Perlman or Perlmann is an

Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Alfred E. Perlman Alfred Edward Perlman (November 22, 1902—April 30, 1983) was a railroad executive, having served as president of the Penn Central Transportation Company and its predecessor, the New York Central Railroad, and later, president of the Western P ...

(1902–1983), railroad executive * Anita Perlman, see

B'nai B'rith Girls BBYO is a Jewish teen movement, organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The organization is intended to build the identity of Jewish teens and offer leadership development programs. On June 19, 2001, ...

* Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, birth name of

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the ...

(1858–1922), a Jewish Litvak lexicographer, the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era. * Elio Perlman, the protagonist of André Aciman's novel '' Call Me by Your Name'' *

Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman (born 7 May 1964) is an Australian author and barrister. He has written four novels ('' Three Dollars'', '' Seven Types of Ambiguity'', ''The Street Sweeper'' and ''Maybe the Horse Will Talk''), one short story collection (''The ...

(born 1964), author and barrister *

Fredy Perlman Fredy Perlman (1934–1985) was an American author, publisher, and activist. His best-known work, ''Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!'', retells the historical rise of state domination (and domination generally) through a poetic investiga ...

(1934–1985), anarchist author, publisher, and activist * Gertrude Perlmann (1912–1974), Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American biochemist and biologist *

Isadore Perlman Isadore Perlman (April 12, 1915 – August 3, 1991) was an American nuclear chemist noted for his research of Alpha particle decay. The National Academy of Sciences called Perlman "a world leader on the systematics of alpha decay". He was als ...

(1915-1991), American chemist *

Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman (; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist. He has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a state dinner for Elizabeth II at the White House in 2007, and at the First ina ...

(born 1945), Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue *

Janet Perlman Janet Laurie Perlman is a Canadian animator and children's book author and illustrator whose work includes the short film '' The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin'', which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 54th ...

(born 1954), Canadian animator and children's book author and illustrator * Nathan David Perlman (1887–1952), lawyer and politician * Philip B. Perlman (1890–1960), United States Solicitor General and Maryland Secretary of State *

Radia Perlman Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the Internet. She is most famous for her inventi ...

(born 1951), software designer and network engineer *

Ralph Perlman Ralph R. Perlman (May 16, 1917 – May 24, 2013) was the state budget director in his adopted U.S. state of Louisiana, having served under four governors of both parties from 1967 until 1988. Thereafter, Perlman continued to hold other public ...

(1917–2013), Louisiana state budget director, 1967–1988 *

Rhea Perlman Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress and author. She is well-known for playing head waitress Carla Tortelli in the sitcom ''Cheers'' (1982–1993). Over the course of eleven seasons, Perlman was nominated for ten Emmy Awar ...

(born 1948), actress *

Ron Perlman Ronald N. Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor. His credits include the roles of Amoukar in ''Quest for Fire (film), Quest for Fire'' (1981), Salvatore in ''The Name of the Rose (film), The Name of the Rose'' (1986), Vincent in th ...

(born 1950), actor *

Selig Perlman Selig Perlman (December 9, 1888 – August 14, 1959) was an economist and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Background Perlman was born in Białystok in Congress Poland (then part of Russia) in 1888. His father, Mor ...

(1888–1959), economist and labor historian *

Stanley Perlman Stanley Marc Perlman is an American microbiologist and coronavirus researcher. He is professor of microbiology and immunology, professor of pediatrics, and the Mark Stinski Chair in Virology in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine ...

, American microbiologist *

Steve Perlman (entrepreneur) Stephen G. "Steve" Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services. He is best known for the development of QuickTime, WebTV, OnLive, pCell and ...

, entrepreneur and inventor * Suzanne Perlman (1922–2020), Hungarian-Dutch visual artist *

Thomas Perlmann Rolf Thomas Perlmann (born March 2, 1959, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a professor of molecular developmental biology at Karolinska Institute. In 2006, he became a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. He became an adjunct member o ...

(born 1959), Swedish professor

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