Kálmán
Kálmán is an ancient Germanic origin Hungarian surname and male given name. Outside Hungary, the name occurs sometimes in the form Kalman. It was derived from the Germanic name: Koloman, Coloman or Kolman. The Germanic name Coloman has been used by Germans since the 9th century.
Kalman is also a Yiddish given name that is a short form of the Greco-Jewish name Kalonymos. Sometimes the long form and short forms are used together, as in the compound name Kalman Kalonymos. A nickname for Kalman is in Yiddish Kalma or Kalme.
The Yiddish and Hungarian names are a convergence with separate origins.
People with the name Kalman or Kálmán include:
Surname
- Attila Kálmán, Hungarian organist and pianist
- Dan Kalman, American mathematician
- Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian composer of operettas
- Maira Kalman, Israeli-American graphic designer and illustrator
- Oszkár Kálmán, Hungarian bass singer
- Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian mathematician and electrical engineer
- Tibor Kalman, Hungarian graphic designer
Given name
- Kalman Aron, a Latvian-born American Jewish artist
- Kalman Ber, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Kalman J. Cohen, an American Jewish economist
- Kálmán Bartalis, a Hungarian polo player
- Kalman Bloch, a US Jewish clarinetist
- Kálmán Darányi, a Hungarian politician
- Kálmán Ferenczfalvi was a Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Kálmán Giergl, a Hungarian architect
- Kálmán Gőgh
- Kálmán Hazai, a Hungarian water polo player
- Kálmán Hunyady de Kéthely, a Hungarian nobleman
- Kálmán Ihász, a Hungarian footballer
- Kálmán Kalocsay
- Kálmán Kandó
- Kálmán Kánya, a Foreign Minister of Hungary
- Kálmán Katona, a Hungarian politician
- Kálmán Kertész, a Hungarian entomologist
- Kálmán Kittenberger, a Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist
- Kálmán Konrád, a Hungarian football player
- Kalman Konya, a Switzerland-born Hungarian-German shot putter
- Kálmán Kovács (disambiguation)
- Kálmán Kubinyi, a Hungarian-American influential etcher
- Kalman Kahana, an Israeli politician and journalist
- Kalman Liebskind, an Israeli journalist.
- Kalman Mann, 8th director general of Hadassah Medical Organization
- Kálmán Markovits, a Hungarian water polo player
- Kalman Menyhart, a Hungarian football player
- Kálmán Mészöly, a former Hungarian football player
- Kálmán Mikszáth, a Hungarian novelist, journalist, politician
- Kálmán Petrikovics, a Hungarian sprint canoer
- Kalman Packouz, a US orthodox rabbi
- Kalman Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
- Kálmán Rózsahegyi, a Hungarian actor and teacher
- Kalman Schulman, a Lithuanian writer and translator
- Kálmán Sóvári, a Hungarian footballer
- Kálmán Sóvári (wrestler), a Hungarian wrestler
- Kálmán Szabó, a Hungarian football player
- Kálmán Széll, a Hungarian politician
- Kálmán Thaly, a Hungarian poet, historian and politician
- Kálmán Tihanyi, a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer, inventor
- Kálmán Tisza
- Kálmán Tóth (poet), a Hungarian poet
Middle name
- Moses Kalman Rothschild, German Jewish silk trader, money changer, father of Amschel Moses Rothschild
- Daniel Kálmán Biss, American politician and mathematician
- Kalonymus Kalman Epstein
- Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno
- Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Icelandic author
- Karl Kalman Targownik, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor
Mononym
- Coloman of Hungary, king of Hungary
- Prince Kálmán (Coloman) of Lodomeria, a Hungarian member of the Árpád dynasty, Prince of Halych
- Coloman (bishop of Győr)