Lorenz

Lorenz is an originally German name derived from the Roman surname, Laurentius, which mean "from Laurentum".

Lorenz may refer to:

Music

• Christian "Flake" Lorenz, a German musician
• Lorenz Hart, the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart
• Max Lorenz, German tenor
• Alfred Lorenz, Austrian-German musical analyst

Mathematics

• Edward Norton Lorenz, (1917–2008), American mathematician, meteorologist, and MIT professor
  • Lorenz attractor, a butterfly-shaped chaotic map
• Max O. Lorenz, (1880–1962), an American economist
  • Lorenz curve, an income distribution curve
• Ludvig Lorenz, (1829–1891), a Danish mathematician and physicist
  • Lorenz gauge condition, a general method of calculation of time-dependent electromagnetic fields in which retarded potentials are introduced
• Lorenz cipher, a German cryptography machine, named after the company of German businessman Carl Lorenz

Medicine

• William Lorenz, M.D. (1882–1958), American physician, psychiatrist, and U.S. Army medical officer in World War I

Other

• Lorenz of Werle (1338/40-1393/94)
• Adolf Lorenz (1854–1946), Austrian surgeon
• Friedrich Lorenz (1897–1944), German Catholic priest
• Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), Austrian zoologist and co-Founder of Ethology, Nobel Prize in 1973
• Lee Lorenz, American cartoonist
• Lorenz Böhler, Austrian trauma surgeon
• General Stephen R. Lorenz, Commander, Air Education and Training Command, United States Air Force
• Prince Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este, the second child of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este and of Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta
• Werner Lorenz, SS-General
• St. Lorenz, church in Nuremberg, Germany
• St. Lorenz's Basilica in Kempten im Allgäu, Germany
• Lorenz beam, a radio-navigation system developed by Germany prior to World War II
• Lorenz Rifle, an Austrian rifle designed in 1854

See also

• Lorentz (disambiguation), spelled with a 't'