Lerner is a German and Jewish family name. Its literal meaning can be either "student" or "scholar". It may refer to:

Organizations

* Lerner Enterprises, a real estate company *

Lerner Newspapers Lerner Newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers. Founded by Leo Lerner, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, and called itself "the world's largest newspaper group". In its heyday, Lerner published 54 we ...

* Lerner Publishing Group, a publisher of children's literature * Lerner New York, the former name of the New York & Company clothing chain

People

Aaron Bunsen Lerner Aaron Bunsen Lerner (September 21, 1920 – February 3, 2007), also known in scientific articles as Aaron B. Lerner, was an American physician, researcher and professor. Life and career Born in 1920 in Minneapolis, Lerner received his medical degr ...

(1920–2007), American physician, researcher and professor * Abba Lerner, American economist *

Adam Lerner Adam Lerner is the JoAnn McGrath Executive Director/CEO of Palm Springs Art Museum, a position he assumed in July 2021. In this capacity, he oversees the museum's permanent collection of over 12,000 art objects including the Architecture and Design ...

, American museum curator * Al Lerner, billionaire, chairman of MBNA *

Al Lerner (composer) Al Lerner (1919 – January 19, 2014) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor from the big band era. He was a member of the Harry James band for many years, playing piano. He wrote music for several artists, including Allan She ...

, American musician, pianist, and big band leader *

Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre bot ...

, American lyricist and librettist *

Alejandro Lerner Alejandro Federico Lerner (born June 8, 1957) is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sung countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America. Through his career, Lerner ...

, Argentine musician *

Avi Lerner Avinoam Lerner ( he, אבי לרנר; born 13 October 1947) is an Israeli-American film producer, primarily of American action movies. Lerner is the founder and CEO of Millennium Films. Life and career Avi Lerner was born in Haifa, Israel), on ...

, film producer *

Barron H. Lerner Barron H. Lerner (born 27 September 1960) is an American member of the faculty at the New York University Langone School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Columbia in 1986 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 1996. ...

, American professor of medicine * Ben Lerner, American poet *

Claire Lerner Claire Lerner, L.C.S.W. is the Director of Parenting Resources at Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers, and their famil ...

, non-profit director *

David Lerner David Lerner (November 23, 1951 – July 1, 1997) was an American outlaw poet who helped lead the influential poetry group the Babarians at Cafe Babar in San Francisco. Life Lerner was born in New York City and came from a family of Russian ...

(1951-1997?), American poet * Edward (Ned) Lerner, computer-game maker * Edward M. Lerner, science-fiction writer *

Eric Lerner Eric J. Lerner (born May 31, 1947) is an American popular science writer, and independent plasma researcher. He wrote the 1991 book ''The Big Bang Never Happened'', which advocates Hannes Alfvén's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory. ...

, American scientist and popular science author *

Gad Lerner Gad Eitan Lerner ( he, גד איתן לרנר; born 7 December 1954) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter. Career In 2000, Lerner served as director of news broadcasts TG1 for Rai 1 but resigned after a selection of pornographic ...

, Italian journalist and writer *

George Lerner George Lerner (1922–1995) was an American inventor known for inventing Mr. Potato Head. Biography Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York and worked during his lifetime as an artist, graphic designer, and model maker. In 1949, he designed and pro ...

, inventor of the toy Mr. Potato Head * Gerda Lerner, a founder of the fields of women and African American history *

Irving Lerner Irving Lerner (March 7, 1909, New York City – December 25, 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker. Biography Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting h ...

, alleged Soviet spy in the US during World War II *

I. Michael Lerner Israel Michael Lerner (May 14, 1910 – June 12, 1977) was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Born in Harbin, Manchuria, he received his Ph.D. in genetics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1936. He was appointed ins ...

