Lenz (surname)

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Lenz is a German surname.

Notable people with the name include:

Arts and entertainment[]

  • Alev Lenz (born 1982), German-Turkish singer/songwriter
  • Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti (born 1981), American television actress
  • David Lenz (born 1962), American portrait painter
  • Desiderius Lenz (1832–1928), German artist, Benedictine monk, co-founder of the Beuron Art School
  • Fabian Lenz, German DJ, techno musician and events producer
  • Frank Lenz (born 1967), drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists
  • Frederick Lenz (1950–1998), American author and Buddhist spiritual guru
  • Hermann Lenz, German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels
  • Gita Lenz (1910–2011), New York photographer
  • Günter Lenz (born 1938), German jazz bassist and composer
  • Jack Lenz, Canadian Bahá'í composer
  • Jakob Lenz (opera), a one act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm
  • Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement
  • Kay Lenz (born 1953), Emmy Award-winning American television and film actress
  • Klára Lenz (1924–2013), Hungarian tapestry artist
  • Marlene Lenz (born 1932), German politician
  • Maximilian Lenz (1860–1948), Austrian artist
  • Maximilian Lenz (born 1965) alias WestBam, German DJ and techno musician
  • Nicole Marie Lenz (born 1980), actress
  • Pedro Lenz (born 1965), Swiss writer, expert of Spanish literature
  • Rick Lenz (born 1939), American actor, author and playwright
  • Rudolf Lenz (1920–1987), Austrian actor
  • Sidney Lenz (1873–1960), American contract bridge player and writer
  • Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014), German writer
  • Uli Lenz (born 1955), German composer, pianist, and producer in the modern jazz genre
  • Wilhelm von Lenz (1809–1883), Baltic German Russian official and writer

Sports[]

Science and academia[]

  • Fritz Lenz (1887–1976), German anthropologist and eugenicist
  • Emil Lenz (1804–1865), German and Russian physicist
See also: Lenz's law
  • Hanfried Lenz (1916–2013), German mathematician
  • Maurice Lenz (1890–1974), Russian pioneer in the field of radiation therapy
  • Max Lenz (1850–1931), German historian
  • Oskar Lenz (1848–1925), a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist
  • Renate Lenz-Fuchs (1910–2011), German lawyer and honorary chairman of the German Lawyer's Association
  • Widukind Lenz (1919–1995), German pediatrician
See also: Cenani Lenz syndactylism and Lenz microphthalmia syndrome
  • Widukind Lenz (1919–195), German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist
  • Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), German physicist
See also: Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector

Politician[]

  • Andreas Lenz (born 1981), German politician
  • Carl Otto Lenz (born 1930), German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag
  • Otto Lenz (1903–1957), German politician (CDU), Head of the Chancellery (1951-53), member of the German Bundestag
  • Tomasz Lenz (born 1968), Polish politician

Other[]

  • Dolly Lenz (born 1957), real estate agent in New York City
  • Stephanie Lenz, plaintiff in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. who posted a YouTube video of children dancing to a Prince song
  • Hermann-Lenz-Preis, a literary prize of Germany
  • Hester-Lenz House, a historic house in Benton, Arkansas
  • Lenz Field, privately-owned multi-field baseball and softball complex in Jacksonville, IL

Fictional people[]

See also[]

  • Lenz, Oregon (disambiguation)
  • Maximilian Lenz (disambiguation)
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