# Meissner

Meissner, Meißner or Meisner may refer to:

## Geography

Meissner is the name of the following geographic features:
* the Meißner (range), an important mountain range in Hesse, Germany
* Hoher Meißner, the highest peak of the Meißner range
* 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:
* Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian engineer and physicist
* Andy Meisner (born 1973), American politician
* August Gottlieb Meißner (1753–1807), German writer
* Beate Meißner (born 1982), German politician
* Boris Meissner (1915–2003), German lawyer and social scientist
* Bruno Meissner (1868–1947), German assyriologist
* Carl Meissner (1800–1874), Swiss botanist
** Meisner's Banksia, Australian shrub
* Carl Meissner (1830–1900), German Latin scholar
* Constantin Meissner (1854-1942), Romanian teacher
* Elena Meissner (1867–1940), Romanian feminist
* Elinor Meissner Traeger (1906–1983), composer
* Ernst Meisner (born 1982), Dutch dancer and choreographer
* Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1796–1860), German obstetrician
* Fred Meissner (1931–2007), American geologist and engineer
* Freda Meissner-Blau (1927–2015), Austrian politician and activist
* Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist
** Meissner's corpuscle, type of mechanoreceptor
** Meissner's plexus, intestinal nerve plexus
* Greg Meisner (born 1959), American football player
* Günter Meisner (1926–1994), German actor
* Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), German writer and novelist
* Heike Meißner, (born 1970), German hurdler and runner
* Heinrich August Meissner (1862–1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha
* James Meissner (1896–1936), American World War I flying ace
* Janusz Meissner (1901–1978), Polish writer and aviator
* Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
* Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
* Johann Heinrich Meissner (1701–1770), German sculptor and wood carver
* Joern Meissner (born 1970), German academic and business consultant
* Karl Meissner (1891–1959), German-American physicist
* Katrin Meissner (born 1973), German swimmer
* Kimmie Meissner (born 1989), American figure skater
* Krzysztof Antoni Meissner (born 1961), Polish theoretical physicist
* Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), American historian of 20th century China
* Otto Meissner (1880–1953), head of the Office of the Reich President, Germany
* Paul Traugott Meissner (1778–1864), Austrian chemist
* Randy Meisner (1946–2023), founder of the band the Eagles and solo artist
** Randy Meisner (1978 album), self-titled
** Randy Meisner (1982 album), self-titled
* Renate Meissner (born 1950), German sprinter and triple Olympic champion
* Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting coach
** Meisner technique, an acting technique
* Silvio Meißner (born 1973), German football player
* Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
* Stefan Meissner (born 1973), German football player
* Stuart Meissner (born 1962), American federal prosecutor and politician
* Verne Meisner (1938–2005), American polka musician
* Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
** Meissner effect, decay of a magnetic field inside a superconductor
* Wolf Meissner (born 1969), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian