Kleist
Kleist stands for:
- a species from the flatfish family of turbot, see brill
- Kleist , German name of Kleszcze , municipality near Koszalin in Poland
- Kleist (noble family)
- (8053) Kleist , an asteroid of the main belt
Kleist is the family name of the following people:
- Achim Kleist (pseudonym Frank Lio ; * 1965), German music producer and composer
- Alexander von Kleist (1799-1859), Kurland state official
- Annedore Kleist (* 1967), German actress
- Anton von Kleist (1812–1886), German landowner, district administrator and politician
- Astrid Kleist (* 1971), German pastor, Vice President of the Lutheran World Federation
- Diether von Kleist (1890–1971), German officer and prehistoric
- Erica von Kleist (* 1982), American jazz musician
- Ewald von Kleist (diplomat) (1615–1689), jurist and diplomat from Kurbrandenburg
- Ewald von Kleist (1667–1746), lieutenant general of the Electorate of Cologne
- Ewald von Kleist (politician) (1825–1877), German landowner and politician, member of the Reichstag
- Ewald von Kleist (officer, 1863) (1863–1918), German major general
- Ewald von Kleist (Field Marshal General) (1881–1954), German Field Marshal General
- Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890–1945), German politician and resistance fighter
- Ewald von Kleist-Wendisch Tychow (1882–1953), German landowner and lawyer
- Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–1759), German poet and officer
- Ewald Christian Leopold von Kleist (1824–1910), German general
- Ewald Georg von Kleist (General) (1698–1768), Royal Prussian Major General
- Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700–1748), German inventor
- Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist (1922–2013), German officer in the Wehrmacht, resistance fighter and publisher
- Ewald Heinrich Erdmann Bogislaff von Kleist-Wendisch Tychow ( Ewald Graf von Kleist ; 1821–1892), German bank president and landowner
- Ewald Joachim von Kleist (1657–1716), Pomeranian district administrator and diplomat in the service of Kurbrandenburg
- Franz von Kleist (1806–1882), Prussian lieutenant general
- Franz Alexander von Kleist (1769–1797), German poet
- Franz Kasimir von Kleist (1736–1808), Prussian general of the infantry
- Franz Ulrich von Kleist (1688–1757), Prussian lieutenant general
- Friedrich von Kleist (district director) (1746–1820), Prussian cavalry master and Saxon district director
- Friedrich von Kleist ( Friedrich Emil Ferdinand Heinrich von Kleist ; 1762–1823), Prussian Field Marshal General
- Friedrich Anton Ulrich Carl Leopold von Kleist (1765–1833), German major general
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist (Colonel) (1752–1822), German Colonel
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist (diplomat) (1851–1936), German diplomat
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arnd von Kleist (the green Kleist ; 1724–1767), German major general
- Friedrich Anton Ulrich Carl Leopold von Kleist (1765–1833), Prussian major general
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist (Colonel) (1752–1822), German Colonel
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist (diplomat) (1851–1936), German diplomat
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arnd von Kleist (the green Kleist ; 1724–1767), German major general
- Georg Demetrius von Kleist (1822–1886), Prussian lieutenant general
- Georg von Kleist (1852–1923), Prussian general
- Gustav von Kleist (District Administrator) (1801-1884), German officer, district administrator and politician
- Hans von Kleist (Major General) (1854–1927), German Major General
- Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow (1814–1892), German politician, MdR
- Hans Joachim von Kleist (District Administrator, 1685) (1685–1753), German officer and district administrator
- Hans Joachim von Kleist (District Administrator, 1725) (1725–1789), German officer and district administrator
- Hans Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow (1771–1844), German landowner, district administrator and politician
- Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), German poet and publicist
- Heinrich Wilhelm Friedrich von Kleist (1751–1825), high Prussian judge
- Henning Alexander von Kleist (1707–1784) , Prussian lieutenant general
- Henning Alexander von Kleist (1676–1749), Prussian field marshal
- Hugo von Kleist-Retzow (1834–1909), German manor owner and member of the Reichstag
- Ingo Kleist (* 1938), German politician (SPD)
- Johan Kleist (1927–1995), Greenlandic choir director
- Josva Kleist (1879–1938), Greenlandic catechist, poet and councilor
- Kaj Kleist (* 1943), Greenlandic teacher and civil servant
- Karl Kleist (neurologist) (1879–1960), German neurologist, psychiatrist and university professor
- Karl Heinrich von Kleist (1801–1870), German first lieutenant and politician, MdL Prussia
- Karl Ludwig von Kleist (1794–1869), German-Baltic manor owner and district administrator
- Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (officer, 1707) (1707–1766), German colonel
- Karl Wilhelm von Kleist (officer, 1914) (1914–1994), German brigadier general
- Konstantin von Kleist (1812–1886), Courland state official
- Kuupik Kleist (* 1958), Greenlandic politician, chairman of the Inuit Ataqatigiit
- Leopold Friedrich von Kleist (1780–1837), Prussian officer and postmaster
- Leopold von Kleist (1872–1946), German officer and general agent of the Prussian royal family
- Makka Kleist (* 1951), Greenlandic actress
- Malik Kleist (* 1977), Greenlandic filmmaker
- Marie von Kleist (born von Gualtieri ; 1761–1831), German lady-in-waiting
- Mininnguaq Kleist (* 1973), Greenlandic badminton player
- Paul von Kleist (1846–1926), German lieutenant general
- Peter Christian von Kleist (1727–1777), Prussian colonel and knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Peter Kleist (1904–1971), German writer and diplomat
- Reinhard Kleist (* 1970), German graphic designer and comic artist
- Ruth von Kleist-Retzow (born von Zedlitz and Trützschler ; 1867–1945), German nobleman and resistance fighter
- Sabine von Kleist (* 1933), German immunologist
- Theodor von Kleist (1815–1886), Prussian manor owner and politician, MdH
- Thomas Kleist (* 1955), German lawyer and politician (SPD)
- Ulrich Kleist (1866 – after 1917), German writer, poet and educator
- Ulrike von Kleist (1774–1849), Prussian noblewoman, half-sister of the poet Heinrich von Kleist
- Wilhelm Heinrich Friedrich von Kleist (1785–1867), Prussian major general
- Winfried Kleist , German cameraman
See also:
- Heinrich von Kleist Society , literary and scientific association
- Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park , green area in Berlin
- Kleist Prize , German Literature Prize
