Lesch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Carl Lesch Carl William Lesch (1924–1983) was an American Catholic educator, director, and musical conductor and instructor associated with many institutions in the New York Metropolitan area. Lesch started his career as a young man in the 1940s when he t ...

, American Roman Catholic educator *

Gabriela Lesch Gabriela ("Gabi") Lesch (born 17 August 1964 in Sulzbach, Hesse) is a retired German runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She represented West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She represented the sports clubs TSV Kirchhain and Eintracht ...

, German runner *

George Henry Lesch George Henry Lesch (1909–1994) was the president and CEO of the Colgate-Palmolive company from 1961 to 1974, and was also the chairman of the board of the company from 1961 to 1974. He was featured on the cover of ''Forbes ''Forbes'' () i ...

, American businessman *

Harald Lesch Harald Lesch (born 28 July 1960) is a German physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, author, television presenter, professor of physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and professor of natural philosophy at the Munich Un ...

, German physicist *

John Lesch John Lesch (born January 15, 1973) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he last represented 66B, which included portions of Sai ...

, American politician *

Karin Lesch Karin Lesch (born 18 May 1935) is a Swiss-German stage, cinema, and television actress, of Swiss-Austrian extraction; who hails from a multi-generational family of accomplished German-speaking performers of theatre and cinema. Lesch was born in ...

, Swiss-German actress *

Klaus-Peter Lesch Klaus-Peter Lesch is a German clinical psychiatrist who has been investigating the neurobiological foundation of personality traits. His 1996 paper on the association between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene and the per ...

, German psychiatrist *

Michael Lesch Michael Lesch (June 30, 1939 – March 19, 2008) was a Jewish American physician and medical educator who helped identify an important genetic disorder associated with retardation and self-mutilation. This disease is now known as the Lesch–Ny ...

, Jewish American physician and medical educator

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