Steiner
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Surname

  • Achim Steiner
    Achim Steiner
    Achim Steiner is a German expert in environmental politics. From 2001 to 2006 he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources...

     (born 1961), German expert in environmental politics
  • Anton Steiner
    Anton Steiner
    Anton "Jimmy" Steiner is an Austrian former alpine skier. He was born in Lienz, Osttirol.-Achievements:1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid:* seventh place at Slalom1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo:*Bronze at Downhill...

     (born 1958), Austrian former alpine skier
  • Ben Steiner
    Ben Steiner
    Benjamin Saunders Steiner was a backup second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers . Listed at 5' 11", 165 lb., Steiner batted left-handed and threw right-handed...

     (1921–1988), Major League Baseball player
  • Cecil C. Steiner
    Cecil C. Steiner
    Cecil C. Steiner was a dentist and one of Edward H. Angle's first students in 1921.He developed a form of cephalometric analysis, presented in 1953, referred to as the Steiner method of analysis.-Awards:...

     (1896–1989), American orthodontist
  • Charley Steiner
    Charley Steiner
    Charles Harris "Charley" Steiner is an American sportscaster and broadcast journalist. He is currently the main play-by-play voice for the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network, paired with Rick Monday.-Early career:...

     (born 1949), American sportscaster
  • Claude Steiner
    Claude Steiner
    Claude Steiner is a psychotherapist who has written extensively about transactional analysis . His writings have focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and Interpersonal power plays.-Early life:...

     (born 1935), clinical psychologist and transactional analyst; author of A Warm Fuzzy Tale
  • Emil Steiner (born 1978), Washington Post journalist and author of the novel Drunk Driving
  • Endre Steiner
    Endre Steiner
    Endre Steiner was a Hungarian chess player.Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads.* In 1927, he played at first reserve board at 1st Chess Olympiad in London ....

     (1901–1944), Hungarian chess player
  • Felix Steiner
    Felix Steiner
    Felix Martin Julius Steiner was a German Reichswehr and Waffen-SS officer who served in both World War I and World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords...

     (1896–1966), German Waffen-SS officer
  • Ferdinand Steiner
    Ferdinand Steiner
    Ferdinand Steiner was a gymnast from Bohemia, in what is now the Czech Republic.He took part in the World Gymnastics Championships in 1909, 1911 and 1913. In 1909, he won gold in the team combined competition. In 1911, he won gold in both the team event and in the combined event, and also took gold...

    , gymnast from Bohemia
  • Franz Baermann Steiner
    Franz Baermann Steiner
    Franz Baermann Steiner was an ethnologist, polymath, essayist, aphorist, and poet...

     (1909–1952), German/Czech anthropologist, polymath and poet
  • Fred Steiner
    Fred Steiner
    Fred Steiner was an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film. Steiner wrote the theme music for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Perry Mason and The Bullwinkle Show...

     (1923-2011), American composer
  • George Steiner
    George Steiner
    Francis George Steiner, FBA , is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust...

     (born 1929), literary critic
  • Gerolf Steiner
    Gerolf Steiner
    Gerolf Steiner was a German zoologist.He was born on March 23, 1908 in Strasbourg, and occupied the chair of zoology at the University of Karlsruhe from 1962 to 1973. He is famous worldwide for a little book on the anatomy and habits of the Rhinogradentia, a fictitious order of mammals whose nose...

     (1908 – 2009), German zoologist
  • Gitta Steiner
    Gitta Steiner
    Gitta Steiner was an American composer.Steiner attended the Juilliard School of Music and Tanglewood, and was best known for her works for percussion instruments. She lived in Douglaston, Queens, New York....

     (1932–1990), American composer
  • Herman Steiner
    Herman Steiner
    Herman Steiner was a United States chess player, organizer, and columnist.He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1948 and became International Master in 1950....

     (1905–1955), American chess champion, organizer, and columnist
  • Hillel Steiner
    Hillel Steiner
    Hillel Steiner is a Canadian political theorist and is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1999....

    , Canadian professor of Political Philosophy
  • Hugo Steiner
    Hugo Steiner
    Hugo Steiner is a Swiss citizen who graduated from the University of Zurich as a physician specialising in endocrinology. He worked for several years as the leader of a research group in experimental endocrinology for Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in Basel, Switzerland. He has also done research work in...

    , Swiss endocrinologist
  • Jakob Steiner
    Jakob Steiner
    Jakob Steiner was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry.-Personal and professional life:...

     (1796–1863), Swiss geometer and mathematician
  • John Steiner
    John Steiner
    John Steiner is an English actor. Tall, thin and gaunt, Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked for a few years at the BBC. Steiner featured in a lead role in a television production of Design for Living by Noel Coward. Later he found further work primarily in films...

     (born 1941), English actor
  • Kilian von Steiner
    Kilian von Steiner
    Kilian von Steiner was a German banker and industrialist.Born in Laupheim as the eighth child of Jewish merchant Viktor Steiner and his wife Sophie, Kilian Steiner spent his youth in the small Upper Swabian town...

     (1833–1903), German banker and industrialist
  • Lajos Steiner
    Lajos Steiner
    Lajos Steiner was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,, and a younger brother of Endre Steiner...

     (1903–1975), Hungarian–born Australian chess master
  • Lewis Henry Steiner
    Lewis Henry Steiner
    Lewis Henry Steiner was a United States physician and librarian.-Biography:...

