Posner is a surname of German origin, meaning "a person from the city of Posen", now

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

in Poland. It is a fairly common surname among

Ashkenazi Jew Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

s. Variants of the name are Posener and Pozner. Notable people with the surname include: *

Aaron Posner Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theater director. He was co-founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia and was the artistic director of Two River Theatre from 2006 to 2010. He has directed over 100 productions at major regiona ...

, American playwright and stage director * Barry Posner (disambiguation), multiple people * Carl Posner (1854–1928), German urologist * David M. Posner (1947–2018), American rabbi *David Posner, fictional character in the Alan Bennett play ''

The History Boys ''The History Boys'' is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged be ...

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Ed Posner Edward Charles "Ed" Posner (August 10, 1933 – June 15, 1993) was an American information theorist and neural network researcher who became chief technologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and founded the Conference on Neural Information Proces ...

(1933–1993), American information theorist and neural network researcher * Elieser Posner (born 1937), American grain scientist *

Eric Posner Eric Andrew Posner (; born December 5, 1965) is an American lawyer and legal scholar who has served as a counsel for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division since 2022. As a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Posner has ...

(born 1965), American jurist and academic *

Ernst Posner Ernst Maximilian Posner (9 August 1892 – 18 April 1980) was a Prussian state archivist who fled to the United States during World War II where he served as the history department chairman, dean of the graduate school, and director of the School o ...

(1892–1980), Prussian state archivist *

Gary H. Posner Gary H. Posner (June 2, 1943 – February 26, 2018) was Scowe Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Posner is known for his pioneering research in organocopper compound, organocopper chemistry, including his invo ...

(born 1943), American chemist *

Geoff Posner Geoffrey Harold Posner (born 7 July 1949) is a British television producer and director. Posner has directed and produced some of Britain's most successful comedy shows since the early 1980s. Career Starting off as a director on the satirical sho ...

(born 1949), British producer of television and radio comedy *

Gerald Posner Gerald Leo Posner (born May 20, 1954) is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including ''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'' (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and ' ...

(born 1954), American journalist * Herbert A. Posner (born 1925), American politician * Jerome B. Posner, American neurologist *

Kenneth Posner Kenneth Posner is an American lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in American regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals ''Wicked'' and ''Hairspray'', two highly regarded musicals of the early 21st centu ...

, American lighting designer *

Lindsay Posner Lindsay Steven Posner (born 6 June 1959)"Lindsay Posner ...

(born 1959), British theatre director * Michael Posner (disambiguation), multiple people *

Neal Pozner Neal Pozner (1955 – June 21, 1994), sometimes credited as Neil Pozner, was an art director, editor, and writer known for his work in the comic book industry. He worked with DC Comics at two points, first as a design director and later as Group ...

(1955–1994), sometimes credited as Neil Pozner, art director, editor, and writer known for his work in the comic book industry *

Rebecca Posner Rebecca Posner (née Reynolds; 17 August 1929 – 19 July 2018) was a British philologist, linguist and academic, who specialized in Romance languages. Having taught at Girton College, Cambridge, the University of Ghana, and the University of Yor ...

(1929–2018), British philologist, linguist and academic *

Richard Posner Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chica ...

(born 1939), prominent American judge and jurist *

Ruth Posner Ruth Posner (née Wajsberg; born 20 April 1933) is a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor, former dancer and choreographer and is today an actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Early life Born in Warsaw in Poland an ...

(born 1933), Polish-born actress *

Sarah Posner Sarah Posner is an American journalist and author. She is the author of two books about the American Christian right and has written for ''The American Prospect'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Nation'', ''Salon'', ''AlterNet'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The ...

, American journalist * Seymour Posner (1925–1988), American politician * Steven Posner (1943–2010), American corporate raider *

Tracy Posner Tracy Posner Ward (born January 16, 1962) is an American businesswomen, animal rights activist and former actress, with her husband, actor Burt Ward. She is a daughter of the late American businessman, corporate raider and philanthropist Victor Po ...

(born 1962), American actress, animal rights rescuer and activist * Trisha Posner, British non-fiction writer, wife of Gerald Posner *

Victor Posner Victor Posner (September 18, 1918 – February 11, 2002) was an American businessman. He was one of the highest-paid business executives of his generation. He was a pioneer of the leveraged buyout and became notorious for asset strippin ...

(1918–2002), American entrepreneur, father of Tracy * Vladimir Pozner (disambiguation), multiple people * Walter Posner (born 1953), German football player *

Zalman I. Posner Rabbi Zalman I. Posner (1927–April 23, 2014) was an American rabbi and writer associated with the Chabad, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Posner served as a congregational rabbi and community leader in the American Southeast for five decade ...

(1927–2014), American rabbi

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