Posner (surname)

Posner is a surname of German origin, meaning "a person from the city of Posen", now Poznań in Poland. It is a fairly common surname among Ashkenazi Jews. Variants of the name are Posener and Pozner. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Aaron Posner, American playwright and stage director
 * Barry Posner (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Carl Posner (1854–1928), German urologist
 * David M. Posner (1947–2018), American rabbi
 * David Posner, fictional character in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys
 * Ed Posner (1933–1993), American information theorist and neural network researcher
 * Elieser Posner (born 1937), American grain scientist
 * Eric Posner (born 1965), American jurist and academic
 * Ernst Posner (1892–1980), Prussian state archivist
 * Gary H. Posner (1943–2018), American chemist
 * Geoff Posner (born 1949), British producer of television and radio comedy
 * Gerald Posner (born 1954), American journalist
 * Herbert A. Posner (1925–2018), American politician
 * Jerome B. Posner, American neurologist
 * Kenneth Posner, American lighting designer
 * Lindsay Posner (born 1959), British theatre director
 * Michael Posner (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Neal Pozner (1955–1994), sometimes credited as Neil Pozner, art director, editor, and writer known for his work in the comic book industry
 * Rebecca Posner (1929–2018), British philologist, linguist and academic
 * Richard Posner (born 1939), prominent American judge and jurist
 * Ruth Posner (born 1933), Polish-born actress
 * Sarah Posner, American journalist
 * Seymour Posner (1925–1988), American politician
 * Steven Posner (1943–2010), American corporate raider
 * Tess Posner, American social entrepreneur and musician
 * Tracy Posner (born 1962), American actress, animal rights rescuer and activist
 * Trisha Posner, British non-fiction writer, wife of Gerald Posner
 * Victor Posner (1918–2002), American entrepreneur, father of Tracy
 * Vladimir Pozner (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Walter Posner (born 1953), German football player
 * Zalman I. Posner (1927–2014), American rabbi