# Lenz (surname)

Lenz is a German surname.
Notable people with the name include:

## Arts and entertainment

* Alev Lenz (born 1982), German-Turkish singer/songwriter
* Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti (born 1981), American television actress
* David Lenz (born 1962), American portrait painter
* Desiderius Lenz (1832–1928), German artist, Benedictine monk, co-founder of the Beuron Art School
* Fabian Lenz, German DJ, techno musician and events producer
* Frank Lenz (born 1967), drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists
* Frederick Lenz (1950–1998), American author and Buddhist spiritual guru
* Hermann Lenz, German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels
* Gita Lenz (1910–2011), New York photographer
* Günter Lenz (born 1938), German jazz bassist and composer
* Jack Lenz, Canadian Bahá'í composer
* Jakob Lenz (opera), a one act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm
* Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement
* Kay Lenz (born 1953), Emmy Award-winning American television and film actress
* Klára Lenz (1924–2013), Hungarian tapestry artist
* Marlene Lenz (born 1932), German politician
* Maximilian Lenz (1860–1948), Austrian artist
* Maximilian Lenz (born 1965) alias WestBam, German DJ and techno musician
* Nicole Marie Lenz (born 1980), actress
* Pedro Lenz (born 1965), Swiss writer, expert of Spanish literature
* Rick Lenz (born 1939), American actor, author and playwright
* Rudolf Lenz (1920–1987), Austrian actor
* Sidney Lenz (1873–1960), American contract bridge player and writer
* Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014), German writer
* Uli Lenz (born 1955), German composer, pianist, and producer in the modern jazz genre
* Wilhelm von Lenz (1809–1883), Baltic German Russian official and writer

## Sports

* André Lenz, retired German football goalkeeper
* August Lenz, German international footballer
* Christopher Lenz, German footballer who plays as a defender
* Consetta Caruccio-Lenz (1918–1980), American gymnast
* David Lenz, German Major League Baseball player
* Frank Lenz (cyclist) (1867 – probably 1894), American bicyclist and adventurer who disappeared somewhere near Erzurum, Turkey
* Gene Lenz, American competition swimmer
* Jörn Lenz, German former footballer who played as a defender
* Josef Lenz, West German luger
* Josh Lenz (born 1990), American football wide receiver
* Julian Lenz, German tennis player
* Manuel Lenz (born 1984), German footballer
* Marcel Lenz (disambiguation), several people
* Peter Lenz (1997–2010), American motorcycle road racer
* Sandy Lenz, American figure skater

## Science and academia

* Fritz Lenz (1887–1976), German anthropologist and eugenicist
* Emil Lenz (1804–1865), German and Russian physicist
    See also: Lenz's law
* Hanfried Lenz (1916–2013), German mathematician
* Maurice Lenz (1890–1974), Russian pioneer in the field of radiation therapy
* Max Lenz (1850–1931), German historian
* Oskar Lenz (1848–1925), a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist
* Renate Lenz-Fuchs (1910–2011), German lawyer and honorary chairman of the German Lawyer's Association
* Widukind Lenz (1919–1995), German pediatrician
    See also: Cenani Lenz syndactylism and Lenz microphthalmia syndrome
* Widukind Lenz (1919–195), German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist
* Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957), German physicist
    See also: Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector

## Politician

* Andreas Lenz (born 1981), German politician
* Carl Otto Lenz (born 1930), German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag
* Otto Lenz (1903–1957), German politician (CDU), Head of the Chancellery (1951-53), member of the German Bundestag
* Tomasz Lenz (born 1968), Polish politician

## Other

* Dolly Lenz (born 1957), real estate agent in New York City
* Stephanie Lenz, plaintiff in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. who posted a YouTube video of children dancing to a Prince song
* Hermann-Lenz-Preis, a literary prize of Germany
* Hester-Lenz House, a historic house in Benton, Arkansas
* Lenz Field, privately-owned multi-field baseball and softball complex in Jacksonville, IL

### Fictional people

* Billy Lenz, a character in the 2006 remake of Black Christmas