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.

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), 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

See also

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

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