Goldberg is a surname of German or Yiddish origin, meaning 'gold mountain', which is common among Ashkenazi Jews.[1][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
- Aaron Goldberg (born 1974), American pianist
- Barry Goldberg (born 1942), American blues musician
- Ben Goldberg (born 1959), American clarinetist
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727–1756), German harpsichordist and composer of the late Baroque period
- Reiner Goldberg (1939–2023), German opera singer (heroic tenor)
Politics
- Alan Goldberg (judge) (1940–2016), Federal Court of Australia judge
- Arthur Goldberg (1908–1990), U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations
- Daniel Goldberg (politician) (born 1965), French Socialist politician
- Karl Raimund Goldberg (1836–1897), Mayor of Varnsdorf, Member of the Bohemian Diet
- Marilyn Goldberg, Manitoba judge
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
- Edward Goldberg, in the animated series Drawn Together
- Greg Goldberg, from the Mighty Ducks movies
- Joe Goldberg, main protagonist of the You book series by Caroline Kepnes, as well as the television series of the same name
See also
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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