Nachman Explained

Nachman should not be confused with Nahmad.

Nachman, also Nahman is a Yiddish surname and given name, similar to the German surname Nachmann.Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Dana Nachman, American documentary filmmaker
• Gerald Nachman (born 1938), American journalist and writer
• Jerry Nachman (1946–2004), American journalist
• Jim Nachman, American politician
• Rod Nachman - Alabama lawyer
• Ron Nachman (1942–2013), Israeli politician

Fictional characters

• Raphael Nachman, fictional mathematician in the late stories of Leonard Michaels

Given name

• Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
• Rebbe Nachman of Horodenka
• Nachman Aronszajn (1907–1980), Polish-American mathematician
• Nachman Ben-Yehuda (born 1948), Israeli sociologist
• Nahman Berlin, German writer
• Nachman Bulman (1925–2002), American rabbi
• Nachman Chazan (1813–1884), Ukrainian Orthodox Jew
• Nachman Dushanski (1919–2008), Lithuanian communist
• Nachman Fahrner (born 1972), Israeli musician
• Nachman Goldstein (died 1894), Ukrainian Orthodox rabbi
• Nachman Shlomo Greenspan (1878–1961), Talmudic scholar
• Nachman Kahana (born 1937), Israeli rabbi
• Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840), Galician philosopher, theologian and historian
• Nachman Shai (born 1946), Israeli journalist and politician
• Nachman Syrkin (1868–1924), Belarusian Zionist and writer
• Nachman Wolf (1951–2022), Israeli Paralympic athlete