Lenz (surname)
Lenz is a German surname.
Notable people with the name include:Arts and entertainment
- Alev Lenz, German-Turkish singer/songwriter
- Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti, American television actress
- David Lenz, American portrait painter
- Desiderius Lenz, German artist, Benedictine monk, co-founder of the Beuron Art School
- Fabian Lenz, German DJ, techno musician and events producer
- Frank Lenz, drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists
- Frederick Lenz, American author and Buddhist spiritual guru
- Hermann Lenz, German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels
- Gita Lenz, New York photographer
- Günter Lenz, German jazz bassist and composer
- Jack Lenz, Canadian Bahá'í composer
- Jakob Lenz, a one act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement
- Kay Lenz, Emmy Award-winning American television and film actress
- Klára Lenz, Hungarian tapestry artist
- Maximilian Lenz, Austrian artist
- Maximilian Lenz alias WestBam, German DJ and techno musician
- Nicole Marie Lenz, actress
- Pedro Lenz, Swiss writer, expert of Spanish literature
- Rick Lenz, American actor, author and playwright
- Rudolf Lenz, Austrian actor
- Sidney Lenz, American contract bridge player and writer
- Siegfried Lenz, German writer
- Uli Lenz, German composer, pianist, and producer in the modern jazz genre
- Wilhelm von Lenz, 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, American gymnast
- David Lenz, German Major League Baseball player
- Frank Lenz , 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, American football wide receiver
- Julian Lenz, German tennis player
- Manuel Lenz, German footballer
- Marcel Lenz, several people
- Peter Lenz, American motorcycle road racer
- Sandy Lenz, American figure skater
Science and academia
- Fritz Lenz, German anthropologist and eugenicist
- Emil Lenz, German and Russian physicist
- Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician
- Maurice Lenz, Russian pioneer in the field of radiation therapy
- Max Lenz, German historian
- Oskar Lenz, a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist
- Renate Lenz-Fuchs, German lawyer and honorary chairman of the German Lawyer's Association
- Widukind Lenz, German pediatrician
- Widukind Lenz, German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist
- Wilhelm Lenz, German physicist
Politician
- Carl Otto Lenz, German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag
- Otto Lenz, German politician, Head of the Chancellery, member of the German Bundestag
- Tomasz Lenz, Polish politician
Other
- Dolly Lenz, 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