# Goldberg (surname)

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 (1942–2025), 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