# 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
* Helmut Schlesinger (1924–2024), German economist and President of the Bundesbank
* 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
* Karl Schlesinger (1889–1938), an Austrian-Hungarian economist and banker
* 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.
* Steven W Schlesinger, American attorney and rabbi.
* 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.