Levitt

Levitt is an English variant Anglo-Norman surname or an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and can refer to:

In arts and entertainment

 * Alan "Al" Levitt (1932–1994), American jazz drummer
 * Alfred Levitt (1894–2000), Russian–American painter and art historian
 * Andrew Levitt (1970), American drag queen
 * Alfred Lewis Levitt (1916–2002), American screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s
 * Gene Levitt (1920–1991), American film director
 * Helen Levitt (1913–2009), American photographer
 * Helen Slote Levitt (1916–1993), American screenwriter
 * Igor Levit (born 1987) Russian-German pianist
 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt (b. 1981), American actor
 * Saul Levitt (1911–1977), American playwright
 * Steve Levitt, American actor

In science and academia

 * Herschel Levit (1912–1986), American artist, designer, professor
 * Malcolm Harris Levitt (b. 1957), British physical chemist, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist.
 * Michael Levitt (biophysicist) (b. 1947), British biophysicist, professor of structural biology at Stanford University, California, and one of the founders of modern computational biology
 * Norman Levitt (1943–2009), American mathematician
 * Peggy Levitt (?), American sociologist
 * Steven Levitt (b. 1967), American economist, author of Freakonomics
 * Theodore Levitt (1925–2006), American business theorist; coined the term "marketing myopia"
 * Toby Levitt (1908–1958), South African-born endocrinologist and author of a standard textbook on the thyroid

In other fields

 * Arthur Levitt (b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 * Chad Levitt (b. 1975), American NFL football player
 * Dorothy Levitt (1882–1922), English female racing driver
 * Tom Levitt (b. 1954), British politician
 * William Levitt (1907–1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittowns