Schlesinger

Schlesinger is a German surname (in part also Jewish) meaning "Silesian" and may refer to:
 * Adam Schlesinger (1967–2020), American composer and musician
 * Adolf Martin Schlesinger (1769–1838), German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung
 * Alan Schlesinger (born 1960), American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006
 * Alice Schlesinger (born 1988), Israeli Olympic judoka
 * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965), American historian and professor at Harvard University
 * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), son of the above, American historian, social critic and former John F. Kennedy associate
 * Bruno Schlesinger (1876–1962), American German-born conductor and composer who changed his name to "Bruno Walter" in 1911
 * Carl Schlesinger (1813–1871), Austrian cellist
 * Christina Schlesinger, American artist
 * Cory Schlesinger (born 1972), American football player
 * David Schlesinger (born 1960), American journalist who is the Editor-in-Chief of Reuters
 * Don Schlesinger, American gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and famous blackjack player
 * Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi
 * Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943), American astronomer
 * Hanan Schlesinger, Israeli rabbi
 * Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1882–1960), American chemist
 * James R. Schlesinger (1929–2014), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973–1974) and first Secretary of Energy (1977-1979)
 * Joe Schlesinger (1928–2019), Canadian television journalist and author
 * John Schlesinger (1926–2003), British film director
 * Katharine Schlesinger, British actress
 * Kathleen Schlesinger, British musicologist (1862 Holywood near Belfast - 1953 London)
 * Kurt Schlesinger (1902-1964), a war criminal, head of the Jewish Security Service in Westerbork transit camp
 * Leon Schlesinger (1884–1949), American Looney Tunes producer
 * Leonard Schlesinger, American economist
 * Ludwig Schlesinger (1864–1933), Hungarian-German mathematician
 * Marcus Schlesinger, Israeli swimmer
 * Patricia Schlesinger (born 1961), German journalist
 * Piero Schlesinger (1930–2020), Italian banker and lawyer
 * Richard Schlesinger (1900–1968), Australian tennis player.
 * Romana Schlesinger (born 1986), Slovak LGBT rights activist
 * Rudolf Schlesinger (1909–1996), German-born Professor of Comparative Law at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Common Core Project
 * T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger, American engineer and physicist
 * Walter Schlesinger (1908–1984), German historian

Things that are named after people with this surname:
 * Leon Schlesinger Productions, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger
 * Schlesinger (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
 * Schlesinger Building, a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
 * Schlesinger institute, Research institute for Jewish medical ethics, named after Falk Schlesinger M.D.
 * Schlesinger Library, a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.