Lerner
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Lerner is a common German family name. Its literal meaning can be either "student" or "scholar". It may refer to:
Organizations
- Lerner EnterprisesLerner EnterprisesLerner Enterprises is a real estate business founded by Ted Lerner in North Bethesda, Maryland, United States, and operates primarily throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolis...
, a real estateReal estateIn general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
company. - Lerner NewspapersLerner NewspapersLerner Newspapers was once the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world. Founded by Leo Lerner, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005....
- Lerner Publishing GroupLerner Publishing GroupLerner Publishing Group, based in Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota since its founding in 1959, is one of the largest independently owned children's book publishers in the United States. With more than 3,500 titles in print, Lerner Publishing Group offers nonfiction and fiction books for...
, a publisher of children's literatureChildren's literatureChildren's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
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People
- Abba Lerner, American economist
- Adam LernerAdam LernerAdam Lerner is the Director of the and Chief Animator in the Department of Fabrications. He was the founder and Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar until The Lab merged with the MCA Denver in March 2009.-Career:...
- Al LernerAl LernerAlfred "Al" Lerner was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as the Chairman of the Board of credit card giant MBNA and the owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League...
, billionaire, chairman of MBNA - Al Lerner (composer)Al Lerner (composer)Al Lerner is 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 Sherman and Liza Minnelli...
, American musician, pianist, and big band leader - Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film...
, American lyricist and librettist - Alejandro LernerAlejandro LernerAlejandro Federico Lerner is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sang countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America....
, Argentine musician - Avi LernerAvi LernerAvinoam Lerner is an Israeli-born film producer, primarily of American action movies.-Life and career:Lerner originally worked in movie theaters in Tel Aviv, but soon re-located to South Africa, where he produced several films in that country and also owned a chain of movie theaters there until he...
, film producer - Ben LernerBen LernerBenjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...
, American poet - Claire LernerClaire LernerClaire Lerner, L.C.S.W. is the Director of Parenting Resources at Zero to Three, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddler and their families....
- Dan LernerDan Lerner-Selected credits:* thirtysomething - director* Profiler - director* Brimstone - director* Once and Again - director* House M.D. - consulting producer...
, American television director and producer - Edward M. LernerEdward M. LernerEdward M. Lerner is a US author of science fiction and techno-thrillers.As of 2010 he has published eight books. Three solo novels, one short story collection, and four novels co-authored with Larry Niven in the Known Space universe...
, science-fiction writer - Eric LernerEric LernerEric J. Lerner is an American popular science writer, independent plasma researcher, and serves as the president of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc...
- Gad LernerGad LernerGad Lerner is an Italian journalist and writer.-Career:A member of the Jewish community, he began his news career in 1976, writing for the ultra-leftist daily Lotta Continua, belonging to the eponymous political entity, becoming its deputy director...
, Italian journalist and writer - George LernerGeorge LernerGeorge Lerner was the inventor of the American toy, Mr. Potato Head. His original idea was to create plastic facial features that could be applied to a piece of fruit or a vegetable, thus turning an inanimate piece of food into an anthropomorphic toy. During World War II, Lerner found success as...
, inventor of the toy Mr. Potato Head - Gerda LernerGerda LernerGerda Lerner is a historian, author and teacher. She is a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a visiting scholar at Duke University...
, a founder of the fields of women and African American history - Irving LernerIrving LernerIrving Lerner Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department. In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, and later,...
, alleged Soviet spy in the US during World War II - Jaime LernerJaime LernerJaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times...
, architect and urban planner, Brazilian state governor - Jennifer LernerJennifer LernerJennifer Lerner is an experimental social psychologist known for her research in emotion, effects on judgment and decision making. She is currently a professor of Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as the Faculty Director of the Harvard Decision Science...
, professor and experimental social psychologist - Jimmy LernerJimmy LernerJimmy Lerner was born June 22, 1951 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He spent 18 years as a Pacific Bell marketing executive, served for the U.S. Army in Panama, received an M.B.A. and spent time as a taxicab driver...
