Pitman (surname)

Pitman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Almira Hollander Pitman (1854-1939), American suffragist
 * Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist
 * Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States
 * Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii judge), New England and Hawaiian businessman
 * Bill Pitman, American guitarist and session musician
 * Charles Pitman (game warden) (1890–1975), British herpetologist and ornithologist
 * Charles H. Pitman (1935–2020), American Marine Corps general
 * Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses
 * Brett Pitman, professional footballer for Bournemouth, Bristol City, Ipswich Town and Portsmouth.
 * E.J.G. Pitman, statistician noted for the Pitman–Koopman–Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions
 * Frederick Pitman, British Olympic rower
 * Frederick I Pitman, British rower and Boat Race umpire (father of Frederick)
 * Gayle E. Pitman, American author
 * Henry Alfred Pitman (1808–1908), English physician
 * Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman (1845–1863), American Civil War soldier of Native Hawaiian ancestry
 * Herbert Pitman, third officer on the RMS Titanic
 * Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand
 * Jacob Pitman, brother of Isaac, brought shorthand and Swedenborgianism to South Australia
 * James Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet
 * Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer and author
 * Kent Pitman, expert on Lisp programming language
 * Marie J. Davis Pitman (1850–1888), American author who used the pen-name "Margery Deane"
 * Mary Pitman Ailau, Hawaiian noblewomen
 * MC Pitman, East Midlands English rapper
 * Primrose Pitman (1902-1998), English artist
 * Robert Carter Pitman, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author
 * Rose M. M. Pitman (1868-1947), English illustrator
 * Walter Pitman, educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada
 * Walter C. Pitman, III, geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University