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Silesia Silesia (see names #Etymology, below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Silesia, Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at 8, ...

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Schlesier The registered German minority in Poland (; ) is a group of German people that inhabit Poland, being the largest minority of the country. As of 2021, it had a population of 144,177. The German language is spoken in certain areas in Opole Voiv ...

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Schlesien Silesia (see names #Etymology, below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Silesia, Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at 8, ...

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Adam Schlesinger Adam Lyons Schlesinger (October 31, 1967 – April 1, 2020) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was also a member of the ban ...

(1967–2020), American composer and musician *

Adolf Martin Schlesinger Adolf Martin Schlesinger (4 October 1769 – 11 October 1838) was a German people, German music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century. Career Schlesinger was History of the Jews in Germ ...

(1769–1838), German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung *

Alan Schlesinger Alan Schlesinger (born January 4, 1958) is an American attorney, entrepreneur, and Republican politician. He has previously served as the mayor of Derby, Connecticut from 1994 to 1998 and as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives ...

(born 1960), American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006 *

Alice Schlesinger Alice Schlesinger (; born 26 May 1988) is an Israeli-British retired judoka and sambo competitor. She is a shodan in Judo. Born in Israel, she competed for that country until 2014, but following a dispute with the national federation, in 2015 ...

(born 1988), Israeli Olympic judoka * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965), American historian and professor at Harvard University * Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), son of the above, American historian, social critic and former John F. Kennedy associate * Bruno Schlesinger (1876–1962), American German-born conductor and composer who changed his name to "Bruno Walter" in 1911 *

Carl Schlesinger Carl (or Karl) Schlesinger (19 August 1813 – 18 January 1871) was an Austrian cellist. He was a founder member of the Hellmesberger Quartet, and a Professor at the Vienna Conservatory. He was awarded in 1854 the title of Imperial and Royal Chambe ...

(1813–1871), Austrian cellist * Christina Schlesinger, American artist * Cory Schlesinger (born 1972), American football player * David Schlesinger (born 1960), American journalist who is the Editor-in-Chief of Reuters *

Don Schlesinger Donald Schlesinger is a gaming mathematician, author, lecturer, player, and member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame who specializes in the casino game of blackjack. His work in the field has spanned almost five decades. He is the author of the book ...

, American gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and famous blackjack player *

Elyakim Schlesinger Elyakim Schlesinger (), born 1921, is a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in London. He is an international authority and serves as the President, Chairman, and Head of the Rabbinical Board of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Euro ...

, English rabbi *

Frank Schlesinger Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer. His work concentrated on using photographic plates rather than direct visual studies for astronomical research. Biography Schlesinger was born in New York City and a ...

(1871–1943), American astronomer * Hanan Schlesinger, Israeli rabbi *

Helmut Schlesinger Helmut Schlesinger (4 September 1924 – 23 December 2024) was a German economist and President of the Bundesbank from 1991 to 1993. Having worked for the institution and its precursor from 1952, he pursued monetary stability. Biography Early l ...

(1924–2024), German economist and President of the Bundesbank *

Hermann Irving Schlesinger Hermann Irving Schlesinger (October 11, 1882 – October 3, 1960) was an American inorganic chemist, working in boron chemistry. He and Herbert C. Brown discovered sodium borohydride in 1940 and both were involved in the further development of ...

(1882–1960), American chemist *

James R. Schlesinger James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and statesman who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to becom ...

(1929–2014), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973–1974) and first Secretary of Energy (1977–1979) *

Joe Schlesinger Josef Schlesinger, (May 11, 1928 – February 11, 2019) was a Canadian foreign correspondent, television journalist, and author. Early life and career Schlesinger was born to a devout Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, 1928. He was ra ...

(1928–2019), Canadian television journalist and author *

John Schlesinger John Richard Schlesinger ( ; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood ...

