Gottesman

Gottesman is a surname of Germanic origin meaning man of God. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Beyle Schaechter–Gottesman, Yiddish singer, songwriter, and poet
 * Blake Gottesman, personal aide and bodyguard to President George W. Bush
 * Daniel Gottesman, physicist, Perimeter Institute
 * David Gottesman, billionaire, director of Berkshire Hathaway
 * David Gottesman (politician)
 * Dov Gottesman (1917–2011), Israeli art collector, president of the Israel Museum from 2001–11
 * Irving Gottesman, psychiatric geneticist
 * Joan Gottesman Wexler (born 1946), American Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
 * Michael Gottesman (lawyer), lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University
 * Michael M. Gottesman, biochemist, National Institutes of Health
 * Moshe Gottesman, rabbi, educator and community leader
 * Noam Gottesman (born 1961), founding partner of GLG Partners hedge fund, son of Dov
 * Rebecca Gottesman, neurologist and epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins University
 * Rubin Gottesman, man found guilty of trafficking in child pornography in United States v. X-Citement Video
 * Ruth Gottesman, American educator
 * S.D. Gottesman, pen-name of author Cyril M. Kornbluth
 * Samuel Gottesman, businessman who brought Central National-Gottesman to prominence
 * Sanford Gottesman, president of The Gottesman Company, board member of OPIC, father of Blake
 * Susan Gottesman, microbiologist, National Institutes of Health