Nachman

Nachman, also Nahman is a Yiddish surname and given name, similar to the German surname Nachmann. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Dana Nachman, American documentary filmmaker
 * Gerald Nachman (born 1938), American journalist and writer
 * Jerry Nachman (1946–2004), American journalist
 * Jim Nachman, American politician
 * Rod Nachman &mdash; Alabama lawyer
 * Ron Nachman (1942–2013), Israeli politician

Fictional characters

 * Raphael Nachman, fictional mathematician in the late stories of Leonard Michaels

Given name

 * Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
 * Rebbe Nachman of Horodenka
 * Nachman Aronszajn (1907–1980), Polish-American mathematician
 * Nachman Ben-Yehuda (born 1948), Israeli sociologist
 * Nahman Berlin, German writer
 * Nachman Bulman (1925–2002), American rabbi
 * Nachman Chazan (1813–1884), Ukrainian Orthodox Jew
 * Nachman Dushanski (1919–2008), Lithuanian communist
 * Nachman Fahrner (born 1972), Israeli musician
 * Nachman Goldstein (died 1894), Ukrainian Orthodox rabbi
 * Nachman Shlomo Greenspan (1878–1961), Talmudic scholar
 * Nachman Kahana (born 1937), Israeli rabbi
 * Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840), Galician philosopher, theologian and historian
 * Nachman Shai (born 1946), Israeli journalist and politician
 * Nachman Syrkin (1868–1924), Belarusian Zionist and writer
 * Nachman Wolf (1951–2022), Israeli Paralympic athlete