Leavitt (surname)

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

• Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt (born 1877), Yale graduate, minister, Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
• Rev. Bradford Leavitt (born 1868), Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard-educated pastor of First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, California, 1900; editorial writer, San Francisco Chronicle; later merchant, San Francisco and Woodside, California
• Audrey Maurine Leavitt, (Born 1986), T.V. Personality, host, co-founder of Charmed Playhouses, Lethbridge, Alberta
• Benson Leavitt, Acting Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1845, to December 11, 1845, father of Emily Wilder Leavitt
• Caroline Leavitt (born 1952), Quincy, Massachusetts, American novelist
• Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928), eminent landscape architect, urban planner, civil engineer, designed gardens at Long Island and New Jersey estates, as well as parks, country clubs, race courses, stadiums; city planner; cousin of Philadelphia artist Cecilia Beaux
• Dallin Leavitt (born 1994), American football player
• Daniel Leavitt (1801–51), American inventor, firearm manufacturer, Wesson & Leavitt, Massachusetts Arms Company, Chicopee, Massachusetts
• David Leavitt (born 1961), American writer
• David Leavitt (banker) (1791–1879), New York City, Great Barrington, Massachusetts; banker, president of American Exchange Bank of New York, representative of bondholders of Illinois and Michigan Canal; Chicago's Leavitt Street named for him
• David O. Leavitt, (born 1963), lawyer, prosecutor, Congressional candidate, international businessman, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Dudley Leavitt (1830–1908), Mormon pioneer, later profiled by granddaughter, historian Juanita Brooks
• Rev. Dudley Leavitt (minister) (1720–62), minister, Tabernacle Church (formerly First Church), Salem, Massachusetts, Salem's Leavitt Street named for this early minister
• Dudley Leavitt (publisher) (1772–1851), publisher, Leavitt's Farmers' Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook, Meredith, New Hampshire
• Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842–1904), Providence, Rhode Island, prominent New England still life painter, son of Providence pastor Rev. Jonathan Leavitt and Charlotte Esther (Stearns) Leavitt
• Elisha Leavitt (1714–90), owner of Grape Island, Lovells Island, Boston Harbor, infamous Tory in the American Revolutionary War, Hingham, Massachusetts
• Emily Wilder Leavitt (1836–1921), historian, genealogist; one of the first female members, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts
• Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. (1836–1916), mechanical engineer, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Frank McDowell Leavitt (1856–1928), engineer, inventor of machine for manufacturing tin cans, Leavitt-Bliss torpedo used by United States Navy, b. Athens, Ohio, d. Scarsdale, New York, son of John McDowell Leavitt
• Frank Simmons Leavitt (1891–1953), professional name Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler
• George Ayres Leavitt (1822–88), publisher, b. Haverhill, Massachusetts, son of Jonathan Leavitt; founder and proprietor, Leavitt & Allen, publishers, New York City
• Capt. George Baker Leavitt, Sr. (1860–1925), born Portland, Maine; Captain of New Bedford, Massachusetts-based whaling ships Thrasher, Grampus, Newport, Balaena and steam whaler Narwhal in Alaska; Arctic explorer; Capt. Leavitt married Inuit Nanouk Elguchiaq; Leavitt Island off Alaska's North Slope named for the early whaling captain
• Harold J. Leavitt (1922–2007), Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business[2]
• Hart Leavitt (1808–81), American abolitionist, operator of Underground Railroad station, Charlemont, Massachusetts
• Hart Day Leavitt (1909–2008), author, Yale University graduate, longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, son of Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Hiram Leavitt (1824–1901), early settler, innkeeper, judge, Mono County, California, namesake of Leavitt Peak, Leavitt Meadow and Leavitt Lake, eastern Sierra Nevada
• Humphrey H. Leavitt (1796–1873), American congressman, U.S. District Court Judge, Ohio, b. Suffield, Connecticut
• Jeannie Leavitt (born 1967), USAF officer, the U.S. Air Force's first female fighter pilot. She went on to be the first female to graduate from its elite Air Force Weapons School, the first woman to take command of a U.S. Air Force combat fighter wing.
