Schlesinger
Schlesinger is a German surname meaning "Silesian" and may refer to:
- Adam Schlesinger, American composer and musician
- Adolf Martin Schlesinger, German founder of A.M. Schlesingers Musikhandlung
- Alan Schlesinger, American politician and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2006
- Alice Schlesinger, Israeli Olympic judoka
- Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and professor at Harvard University
- Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., son of the above, American historian, social critic and former John F. Kennedy associate
- Bruno Schlesinger, American German-born conductor and composer who changed his name to "Bruno Walter" in 1911
- Carl Schlesinger, Austrian cellist
- Christina Schlesinger, American artist
- Cory Schlesinger, American football player
- David Schlesinger, American journalist who is the Editor-in-Chief of Reuters
- Don Schlesinger, American gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and famous blackjack player
- Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi
- Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer
- Hanan Schlesinger, Israeli rabbi
- Hermann Irving Schlesinger, American chemist
- Isidore William Schlesinger, South African entrepreneur and sponsor of the Schlesinger African Air Race
- James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Defense and first Secretary of Energy
- Jill Schlesinger, American television journalist and author specializing in finance
- Joe Schlesinger, Canadian television journalist and author
- John Schlesinger, British film director
- Katharine Schlesinger, British actress
- Kathleen Schlesinger, British musicologist
- Klaus Schlesinger, German writer and winner of the 2000 Erich Fried Prize
- Leon Schlesinger, American Looney Tunes producer
- Leonard Schlesinger, American economist
- Ludwig Schlesinger, Hungarian-German mathematician
- Marcus Schlesinger, Israeli swimmer
- Piero Schlesinger, Italian banker and lawyer
- Rudolf B. Schlesinger , Scottish Marxist theoretician and sovietologist of the University of Glasgow
- Rudolf Schlesinger, German-born Professor of Comparative Law at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Common Core Project
- Thomas Schlesinger, 1988 United States men's national gymnastics team alternate, ophthalmologist
- Walter Schlesinger, German historian
Things that are named after people with this surname:
- Leon Schlesinger Productions, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger
- Schlesinger, a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
- Schlesinger Building, a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Schlesinger institute, Research institute for Jewish medical ethics, named after Falk Schlesinger M.D.
- Schlesinger Library, a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named after Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.
