Square Garden, and was ...

(1898–1977), American bantamweight boxer *

Danielle Goldstein Danielle "Dani" Goldstein-Waldman (born February 6, 1985) is an American-Israeli show jumper. In July 2019 Goldstein, as part of Israel's four-rider squad, qualified to represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Early and personal ...

(born 1985), American-Israeli show jumper * Don Goldstein (1937-2022), American basketball player * Freddie Goldstein or Freddie Lish (born 1988), Thai-American basketball player *

Jørn Goldstein Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player. Biography Goldstein was born in Oslo, Norway, and is Jewish. His mother's family, surname Schapow, immigrated to Norway from Lithuania in the early 1900s. H ...

(born 1953), Norwegian Olympic ice hockey goalie * Leah Goldstein (born 1969), Canadian-born Israeli professional

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most comm ...

, former World Bantamweight

Kickboxing Kickboxing ( ) is a full-contact hybrid Martial arts, martial art and Boxing (disambiguation), boxing type based on punch (combat), punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. The fight takes place in a boxing ring, norma ...

Champion, and Israel's

Duathlon Duathlon is an sports, athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format similar to triathlons. The World Triathlon governs the sport internationally. Distance and format Duathlon ...

champion * Leo Goldstein, American-Israeli soccer referee * Lonnie Goldstein (1918–2013), American baseball player *

Margie Goldstein-Engle Margie Goldstein-Engle (born March 31, 1958) is an American show jumping equestrian, and a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year. Early and personal life She was born in Miami, Florida, to Mona (an elementary school princip ...

(born 1958), American equestrian * Omer Goldstein (born 1996), Israeli cyclist *

Paul Goldstein (tennis) Paul Herbert Goldstein (born August 4, 1976) is a retired tennis player from the United States, who turned professional in 1998. He announced his retirement from professional tennis in February 2008, as he was starting working with a clean energ ...

(born 1976), American tennis player *

Ralph Goldstein Ralph Myer Goldstein (October 6, 1913 – July 25, 1997) was an American Olympic épée fencer. Early and personal life Goldstein was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and was Jewish.Roy Goldstein (born 1993), Israeli cyclist *

Ruby Goldstein Reuven "Ruby" Goldstein (October 7, 1907 – April 23, 1984), the "Jewel of the Ghetto", was an American boxer and prize fight referee. He was a serious World Lightweight Championship contender in the 1920s, and became one of U.S. most truste ...

(1907–1984), American welterweight boxer * Samuel Goldstein (1945–1977), American Paralympian * Shulamit Goldstein (born 1968), Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast * Steven Goldstein (racing driver) (born 1981), Colombian racing driver * Todd Goldstein (born 1988), Australian rules footballer

Other

* Abraham Samuel Goldstein (1925–2005), Dean of Yale Law School * Adam Goldstein (author) (born 1988) *

Al Goldstein Alvin Goldstein (January 10, 1936December 19, 2013) was an American pornographer best known for helping normalize hardcore pornography in the United States. Background Goldstein was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to a Jewish family. He attende ...

(1936–2013), American pornographer * Andy Goldstein (born 1973), British broadcaster *

Baruch Goldstein Baruch Kopel Goldstein (; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American and Israeli physician and religious extremist who, in 1994, murdered 29 Palestinian people in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West ...

(1956–1994), Israeli terrorist *

Bernard R. Goldstein Bernard Raphael Goldstein (born January 29, 1938) is a historian of science and professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Goldstein published on the history of astronomy in medieval Islamic and Jewish civilization and early modern times. ...

(born 1938), historian of science *

Bruce Goldstein Bruce Goldstein (born July 5, 1952) is a New York City based film programmer, distributor, documentarian, writer, producer, and publicist. He is best known for his work as the repertory programmer for Film Forum in New York. The magazine ''Time Ou ...

(born 1951), American film programmer, producer, archivist, historian * Chris Goldstein, American radio personality *

Daniel Goldstein Daniel G. Goldstein (born 1969) is an American cognitive psychologist known for the specification and testing of heuristics and models of bounded rationality in the field of judgment and decision making. He is an honorary research fellow at Lon ...

(born 1969), American psychologist * Ellie Goldstein (born 2001), British model * Emmanuel Goldstein (born 1959), pen name of Eric Gordon Corley, American hacker *

Eugen Goldstein Eugen Goldstein (; ; 5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, and the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including th ...

(1850–1930), German physicist, and an early researcher in X-rays * Harvey Goldstein (1939–2020), British statistician *

Herbert Goldstein Herbert Goldstein (June 26, 1922 – January 12, 2005) was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook ''Classical Mechanics (Goldstein book), Classical Mechanics''. Life and work Goldstein, long recognized for his s ...

(1922–2005), American physicist * Herman Goldstein (1931–2020), American criminologist *

Ivo Goldstein Ivo Goldstein (; born 16 March 1958) is a historian, author and ambassador from Croatia. Goldstein is a recipient of the Order of Danica Hrvatska (2007) and the City of Zagreb Award (2005). Biography Education Ivo Goldstein graduated from ...

(born 1958), Croatian historian * Jay Goldstein, American kidnapper *

Jerry Goldstein (physicist) Jerry Goldstein (born 23 December 1970) is a space physicist whose research has focused on the Earth's plasmasphere, a high-altitude extension of the ionized portion of the planet's upper atmosphere. During the years 2002–2005 he published a se ...

(born 1970) * Jonathan L. Goldstein (born 1941), American lawyer * Joseph I. Goldstein (1939–2015), American engineer *

Joseph L. Goldstein Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS (born April 18, 1940) is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies r ...

(born 1940), American Nobel Prize–winning biochemist * Joshua S. Goldstein (born 1952), American scientist * Joyce Goldstein (born 1935), American chef *

Kurt Goldstein Kurt Goldstein (November 6, 1878 – September 19, 1965) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who created a holistic theory of the organism. Educated in medicine, Goldstein studied under Carl Wernicke and Ludwig Edinger where he focused on ...

(1878–1965), German neurologist and psychiatrist * Leon M. Goldstein (died 1999), American President of

Kingsborough Community College Kingsborough Community College (KCC) is a public community college in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the only community college in Brooklyn. History Founded in 1963, Kingsb ...

, and acting Chancellor of the

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* Louis L. Goldstein (1913–1998), American politician * Marcus Goldstein (1906–1997), American anthropologist *

Martin Goldstein Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein (February 12, 1905 – June 12, 1941) was a member of a gang of hitmen, operating out of Brooklyn, New York in the 1930s, known as Murder, Inc. Born Meyer Goldstein, Goldstein grew up in East New York, Brooklyn, N ...

(1905–1941), American gangster *

Matthew Goldstein Matthew Goldstein (born November 10, 1941) is the former chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY). Goldstein was appointed CUNY chancellor on September 1, 1999. He was the first CUNY graduate to head the CUNY system, having received ...

(born 1941), Chancellor of the City University of New York *

Max Goldstein Max Goldstein (1898–1924), also known as Coca, was a Romanian revolutionary, variously described as a communist and an anarchist. Biography Born in Bârlad to a Jewish family, he worked as a clerk for two years. He later moved to Bucharest ...

(1898–1924), Romanian communist * Max A. Goldstein (1870–1941), American

otolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...

* Mel Goldstein (1945–2012), American meteorologist *

Melvyn Goldstein Melvyn C. Goldstein (born February 8, 1938) is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar. He is a professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on T ...

(born 1938), American social anthropologist *

Paul Goldstein (law professor) Paul Goldstein (born January 14, 1943) is a law professor at Stanford Law School. Goldstein is the author of an influential five-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law and a one-volume treatise on international copyright law, as well as casebook ...

(born 1943) *

Peter Goldstein Peter Goldstein is a British businessman who co-founded Superdrug, the United Kingdom's second largest health and beauty retailer, in 1964 with his brother Ronald. In 2009, his net worth was estimated to be £54 million, down from £75 m ...

, British businessman * Phil Goldstein (1950–2022), American magician known as Max Maven * Phillip Goldstein (investor) *

Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...

(born 1950), American novelist and professor of philosophy * Reuben Goldstein (1862–1943), British businessman and manufacturer known as Reuben Goldstein Edwards * Richard Goldstein (astronomer) (born 1927) *

Robin Goldstein Robin Goldstein is an American author, food and wine critic, and economics pundit. He is known for his books and articles questioning conventional wisdom and pricing in the food and wine industries, particularly a widely publicized exposé of Win ...

(born 1976), American author and wine critic * Sam Goldstein, Canadian politician *

Slavko Goldstein Slavko Goldstein (22 August 1928 – 13 September 2017) was a Croatian historian, politician, and fiction writer. Biography Early life Slavko Goldstein was born in Sarajevo in the Jewish family of Ivo and Lea Goldstein. His grandfather Aron ...

(1928–2017), Croatian historian * Solomon Goldstein (1884–1968), Bulgarian Communist politician * Solomon Goldstein-Rose (born 1993), American politician * Steve Goldstein (broadcaster) *

Steve Goldstein (diplomat) Irwin Steven Goldstein (born 1952) is a former American diplomat, government official, and businessman who served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the United States Department of State during Secretary Rex T ...

* Steven Goldstein (activist) * Steven R. Goldstein, American gynecologist *

Sydney Goldstein Sydney Goldstein FRS (3 December 1903 – 22 January 1989) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as: "... one of those who most influenced progress in fluid dynamics during the 20th century." ...

(1903–1989), British mathematician and aerodynamicist *

Tom Goldstein Thomas Che Goldstein (born 1970) is an American lawyer. He is known for his advocacy before and blog about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe (later Goldstein & Russell), a Washington, D.C., fi ...

(born 1970), American attorney *

Vida Goldstein Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. ) (13 April 186915 August 1949) was an Women's suffrage in Australia, Australian suffragist and social reformer. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 Australian federal election, 1903 federal election ...

(1869–1949), Australian suffragette and social reformer * Warren Goldstein (professor) * Yisroel Goldstein, American shooting survivor * Yoine Goldstein (1934–2020), Canadian lawyer and politician

Variant surnames

* Aleksandar Goldštajn (1912–2010), prominent Croatian university professor, law scholar and constitutional court judge * Israel Goldstine (1898–1953), New Zealand politician, businessman, barrister and solicitor

Fictional

* Anthony Goldstein, a minor character in the ''Harry Potter'' book series *

Emmanuel Goldstein Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character and the principal enemy of the state of Oceania in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. The political propaganda of The Party portrays Goldstein as the leader of The Br ...

, a key character in George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' * Ira Goldstein, a character who appears in ASB Bank's commercials * Koko Goldstein, a character in the Web video series ''

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'' * Rachel Goldstein in ''Water Rats'' * Porpentina and Queenie Goldstein, sisters in

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling in her debut as a screenwriter. It is the first instalment in the ''Fantastic Beasts'' film series and the ninth overall i ...

* Ivan Goldstein in ''

Missions (TV series) ''Missions'' () is a French science-fiction television series first broadcast in 2017. Set in the near future, it depicts a mission to the planet Mars. ''Missions'' was created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme and and produced by Empreinte Digitale o ...

'' * Nicoletta "Nico" Goldstein, a supporting character in the video game series