Kálmán

Kálmán is an ancient Germanic origin Hungarian surname and male given name. Outside Hungary, the name occurs sometimes in the form Kalman. It was derived from the Germanic name: Koloman, Coloman or Kolman. The Germanic name Coloman has been used by Germans since the 9th century.

Kalman ( in Yiddish and Hebrew, occasionally spelled Calman in Roman letters) is also a Yiddish given name that is a short form of the Greco-Jewish name Kalonymos (, meaning "beautiful name", a reference to a miracle worked in God's name). Sometimes the long form and short forms are used together, as in the compound name Kalman Kalonymos.

The Yiddish and Hungarian names are a convergence with separate origins (the Yiddish name first appearing in the Rhineland in the middle ages with the famed Kalonymos family).

People with the name Kalman or Kálmán include:

Surname

 * Attila Kálmán (born 1968), Hungarian organist and pianist
 * Dan Kalman (born 1952), American mathematician
 * Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), Hungarian composer of operettas
 * Maira Kalman (born 1949), Israeli-American graphic designer and illustrator
 * Oszkár Kálmán (1887–1971), Hungarian bass singer
 * Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016), Hungarian mathematician and electrical engineer
 * Tibor Kalman (1949–1999), Hungarian graphic designer

Given name

 * Kalman Aron (died 2018), a Latvian-born American Jewish artist
 * Kalman J. Cohen (died 2010), an American Jewish economist
 * Kálmán Bartalis (1889–?), a Hungarian polo player
 * Kalman Bloch (1913–2009), a US Jewish clarinetist
 * Kálmán Darányi (1886–1939), a Hungarian politician
 * Kálmán Ferenczfalvi (1921-2005 in Debrecen) was a Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations
 * Kálmán Giergl (1863–1954), a Hungarian architect
 * Kálmán Gőgh (Koloman Gögh, 1948, Kladno–1995)
 * Kálmán Hazai (1913–1996), a Hungarian water polo player
 * Kálmán Hunyady de Kéthely (1828–1901), a Hungarian nobleman
 * Kálmán Ihász (1941–2019), a Hungarian footballer
 * Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976)
 * Kálmán Kandó (1869–1931)
 * Kálmán Kánya (1869–1945), a Foreign Minister of Hungary
 * Kálmán Katona (1948–2017), a Hungarian politician
 * Kálmán Kertész (1867–1922), a Hungarian entomologist
 * Kálmán Kittenberger (1881–1958), a Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist
 * Kálmán Konrád (1896–1980), a Hungarian football player
 * Kalman Konya (born 1961, Zürich), a Switzerland-born Hungarian-German shot putter
 * Kálmán Kovács (disambiguation)
 * Kálmán Kubinyi (1906, Cleveland–1973, Stockbridge, Massachusetts), a Hungarian-American influential etcher
 * Kalman Kahana (1910–1991; קלמן כהנא), an Israeli politician and journalist
 * Kalman Liebskind (born 1970), an Israeli journalist.
 * Kalman Mann (1912-1997), 8th director general of Hadassah Medical Organization
 * Kálmán Markovits (1931–2009), a Hungarian water polo player
 * Kalman Menyhart (born 1955), a Hungarian football player
 * Kálmán Mészöly (1941–2022), a former Hungarian football (soccer) player
 * Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910), a Hungarian novelist, journalist, politician
 * Kálmán Petrikovics, a Hungarian sprint canoer
 * Kalman Packouz, a US orthodox rabbi
 * Kalman Mayer Rothschild (1788-1855), founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
 * Kálmán Rózsahegyi (1873–1961), a Hungarian actor and teacher
 * Kalman Schulman (1819–1899), a Lithuanian writer and translator
 * Kálmán Sóvári (1940–2020), a Hungarian footballer
 * Kálmán Sóvári (wrestler) (1910–1996), a Hungarian wrestler
 * Kálmán Szabó (born 1980), a Hungarian football player
 * Kálmán Széll (1843–1915), a Hungarian politician
 * Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), a Hungarian poet, historian and politician
 * Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer, inventor
 * Kálmán Tisza (1830–1902)
 * Kálmán Tóth (poet) (1831–1891), a Hungarian poet

Middle name

 * Moses Kalman Rothschild (1688-1735), German Jewish silk trader, money changer, father of Amschel Moses Rothschild (1710-1755)
 * Kalonymus Kalman Epstein (c. 1753–1823, Neustadt, now Poland)
 * Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943), Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno
 * Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963), Icelandic author
 * Karl Kalman Targownik (1915-1996), psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor

Mononym

 * Coloman of Hungary, king of Hungary (1095–1116)
 * Prince Kálmán (Coloman) of Lodomeria (1208–1241), a Hungarian member of the Árpád dynasty, Prince of Halych
 * Coloman, Bishop of Győr (1317–1375)