Eisner or Eissner is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Alexey Eisner (1905–1984), Russian poet, translator and writer
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Ali Eisner
Ali J. Eisner is a Canadian puppeteer, composer, director, photographer, creative producer and writer for children's television. (born 1973), Canadian composer, director and photographer for children's television
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Bertold Eisner
Bertold Eisner (1875–1956) was a Croatian Jewish law professor at the University of Zagreb, pioneer of the Croatian Jurisprudence and writer. Zagreb, moj grad; Dunja Pastović; Zagrepčani koje ne smijemo zaboraviti, Dr. Bertold Eisner; Studeni ...
(1875–1956), Croatian law professor, pioneer of Croatian jurisprudence and writer
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Betty Grover Eisner (1915–2004), American psychologist, pioneering researcher on LSD and psychedelic drugs
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Brian Eisner (born c. 1942), American tennis player and coach
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Breck Eisner
Michael Breckenridge Eisner (born December 24, 1970) is an American television and film director.
Early life
Eisner was born in California, the son of Jane Breckenridge, a business advisor and computer programmer, and Michael Eisner, the form ...
, son of Michael Eisner and film director
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Bruce Eisner (1948–2013), pen name of Bruce Jay Ehrlich, American psychologist and author of the book ''Ecstasy: The MDMA Story''
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Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.
Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...
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Curt Eisner
Curt Eisner (April 28, 1890 in Zabrze – December 30, 1981 in The Hague) was a German entomologist who specialised in snow butterflies or Parnassinae. His collections of Parnassinae are in Naturalis, in Leiden, and his Ornithoptera and Morp ...
(1890-1981), German entomologist, specialised in snow butterflies
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David A. Eisner, British physiologist
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David Eisner (born 1958), Canadian actor
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Edward Eisner (1929-1987), Hungarian-born physicist
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Elliot W. Eisner, Professor of Art and Education at Stanford University
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Eric Eisner, son of Michael and film producer
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Eric Eisner (lawyer)
Eric Eisner is an entertainment industry lawyer and executive who served as president of The Geffen Film Company and Island World Inc. He also founded the Young Eisner Scholars (YES) program.
Biography
Eisner grew up in Greenwich Village an ...
, former head of
The Geffen Film Company
The Geffen Film Company (also known as The Geffen Company, The Geffen Film Company, Inc., and later Geffen Pictures) was an American film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-f ...
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Gilbert Eisner, American fencer
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Herbert Sigmund Eisner (1921 – 2011), British-German physicist and playwright
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Hubert Eisner Hubert Eisner (born 7 August 1897 in Köflach, Austria; date and place of death unknown) was an Austrian Nazi and became Kreisleiter of Voitsberg.
Biography
Eisner attended primary (volksschule) and secondary (hauptschule) schools, and completed ...
(1897-date of death unknown), Austrian Nazi and became Kreisleiter of Voitsberg
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Ib Eisner (1925–2003), Danish artist
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Jacob Eisner
Jacob Eisner, also known as Jack Eisner (גיי'קוב (ג'ק) אייזנר; born December 18, 1947), is an Israeli former basketball player. (born 1947), Israeli basketball player
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Eisner Von Eisenhof Eisner or Eissner may refer to:
* Eisner (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Eisner Loboa (born 1987), Colombian-born Mexican footballer
* , several United States Navy ships
* Eisner Peak, Graham Land, Antarctica
* Eisner Award, ...
brothers Julius and Jacob, Bohemian aristocrats and traders
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Kurt Eisner
Kurt Eisner (; 14 May 1867 21 February 1919)"Kurt Eisner – Encyclopædia Britannica" (biography), ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2006, Britannica.com webpageBritannica-KurtEisner. was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre c ...
(1867–1919), German-Jewish journalist, leader of the 1918 revolution in Bavaria
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Lotte H. Eisner (1896?–1983), German writer
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Manuel Eisner
Manuel Eisner is Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He researches the history of interpersonal violence, and has conducted a study on levels of homicide ...
, British academic and researcher on the history of interpersonal violence
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Mark Eisner, American prominent lawyer, tax expert, and politician
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Maria Eisner
Maria Eisner (Maria Eisner Lehfeldt; February 8, 1909, in Milan, Italy – March 8, 1991, in New York, New York) was an Italian-American photographer, photo editor and photo agent. She was active in Europe in her early years, and later moved ...
(1909–1991), Italian photographer
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Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film st ...
, former head of The Walt Disney Company
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Pavel Eisner
Pavel Eisner (16 January 1889 – 8 July 1958), also known as Paul Eisner and under the pseudonym Vincy Schwarze, was Czech-German linguist and translator and the author of many studies about Czech language. He is considered one of the most imp ...
(or Paul Eisner; 1889–1958), Czech-German linguist and translator
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Philip Eisner, American screenwriter, author of the screenplay for the 1997 film ''Event Horizon''
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Shiri Eisner, Israeli writer and activist
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Sigmund Eisner, Austrian entrepreneur
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Sigmund Eisner (academic) (1920–2012), American scholar of medieval literature
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Simon Eisner, Swedish philanthropist
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Sol Eisner
Sol Eisner is an American former association football, soccer player who played as a forward (association football), forward. Eisner played in the American Soccer League (1933–1983), American Soccer League, and on the United States men's nationa ...
, American soccer player
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Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian and German mathematician
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Thomas Eisner
Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the ...
, chemical ecologist and author of several books, including ''For the Love of Insects''
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Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series '' The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was no ...
(1917–2005), comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of ''The Spirit''
German-language surnames
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