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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