Fishman (surname)

Fishman is a surname of German or Ashkenazi Jewish origin. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan H. Fishman (born 1946), American businessman and bank executive
• Beverly Fishman (born 1955), American artist
• Bill Fishman, American film director
• Boris Fishman (born 1979), American writer
• Charles Adès Fishman (born 1942), American poet and academic
• David Fishman, American academic and author
• Elliot K. Fishman, American diagnostic radiologist
• Gerald J. Fishman (born 1943), American research astrophysicist
• Hal Fishman (1932–2007), American newsman based in Los Angeles, who has been the longest-running news anchor in the history of television
• Herman Fishman (1917–1967), American basketball and baseball player
• Howard Fishman, American musician, writer and playwright
• Irving Fishman (1921–2014), American lawyer and Massachusetts politician
• Israel David Fishman (1938–2006), American librarian, founder of the Task Force on Gay Liberation
• Jack Fishman (1930–2013), Polish-born American pharmaceutical researcher
• Jake Fishman (born 1995), American-Israeli MLB and Olympic baseball player
• Jay S. Fishman (1952–2016), American manager
• Jerry Fishman (born c.1943), American football player
• Jerald G. Fishman (1945–2013), American electrical engineer and businessman
• Jessica M. Fishman, American author and behavioral scientist
• Joelle Fishman (born 1946), American writer and politician from New Jersey
• Jon Fishman (born 1965), American musician
• Joshua Fishman (1926–2015), American linguist
• Konstantin Fishman (born 1977), Russian footballer
• Louise Fishman (1939–2021), American abstract painter
• Mark Fishman, American cardiologist
• Michael Fishman (born 1981), American actor
• Mikhail Fishman (born 1972), Russian journalist and television presenter
• Mosess Fishman (1916–2007), American activist, leader of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• Nina Fishman (1946–2009), American-born British labour movement historian and political activist
• Osnat Fishman (born 1972), Israeli actress
• Paul J. Fishman (born 1957), American lawyer from New Jersey
• Peter Fishman (born 1955), Russian sculptor and painter
• Rob Fishman (born 1986), American entrepreneur and writer
• Rukhl Fishman (1935–1984), Israeli poet
• Steven Fishman (born 1957), American ex-scientologist, author of the Fishman Affidavit
• Sylvia Barack Fishman (born 1942), American feminist sociologist and author
• William H. Fishman (1914–2001), Canadian-American cancer researcher
• William J. Fishman (1921–2016), British historian and academic
• Yakov Moiseevich Fishman (1887-1961), Russian politician and revolutionary
• Yakov Leybovich Fishman (1913–1983), chief rabbi of Moscow

Fictional characters:

• Chuck Fishman, from the American television series Early Edition

Pseudonyms:

• Fishman (1951–2017), Mexican wrestler, born José Ángel Nájera Sánchez

See also

• All pages with titles containing Fichman
• Danny Fiszman (1945–2011), diamond dealer
• Fichman