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Goldberg is a surname of German or Yiddish origin, meaning 'gold mountain', which is common among Ashkenazi Jews. 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

References

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

• Surnames
• German-language surnames
• Ashkenazi surnames
• Yiddish-language surnames
• Surnames from ornamental names