Fridman (, ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aleksandr Fridman
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Fridman (crater)
Fridman is the remains of a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies due south of the huge walled plain Hertzsprung, and is attached to the northeastern rim of the crater Ioffe.
This crater lies in the southern part of the eje ...
, the remains of a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon
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Alexey Maksimovich Fridman, a Russian/Soviet-Israeli physicist
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Daniel Fridman
Daniel Fridman (; born February 15, 1976) is a Latvian-German chess player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001, he was Latvian champion in 1996 and German champion in 2008, 2012 and 2014.
Early chess career
Fridman was born in ...
, (born 1976, Riga), a Latvian-German chess master
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Gal Fridman
Gal Fridman (or Friedman, ; born September 16, 1975) is an Israeli windsurfer and Israel's first Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. He is ...
, Israeli windsurfer and an Olympic gold medalist
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James Fridman, British graphic designer
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Lev Fridman (born 1969, Sverdlovsk), a Russian auto racing driver
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Lidia Fridman (born 1996), Russian operatic soprano
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Limor Fridman (born 1968), Israeli Olympic gymnast
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Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (also transliterated Mikhail Friedman; ; ; born 21 April 1964) is a Ukrainian-born, Russian–Israeli tycoon and Russian oligarchs, oligarch. He is one of the co-founders of Alfa Group, Alfa-Group, a multinational Rus ...
, Russian businessman
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Olga Fridman
Olga Olehivna Fridman (, ; born 30 September 1998) is a Ukrainian-Israeli former professional tennis player and the 2015 female Israeli tennis champion.
As a junior, Fridman has a career-high world ranking of 12, achieved on 24 March 2014. She h ...
(born 1998), Ukrainian-Israeli tennis player
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Yasmin Fridman (born 1973), Israeli politician
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Yonatan Fridman
Yonatan Fridman (; born March 14, 2003) is an Israeli acrobatic gymnastics, acrobatic gymnast who won a silver medal at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
He was born in Israel.
Fridman is 181 cm tall (5' 11").
Gymnastics career
His acrobatic gymnast ...
(born 2003), Israeli
acrobatic gymnast
Acrobatic gymnastics is a competitive discipline of gymnastics where partnerships of gymnasts work together and perform routines consisting of acrobatic skills, dance and tumbling, set to music. The sport is governed by the International Feder ...
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Lex Fridman
Alexei "Lex" Fridman (; born 15 August 1983) is an American computer scientist and podcaster. Since 2018, he has hosted the ''Lex Fridman Podcast'', where he interviews notable figures from various fields such as science, technology, sports, and ...
(born 1986), Russian-American computer scientist and podcast host.
Fridmann
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Dave Fridmann
David Lawrence Fridmann is an American record producer and musician.
Career
From 1990 onwards he co-produced most releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Other bands he has worked with include Weezer, Saxon Shore (band), Saxon Shore, Neon ...
Frydman
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Achilles Frydman (1905 - 1940), a Polish chess player
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Aviad Frydman (born 1964), Israeli professor of physics
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Jean Frydman
Jean Frydman (26 June 1925 – 14 March 2021) was a Jewish member of the French Resistance during World War II and businessman. He received the ''Légion d'honneur'' in 2016 for his wartime efforts.
Resistance
During World War II, at the age of ...
(1925–2021), a French resistant and businessman
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Judith Frydman (fl. 2010s–2020s), American biochemist
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Lucio Frydman
Lucio Frydman (; born 1965) is an Israeli chemist whose research focuses on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and solid-state NMR. He was awarded the 2000 Günther Laukien Prize, the 2013 Russell Varian Prize, the ...
(born 1965), Israeli chemist
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Maurice Frydman
Maurice Frydman (''Maurycy Frydman'' or ''Maurycy Frydman-Mor'' in Polish), aka ''Swami Bharatananda'' (20 October 1901 in Warsaw, Russian Empire – 9 March 1976 in Bombay, India), was an engineer and humanitarian who spent the later part of hi ...
, (1901–1976)
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Pamela Frydman (fl. 2010s), American rabbi
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Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (1905–1982), a Polish chess player
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Roman Frydman (born 1948), a Polish-American economist
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See also
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Freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their owners), emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group), or self- ...
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Friedmann
Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are surnames of German origin, and from the 17th century were also adopted by Ashkenazi Jews. It is the 9th most common surname in Israel (8th among Jews) and most common exclusively Ashkenazi name. Notable people ...
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Friedman
Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are surnames of German origin, and from the 17th century were also adopted by Ashkenazi Jews. It is the 9th most common surname in Israel (8th among Jews) and most common exclusively Ashkenazi name. Notable people ...
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Frydman
Frydman () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łapsze Niżne, within Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately north of Łapsze Niżne, east of ...
(, ), a village in Poland
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Surnames of Jewish origin
Germanic-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames