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Goldberg is a surname of
German or
Yiddish origin, meaning 'gold mountain', which is common among
Ashkenazi Jews .
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[2] Notable people with the surname include:
Entertainment
Adam Goldberg (born 1970), American actor
Adam F. Goldberg (born 1976), American screenwriter and producer
Andrew Goldberg (director) (born 1968), American film producer/director
Andrew Goldberg (writer) (born 1978), American television writer
Daniel Goldberg (producer) , Canadian film producer and writer
Eric Goldberg (animator) (born 1955), American animator
Eric Goldberg (game designer) (born 1959), American designer of board, role-playing, and computer games
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 (born 1963), Finnish model, actress and singer
Lester J. Goldberg , birth name of Jerry Lester, American comedian, singer and performer
Marc Goldberg (playwright) (born 1968), French playwright and theatre director
Marc Wallice (born Marc Stephen Goldberg, 1959), American porn actor
Mike Goldberg (born 1964), American sportscaster
Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), American cartoonist
Sarah Goldberg (born 1985), Canadian actress
Whoopi Goldberg (born 1955), American actress
Music
Politics
Science
Aaron Goldberg (1917–2014), American botanist
Abraham Goldberg (1923–2007), British professor of medicine
Adele Goldberg (computer scientist) (born 1945), American computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80
Adele Goldberg (linguist) (born 1963), American researcher in the field of linguistics
Alexander Goldberg (1906–1985), Israeli chemical engineer and ex-president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Anatolii Goldberg (1930–2008), Soviet-Israeli mathematician
Andrew J Goldberg (born 1970), British consultant orthopaedic surgeon
Andrew V. Goldberg (born 1960), American computer scientist
David Goldberg (psychiatrist) , British academic and social psychiatrist
David E. Goldberg (born 1953), American computer scientist
Deborah Goldberg , American ecologist
Elkhonon Goldberg (born 1946), Latvia-born American neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist
Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970), Israeli cinema pioneer, computer pioneer, and inventor in photography
Irma Goldberg (1871), Russian-born German organic chemist
Joshua N. Goldberg (1925–2020), American theoretical physicist
Judith Goldberg , American biostatistician
Leo Goldberg (1913–1987), American astronomer
Lewis Goldberg (born 1932), American personality psychologist and a professor emeritus
Murray Goldberg (born 1962), Canadian e-learning pioneer
Nieca Goldberg (born 1957), American cardiologist
Paul Goldberg (geologist) , American geologist
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg , Greek-American economist and former chief economist of the
World Bank
Sports
Aaron Goldberg (golfer) (born 1985), American professional golfer
Adam Goldberg (American football) (born 1980), American football player (St. Louis Rams)
Benny Goldberg (1918–2001), Polish 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
Dan Goldberg (tennis) (born 1967), American tennis player
Jared Goldberg (born 1991), American Olympic skier
Les Goldberg (1918–1985), English footballer
Mark Goldberg (football manager) , English football manager and businessman
Marshall Goldberg (1917–2006), American NFL All-Pro football halfback (
Chicago Cardinals )
Writers and journalists
Anatol Goldberg (1910–1982), Soviet-British head of the BBC Russian Service during the Cold War
Ben Zion Goldberg (1895–1972), Belarusian-American Yiddish journalist
Bernard Goldberg (born 1945), American writer, journalist, and political commentator and author
Itche Goldberg (1904–2006), American-Yiddish writer and publisher
J.J. Goldberg (born 1949), American writer and editor
Jeffrey Goldberg (born 1965), American author and journalist
Joshua Ryne Goldberg (born 1995), American convicted felon, Jewish Neo-Nazi and internet troll
Kaarina Goldberg (born 1956), Finnish author and journalist
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet and writer
Miriam Goldberg (1916–2017), American newspaper publisher and editor
Steven Goldberg (1941–2022), American academic and author
Other
Aharon Goldberg , Israeli rabbi convicted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder-for-hire
Alan Goldberg (architect) , American architect
Alan E. Goldberg (born 1949), American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer
Arthur A. Goldberg (born 1940), American businessman, co-founder and co-director of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing
Bertrand Goldberg (1913–1997), American architect and industrial designer
Billy Goldberg (born 1966),American physician, New York City emergency medicine physician
Carin Goldberg (1953-2023), American graphic artist
Dave Goldberg (1967–2015), American Internet entrepreneur
David Theo Goldberg (born 1952), South African philosopher, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
Denis Goldberg (1933–2020), South African anti-apartheid activist
Eric Goldberg (artist) (1890–1969), Canadian painter
Ian Goldberg (born 1973), Canadian cryptographer
Jonah Goldberg (born 1969), American conservative pundit
Joshua L. Goldberg (1896–1994), Belarusian-born American rabbi
Lucianne Goldberg (1935–2022), American literary agent who was an important figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal
Max Goldberg , owner of YTMND
Merle S. Goldberg (1936–1998), American abortion activist
Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), American abstract expressionist painter and teacher
Richard Steve Goldberg (born 1945), American convicted child pornographer
Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), American cartoonist and inventor of the eponymous machines
Suzanne Goldberg (1940–1999), New Zealand painter
Thorsten Goldberg (born 1960), German multimedia artist
Werner Goldberg (1919–2004), half-Jewish German (mischling) soldier and politician who was depicted in a German newspaper during World War II as "The Ideal German Soldier"
William Goldberg (diamond dealer) (1925–2003), American diamond dealer
Fictional characters
See also
References