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Solomon is the English name derived from the Hebrew Shlomo שלמה related to the word shalom ("peace"),¹ he was the well-known King Solomon mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The Arabic name is سليمان, Suleiman or Sulayman, (also meaning "peace"). Many other people and places have been named Solomon:

Last name

Politicians

• Albert Solomon (1876-1914), Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania
• Anthony M. Solomon (1919-2008), American Treasury Undersecretary and President of the Federal Reserve Board of New York
• Gerald B. H. Solomon (1930-2001), American politician
• John R. Solomon (1910-1985), Canadian politician
• Vaiben Solomon (1853-1908), Premier of South Australia

Academics

• Gustave Solomon (1930-1996), American mathematician and engineer
• Immanuel the Roman or Immanuel Ben Solomon (1261-1328), Italian-Jewish scholar and poet
• Martin K. Solomon, mathematician
• Maynard Solomon, Beethoven scholar
• Richard Solomon (1918-1995), psychologist
• Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007), American philosophy professor
• Sheldon Solomon, psychology professor

In sports

• Dean Solomon, Australian footballer
• Freddie Solomon, former American football player
• George Solomon, American sportswriter
• Harold Solomon, former tennis player
• Jesse Solomon, former American football player
• Joe Solomon, former West Indian cricketer
• Moses Hirsch Solomon (1900-1966), rabbi, baseball player

Other

• David Solomon (producer), television producer
• David Solomon (writer), scholar and writer
• David A. Solomon, computer consultant and writer
• Elijah ben Solomon, also known as Vilna Gaon (1720-1797), noted Jewish rabbi
• F. Darwin Solomon (1937-1998), American actor, professionally known as Darwin Joston
• Haym Solomon (1740-1785), financier of the U.S. in the Revolutionary War
• Ikey Solomon (1785-1850), English criminal
• Job ben Solomon or Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773), Muslim slave and writer
• Kimberly Quinn, born Kimberley Solomon, American journalist, commentator, and magazine publisher
• Linda Solomon, music critic
• Norman Solomon, author and media critic
• Russ Solomon, founder of now-defunct Tower Records
• Shirley Solomon, Canadian television talk show host
• Simeon Solomon, British Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Solomon Joseph Solomon, British Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Theodore Solomons (1870-1947), explorer
• Tommy Solomon
• Vonzell Solomon, American singer

Sobriquets

King Solomon's reputation is such that his name is used in sobriquets:

• Solomon of England
• Solomon of France
• Solomon of Hungary

Places

• Solomon Islands, a nation state in the Pacific
• Division of Solomon, Australian electoral division
• Solomon, Kansas, USA
• Solomon River, Kansas, USA
• Solomons, Maryland, USA

Other

• Microsoft Dynamics SL, software package formerly called Solomon Accounting
• Solomon of Montpellier, a 13th century Rabbi
• Operation Solomon, Jewish evacuation mission from Ethiopia, 1991
• Solomon (Handel) oratorio by George Frideric Handel, 1748
• Solomon, professional name of British pianist Solomon Cutner (1902-1988)
• Solomon Airlines, national airline of the Solomon Islands
• Solomon Grundy, nursery rhyme
• Solomon's House, one of the first plans for an institution of pure and applied science, in Francis Bacon's 1626 novel The New Atlantis

See also

• Salomo
• Salomon
• Salamon
• Shalom
• Shlomo

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References

1. ^ Kaplan, Aryeh (1989). The Bahir (in English), 130. ISBN 0877286183.