Ron Goldman

Goldman is someone I think about with real tenderness. Born in 1968 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, he was a restaurant waiter and aspiring actor who volunteered with children who had cerebral palsy, the picture of a kind young man with his whole life ahead. History remembers him through the name of a notorious 1994 tragedy, but I would rather hold onto the person first. What stays with me is the ordinary decency of his choices, the volunteering, the hustle of model and tennis instructor work, a life cut off mid-dream. I want to mourn him as a human being, not merely as a footnote to a famous case.

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Name (English)

Ron Goldman

Name (Japanese)

ロン・ゴールドマン

Reading

ろん・ごーるどまん

Born

July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994

Origin

Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States

Occupation

waiter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

High school

Stevenson High School

University

Illinois State University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Goldman
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281518

Tags

• Illinois
• waiter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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