Lenz (surname)

Lenz is a German surname.

Notable people with the name include:

Arts and entertainment

 * Alev Lenz (born 1982), German-Turkish singer/songwriter
 * Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti (born 1981), American television actress
 * David Lenz (born 1962), American portrait painter
 * Desiderius Lenz (1832–1928), German artist, Benedictine monk, co-founder of the Beuron Art School
 * Fabian Lenz, German DJ, techno musician and events producer
 * Frank Lenz (born 1967), drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists
 * Frederick Lenz (1950–1998), American author and Buddhist spiritual guru
 * Hermann Lenz, German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels
 * Gita Lenz (1910–2011), New York photographer
 * Günter Lenz (born 1938), German jazz bassist and composer
 * Jack Lenz, Canadian Bahá'í composer
 * Jakob Lenz (opera), a one act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm
 * Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement
 * Kay Lenz (born 1953), Emmy Award-winning American television and film actress
 * Klára Lenz (1924–2013), Hungarian tapestry artist
 * Marlene Lenz (born 1932), German politician
 * Maximilian Lenz (1860–1948), Austrian artist
 * Maximilian Lenz (born 1965) alias WestBam, German DJ and techno musician
 * Nicole Marie Lenz (born 1980), actress
 * Pedro Lenz (born 1965), Swiss writer, expert of Spanish literature
 * Rick Lenz (born 1939), American actor, author and playwright
 * Rudolf Lenz (1920–1987), Austrian actor
 * Sidney Lenz (1873–1960), American contract bridge player and writer
 * Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014), German writer
 * Uli Lenz (born 1955), German composer, pianist, and producer in the modern jazz genre
 * Wilhelm von Lenz (1809–1883), Baltic German Russian official and writer

Sports

 * André Lenz, retired German football goalkeeper
 * August Lenz, German international footballer
 * Christopher Lenz, German footballer who plays as a defender
 * Consetta Caruccio-Lenz (1918–1980), American gymnast
 * David Lenz, German Major League Baseball player
 * Frank Lenz (cyclist) (1867 – probably 1894), American bicyclist and adventurer who disappeared somewhere near Erzurum, Turkey
 * Gene Lenz, American competition swimmer
 * Jörn Lenz, German former footballer who played as a defender
 * Josef Lenz, West German luger
 * Josh Lenz (born 1990), American football wide receiver
 * Julian Lenz, German tennis player
 * Manuel Lenz (born 1984), German footballer
 * Marcel Lenz (disambiguation), several people
 * Peter Lenz (1997–2010), American motorcycle road racer
 * Sandy Lenz, American figure skater

Science and academia

 * Fritz Lenz (1887–1976), German anthropologist and eugenicist
 * Emil Lenz (1804–1865), German and Russian physicist


 * Hanfried Lenz (1916–2013), German mathematician
 * Maurice Lenz (1890–1974), Russian pioneer in the field of radiation therapy
 * Max Lenz (1850–1931), German historian
 * Oskar Lenz (1848–1925), a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist
 * Renate Lenz-Fuchs (1910–2011), German lawyer and honorary chairman of the German Lawyer's Association
 * Widukind Lenz (1919–1995), German pediatrician


 * Widukind Lenz (1919–195), German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist
 * Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), German physicist

Politician

 * Andreas Lenz (born 1981), German politician
 * Carl Otto Lenz (born 1930), German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag
 * Otto Lenz (1903–1957), German politician (CDU), Head of the Chancellery (1951-53), member of the German Bundestag
 * Tomasz Lenz (born 1968), Polish politician

Other

 * Dolly Lenz (born 1957), real estate agent in New York City
 * Stephanie Lenz, plaintiff in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. who posted a YouTube video of children dancing to a Prince song
 * Hermann-Lenz-Preis, a literary prize of Germany
 * Hester-Lenz House, a historic house in Benton, Arkansas
 * Lenz Field, privately-owned multi-field baseball and softball complex in Jacksonville, IL

Fictional people

 * Billy Lenz, a character in the 2006 remake of Black Christmas