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Levitt is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, or an English variant Anglo-Norman surname and can refer to:

  • Alan "Al" Levitt (1932-1994), American jazz drummer
  • Arthur Levitt (b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Alfred Lewis Levitt (1916-2002), American screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s
  • Chad Levitt (b. 1975), American NFL football player
  • Dorothy Levitt (1882-1922), English female Racing Driver
  • Gene Levitt (1920-1991), American film director
  • Helen Levitt (1913-2009), American photographer
  • Helen Slote Levitt (1916-1993), American screenwriter
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt (b. 1981), American actor
  • Michael Levitt (b. 1947), British biophysicist, Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University, California, and one of the founders of modern computational biology
  • Norman Levitt (1943-2009), American mathematician
  • Steve Levitt, American actor
  • Steven Levitt (b. 1967), American economist, author of Freakonomics
  • Theodore Levitt (1925-2006), American business theorist who coined the term marketing myopia
  • Tom Levitt (b. 1954), British politician
  • William Levitt (1907-1994), American real-estate developer, namesake of the Levittowns

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It was by studying the stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, all more or less at the same distance from us, that the American astronomer Henrietta Swann Levitt (1868-1921) first noted the connection between the luminosity of Cepheid variables and their periods.

Now the major obstacle was past-now that Sheklov had been photographed in company with Prexy, when everyone took it that Crashaw, Levitt, and the team at their backs were the ultimate court of appeal concerning security-he could coldly review what he had been told.

Levitt, “Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.

Levitt, “The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries,” National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, 2003.

Levitt, “The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools,” Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

Economist Steven Levitt sets out to explore such questions, along with some of life's riddles, in Freakonomics, co-authored by Stephen J.