Lehmann is a German surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 75.3% of all bearers of the surname ''Lehmann'' were residents of

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

, 6.6% of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

, 6.3% of Switzerland, 3.2% of

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

, 1.7% of Australia and 1.3% of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

. In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states:Lehmann surname distribution
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Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 square ...

(1:90) * 2.

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

(1:206) * 3.

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

(1:227) * 4.

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

(1:228) * 5. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:408) * 6.

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

(1:493) In Switzerland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following cantons: * 1. Bern (1:240) * 2. Solothurn (1:342) * 3.

Fribourg , Location of , Location of () () or , ; or , ; gsw, label=Swiss German, Frybùrg ; it, Friburgo or ; rm, Friburg. is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and district of Sarine (district), ...

(1:486) * 4. Basel-Stadt (1:524) * 5. Jura (1:567) * 6.

Thurgau Thurgau (; french: Thurgovie; it, Turgovia), anglicized as Thurgovia, more formally the Canton of Thurgau, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital is Frauenfeld. Thurgau is pa ...

(1:606)

People

* Adolf Lehmann, (1863-1937), Canadian chemist who worked in India * Anna Ilsabe Lehmann, wife of

Barthold Brockes Barthold Heinrich Brockes (September 22, 1680 – January 16, 1747) was a German poet. He was born in Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied jurisprudence at Halle, and after extensive travels in Italy, France a ...

Beatrix Lehmann Beatrix Alice Lehmann (1 July 1903 – 31 July 1979) was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist. Early life and family Lehmann was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. She came from a family of notable achievers: the third ...

, British actress * Christina Lehmann (born 1951), German chess master * Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, American journalist, editor, critic and novelist * Claire Lehmann, Australian writer and editor of Quillette * Danny Lehmann, American baseball coach * Darren Lehmann, Australian cricket batsman, and Australian national cricket team coach * Dirk Lehmann, German footballer * Else Lehmann, German stage actress * Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician *

Erik E. Lehmann Erik E. Lehmann (born 1963) is a German economist. He is a professor of Management and Organization at University of Augsburg, Augsburg University and Director of the CisAlpino Institute of Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE), Augsburg Universit ...

, (born 1963), German economist *

Ernst A. Lehmann Captain Ernst August Lehmann (12 May 1886 – 7 May 1937) was a German Zeppelin captain. He was one of the most famous and experienced figures in German airship travel. The ''Pittsburgh Press'' called Lehmann the best airship pilot in the world ...

, (1886-1937), German airship pilot *

Federico Carlos Lehmann Federico Carlos Lehmann Valencia (March 23, 1914 – 1974) was a Colombian ornithologist, plant collector, and conservation biologist. Early years Lehmann Valencia was born in the city of Popayán, in Cauca, Colombia. His grandfather, Friedric ...

(1914–1974), Colombian ornithologist *

Frederick William Lehmann Frederick William Lehmann (February 28, 1853 – September 12, 1931) was a prominent American lawyer, politician, United States Solicitor General, and rare book collector. Biography He was born February 28, 1853 in Prussia. His father Frie ...

, former United States Solicitor General *

Friedrich Carl Lehmann Friedrich Carl Lehmann (27 November 1850 – 23 November 1903) was a German Consul to Colombia, mining engineer, amateur botanist and mycologist, and botanical collector. Career Lehmann conducted explorations in search of specimens of flora in th ...

(1850–1903), German consul to Colombia and botanical collector *

Geoffrey Lehmann Geoffrey Lehmann (born 28 June 1940) is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in arts and law from the University of Sydn ...

, Australian poet *

Hans G. Lehmann Hans Georg Lehmann (born 1939, in Dessau, Germany) is a retired German photographer who is noted for his spy shots of prototype automobiles whilst they undergo testing stages, frequenting in locations where test sessions are likely to occur. These ...

, German photographer * Harry Lehmann, German physicist **

Lehmann–Symanzik–Zimmermann In quantum field theory, the LSZ reduction formula is a method to calculate ''S''-matrix elements (the scattering amplitudes) from the time-ordered correlation functions of a quantum field theory. It is a step of the path that starts from the Lag ...

* Henri Lehmann, German artist * Henry Lehmann, American engineer, emigre from Germany * Herman Lehmann (1859–1932), American kidnapped by Native-Americans *

Imogen Oona Lehmann Imogen Oona Lehmann (born 30 December 1989) is a Swiss-German curler. She is a member of the German national women's team. She is originally from Basel, Switzerland. Oona Lehmann played her junior career in her native Switzerland. In 2009, she ...

