Schlesinger
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Schlesinger is a German surname meaning "from Silesia" (German: Schlesien) and may refer to:
- Adam Schlesinger (born 1967), American composer and musician
- Adolf Martin Schlesinger (1769-1838), founder of (A.M.Schlesingers Musikhandlung)
- Alan Schlesinger (born 1960), American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006
- 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 Walter (1876-1962), German-born conductor and composer who changed his name from "Bruno Schlesinger" to "Bruno Walter" in 1911
- 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 Blackjack player
- Frank Schlesinger (1871-1943), American astronomer
- Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1882-1960), American chemist
- James R. Schlesinger (born 1929), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973-1974)
- Joe Schlesinger (born 1928), Canadian television journalist and author
- John Schlesinger (1926-2003), British film director
- Katharine Schlesinger, British actress
- Kathleen Schlesinger, British musicologist (1862 Holywood near Belfast - 1953 London)
- Klaus Schlesinger (1937-2001), German writer, winner of the 2000 Erich Fried Prize
- Leon Schlesinger (1884-1949), Looney Tunes producer
- Ludwig Schlesinger (1864-1933), Hungarian-German mathematician, proved Hilbert's twenty-first problem
- Rudolf B. Schlesinger (1901-1969), marxist theorician and sovietologist of the University of Glasgow
- Rudolf Schlesinger (1909-1996), German-born Professor of Comparative Law at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Common Core Project
- Walter Schlesinger (1908-1984), German historian
Things that are named after people with this surname:
- Schlesinger (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
- Schlesinger Building, a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Schlesinger Library, a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.
- Leon Schlesinger Productions, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger
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