Perelman
This article is about the surname Perelman. For the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, see Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Perelman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bob Perelman, poet
- Chaim Perelman, philosopher
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, 1858-1922), responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language
- Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture
- 50033 Perelman, asteroid named after Grigori Perelman
- Mikhail Perelman, Soviet Olympic gold medal winning gymnast
- Richard B. Perelman, author of Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars
- Ronald Perelman, wealthy investor and businessman who appears 94th on the Forbes 2006 The World's Richest People (40th in the USA)
- S. J. Perelman (1904–1979), American humorist, author, and screenwriter, best known for Around the World in Eighty Days
- Yakov Perelman, Russian author of science books for children
- Perel'man (crater), lunar crater named after Yakov Perelman
- Vadim Perelman, Ukrainian-American film director best known for his debut House of Sand and Fog
- Raymond G. Perelman, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based philanthropist for whom the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania was named in 2011
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