Lasker

Lasker may refer to:

• Lasker, North Carolina
• Lasker Award, an award for medical research
• Lasker's Manual of Chess, a book on the game of chess by Emanuel Lasker.
• Lasker–Noether theorem or Lasker Ring, a mathematical theorem

People with the surname Lasker

• Albert Lasker (1880-1952), an advertising pioneer; husband of Mary Woodward Lasker
• Berthold Lasker, a German chess master; brother of Emanuel Lasker
• Eduard Lasker (1829-1884), a German politician
• Edward Lasker (1885-1981), a leading American chess and go player
• Edward Lasker (1912-1997), American businessman, son of ad executive Albert Lasker
• Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), a German chess player, chess world champion, and mathematician; brother of Berthold Lasker
• Jonathan Lasker (born 1948), an American artist
• Lawrence Lasker (born 1949), an American screenwriter and producer
• Mary Woodward Lasker, a health activist; wife of Albert Lasker
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), a German Jewish poet

See also

• Laskar (disambiguation)
• Laski (disambiguation)
• Łask, a town in Poland