Kálmán

For other uses, see Kalman (disambiguation).

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 (קלמן‎ in Yiddish and Hebrew, occasionally spelled Calman in Roman letters) is also a Yiddish given name that is a short form of the Greco-Jewish name Kalonymos (קלונימוס‎, meaning "beautiful name", a reference to a miracle worked in God's name). 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 (the Yiddish name first appearing in the Rhineland in the middle ages with the famed Kalonymos family).

People with the name Kalman or Kálmán include:

Surname

• Attila Kálmán (born 1968), Hungarian organist and pianist
• Dan Kalman (born 1952), American mathematician
• Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), Hungarian composer of operettas
• Maira Kalman (born 1949), Israeli-American graphic designer and illustrator
• Oszkár Kálmán (1887–1971), Hungarian bass singer
• Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016), Hungarian mathematician and electrical engineer
• Tibor Kalman (1949–1999), Hungarian graphic designer

Given name

• Kalman Aron (died 2018), a Latvian-born American Jewish artist
• Kalman J. Cohen (died 2010), an American Jewish economist
• Kálmán Bartalis (1889–?), a Hungarian polo player
• Kalman Bloch (1913–2009), a US Jewish clarinetist
• Kálmán Darányi (1886–1939), a Hungarian politician
• Kálmán Ferenczfalvi (1921-2005 in Debrecen) was a Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations
• Kálmán Giergl (1863–1954), a Hungarian architect
• Kálmán Gőgh (German: Koloman Gögh, 1948, Kladno–1995)
• Kálmán Hazai (1913–1996), a Hungarian water polo player
• Kálmán Hunyady de Kéthely (1828–1901), a Hungarian nobleman
• Kálmán Ihász (1941–2019), a Hungarian footballer
• Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976)
• Kálmán Kandó (1869–1931)
• Kálmán Kánya (1869–1945), a Foreign Minister of Hungary
• Kálmán Katona (1948–2017), a Hungarian politician
• Kálmán Kertész (1867–1922), a Hungarian entomologist
• Kálmán Kittenberger (1881–1958), a Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist
• Kálmán Konrád (1896–1980), a Hungarian football player
• Kalman Konya (born 1961, Zürich), a Switzerland-born Hungarian-German shot putter
• Kálmán Kovács (disambiguation)
• Kálmán Kubinyi (1906, Cleveland–1973, Stockbridge, Massachusetts), a Hungarian-American influential etcher
• Kalman Kahana (1910–1991; Hebrew: קלמן כהנא), an Israeli politician and journalist
• Kalman Liebskind (born 1970), an Israeli journalist.
• Kalman Mann (1912-1997), 8th director general of Hadassah Medical Organization
• Kálmán Markovits (1931–2009), a Hungarian water polo player
• Kalman Menyhart (born 1955), a Hungarian football player
• Kálmán Mészöly (1941–2022), a former Hungarian football (soccer) player
• Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910), a Hungarian novelist, journalist, politician
• Kálmán Petrikovics, a Hungarian sprint canoer
• Kalman Packouz, a US orthodox rabbi
• Kalman Mayer Rothschild (1788-1855), founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
• Kálmán Rózsahegyi (1873–1961), a Hungarian actor and teacher
• Kalman Schulman (1819–1899), a Lithuanian writer and translator
• Kálmán Sóvári (1940–2020), a Hungarian footballer
• Kálmán Sóvári (wrestler) (1910–1996), a Hungarian wrestler
• Kálmán Szabó (born 1980), a Hungarian football player
• Kálmán Széll (1843–1915), a Hungarian politician
• Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), a Hungarian poet, historian and politician
• Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer, inventor
• Kálmán Tisza (1830–1902)
• Kálmán Tóth (poet) (1831–1891), a Hungarian poet

Middle name

• Moses Kalman Rothschild (1688-1735), German Jewish silk trader, money changer, father of Amschel Moses Rothschild (1710-1755)
• Kalonymus Kalman Epstein (c. 1753–1823, Neustadt, now Poland)
• Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943), Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno
• Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963), Icelandic author
• Karl Kalman Targownik (1915-1996), psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor

Mononym

• Coloman of Hungary, king of Hungary (1095–1116)
• Prince Kálmán (Coloman) of Lodomeria (1208–1241), a Hungarian member of the Árpád dynasty, Prince of Halych
• Coloman, Bishop of Győr (1317–1375)

See also

• (Kallmann (disambiguation), Kallman, Calman, Callmann, Callman)–other Jewish given names (Hebrew: קלמן) and variants
• Koloman (Coloman)