     (1827-1892), United States physician and librarian
  • Matthias Steiner
    Matthias Steiner
    Matthias Steiner is an Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. He is 183 cm tall.As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Championships, and the 2004 Summer Olympics...

     (born 1982), Austrian-German weightlifter
  • Max Steiner
    Max Steiner
    Max Steiner was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films. He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Trained by the great classical music composers Brahms and Mahler, he was one of the first composers who primarily wrote music for motion pictures, and as...

     (1888–1971), Hollywood film composer
  • Maximilian Steiner
    Maximilian Steiner
    Maximilian Steiner was an Austrian actor and theater manager.Steiner was manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien from 1869 to 1875 with Marie Geistinger, a Viennese actress, and from 1875 to 1880 on his own...

     (1839–1880), Austrian actor and theatre manager
  • Paul Steiner
    Paul Steiner
    Paul Steiner is a retired German footballer who played mainly as a central defender.-Club career:Born in Waldbrunn, Baden-Württemberg, Steiner started his career in his hometown, playing for TSV Strümpfelbrunn...

     (born 1957), former German soccer player
  • Peter "Cool Man" Steiner (1917–2007), music-making Swiss advertising character
  • Ralph Steiner
    Ralph Steiner
    Ralph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.-Biography:...

     (1899–1986), American photographer
  • Red Steiner
    Red Steiner
    James Harry Steiner was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox during the season. Listed at 6' 0", 185 lb., he batted left-handed and threw right-handed....

     (1915–2001), Major League Baseball player
  • Richard C Steiner
    Richard C Steiner
    Richard C. Steiner is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts. His work has focused on texts from as early as the Egyptian Pyramid texts to as late as medieval biblical interpretation...

     (born 1945), Professor of Semitics at Yeshiva University
  • Rick Steiner
    Rick Steiner
    Robert Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler, better known under his ring name Rick Steiner.Steiner is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling, where he was an eight time World Tag Team Champion...

     (born 1961), American professional wrestler
  • Robert Steiner
    Robert Steiner
    Robert 'Rob' Steiner is a retired footballer who played as a striker in his homeland and England. He also played for his Sweden national side.-Career:...

     (born 1973), Swedish footballer
  • Roswitha Steiner
    Roswitha Steiner
    Roswitha Steiner is a former Austrian alpine skier.She concluded her career at the end of the 1987/1988 season with her second win in Slalom World Cup by winning her last race in Aspen...

     (born 1963), former Austrian alpine skier
  • Rudolf Steiner
    Rudolf Steiner
    Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher...

     (1861–1925), Austrian philosopher, educator, and mystic, founder of anthroposophy
  • Scott Steiner
    Scott Steiner
    Scott Carl Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Scott Steiner. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order...

     (born 1962), American professional wrestler
  • Tito Steiner
    Tito Steiner
    Tito Steiner is a retired decathlete of German descent, who represented Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s. He set the national record in 1981, collecting 8,279 points at a meet in Baton Rouge, United States . He improved himself with a score of 8,291 points, set on June 23, 1983, which still is the...

     (born 1952), Argentine decathlete
  • Walter Steiner
    Walter Steiner
    Walter Steiner is a Swiss ski jumper who was active in the 1970's.Steiner earned a ski jumping silver medal in the Individual large hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics...

     (born 1951), Swiss ski jumper
  • William Steiner (born 1937), California politician and child advocate

Fictional

  • Adelbert Steiner, fictional character from the video game Final Fantasy IX
  • House Steiner, fictional family from the BattleTech game franchise
  • Rion Steiner, fictional character and protagonist of the video game Galerians

Other uses

  • Steiner, Michigan
    Steiner, Michigan
    Steiner was a small farming settlement in what is now Frenchtown Charter Township, Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was situated at the intersection of the Norfolk Southern Railway and Steiner Road at ....

    , a village in the United States
  • Steiner, Mississippi
    Steiner, Mississippi
    Steiner is an unincorporated community located in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Steiner is located on Mississippi Highway 442 and is approximately north of Roundaway and approximately south of Linn....

  • Steiner Studios
    Steiner Studios
    Steiner Studios is the largest film and television production studio complex outside of Hollywood. Steiner Studios offers of soundstages, with air conditioning and power infrastructure, and an additional of offices, dressing and make-up rooms, mill shops, spray booths, prop lock-ups, etc. All...

    , film and television production studio in New York City

See also

  • Poncelet–Steiner theorem
  • Steiner surface
    Steiner surface
    In geometry, a branch of mathematics, the Steiner surfaces, discovered by Jakob Steiner, are mappings of the real projective plane into three-dimensional real projective space...

  • Steiner system
    Steiner system
    250px|right|thumbnail|The [[Fano plane]] is an S Steiner triple system. The blocks are the 7 lines, each containing 3 points. Every pair of points belongs to a unique line....

    , a type of block design
  • Steiner tree
    Steiner tree
    The Steiner tree problem, or the minimum Steiner tree problem, named after Jakob Steiner, is a problem in combinatorial optimization, which may be formulated in a number of settings, with the common part being that it is required to find the shortest interconnect for a given set of objects.The...

  • House Steiner, one of the Successor States of the Inner Sphere from the fictional BattleTech universe
  • Waldorf education, also called Steiner education
  • The Steiner Brothers
    The Steiner Brothers
    The Steiner Brothers are the professional wrestling tag team of American brothers Robert "Rick Steiner" Rechsteiner and Scott "Scott Steiner" Rechsteiner...

    , the professional wrestling "tag team" of Rick and Scott Steiner
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