Lenz (surname)

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

• André Lenz, retired German football goalkeeper
• August Lenz, German international footballer
• Christopher Lenz, German footballer who plays as a defender
• Consetta Caruccio-Lenz (1918–1980), American gymnast
• David Lenz, German Major League Baseball player
• Frank Lenz (cyclist) (1867 – probably 1894), American bicyclist and adventurer who disappeared somewhere near Erzurum, Turkey
• Gene Lenz, American competition swimmer
• Jörn Lenz, German former footballer who played as a defender
• Josef Lenz, West German luger
• Josh Lenz (born 1990), American football wide receiver
• Julian Lenz, German tennis player
• Manuel Lenz (born 1984), German footballer
• Marcel Lenz (disambiguation), several people
• Peter Lenz (1997–2010), American motorcycle road racer
• Sandy Lenz, American figure skater

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

• Aloys Lenz (politician, born 1910) (1910–1976), German politician
• Andreas Lenz (born 1981), German politician
• Carl Otto Lenz (born 1930), German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag
• Karl Lenz (1899–1944), German politician
• 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, Illinois

Fictional people

• Billy Lenz, a character in the 2006 remake of Black Christmas

See also

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