, German curler * Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist ** Lehmann discontinuity * Issachar Berend Lehmann, German banker *

Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann (3 January 1800 – 17 July 1863) was a German astronomer. His specialty was computational astronomy, and at the time he was widely known and recognized within his field. He is most noted today as the namesake for the ...

(1800–1863), German astronomer **

Lehmann (lunar crater) Lehmann is a lunar impact crater An impact crater is a circular depression in the surface of a solid astronomical object formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion o ...

Jean-Pierre Lehmann Jean-Pierre Lehmann (29 August 1945 – 21 December 2017) was a Swiss economist who was professor of international political economy at International Institute for Management Development, IMD and the founding director of The Evian Group at IMD. ...

, professor of international political economy at IMD and founding director of

The Evian Group at IMD The Evian Group at IMD is an international coalition of corporate, government and opinion leaders, committed to fostering an open, inclusive, equitable and sustainable global market economy in a rules-based multilateral framework. History and miss ...

* Jens Lehmann, (born 1969), German football (soccer) player (goalkeeper) * Jens Lehmann, German cyclist and politician * Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, German botanist * Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German geologist * John Lehmann, English poet *

Jörgen Lehmann Jörgen Erik Lehmann (15 January 1898 – 26 December 1989) was a Danish-Swedish physician and chemist best known for his discovery in the 1940s that para-amino salicylic acid (PAS) would make an excellent orally-available tuberculosis therap ...

, Danish-born Swedish chemist *

Julius Friedrich Lehmann Julius Friedrich Lehmann (28 November 1864, in Zurich – 24 March 1935, in Munich) was a publisher of medical literature and nationalist tracts in Munich. He was the brother of the bacteriologist Karl Bernhard Lehmann. In Zurich he first went to ...

(1864–1935), promoter of social psychiatry during the Third Reich *

Justus F. Lehmann Justus F. Lehmann MD (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 2006) was a German-American physiatrist. He was the founding chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine. Lehmann headed the department ...

, prominent German-American physiatrist * Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1858–1940), German microbiologist * Karl Lehmann (1936–2018), Bishop of Mainz, Cardinal of the Catholic Church * Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann (1894–1960), German-born American art historian, archeologist, and professor at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. *

Kevin K. Lehmann Kevin K. Lehmann (born September 7, 1955, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American chemist and spectroscopist at the University of Virginia, best known for his work in the area of intramolecular and collisional dynamics, and for his advances in the me ...

, American chemist * Lilli Lehmann (1848–1929), German soprano and voice coach, sister of Marie * Liza Lehmann (1862–1918), English operatic soprano and composer *

Lotte Lehmann Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethove ...

(1888–1976), German singer * Marie Lehmann (1851–1931), German soprano and voice teacher, sister of Lilli * Marcus Lehmann (1831–1890), German Rabbi and author * Michael Lehmann, film and television director * Olga Lehmann, English artist and film designer * Orla Lehmann, Danish statesman * Otto Lehmann (physicist) (1855–1922), German physicist *

Otto Lehmann (movie producer) Otto Lehmann (22 January 1889 in Berlin – 28 April 1968 in Munich ) was a German movie producer. Career Lehmann studied to be a teacher at the Lutheran seminary in Neuzelle. Upon graduation, he taught at primary and middle schools. 1925 Bor ...

(1889–1968), German movie producer * Peter Lehmann (winemaker), Australian vintner *

Peter Lehmann (author) Peter Lehmann (born 3 September 1950 in Calw, Black Forest, West Germany), D. Phil. h.c., is an author, social scientist, publisher, and an independent freelance activist in humanistic anti-psychiatry, living in Berlin, Germany. In 1986, he ...

, German author and publisher * R. C. Lehmann, politician, humourist and father of Beatrix, Rosamond and John * Rosamond Lehmann, British novelist * Rudolf Lehmann (artist), (1819–1905), a German-English portraitist and author *

Rudolph Chambers Lehmann Rudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann (3 January 1856 – 22 January 1929) was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major c ...

, former editor of Punch magazine *

Stephan Lehmann Stephan Lehmann (born 15 August 1963) is a Swiss former professional football goalkeeper who works as goalkeeper coach for FC Sion. International career Lehmann was capped 18 times for the Switzerland national team between 1989 and 1997. He wa ...

, Swiss football goalkeeper *

Sven Lehmann Sven Lehmann (born 14 December 1979) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017. In addition to his parliamentary work, Lehmann has be ...

(born 1979), German politician *

Sylvia Lehmann Sylvia Lehmann (born 23 April 1954) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg since 2019. Political career Between 2004 and 2019 Lehmann was a me ...

(born 1954), German politician * Tommy Lehmann, Swedish ice hockey player * Willi Lehmann, German spy for the Soviets * Winfred P. Lehmann, American linguist

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