- Ken LernerKen LernerKen Lerner is an American television, stage and film actor who is perhaps most famous for playing "Principal Flutie" in the first episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Early life:...
, American actor - Konstantin LernerKonstantin LernerKonstantin Zaivelevich Lerner was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster...
, Ukrainian chess grandmaster - Laurence LernerLaurence LernerLaurence Lerner is a South African born British literary critic and poet and novelist. He was born in Cape Town to parents of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry, and educated at the University of Cape Town and Pembroke College, Cambridge....
, literary critic, poet and novelist - Leo LernerLeo LernerLeo A. Lerner 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....
, a newspaper publisher - Max LernerMax LernerMaxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column....
, American journalist and educator - Melvin J. LernerMelvin J. LernerMelvin 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"...
, professor of social psychology - Michael Lerner:
- Michael Lerner (rabbi)Michael Lerner (rabbi)Michael Lerner is a political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco.-Family and Education:...
, rabbi and left-wing political activist - Michael Lerner (actor)Michael Lerner (actor)-Life and career:Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York of Romanian Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor...
- Michael Lerner (rabbi)
- Murray LernerMurray LernerMurray Lerner is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and experimental film director and producer.1967 saw the release of the film Festival...
, American film director and producer - Osip Mikhailovich LernerOsip Mikhailovich LernerOsip Mikhailovich Lerner was a 19th century Russian Jewish intellectual and lawyer. Originally a maskil—a propagator of the Haskala, or "Jewish Enlightenment"—he later converted to Christianity and wrote a book denouncing Jews...
, 19th century Russian Jewish intellectual and lawyer - Randy LernerRandy LernerRandolph D. Lerner is an American entrepreneur and sports team owner.Lerner has been the owner of the American football team, the Cleveland Browns, of the National Football League since October 2002, and the Chairman of Aston Villa Football Club of the English Premier League since 2006...
, American entrepreneur and sports team owner - Richard LernerRichard LernerRichard A. Lerner is an American research chemist. Best known for his work on catalytic antibodies, Lerner is currently President of The Scripps Research Institute , and a member of its Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, in La Jolla, California.-Biography:Lerner grew up in Chicago and...
, American research chemist - Samuel Lerner, Romanian songwriter American theater and film.
- Samuel A. Lerner, Co-founder Lerner Shops, father of Alan J.
- Sam LernerSam LernerSam Lerner is an American teen actor, who made his major debut as the role of Chowder in the 2006 Oscar-nominated computer-animated film, Monster House. Lerner also played a lead role in the feature film Envy as the son of Ben Stiller and Rachel Weisz...
, American child actor - Sandra LernerSandra LernerSandy Lerner was a co-founder of Cisco Systems . After leaving Cisco, she was a founder of Urban Decay cosmetics, and an advocate of animal welfare....
, co-founder of Cisco Systems - Sara Hestrin-LernerSara Hestrin-Lerner- Biography :Hestrin-Lerner was born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1918. Aged 14, she emigrated with her parents to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1932...
, Israeli physiologist. - Sidney B. LernerSidney LernerSidney 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 University of Manitoba in 1981 and was called to the bar in...
, Manitoba judge - Stephen LernerStephen LernerStephen Lerner is a labor and community organizer who has spent more than three decades organizing hundreds of thousands of janitors, farm workers, garment workers, and other low-wage workers into unions, resulting in increased wages, first-time health benefits, paid sick days, and other...
- Ted LernerTed LernerTheodore N. "Ted" Lerner is an American real estate developer and managing principal owner of the Washington Nationals baseball team. His family business, Lerner Enterprises, is the largest private landowner in the Washington, D.C. region...
, billionaire, real estate developer, and owner of the Washington Nationals. - Theodor LernerTheodor LernerTheodor Lerner was a German journalist and polar explorer who conducted several expeditions to Svalbard. In 1897 he witnessed the start of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 and took part in the search for Andrée in 1898 during a journey with Friedrich Römer and Fritz Schaudinn...
, German journalist and polar explorer
Other
- Lerner Index
- "Lerner Exchange," an illegal maneuver figuring in the conviction of ex-media baron Conrad BlackConrad BlackConrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...