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Brenner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Brenner, better known under his stage name Adam Bomb (born 1963), American musician *
Albert Brenner Albert Brenner (February 17, 1926 – December 8, 2022) was an American production designer and art director. His numerous credits included ''Bullitt'' (1968), '' Monte Walsh'' (1970), ''The Goodbye Girl'' (1977), '' Coma'' (1978), ''The Presid ...
(1926–2022), American art director * Al Brenner (1947–2012), American football player *
Andrew Brenner Andrew O. Brenner (born January 14, 1971) is a U.S. Republican party politician and member of the Ohio Senate, currently serving his second term for the 19th Senate District. Biography In 2010, former Representative Kris Jordan moved to the Ohi ...
(born 1971), U.S. Republican party politician and member of the Ohio Senate * Art Brenner (1924–2013), American artist *
Athalya Brenner Athalya Brenner-Idan (born 17 July 1943 in Haifa, Israel) is a Dutch-Israeli biblical scholar known for her contribution to feminist biblical studies. Academic career Brenner studied at Haifa University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem befo ...
(born 1943), Dutch-Israeli biblical scholar *
Barbara Brenner Barbara Brenner (October 7, 1951 - May 10, 2013) was an American breast cancer activist, after activist and legal work on several other causes, including anti-Vietnam War activism, women's rights, civil rights, and employment discrimination.Den ...
(1951–2013), American activist * Benjamin Brenner (1903–1970), New York politician and judge *
Bert Brenner Delbert Henry Brenner (July 18, 1887 – April 11, 1971) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for one season. He played for the Cleveland Naps from September 21, 1912, to October 5, 1912. In 1926, he managed the Columbia Comers of the S ...
(1887–1971), American baseball player * Bror Brenner (1885–1923), Finnish sailor * Charles Brenner (biochemist), American biologist * Charles Brenner (mathematician), American APL implementor and forensic mathematics *
Charles Brenner (psychiatrist) Charles Brenner (18 November 1913, in Boston – 19 May 2008) was an American psychoanalyst who served as President of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and is perhaps best known for his contributions to drive theory, the structure of the mind, ...
(1913–2008), American psychoanalyst *
Claudia Brenner The murder of Rebecca Wight (October 17, 1959 – May 13, 1988) occurred on May 13, 1988, in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's Michaux State Forest, when Stephen Roy Carr fired on Wight and her partner, Claudia Brenner. Background Rebecca Wight was a s ...
(born 1956), American activist *
David Brenner David Norris Brenner (February 4, 1936 – March 15, 2014) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and author. The most frequent guest on '' The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' in the 1970s and 1980s, Brenner "was a pioneer of obser ...
(1936–2014), American comedian * David S. Brenner (1962–2022), American film editor *
Eduard Brenner Johann Wilhelm Eduard Brenner (October 4, 1888 – January 16, 1970) was a professor of English at the University of Erlangen. From 1951 to 1954, he had been state secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture. Biography Brenner ...
(1888–1970), German politician and anglicist * Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian-American musician *
Ernst Brenner Ernst Brenner (9 December 1856 – 11 March 1911) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland The Federal Council (german: Bundesrat; french: Conseil fédéral; it, Consiglio federale; rm, Cussegl federal) ...
(1856–1911), Swiss politician *
Eve Brenner Eve Brenner (born Evelyn Halpern; September 24, 1925) is an American actress. She appeared in various films and television shows such as ''Baskets'', ''The Sarah Silverman Program'', '' Dragnet'', ''Touched by an Angel'', ''The X-Files'', ''The ...
(born 1926), American actress *
Ève Brenner Ève Brenner (born 11 September 1941) is a French opera singer notable for her voice that spanned five octaves. Early life Brenner was born in Saint-Chartier in central France where her parents who were both musicians and refugees were livin ...
(born 1941), French soprano *
George Brenner George E. Brenner (1913–1952) was an American cartoonist in the mid 20th-century. He created comics such as '' The Clock'', ''Bozo the Iron Man'', and ''711''. Brenner was first employed by the Comics Magazine Company before moving to Everett ...
, American cartoonist * Guillaume Brenner (born 1986), French-born Togolese footballer *
Helmut Brenner Helmut Brenner (1 January 1957 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria – 17 February 2017) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist. Biography Education Brenner received music degrees in 1981 and 1984 at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, ...
(1957–2017), Austrian ethnomusicologist *
Hoby Brenner Hoby F. J. Brenner (born June 2, 1959) is a former American football tight end who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints. High school career Brenner prepped at Fullerton Union High School. His te ...
(born 1959), American football player *
Jacob Brenner Jacob Brenner (April 8, 1857 – October 16, 1921) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from New York. Life Brenner was born on April 8, 1857, in New York City, New York, the son of Simon Brenner and Caroline Alexander. He attended public schoo ...
(1857–1921), American lawyer and judge *
Jeffrey Brenner Jeffrey Brenner is the CEO of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, and a primary care physician. Biography Brenner is the founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and was its executive director from 2006 to 2017. ...
, American CEO of the
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (the Jewish Board) is one of the United States' largest nonprofit mental health and social service agencies, and New York State's largest social services nonprofit. Its services are non-secta ...
