Reiser is a

German surname Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the "Name order, ...

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Charles Reiser Charles "The Ox" Reiser (1878 – October 10, 1921) was an American safecracker and mentor to many of the organized crime leaders of the early 20th century including Dean O'Banion, George "Bugs" Moran, Earl "Hymie" Weiss, and John Mahoney. ...

, safecracker also known as "The Ox" *

Glenda Reiser Glenda Reiser, (16 June 1955 – 6 January 2008) was a Canadian middle-distance runner who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Biography Reiser was born in Ottawa and was a member of the Ottawa Kinsmen Harriers. She switched from swimming to ...

, Canadian middle distance runner *

Hans Reiser Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He ...

, computer programmer and convicted murderer * Hans Reiser (actor), German actor (''The Great Escape'') * Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics artist * John Reiser, race car driver and businessman from Wisconsin * Kateryna Skarzhynska (née von Reiser), (1852-1932) Russian philanthropist * Martin Reiser, attributed as originator of

Wirth's law Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. The adage is named after Niklaus Wirth, a computer scientist who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea ...

Niki Reiser Niki Reiser (born 12 May 1958) is a Swiss film score composer and flautist. He is considered one of the most outstanding film composers of the German-speaking countries, winning the German Film Award five times. His debut was in 1986 the score for ...

(born 1958), German composer of film music *

Othmar Reiser Othmar Reiser or Otmar Rajzer (21 December 1861 – 31 March 1936, Pickern) was an Austro-Slovenian ornithologist and naturalist who worked as curator of the bird collections in the natural history museum at Sarajevo, working there from its founda ...

, ornithologist *

Paul Reiser Paul Reiser (; born March 30, 1956) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He played the roles of Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom ''My Two Dads'', Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom ''Mad About You'', Modell in the 1982 film ''Diner (1982 f ...

, actor who starred in the sitcom ''Mad About You'' *

Pete Reiser Harold Patrick Reiser (March 17, 1919 – October 25, 1981), nicknamed "Pistol Pete", was an American professional baseball outfielder and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), during the 1940s and early 1950s. While known primarily ...

, baseball player also known as "Pistol Pete" *

Rio Reiser Ralph Christian Möbius (9 January 1950 – 20 August 1996), known professionally as Rio Reiser, was a German musician and from 1970 to 1985 the lead singer and main lyric-writer for the rock group Ton Steine Scherben. After that band broke up, ...

, musician in the band Ton Steine Scherben * Robert A. Reiser, American academic

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ReiserFS ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaling file system initially designed and implemented by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser and licensed under GPLv2. Introduced in version 2.4.1 of the Linux kernel, it was the first journaling file syst ...

, a filesystem developed by Hans Reiser *

Reiser4 Reiser4 is a computer file system, successor to the ReiserFS file system, developed from scratch by Namesys and sponsored by DARPA as well as Linspire. Reiser4 was named after its former lead developer Hans Reiser. , the Reiser4 patch set is s ...

, a newer filesystem developed by Hans Reiser

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