• Jim Leavitt, University of South Florida football coach
• John Leavitt (1608–91), tailor, founding deacon, Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts, sergeant and Massachusetts selectman, Hingham's Leavitt Street named for him, ancestor of disparate Americans including Sandra Day O'Connor, Richard Morris Hunt and Stephen King
• John Leavitt (Ohio settler) (1755–1815), early Ohio settler in the Western Reserve from Connecticut, Warren, Ohio, Leavittsburg, Ohio
• John Faunce Leavitt (1905–74), sailor, boatbuilder, marine artist, maritime writer, Wake of the Coasters, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut
• John Hooker Leavitt (1831–1906), banker, state senator, b. Heath, Massachusetts, founder, Leavitt and Johnson National Bank, Waterloo, Iowa
• John McDowell Leavitt (1824–1909), LL.D., Episcopal clergyman, author, professor, president, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• John Wheeler Leavitt (1790–1870), prominent New York City businessman, founder of J. W. & R. Leavitt Company, eventually declared insolvent, b. Washington, Connecticut, brother of David Leavitt (banker), grandfather of American painter Cecilia Beaux
• Rev. Jonathan Leavitt (minister) (1731–1802), born Suffield, Connecticut, graduate, Yale College, Congregational minister, Walpole, New Hampshire, first minister, Charlemont, Massachusetts, married Sarah Hooker, great-granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker; sister Jemima Leavitt mother of Chief Justice of the United States Oliver Ellsworth
• Jonathan Leavitt (1764–1830), judge, state senator, banker, Greenfield, Massachusetts
• Jonathan Leavitt (publisher) (c. 1797 – 1851), Andover, Massachusetts, founder, publisher, Leavitt & Trow, New York City, died 1851
• Joseph Leavitt (born 1754) Pembroke, Massachusetts, Private, Continental Army, laid down his weapon after three months due to pacifist sympathies, later known as 'Quaker Joe'; first settler of Turner, Maine, built first house
• Rev. Joshua Leavitt (1794–1873), abolitionist, editor of The Emancipator, born Heath, Massachusetts
• Dr. Josiah Leavitt (1744–1804), physician, Hingham, Massachusetts, inventor, built clock that hung in window of Old Ship Church; later removed to Boston where he became prominent maker and repairer of organs
• Judith Walzer Leavitt (born 1940), University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of history of medicine
• L. Brooks Leavitt (1878–1941), investment banker, antiquarian book collector, overseer of Bowdoin College, New York City and Wilton, Maine
• Laurence G. Leavitt (1903–2000), longtime headmaster, Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont
• Lewis Leavitt, medical director, University of Wisconsin–Madison; professor of pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
• Martine Leavitt, Canadian-American author for young adults
• Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt (1830–1912), worldwide temperance crusader, Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, Boston
• Michael O. Leavitt (born 1951), American politician, former Governor of Utah, former Cabinet Secretary, Health and Human Services
• Michael Leavitt (artist) (born 1977), American sculptor, painter and educator
• Moses Leavitt (1650–1730), surveyor, selectman, Deputy, Moderator of the General Court, Exeter, New Hampshire
• Myron E. Leavitt (1930–2004), former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and Nevada Supreme Court Justice
• Ralph Leavitt (born 1877), president, Leavitt Motor Car Exchange, New York City, later fugitive from justice, York Harbor, Maine
• Bud Leavitt Jr. (1917–94), executive sports editor, The Bangor Daily News, longtime outdoor columnist, Bangor, Maine
• Raphy Leavitt (born 1948), Puerto Rican composer
• Robert Leavitt (1883–1954), American Olympic athlete
• Robert Greenleaf Leavitt (1865–1942), b. Parsonsfield, Maine, Harvard-educated botanist, teacher, Ames Botanical Laboratory, Massachusetts; owner, Blazo-Leavitt House, Parsonsfield, Maine
• Robert Keith Leavitt (1895–1967), Harvard-educated son of Robert Greenleaf Leavitt; author, Noah's Ark, New England Yankees, and the Endless Quest: A Short History of the Original Webster Dictionaries, 1947; founding historian, The Baker Street Irregulars
• Col. Roger Hooker Leavitt (1805–85), American abolitionist, operator of Underground Railroad station, Charlemont, Massachusetts
• Ron Leavitt (1947–2008), writer for Married... with Children
• Lieut. Samuel Leavitt (1641–1707), early settler, deputy, member of New Hampshire House of Representatives, Exeter, New Hampshire
• Scott Leavitt (1879–1966), U.S. Forest Service ranger, Spanish–American War veteran, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana
• Sturgis Elleno Leavitt (1888–1976), graduate, Bowdoin College, Harvard, author, Professor of Spanish, University of North Carolina
• Thaddeus Leavitt (1750–1826), merchant, inventor, patentee of Western Reserve lands in Ohio, Suffield, Connecticut
• Thomas Leavitt (banker) (1795–1850), president of Bank of New Brunswick, businessman, diplomat, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
• Thomas Leavitt (inventor) (1827–99), inventor of first U.S. postmarking machines, 1875, Boston, Massachusetts
• Thomas Leavitt (settler) (ca. 1615–96), farmer, early English settler of Hampton, New Hampshire
• Thomas Rowell Leavitt (1834–91), sheriff, Wellsville, Utah, polygamist Mormon settler of Alberta, Canada, founder, Leavitt, Alberta
• William Homer Leavitt, artist, portrait painter, Newport, Rhode Island, married Ruth Bryan, eldest daughter of William Jennings Bryan; seriously injured when thrown from horse belonging to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, whom Leavitt had just painted, Sept. 1901; divorced by Ruth Bryan, and children adopted by grandfather William Jennings Bryan