Goldberg (surname)
Goldberg is a surname of German or Yiddish origin, meaning 'gold mountain'. It is common among Ashkenazi Jews,[1][2] and may refer to:
Entertainment
- Adam Goldberg (born 1970), American actor
- Adam F. Goldberg (born 1976), American screenwriter and producer
- Eric Goldberg, American animator
- Evan Goldberg (born 1982), Canadian screenwriter, film producer and director
- Gary David Goldberg (1944 – 2013), American writer and producer for television and film
- Gina Goldberg, Finnish model, actress and singer
- Mike Goldberg, American sportscaster
- Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist
- Sarah Goldberg, Canadian actress
- Whoopi Goldberg, American actress
Music
- Aaron Goldberg, American pianist
- Barry Goldberg, American blues musician
- Ben Goldberg (born 1959), American clarinetist
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727–56), German harpsichordist and composer of the late Baroque period
- Reiner Goldberg (born 1939), German opera singer (heroic tenor)
Politicians
- Alan Goldberg (judge), Federal Court of Australia judge
- Arthur Goldberg (1908–90), U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations
- Karl Raimund Goldberg (1836–1897), Mayor of Varnsdorf, Member of the Bohemian Diet
- Marilyn Goldberg, Manitoba judge
Science
- Aaron Goldberg, American botanist
- Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine
- Alexander Goldberg, Israeli chemical engineer and ex-president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Anatolii Goldberg, mathematician
- Andrew J Goldberg, British Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
- David E. Goldberg, American computer scientist
- Deborah Goldberg, American ecologist
- Elkhonon Goldberg, neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist
- Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970), Israeli cinema pioneer, computer pioneer, and inventor in photography
- Irma Goldberg (1871), chemist
- Joshua N. Goldberg, American theoretical physicist
- Lewis Goldberg, American personality psychologist and a professor emeritus
- Leo Goldberg, American astronomer
- Murray Goldberg, Canadian eLearning pioneer
- Nieca Goldberg, American cardiologist
Sports
- Aaron Goldberg (golfer), American professional golfer
- Adam Goldberg (American football) (born 1980), American football player (St. Louis Rams)
- Benny Goldberg (1918–2001), bantamweight boxer
- Bill Goldberg (born 1966), American professional wrestler, film actor and former American football player (Atlanta Falcons)
- Brad Goldberg (born 1990), American baseball pitcher
- Chelsey Goldberg (born 1993), American ice hockey player
- Jared Goldberg (born 1991), American Olympic skier
- Les Goldberg, English footballer
- Mark Goldberg, English football manager and businessman
- Marshall Goldberg (1917–2006), American NFL All-Pro football halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
Writers and journalists
- Adam Goldberg, American software engineer and food writer
- Anatol Goldberg, head of the BBC Russian Service during the Cold War
- Bernard Goldberg, American writer, journalist, and political commentator and author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
- Itche Goldberg, American-Yiddish writer and publisher
- J.J. Goldberg, American writer and editor
- Jeffrey Goldberg, American author and journalist
- Kaarina Goldberg, Finnish author and journalist
- Leah Goldberg (1911–70), Israeli poet and writer
- Miriam Goldberg (1916–2017), American newspaper publisher and editor
- Steven Goldberg, American academic and author
Other
- Aharon Goldberg, Israeli rabbi convicted of attempted kidnapping and murder-for-hire
- Alan Goldberg (architect), American architect
- Arthur A. Goldberg, Co-founder and Co-director of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing
- Bertrand Goldberg, architect
- David Theo Goldberg, philosopher and director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
- Denis Goldberg (1933–2020), Anti-Apartheid activist
- Ian Goldberg, cryptographer
- Jonah Goldberg, American conservative pundit
- Lucianne Goldberg, American literary agent who was an important figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal
- Max Goldberg, owner of YTMND
- Merle S. Goldberg, American abortion activist
- Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher
- Richard Steve Goldberg, convicted child pornographer
- Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist and inventor of the eponymous machines
- Suzanne Goldberg, New Zealand painter
- Thorsten Goldberg, German multimedia artist
- Werner Goldberg, half-Jewish German (mischling) who was depicted in a German newspaper during World War II as "The Ideal German Soldier"
Fictional characters
- Edward Goldberg, fictional character in the animated series Drawn Together
- Greg Goldberg, from the Mighty Ducks movies
- Joe Goldberg, main protagonist of the You book series written by Caroline Kepnes, as well as the television series of the same name.
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See also
- David Goldberg (disambiguation)
- Goldberg (disambiguation)
- Golberg (disambiguation)
- Goldberger
- Goldenberg
- Harpaz
References
- Marline Otte (3 July 2006). Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890–1933. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107320888. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- Elon Gilad (22 April 2010). "What Does Your Jewish Name Mean?". Haaretz. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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