Leiter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* A family of American baseball pitchers:
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Al Leiter
Alois Terry Leiter (; born October 23, 1965) is an American former professional baseball player and current television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from to for the New York Yankees, Toronto Blu ...
(born 1965), left-hander
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Jack Leiter (born 2000), son of Al, right-hander
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Mark Leiter
Mark Edward Leiter (born April 13, 1963) is an American retired professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, California Angels, San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos, Philadelp ...
(born 1963), brother of Al, right-hander
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Mark Leiter Jr. (born 1991), son of Mark, right-hander
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Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter (; born 1963) is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values ...
, American philosopher and legal scholar
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Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the ''James Bond'' books, films, and other media. The character is an operative for the CIA and James Bond's friend. After losing a leg and a hand to a shark attack, Leiter joined ...
, fictional character in the James Bond series
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Ken Leiter, American ice hockey player
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Levi Leiter
Levi Ziegler Leiter (November 2, 1834 – June 9, 1904) was an American businessman based in Chicago. He co-founded what later became the Marshall Field & Company retail empire.
Early life
Leiter was born to Anne (née Ziegler) and Joseph Thom ...
, American businessman
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Mark Leiter (US Businessman), Chief Strategy Officer at
Nielsen
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Michael Leiter
Michael E. Leiter is an American lawyer and the former director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), having served in the Bush administration and been retained in the Obama administration. A statement released by the Wh ...
, former director, National Counterterrorism Center
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Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013) was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography.Jane Liv ...
, photographer and artist
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Yechiel Leiter
Yechiel "Michael" Leiter (; born October 1, 1959) is an American-born Israeli historian of philosophy, public policy analyst, rabbi and settlement activist. He is a resident scholar at the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. On January 27, 2025, he ...
, American-born Israeli historian of philosophy, public policy analyst, rabbi and settlement activist, Israeli ambassador to the United States
See also
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Leiter, Wyoming
Leiter is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in eastern Sheridan County, Wyoming, Sheridan County, Wyoming, United States, along Clear Creek (Wyoming), Clear Creek. It lies along the concurrency (road), concurrent U.S. Routes U.S. R ...
, a community in the United States
* The ''
Leiter Report'', a report on university professors of philosophy edited by Brian Leiter
* The
Second Leiter Building
The Second Leiter Building, also known as the Leiter II Building, the Sears Building, One Congress Center, and Robert Morris Center, is located at the northeast corner of South State Street and East Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The ...
, also known as the Sears Building, in Chicago
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Leiter International Performance Scale, an intelligence test
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Leite
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Leitner
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Gauleiter
A ''Gauleiter'' () was a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a ''Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, Gau'' or ''Reichsgau''. ''Gauleiter'' was the third-highest Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party, rank in ...
, an administrator (leader) of a ''gau'' (district) in pre-World War II Germany
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