(1926–2003), British film director *

Karl Schlesinger Karl Schlesinger (January 19, 1889 – March 12, 1938) was an Austrian-Hungarian economist and banker. He was born in Budapest. He studied law and economics at the University of Vienna, obtaining a doctorate under Eugene von Böhm-Bawerk in 1914 ...

(1889–1938), an Austrian-Hungarian economist and banker *

Katharine Schlesinger Katharine Schlesinger (born 29 April 1963) is a British actress. In 1987, she starred as Catherine Morland in the BBC Television adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Northanger Abbey'' and Anne Frank in the BBC's '' The Diary of Anne Frank''. She is ...

, British actress *

Kathleen Schlesinger Kathleen Schlesinger (1862, in Holywood, Ireland – 1953, in London) was a British music archaeologist and curator of musical instruments at the British Museum.A. R. Meuss, ''Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C'', 2004 p. 27/ref ...

, British musicologist (1862 Holywood near Belfast - 1953 London) *

Kurt Schlesinger Kurt Schlesinger (17 December 1902 – 3 August 1963) was a German Jewish administrative director of Westerbork transit camp during World War II. Early life Kurt Schlesinger lived in his hometown Schmalkalden until 1939. He married Thea F ...

(1902-1964), a war criminal, head of the Jewish Security Service in

Westerbork transit camp Camp Westerbork (, , Drents: ''Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk''), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. It was located in the municipality ...

Leon Schlesinger Leonardo Schlesinger ( ; May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation The gold ...

(1884–1949), American Looney Tunes producer * Leonard Schlesinger, American economist *

Ludwig Schlesinger Ludwig Schlesinger (Hungarian: Lajos Schlesinger, Slovak Ľudovít Schlesinger), (1 November 1864 – 15 December 1933) was a German mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Biography Schlesinger att ...

(1864–1933), Hungarian-German mathematician * Marcus Schlesinger, Israeli swimmer *

Patricia Schlesinger Patricia Schlesinger (born in Hanover, Germany) is a German journalist, television presenter, former director of national broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), and former chair of public broadcast network ARD. In 2022, Schlesinger res ...

(born 1961), German journalist * Piero Schlesinger (1930–2020), Italian banker and lawyer * Richard Schlesinger (1900–1968), Australian tennis player. * Steven W Schlesinger, American attorney and rabbi. *

Romana Schlesinger Romana Schlesinger (born 28 July 1986) is a Slovak LGBT rights activist. Between 2010 and 2017 she was the main organizer of the annual Bratislava Pride march. Biography Romana Schlesinger was born on 28 July 1986 in Trenčín in a family of Je ...

(born 1986), Slovak LGBT rights activist *

Rudolf Schlesinger Rudolf Berthold Schlesinger (1909 – November 10, 1996) was a German American legal scholar known for his contributions to the study of comparative law, a discipline that examines the differences and similarities among the legal systems of nation ...

(1909–1996), German-born Professor of Comparative Law at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Common Core Project * T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger, American engineer and physicist *

Walter Schlesinger Walter Schlesinger (April 28, 1908, Glauchau – June 10, 1984, Weimar (Lahn), Weimar-Wolfshausen, near Marburg) was a German historian of medieval social and economic institutions, particularly in the context of German regional history ("Landesge ...

(1908–1984), German historian Things that are named after people with this surname: *

Leon Schlesinger Productions Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it w ...

, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger *

Schlesinger (crater) Schlesinger is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. The crater Esnault-Pelterie overlies the western part of the rim and the outer rampart Rampart may refer to: * Rampart (fortification), a defensive wall or bank around a cast ...

, a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon * Schlesinger Building, a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa *

Schlesinger institute The Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research, often shortened to the Schlesinger Institute, is a research and publication institute that addresses ethical and legal questions in medicine from a Halakha (Jewish law) perspective. Its wor ...

, Research institute for Jewish medical ethics, named after Falk Schlesinger M.D. *

Schlesinger Library The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. According to Nancy F. Cott, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, it is "the ...

, a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.

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