Leavitt (surname)

Leavitt is an Anglo-Norman surname variant or surname^[1] and may refer to:

• Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), American social reformer
• Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt (1877–1959), American Congregational minister
• Benson Leavitt (1797–1869), American businessman
• Rev. Bradford Leavitt (1868–?), pastor of San Francisco's First Unitarian Church
• Caroline Leavitt (born 1952), American novelist
• Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928), American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer
• Dallin Leavitt (born 1994), American football player
• Daniel Leavitt (1801–1851), American inventor
• David Leavitt (1791–1879), New York City banker and financier
• David Leavitt (born 1961), American writer
• Rev. Dudley Leavitt (1720–1762), New Hampshire Congregational minister
• Dudley Leavitt (1830–1908), Mormon pioneer
• Dudley Leavitt (publisher) (1772–1851), American publisher
• Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842–1904), early New England painter
• Elisha Leavitt (1714–1790), Hingham, Massachusetts landowner
• Emily Wilder Leavitt (1836–1921), American historian and genealogist
• Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. (1836–1916), mechanical engineer
• Frank McDowell Leavitt (1856–1928), American engineer and inventor
• Frank Simmons Leavitt (1891–1953), American wrestler known as Man Mountain Dean
• George Ayres Leavitt (1822–1888), publisher
• Capt. George Baker Leavitt, Sr. (1860–1925), American mariner
• Harold J. Leavitt (1922–2007), American psychologist of management
• Hart Leavitt (1808–1881), American landowner, legislator and prominent abolitionist
• Hart Day Leavitt (1909–2008), American teacher and amateur jazz musician
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer
• Hiram Leavitt (1824–1901), American settler, innkeeper and judge
• Humphrey H. Leavitt (1796–1873), American congressman and U.S. District Court Judge
• Jeannie Leavitt (born 1967), United States Air Force officer
• Jim Leavitt (born 1956), University of South Florida football coach
• John Leavitt (1608–1691), American tailor, public officeholder, and founding deacon of Old Ship Church
• John Leavitt (Ohio settler) (1755–1815), early Ohio settler in the Western Reserve
• John Faunce Leavitt (1905–1974), shipbuilder, writer, painter and museum curator
• John Hooker Leavitt (1831–1906), American banker and start senator
• John McDowell Leavitt (1824–1909), American lawyer, Episcopal clergyman, poet, novelist, editor and professor
• John Wheeler Leavitt (1790–1870), American businessman
• Jonathan Leavitt (1764–1830), American attorney, judge, state senator and businessman
• Rev. Jonathan Leavitt (minister) (1731–1802), American Congregational minister
• Jonathan Leavitt (publisher) (c. 1797 – 1851), American bookbinder and publisher
• Joseph Leavitt (1757–1839) American soldier and Quaker
• Rev. Joshua Leavitt (1794–1873), American Congregationalist minister
• Dr. Josiah Leavitt (1744–1804), American physician and inventor
• Josie Leavitt, American politician
• Judith Walzer Leavitt (born 1940), University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of history of medicine
• L. Brooks Leavitt (1878–1941), American investment banker and antiquarian book collector
• Laurence G. Leavitt (1903–2000), American headmaster
• Lewis Leavitt, American medical director and professor of pediatrics
• Martine Leavitt, Canadian-American author for young adults
• Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt (1830–1912), American temperance educator and orator
• Michael Leavitt (artist) (born 1977), American sculptor, painter and educator
• Michael O. Leavitt (born 1951), American politician
• Moses Leavitt (1650–1730), American surveyor, selectman, Deputy and Moderator of the General Court
• Myron E. Leavitt (1930–2004), American politician
• Norman Leavitt (1913–2005), American film and television actor
• Ralph Leavitt (1877–?), American automobile dealer and fugitive
• Bud Leavitt Jr. (1917–1994), executive sports editor for The Bangor Daily News
• Raphy Leavitt (1948–2015), Puerto Rican composer
• Robert Leavitt (1883–1954), American Olympic athlete
• Robert Greenleaf Leavitt (1865–1942), American botanist
• Robert Keith Leavitt (1895–1967), American copywriter and author
• Col. Roger Hooker Leavitt (1805–1885), American abolitionist and operator of Underground Railroad station
• Ron Leavitt (1947–2008), American television writer and producer
• Lieut. Samuel Leavitt (1641–1707), early settler, deputy and member of New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Scott Leavitt (1879–1966), American Forest Service ranger, Spanish–American War veteran and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Sturgis Elleno Leavitt (1888–1976), graduate, Bowdoin College, Harvard, author, Professor of Spanish, University of North Carolina
• Thaddeus Leavitt (1750–1826), American merchant, inventor and patentee of Western Reserve lands
• Thomas Leavitt (banker) (1795–1850), Canadian banker, businessman and diplomat
• Thomas Leavitt (inventor) (1827–1899), American inventor
• Thomas Leavitt (settler) (ca. 1615–1696), English puritan and settler of New Hampshire
• Thomas Rowell Leavitt (1834–1891), Canadian sheriff, Mormon and early settler of Leavitt, Alberta
• Tristan Leavitt, American attorney
• William Homer Leavitt (1868–1951), American portrait painter

See also

• Levett
• Levitt

Further reading

• Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1941). Leavitt: The descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son Moses
• Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1948). Leavitt: The descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son Israel
• Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1949). Leavitt: The descendants of John, The Immigrant Through His Son Josiah
• Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1956). Leavitt: The descendants of John, The Immigrant Through His Son Samuel
• Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Berndt, Julia Bumpus (1982). Leavitt: The descendants of John, The Immigrant Through His Son Nehemiah
• Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1953). Leavitt: Descendants of Thomas Leavitt, the Immigrant (1616–1696), and Isabella Bland
• Leavitt, Brooks Russell. (2002). Leavitt and allied families: For the descendants of V. Russell Leavitt (1891–1946) and Harriet Edna Rice Leavitt (1892–1970), privately printed

References

Surname list

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This page was last edited on 21 March 2024, at 20:25