Lessing (definition of terms)
Lessing is the family name of the following people:
- Ada Lessing (1883–1953), German adult education center director
- Alfred Lessing (author) (* 1921), German Sinto, musician, Holocaust survivor and author
- Alfred Lessing (musician) (1930–2013), German musician
- Anton Lessing (1840–1915), German-Russian entrepreneur
- Bruno Lessing , pseudonym of Rudolph Block (1870–1940), American journalist and writer
- Carl Friedrich Lessing the Elder (1778–1848), German lawyer and judicial officer
- Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), German painter
- Carl Robert Lessing (1827–1911), German publisher
- Christian Friedrich Lessing (publisher) (1780–1850), German newspaper publisher
- Christian Friedrich Lessing (1809–1862), German doctor and botanist
- Clemens Lessing (1925–2006), Federal Chairman of the German Association for Political Education from 1972 to 1986
- Doris Lessing (1919–2013), British writer
- Eckhard Lessing (1935–2020), German Protestant theologian
- Emil Lessing (1857–1921), German actor, theater director and director
- Erich Lessing (1923–2018), Austrian photographer
- Ernst Lessing (1870–?), German architect
- Ferdinand Lessing (1882–1961), German sinologist
- Franz Loewinson-Lessing (1861–1939), Russian geologist
- Gottfried Lessing (1914–1979), German lawyer and diplomat
- Gotthold Lessing (politician) (1861–1919), German landowner, member of the German Reichstag
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer and philosopher
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (conductor) (1903–1975), German conductor and university professor
- Gottlob Samuel Lessing (1739–1803), German educator
- Hannah Lessing (* 1963), Austrian economist
- Hanns Lessing (* 1962/1963), German Protestant pastor and church historian
- Hans Lessing (1934–2017), German politician and cultural manager
- Hans-Erhard Lessing (* 1938), German technical historian
- Heinrich Lessing (1856–1930), German painter
- Johann Gottfried Lessing (1693–1770), German Lutheran theologian
- Johann Gottlieb Lessing (1732–1808), German educator
- Julius Lessing (1843–1908), German art historian and museum director
- Karl Lessing (philologist) (1853–1917), German classical philologist and high school teacher
- Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), German painter, see Carl Friedrich Lessing
- Karl Gotthelf Lessing (1740–1812), German writer and playwright
- Karl Theodor Richard Lessing (1872–1933), see Theodor Lessing
- Kolja Lessing (* 1961), German pianist, violinist, composer and university professor
- Konrad Lessing (1852–1916), German painter, brother of Heinrich Lessing
- Lena Lessing (* 1960), German actress and director
- Markus Lessing (* 1967), German business manager
- Michael Benedict Lessing (1809-1884), German physician
- Otto Lessing (1846–1912), German sculptor and painter
- Roland Lessing (* 1978), Estonian biathlete
- Rudolf Lessing (veterinarian) (1917–2002), German veterinarian
- Rudolf Lessing (engineer) (1939 / 1940–2015), German-Italian engineer and entrepreneur
- Sebastian Lang-Lessing (* 1966), German conductor (head of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra , San Antonio Symphony )
- Simon Lessing (entrepreneur) (1843–1903), German entrepreneur
- Simon Lessing (* 1971), British triathlete
- Theodor Lessing (1872–1933), German philosopher and publicist
- Volker Lessing (* 1945), German lawyer, district court president and honorary professor as well as non-fiction author
- Walter Lessing (1881–1967), German politician
- Willy Lessing (1881–1939), German entrepreneur
- Wolfgang Lessing (* 1964), German cellist, musicologist and university professor
See also:
Wiktionary: Lessing - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Lawrence Lessig (* 1961), American constitutional lawyer
- At Lessing 6 , villa in Königswinter
- Lessing (family)
