Bridgman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Elijah Coleman Bridgman Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April22, 1801November2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first few Protestant missionar ...

(1801–1861), American missionary in China *

Frederick Arthur Bridgman Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalism, Orientalist" subjects. Life and career Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Bridgman was the son of a physician. ...

(1847–1928), American artist *

George Bridgman George Brant Bridgman (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) was a Canadian-American Painting, painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New Yor ...

(1865–1943), anatomist and artist *

Jon Bridgman Jon M. Bridgman (July 10, 1930 – March 9, 2015) was an American historian and a professor emeritus of the University of Washington. Bridgman, a graduate of Stanford University, and former USN gunnery officer on a destroyer, received his doctorate ...

(1930–2015), American historian *

Laura Bridgman Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sulliv ...

(1829–1889), deaf-blind American *

Margaret Bridgman Margaret L. Bridgman (January 10, 1940 – January 4, 2009) was a Politics of Canada, Canadian politician. Bridgman was a Members of the Canadian House of Commons, Member of House of Commons of Canada, Parliament from 1993 to 1997, represent ...

(1940–2009), former Canadian member of parliament *

Mel Bridgman Melvin John Bridgman (born April 28, 1955) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1975–76 until 1988–89. He featured in two Stanley Cup Finals with the Flyers (1976 ...

(born 1955), Canadian ice hockey player *

Percy Williams Bridgman Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other ...

(1882–1961), American physicist and 1946 Nobel laureate

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