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John Brenner (disambiguation) John Brenner may refer to: * John Lewis Brenner (1832–1906), United States Representative from Ohio * John Brenner (athlete) (born 1961), American track and field athlete * John S. Brenner (born 1968), mayor of York, Pennsylvania * John Brenne ...
, several people *
Johnny Brenner Johnny Brenner (born 1971) is a retired Irish hurling midfielder who formerly played with De La Salle GAA at club level and with Waterford GAA at inter-county level. Johnny was part of Waterford's 1992 All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championshi ...
(born 1971), Irish hurler * Joshua Ilika Brenner (born 1976), Mexican swimmer * József Brenner, better known under his pen name Géza Csáth (1887–1919), Hungarian writer *
Kehoma Brenner Kehoma Brenner (born 12 January 1986)
accessed: 6 March 2010
is a German
(born 1986), German rugby union player *
Lenni Brenner Lenni Brenner (born 1937), formerly known as Leonard Glaser or Lenny Glaser, is an American Trotskyist writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights movement activist and vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. Since the 1980s, his activ ...
(born 1937), American activist *
Lisa Brenner Lisa Dawn Brenner ( Goldstein; born February 12, 1974) is an American actress. Brenner played Maggie Cory on '' Another World''. She was also in '' All My Children'' as Allison Sloan. She played Anne in the 2000 film '' The Patriot''. Biograp ...
(born 1974), American actress *
Ludwig von Brenner Ludwig von Brenner (19 September 1833 – 9 February 1902) was a German conductor and composer. He was born in Leipzig, and studied at Leipzig conservatoire, later going to Saint Petersburg to play in the court orchestra of the Tsar.Baker (1 ...
(1833–1902), German composer *
Malcolm Brenner Malcolm K. Brenner is a British clinical scientist working mostly in the field of gene therapy and immunotherapy applied to malignancy. In 2016, Dr. Brenner was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Scienc ...
, British scientist *
Marie Brenner Marie Harriet Brenner (born December 15, 1949) is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for ''Vanity Fair''. She has also written for ''New York'', ''The New Yorker'' and the ''Boston Herald'' and has taught at Columbia ...
, American writer * Marie Pauline Brenner, American Catholic educator * Mark Brenner, American journalist *
Moshe Brener Moshe Brener (משה ברנר; born March 4, 1971) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He played the forward position. He was the 2005 Israeli Basketball Premier League Sixth Man of the Year. Biography Brener is 6' 7" (201 cm) t ...
(born 1971), Israeli basketball player * Paolo Brenner (born 1966), German cardiac surgeon * Reeve Robert Brenner (born 1936), American rabbi *
Reuven Brenner Reuven Brenner (born 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian economics professor, holding the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. Notability Forbes magazine has called the professor one of "six eco ...
, Canadian resident economist *
Robert Brenner Robert Paul Brenner (; born November 28, 1943) is a professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal ''Against the Current'', and editorial committee member ...
, American historian * Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer *
Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work ...
, (1927–2019), South African biologist *
Veronica Brenner Veronica Brenner (born October 18, 1974) is a Canadian freestyle skier and Olympic medallist. She was born in Scarborough, Ontario. She won the silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortene ...
(born 1974), Canadian skier *
Victor David Brenner Victor David Brenner (born Avigdor David Brenner; June 12, 1871 – April 5, 1924) was an American sculptor, engraver, and medalist known primarily as the designer of the United States Lincoln Cent. Biography Brenner was born to Jewish parents ...
(1871–1924), American sculptor and designer of the Lincoln Wheat Ears Cent *
Vytas Brenner Vytas Brenner (19 September 1946 – 18 March 2004) was a German-born Venezuelan musician, keyboardist, guitarist and composer. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Germany, but his family migrated to Venezuela in 1949 when he was 2 years old. Hi ...
(1946–2004), Venezuelan musician *
Yosef Haim Brenner Yosef Haim Brenner ( he, יוֹסֵף חַיִּים בְּרֶנֶר, translit=Yosef Ḥayyim Brener; 11 September 1881 – 2 May 1921) was a Hebrew-language author from the Russian Empire, and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Bi ...
(1881–1921), Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author * Walter Brenner (disambiguation), several people *
Zev Brenner Zev J. Brenner is an Orthodox Jewish radio host and president and founder of Talkline Communications - a Radio/TV network founded in 1981. Personal life Brenner graduated from the New York City Technical College of the City University in NY. He mar ...
, American talk radio host * Zvi Brenner (1915–1999), Israeli military leader Fictional characters include: *
Zeke Brenner The comic strip ''Doonesbury'', by Garry Trudeau, features an extensive cast of characters with complex interpersonal relationships; as of 2018, the strip's official website lists twenty-four primary characters, with dozens more having been feat ...
, in the comic strip ''Doonesbury'' * Dr. Martin Brenner, in the American television series ''
Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Prod ...
'' * Joseph P. Brenner, in the 1986 film '' Raw Deal'' * Brenner, in the video game '' Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' {{surname, Brenner


See also

* Brener * Brynner (disambiguation) German-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin