Weizmann or Weizman is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

  • Chaim Weizmann, a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science
    • Weizmann Institute of Science, an institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel
    • Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, an agreement signed as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
    • Weizmann organism, a commercially valuable bacterium, included in the genus Clostridium
    • WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer), the first computer in Israel, and possibly the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computer outside the US and Europe
  • Ezer Weizman, the seventh President of the State of Israel (1993–2000)
  • Maria Weizmann, a sister of Israeli politician and notable scientist Chaim Weizmann
  • Martin Weitzman, economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University
  • Vera Weizmann, wife of Chaim Weizmann, medical doctor and a Zionist activist

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