Goldberg (surname)

Goldberg is a surname of German or Yiddish origin, meaning 'gold mountain', which is common among Ashkenazi Jews. Notable people with the surname include:

Entertainment

 * Adam Goldberg (born 1970), American actor
 * Adam F. Goldberg (born 1976), American screenwriter and producer
 * Andrew Goldberg (director) (born 1968), American film producer/director
 * Andrew Goldberg (writer) (born 1978), American television writer
 * Daniel Goldberg (producer), Canadian film producer and writer
 * Eric Goldberg (animator) (born 1955), American animator
 * Eric Goldberg (game designer) (born 1959), American designer of board, role-playing, and computer games
 * Evan Goldberg (born 1982), Canadian screenwriter, film producer and director
 * Gary David Goldberg (1944–2013), American writer and producer for television and film
 * Gina Goldberg (born 1963), Finnish model, actress and singer
 * Lester J. Goldberg, birth name of Jerry Lester, American comedian, singer and performer
 * Marc Goldberg (playwright) (born 1968), French playwright and theatre director
 * Marc Wallice (born Marc Stephen Goldberg, 1959), American porn actor
 * Mike Goldberg (born 1964), American sportscaster
 * Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), American cartoonist
 * Sarah Goldberg (born 1985), Canadian actress
 * Whoopi Goldberg (born 1955), American actress

Music

 * Aaron Goldberg (born 1974), American pianist
 * Barry Goldberg (born 1942), American blues musician
 * Ben Goldberg (born 1959), American clarinetist
 * Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727–1756), German harpsichordist and composer of the late Baroque period
 * Reiner Goldberg (1939–2023), German opera singer (heroic tenor)

Politics

 * Alan Goldberg (judge) (1940–2016), Federal Court of Australia judge
 * Arthur Goldberg (1908–1990), U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations
 * Daniel Goldberg (politician) (born 1965), French Socialist politician
 * Karl Raimund Goldberg (1836–1897), Mayor of Varnsdorf, Member of the Bohemian Diet
 * Marilyn Goldberg, Manitoba judge

Science

 * Aaron Goldberg (1917–2014), American botanist
 * Abraham Goldberg (1923–2007), British professor of medicine
 * Adele Goldberg (computer scientist) (born 1945), American computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80
 * Adele Goldberg (linguist) (born 1963), American researcher in the field of linguistics
 * Alexander Goldberg (1906–1985), Israeli chemical engineer and ex-president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
 * Anatolii Goldberg (1930–2008), Soviet-Israeli mathematician
 * Andrew J Goldberg (born 1970), British consultant orthopaedic surgeon
 * Andrew V. Goldberg (born 1960), American computer scientist
 * David Goldberg (psychiatrist), British academic and social psychiatrist
 * David E. Goldberg (born 1953), American computer scientist
 * Deborah Goldberg, American ecologist
 * Elkhonon Goldberg (born 1946), Latvia-born American neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist
 * Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970), Israeli cinema pioneer, computer pioneer, and inventor in photography
 * Irma Goldberg (1871), Russian-born German organic chemist
 * Joshua N. Goldberg (1925–2020), American theoretical physicist
 * Judith Goldberg, American biostatistician
 * Leo Goldberg (1913–1987), American astronomer
 * Lewis Goldberg (born 1932), American personality psychologist and a professor emeritus
 * Murray Goldberg (born 1962), Canadian e-learning pioneer
 * Nieca Goldberg (born 1957), American cardiologist
 * Paul Goldberg (geologist), American geologist
 * Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Greek-American economist and former chief economist of the World Bank

Sports

 * Aaron Goldberg (golfer) (born 1985), American professional golfer
 * Adam Goldberg (American football) (born 1980), American football player (St. Louis Rams)
 * Benny Goldberg (1918–2001), Polish bantamweight boxer
 * Bill Goldberg (born 1966), American professional wrestler, film actor and former American football player (Atlanta Falcons)
 * Brad Goldberg (born 1990), American baseball pitcher
 * Chelsey Goldberg (born 1993), American ice hockey player
 * Dan Goldberg (tennis) (born 1967), American tennis player
 * Jared Goldberg (born 1991), American Olympic skier
 * Les Goldberg (1918–1985), English footballer
 * Mark Goldberg (football manager), English football manager and businessman
 * Marshall Goldberg (1917–2006), American NFL All-Pro football halfback (Chicago Cardinals)

Writers and journalists

 * Anatol Goldberg (1910–1982), Soviet-British head of the BBC Russian Service during the Cold War
 * Ben Zion Goldberg (1895–1972), Belarusian-American Yiddish journalist
 * Bernard Goldberg (born 1945), American writer, journalist, and political commentator and author
 * Itche Goldberg (1904–2006), American-Yiddish writer and publisher
 * J.J. Goldberg (born 1949), American writer and editor
 * Jeffrey Goldberg (born 1965), American author and journalist
 * Joshua Ryne Goldberg (born 1995), American convicted felon, Jewish Neo-Nazi and internet troll
 * Kaarina Goldberg (born 1956), Finnish author and journalist
 * Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet and writer
 * Miriam Goldberg (1916–2017), American newspaper publisher and editor
 * Steven Goldberg (1941–2022), American academic and author

Other

 * Aharon Goldberg, Israeli rabbi convicted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder-for-hire
 * Alan Goldberg (architect), American architect
 * Alan E. Goldberg (born 1949), American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer
 * Arthur A. Goldberg (born 1940), American businessman, co-founder and co-director of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing
 * Bertrand Goldberg (1913–1997), American architect and industrial designer
 * Billy Goldberg (born 1966),American physician, New York City emergency medicine physician
 * Carin Goldberg (1953-2023), American graphic artist
 * Dave Goldberg (1967–2015), American Internet entrepreneur
 * David Theo Goldberg (born 1952), South African philosopher, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
 * Denis Goldberg (1933–2020), South African anti-apartheid activist
 * Eric Goldberg (artist) (1890–1969), Canadian painter
 * Ian Goldberg (born 1973), Canadian cryptographer
 * Jonah Goldberg (born 1969), American conservative pundit
 * Joshua L. Goldberg (1896–1994), Belarusian-born American rabbi
 * Lucianne Goldberg (1935–2022), American literary agent who was an important figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal
 * Max Goldberg, owner of YTMND
 * Merle S. Goldberg (1936–1998), American abortion activist
 * Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), American abstract expressionist painter and teacher
 * Richard Steve Goldberg (born 1945), American convicted child pornographer
 * Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), American cartoonist and inventor of the eponymous machines
 * Suzanne Goldberg (1940–1999), New Zealand painter
 * Thorsten Goldberg (born 1960), German multimedia artist
 * Werner Goldberg (1919–2004), half-Jewish German (mischling) soldier and politician who was depicted in a German newspaper during World War II as "The Ideal German Soldier"
 * William Goldberg (diamond dealer) (1925–2003), American diamond dealer

Fictional characters

 * Edward Goldberg, in the animated series Drawn Together
 * Greg Goldberg, from the Mighty Ducks movies
 * Joe Goldberg, main protagonist of the You book series by Caroline Kepnes, as well as the television series of the same name