, geneticist and evolutionary biologist * Jacqueline Lerner, American psychologist * Jaime Lerner, architect and urban planner, Brazilian state governor * Jennifer Lerner, professor and experimental social psychologist * Jimmy Lerner, American poet, novelist, and criminal * Josh Lerner, American economist, professor at the Harvard Business School * Ken Lerner, American actor *

Konstantin Lerner Konstantin Zaivelevich Lerner ( uk, Костантин Зайвелевич Лернер; 28 February 1950, Odessa, Ukraine, former USSR – 24 September 2011, Herzlia, Israel) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). In 1978 and 1982, he w ...

, Ukrainian chess grandmaster *

Laurence Lerner Laurence Lerner (12 December 1925 – 19 January 2016), often called Larry, was a South African-born British literary critic, poet, novelist, and lecturer, recognized for his achievement with his election to The Royal Society of Literature. Biogra ...

, literary critic, poet and novelist *

Leo Lerner Leo A. Lerner (1907–1965) was an American newspaper editor and publisher, who founded Lerner Newspapers in Chicago, Illinois, at one time the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world. He was a staunch advocate of community journalism, fo ...

, a newspaper publisher * Lois Lerner * Mark Lerner, American businessman * Max Lerner, American journalist and educator *

Melvin J. Lerner Melvin J. Lerner, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Waterloo between 1970 and 1994 and now a visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University, has been called "a pioneer in the psychological study of justice." Education Lerner re ...

, professor of social psychology * Michael Lerner (disambiguation), multiple people * Murray Lerner, American film director and producer * Osip Mikhailovich Lerner, 19th century Russian Jewish intellectual and lawyer * Randy Lerner, American entrepreneur and sports team owner *

Richard Lerner Richard Alan Lerner (August 26, 1938 – December 2, 2021) was an American research chemist. Best known for his work on catalytic antibodies, Lerner served as President of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) until January 1, 2012, and was a ...

, American research chemist *

Rita G. Lerner Rita Dorothy Guggenheim Lerner (May 7 1929 – July 16, 1994) was an American physicist, librarian, editor, and science communicator who worked for many years at the American Institute of Physics. With George L. Trigg, she was co-editor of the '' ...

(1929–1994), American physicist and science communicator *

Robert E. Lerner Robert E. Lerner (born 1940 in New York) is an American medieval historian and professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. Lerner gained his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1964, where he studied with ...

, American medieval historian *

Samuel Lerner Samuel Lerner (January 28, 1903 – December 13, 1989) was a Romanian-born songwriter for American and British musical theatre and film. Career Lerner emigrated with his parents into the United States at age seven, and the family settled in Detr ...

, Romanian songwriter American theater and film *

Samuel A. Lerner Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

, Co-founder Lerner Shops, father of Alan J. Lerner * Sam Lerner, American child actor *

Sandra Lerner Sandy Lerner, (born 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She co-founded Cisco Systems, and used the money from its sale to pursue interests in animal welfare and women's writing. One of her main projects, Chawton House, is in E ...

, co-founder of Cisco Systems *

Sara Hestrin-Lerner Sara Hestrin-Lerner (Hebrew: שרה הסטרין-לרנר) (May 18, 1918 – November 18, 2017) was a Canadian-born Israeli physiologist. Biography Hestrin-Lerner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in May 1918. Aged 14, she emigrated with ...

, Israeli physiologist *

Sidney Lerner Sidney Lerner was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on August 4, 1999. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Lerner served as the senior Crown attorney for Court of Queen's Bench trials. He received his law degree from the Univers ...

, Manitoba judge *

Stephen Lerner Stephen Lerner is an American labor and community organizer. He has organized janitors, farm workers, garment workers, and other low-wage workers into unions. Lerner is a critic of Wall Street bankers and the increased financialization of the U.S ...

, labor and community organizer * Ted Lerner, billionaire, real estate developer, and owner of the Washington Nationals * Theodor Lerner, German journalist and polar explorer *

Santiago Lerner Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

Colombian cybersecurity engineer

Other uses

* Lerner Index * "Lerner Exchange," an illegal maneuver figuring in the conviction of ex-media baron

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...

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