Lenz
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- Lantsch/LenzLantsch/LenzLantsch/Lenz is a municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.The majority of its population is Romansh-speaking.-Geography:...
, the German name of the place in Grisons, Switzerland - Lenz (fragment)Lenz (fragment)Lenz is a novella fragment written by Georg Büchner in Strasbourg in 1836. It is based on the documentary evidence of Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, a friend of Goethe, is the subject of the story. In March 1776 he met Goethe in Weimar. Later he suffered from mental...
, literary fragment by Georg Büchner - Lenasia, an Indian township in Gauteng, South Africa
- Lenz Military Base, a military base in Lenasia, Gauteng
- Lenz, Oregon (disambiguation), the name of two settlements in the U.S. state of Oregon
- Lenz, Stephanie, plaintiff in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. was a 2007 case in which the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that copyright holders must consider fair use before issuing takedown notices for content posted on the internet...
who posted a YouTube video of children dancing to a Prince song - Lents (crater)Lents (crater)Lents is a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located within the north-northwestern section of the immense skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin...
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Lenz is a GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
surname, and may refer to:
In arts and entertainment:
- Alev LenzAlev LenzAlev Lenz is a German-Turkish singer/songwriter.-Career:Alev Lenz, the daughter of a Turkish mother and a German father, signed her first Publishing Deal with BMG Music Publishing in 2001, with the first recordings of her former Band "Alev". At first her father was against her plans becoming a...
(1982—), German-Turkish singer/songwriter - Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti (1981—), American television actress
- David LenzDavid LenzDavid Lenz is an American portrait painter.Since 1990 Lenz has painted intimate and highly realistic portraits of unsung Americans. Lenz is perhaps best known for winning the grand prize in the 2006 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition...
(1962—), American portrait painter - Frank LenzFrank LenzFrank Lenz is a drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists, including but not limited to Starflyer 59, Daniel Amos, Crystal Lewis, Duraluxe, Map, Charity Empressa, Kevin Max, Cush and The Dingees.-Biography:Frank Lenz started taking drum lessons when he was eight...
(1967—), drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists - Frederick LenzFrederick LenzFrederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D., also known as Rama and Atmananda , was a spiritual teacher who propounded a syncretic blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Vedanta, and Mysticism which he called "American Buddhism"...
(1950—1998), American author and Buddhist spiritual guru - Jack LenzJack LenzJack Lenz is a Canadian Bahá'í composer. He has written, performed, and produced music for film, television, and theatre, along with working on non-soundtrack album ventures. He is also the founder of Live Unity Enterprises, an organization devoted to the production of music for the Bahá'í...
, Canadian Bahá'í composer - Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzJakob Michael Reinhold LenzJakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.-Life:...
(1751—1792), German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement - Kay LenzKay LenzKay Ann Lenz is an American actress.A former child performer, Lenz has worked primarily in television and has won two Emmy Awards.-Background:...
(1953—), Emmy-award-winning American television and film actress - Nicole Marie LenzNicole Marie LenzNicole Marie Lenz is an American actress and fashion model. She first became known in the industry by appearing in Playboy as the Playmate of the Month for March 2000...
(1980—), actress - Siegfried LenzSiegfried LenzSiegfried Lenz is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth...
(1926—), German writer
In sports:
- David Lenz, German Major League Baseball player
- Peter LenzPeter LenzPeter James Lenz was a nationally ranked American amateur motorcycle racer.Lenz was born in Orlando, Florida. He was a four-time international champion, five-time national champion and in 2009 started competing in 125GP racing...
(1997—2010), , American motorcycle road racer - Sandy LenzSandy LenzSandy Lenz is a former American figure skater. She won the bronze medal at the 1980 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and competed at that year's Winter Olympics. She was also the 1977 U.S. junior champion....
, American figure skater
In science:
- Fritz LenzFritz LenzFritz A Lenz was a German geneticist, member of the Nazi party, and influential specialist in "racial hygiene" during the Third Reich, one of the leading German theorists of "scientific racism" which legitimized the Nazi racial policies, starting with the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.- Biography...
(1887–1976), German anthropologist and eugenicist - Harald Othmar Lenz (1798—1870), German naturalist
- Heinrich LenzHeinrich LenzHeinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz was a Russian physicist of Baltic German ethnicity. He is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1833....
(1804–1865), German physicist- Lenz's lawLenz's lawLenz's law is a common way of understanding how electromagnetic circuits must always obey Newton's third law and The Law of Conservation of Energy...
, eponymous law
- Lenz's law
- Hugo LenzHugo LentzHugo Lentz was an Austrian mechanical engineer, born in South Africa. He was the inventor of many award winning improvements to the steam engine....
(1859—1944), Austrian mechanical engineer - Oskar LenzOskar LenzOskar Lenz was a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist who was a native of Leipzig.In 1870 he earned his doctorate in mineralogy and geology at the University of Leipzig...
(1848–1925), a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist - Widukind LenzWidukind LenzWidukind Lenz was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the first to recognize the thalidomide syndrome in 1961 and alert the world to the dangers of limb and other malformations due to the mother's exposure to this drug during pregnancy.In the...
(1919–1995), German pediatrician- Cenani Lenz syndactylismCenani Lenz syndactylismCenani Lenz syndactylism, also known as Cenani Lenz syndrome or Cenani syndactylism, is an autosomal recessive congenital malformation syndrome involving both upper and lower extremities.-Characteristics:...
, congenital malformation syndrome
- Cenani Lenz syndactylism
- Wilhelm LenzWilhelm LenzWilhelm Lenz was a German physicist, most notable for his invention of the Ising model and for his application of the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector to the quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen-like atoms.In 1906, Lenz graduated from the Klinger-Oberralschule, a non-classical secondary school...
(1888–1957), German physicist- Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector, vector in classical mechanics