Meissner,
Meißner or
Meisner may refer to:
Geography
Meissner is the name of the following geographic features:
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the Meißner (range), an important mountain range in Hesse, Germany
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Hoher Meißner, the highest peak of the Meißner range
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Meißner, Hesse, a community in the district Werra-Meißner-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany
Surnames
Meissner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname and its variants include:
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Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian engineer and physicist
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Andy Meisner (born 1973), American politician
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August Gottlieb Meißner (1753–1807), German writer
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Beate Meißner (born 1982), German politician
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Boris Meissner (1915–2003), German lawyer and social scientist
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Bruno Meissner (1868–1947), German assyriologist
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Carl Meissner (1800–1874), Swiss botanist
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Meisner's Banksia, Australian shrub
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Carl Meissner (1830–1900), German Latin scholar
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Constantin Meissner (1854-1942), Romanian teacher
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Elena Meissner (1867–1940), Romanian feminist
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Elinor Meissner Traeger (1906–1983), composer
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Ernst Meisner (born 1982), Dutch dancer and choreographer
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Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1796–1860), German obstetrician
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Fred Meissner (1931–2007), American geologist and engineer
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Freda Meissner-Blau (1927–2015), Austrian politician and activist
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Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist
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Meissner's corpuscle, type of mechanoreceptor
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Meissner's plexus, intestinal nerve plexus
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Greg Meisner (born 1959), American football player
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Günter Meisner (1926–1994), German actor
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Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), German writer and novelist
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Heike Meißner (born 1970), German hurdler and runner
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Heinrich August Meissner (1862–1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha
[Walter Pinhas Pick, Gād G. Gîlbar, Ed. Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914: Studies in Economic and Social History, Chapter 6, p.179]
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James Meissner (1896–1936), American World War I flying ace
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Janusz Meissner (1901–1978), Polish writer and aviator
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Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
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Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
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Joern Meissner (born 1970), German academic and business consultant
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(1701–1770), German sculptor and wood carver
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Karl Meissner (1891–1959), German-American physicist
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Katrin Meissner (born 1973), German swimmer
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Kimmie Meissner (born 1989), American figure skater
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Krzysztof Antoni Meissner (born 1961), Polish theoretical physicist
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Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), American historian of 20th century China
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Otto Meissner (1880–1953), head of the Office of the Reich President, Germany
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Paul Traugott Meissner (1778–1864), Austrian chemist
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Randy Meisner (1946–2023), founder of the band the Eagles and solo artist
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Randy Meisner (1978 album), self-titled
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Randy Meisner (1982 album), self-titled
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Renate Meissner (born 1950), German sprinter and triple Olympic champion
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Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting coach
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Meisner technique, an acting technique
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Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Native American feminist philosopher
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Silvio Meißner (born 1973), German football player
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Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
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Stefan Meissner (born 1973), German football player
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Stuart Meissner (born 1962), American federal prosecutor and politician
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Verne Meisner (1938–2005), American polka musician
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Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
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Werner Meißner (1937–2025), German economist, president of the Goethe University Frankfurt (1994–2000)
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Wolf Meissner (born 1969), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian
William Meissner, 1948- American novelist, poet and short story writer. See also
