What is "perelman"

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