Lenz - Surname

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:

• David Lenz, German Major League Baseball player
• Peter Lenz (1997—2010), American motorcycle road racer
• Sandy Lenz, American figure skater

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