Lenz

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Lenz may refer to:

Lantsch/Lenz, the German name of the place in Grisons, Switzerland
Lenz (fragment), literary fragment by Georg Büchner
Lenasia, an Indian township in Gauteng, South Africa
Lenz Military Base, a military base in Lenasia, Gauteng
Lenz, Oregon (disambiguation), the name of two settlements in the U.S. state of Oregon
Lenz, Stephanie, plaintiff in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. who posted a YouTube video of children dancing to a Prince song
Lents (crater)

Surname

Lenz is a German surname, and may refer to:

In arts and entertainment:

Alev Lenz (1982—), German-Turkish singer/songwriter
Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti (1981—), American television actress
David Lenz (1962—), American portrait painter
Fabian Lenz, German DJ, techno musician and events producer
Frank Lenz (1967—), drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists
Frederick Lenz (1950—1998), American author and Buddhist spiritual guru
Jack Lenz, Canadian Bahá'í composer
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751—1792), German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement
Kay Lenz (1953—), Emmy-award-winning American television and film actress
Maximilian Lenz (1965—) alias WestBam, German DJ and techno musician
Nicole Marie Lenz (1980—), actress
Siegfried Lenz (1926—), German writer

In sports:

In science:

Fritz Lenz (1887–1976), German anthropologist and eugenicist
Harald Othmar Lenz (1798—1870), German naturalist
Heinrich Lenz (1804–1865), German and Russian physicist
- Lenz's law, eponymous law
Hugo Lenz (1859—1944), Austrian mechanical engineer
Oskar Lenz (1848–1925), a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist
Widukind Lenz (1919–1995), German pediatrician
- Cenani Lenz syndactylism, congenital malformation syndrome
- Lenz microphthalmia syndrome
Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), German physicist
- Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, vector in classical mechanics