Leitner is an Austrian-German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alan Leitner
Alan Leitner is an American abstract artist. He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from Woodbury University in Los Ang ...
(born 1947), American artist
* Aloysius Leitner, United States Marine Corps
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Anton G. Leitner
Anton G. Leitner (born 16 June 1961) is a German writer and publisher.
He has also gained a widespread reputation as an editor, reciter, and organizer of literary events. Since 1980, Leitner edited over 40 anthologies for major publishers in the ...
(born 1961), German writer and publisher
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Dummy Leitner
George Michael "Dummy" Leitner (June 19, 1871 – February 20, 1960) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for two seasons for the Philadelphia Athletics (1901), New York Giants (1901), Clevelan ...
(1872–1960), American baseball player
* Edward Frederick Leitner (1812–1838), German physician and botanist
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Erika Leitner
Erika Leitner was an Italian luger who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She won the bronze medal in the women's singles at the 1960 FIL World Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.
Leitner also won a bron ...
, Italian luger
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Ferdinand Leitner
Ferdinand Leitner (4 March 1912 in Berlin – 3 June 1996 in Zürich) was a German conductor. Leitner studied under Franz Schreker, Julius Prüwer, Artur Schnabel and Karl Muck.
He also was a composition student with Robert Kahn. Starting as ...
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (14 October 1840 – 22 March 1899), also known as Gottlieb William Leitner, was a British orientalist.
Early life and education
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner was born in Pest, Hungary, on 14 October 1840 to a Jewish fam ...
Jan Leitner
Jan Leitner (; born 14 September 1953) is a retired long jumper who represented Czechoslovakia.
Leitner was born in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia. His greatest achievements were gold medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and IAAF World In ...
Ludwig Leitner
Ludwig Leitner (February 24, 1940 – March 21, 2013) was a German alpine ski racer and world champion, born in Mittelberg, Austria.
Leitner became a world champion in the combined event in Innsbruck in 1964.Miroslav Leitner
Miroslav Leitner (born August 1, 1966) is a Slovakian ski mountaineer and has been member of the SSA national squad since 1992. Until the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993, he ran for the Czechoslovac team.
Leitner was born in Brezno. He started ...
(born 1966), Slovak ski mountaineer
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Moritz Leitner
Moritz Leitner (born 8 December 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He has also previously played for Borussia Dortmund, 1860 Munich, FC Augsburg, Lazio and Norwich City. He has been capped at youth international ...
(born 1992), German footballer
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Patric Leitner
Patric-Fritz Leitner (born 23 February 1977 in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria) is a German luger who competed from 1998 to 2010. Together with Alexander Resch he won the men's doubles event at the 2002 Winter Olym ...
(born 1977), German luger
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Sebastian Leitner
Sebastian Leitner (1919 in Salzburg – 1989) was a German commentator and Popular science, science popularizer.
As a student in Vienna, he was briefly kept in custody by the Nazis in 1938 because of his opposition to the annexation of Austria ...
(1919–1989), Austrian-German science popularizer, journalist and author, inventor of the
Leitner system
The Leitner system is a widely used method of efficiently using flashcards that was proposed by the German science journalist Sebastian Leitner in the 1970s. It is a simple implementation of the principle of spaced repetition, where cards are ...
using
flashcards
A flashcard or flash card (also known as an index card) is a card bearing information on both sides, which is intended to be used as an aid in memorization. Each flashcard bears a question on one side and an answer on the other. Flashcards are ...
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Tammy Leitner
Tamara Leitner (born July 3, 1972) is an American network correspondent and investigative TV reporter. The journalist won a George Foster Peabody and Edward R. Murrow for the documentary Toxic Secrets. She also won 12 Emmys for investigative new ...
(born 1972), U.S. journalist and reality television contestant
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Ted Leitner
TED may refer to:
Economics and finance
* TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar
Education
* ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association
** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey
** Transvaal Education Dep ...
, American sportscaster
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Thea Leitner
Thea Leitner (June 2, 1921 in Vienna – August 2016) was an Austrian author and journalist. She has written numerous books for young people and was decorated, in May, 2003 for service to Vienna with the "Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um d ...
(born 1921), Austrian writer
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Vladimir Leitner
Vladimir may refer to:
Names
* Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name
* Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name
* Volodymyr for the Ukr ...
(born 1974), Slovak footballer
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Walter Leitner
Walter Leitner (born 1 February 1963 in Pfarrkirchen, Germany) is a German chemist, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) heading the department "Molecular Catalysis" as well as a university lecturer a ...
, German chemist
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Wolfgang Leitner
Wolfgang Leitner (born 1953) is an Austrian billionaire, and the CEO of Andritz AG, an Austrian plant engineering company.
Leitner has a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Graz
The University of Graz (german: link=no, Karl-Franze ...
(born 1953), Austrian businessman
See also
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Leitner Creek
Leitner Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 13, 2011 tributary of the upper Mississippi River. It rises in the bluffs overlooking the gorge of the Mississippi ...
, a small tributary of the Upper Mississippi River
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Leitner Ropeways
Leitner Ropeways is a business that manufactures and distributes products and equipment for ropeways, snow groomers, urban transportation systems, and wind energy in Italy and internationally. The company was founded in 1888 and was recognized in ...