Meissner

Meißner (transliterated Meissner) may refer to:

• Hoher Meißner, mountain massif in Hesse, Germany
• Meißner, a community in the district Werra-Meißner-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany

Meissner, Meißner or Meisner is a German surname and may refer to:

• Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian engineer and physicist
• Andy Meisner (born 1973), American politician
• August Gottlieb Meißner (1753-1807), German writer
• Boris Meissner (1915-2003), German lawyer and social scientist
• Bruno Meissner (1868-1947), German assyriologist
• Carl Meissner (1800–1874), Swiss botanist
  • Meisner's Banksia, Australian shrub
• Carl Meissner (1830-1900), German Latin scholar
• Ernst Meisner (bor 1982), Dutch dancer and choreographer
• Fred Meissner (1931–2007), American geologist and engineer
• Freda Meissner-Blau (born 1927), Austrian politician and activist
• Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist
  • Meissner's corpuscle, type of mechanoreceptor
  • Meissner's plexus, intestinal nerve plexus
• Greg Meisner (born 1959), American football player
• Günter Meisner (1926-1994), German actor
• Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), German writer and novelist
• Heike Meißner, German hurdler and runner
• Heinrich August Meißner (1862-1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha
• James Meissner (1896-1936), American World War I flying ace
• Janusz Meissner (1901-1978), Polish writer and aviator
• Joachim Meisner (1933- ), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
• Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
• Karl Meissner (1891-1959), German-American physicist
• Katrin Meißner (born 1973), German swimmer
• Kimmie Meissner (1989-), American figure skater
• Maurice Meisner (1931-2012), American historian of 20th century China
• Otto Meißner (1880-1953), head of the Office of the Reich President, Germany
• Randy Meisner (1946-), founder of the band the Eagles and solo artist
  • Randy Meisner (1978 album), self-titled
  • Randy Meisner (1982 album), self-titled
• Renate Meißner (born 1950), German sprinter and triple Olympic champion
• Sanford Meisner (1905-1997), American actor and acting coach
  • Meisner technique, an acting technique
• Silvio Meißner (1973-), German football player
• Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
• Verne Meisner (1938-2005), American polka musician
• Walther Meißner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
  • Meissner effect, decay of a magnetic field inside a superconductor

See also

• Messner (disambiguation)