Pitman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States
Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii), New England and Hawaiian businessman
Chris Pitman, synthist for the U.S. band Guns N' Roses
Andrew Pitman, Australian climate scientist
Brett Pitman, professional footballer currently playing for Ipswich Town
E.J.G. Pitman, statistician noted for the Pitman–Koopman–Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions
Frederick Pitman, British Olympic rower
Frederick I Pitman, British rower and Boat Race umpire (father of Frederick)
Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman (1845–1863), American Civil War soldier of Native Hawaiian ancestry
Herbert Pitman, third officer on the RMS Titanic
Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Shorthand
Jacob Pitman, brother of Isaac, brought shorthand and Swedenborgianism to South Australia
James Pitman, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet
Jenny Pitman, British racehorse trainer and author
Kent Pitman, expert on Lisp programming language
Marie J. Davis Pitman (1850–1888), American author who used the pen-name "Margery Deane"
MC Pitman, East Midlands English rapper
Robert Carter Pitman, 19th century Massachusetts legislator and author
Walter Pitman, educator and former politician in Ontario, Canada
Walter C. Pitman, III, geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University