Kleist
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Kleist may refer to:
- Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist (ca. 1700-1748), co-inventor of the Leyden jar
- Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715-1759), German poet and soldier
- Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf (1762-1823), Prussian Field Marshal
- Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), German writer
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954), German Field Marshal
- Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890-1945), conspirator to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (born 1922), conspirator to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- David A[lbert] Kleist (born 1959), American poet, writer, and teacher
- Kleist Sykes, former Tanzanian mayor
- Kleist Prize, German literary prize
- Panzer Group Kleist and Army Group von Kleist, parts of the German First Panzer Army