Schlesinger

Schlesinger is a German surname (in part also Jewish) meaning "Silesian" and may refer to: * Adam Schlesinger (1967–2020), American composer and musician * Adolf Martin Schlesinger (1769–1838), German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung * Alan Schlesinger (born 1960), American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006 * Alice Schlesinger (born 1988), Israeli Olympic judoka * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965), American historian and professor at Harvard University * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), son of the above, American historian, social critic and former John F. Kennedy associate * Bruno Schlesinger (1876–1962), American German-born conductor and composer who changed his name to "Bruno Walter" in 1911 * Carl Schlesinger (1813–1871), Austrian cellist * Christina Schlesinger, American artist * Cory Schlesinger (born 1972), American football player * David Schlesinger (born 1960), American journalist who is the Editor-in-Chief of Reuters * Don Schlesinger, American gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and famous blackjack player * Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi * Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943), American astronomer * Hanan Schlesinger, Israeli rabbi * Helmut Schlesinger (1924–2024), German economist and President of the Bundesbank * Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1882–1960), American chemist * James R. Schlesinger (1929–2014), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973–1974) and first Secretary of Energy (1977–1979) * Joe Schlesinger (1928–2019), Canadian television journalist and author * John Schlesinger (1926–2003), British film director * Karl Schlesinger (1889–1938), an Austrian-Hungarian economist and banker * Katharine Schlesinger, British actress * Kathleen Schlesinger, British musicologist (1862–1953) * Kurt Schlesinger (1902–1964), a war criminal, head of the Jewish Security Service in Westerbork transit camp * Leon Schlesinger (1884–1949), American Looney Tunes producer * Leonard Schlesinger, American economist * Ludwig Schlesinger (1864–1933), Hungarian-German mathematician * Marcus Schlesinger, Israeli swimmer * Patricia Schlesinger (born 1961), German journalist * Piero Schlesinger (1930–2020), Italian banker and lawyer * Richard Schlesinger (1900–1968), Australian tennis player. * Steven W Schlesinger, American attorney and rabbi. * Romana Schlesinger (born 1986), Slovak LGBT rights activist * Rudolf Schlesinger (1909–1996), German-born Professor of Comparative Law at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Common Core Project * T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger, American engineer and physicist * Walter Schlesinger (1908–1984), German historian

Things that are named after people with this surname: * Leon Schlesinger Productions, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger * Schlesinger (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon * Schlesinger Building, a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa * Schlesinger institute, Research institute for Jewish medical ethics, named after Falk Schlesinger M.D. * Schlesinger Library, a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Provided by Wikipedia