Goldberg (surname) explained

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
• Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg, in the 1952 novel The Hoods and the 1984 movie Once Upon a Time in America

See also

• David Goldberg (disambiguation)
• Michael Goldberg (disambiguation)
• Goldberg (disambiguation)
• Golberg (disambiguation)
• Goldberger
• Goldenberg
• Harpaz

Notes and References

1. Book: Marline Otte. Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890–1933. 3 July 2006. Cambridge University Press. 9781107320888. 13 August 2015.
2. News: Elon Gilad. What Does Your Jewish Name Mean?. 13 August 2015. Haaretz. 22 April 2010.