Meissner, Meißner or Meisner may refer to:

Geography

Meissner is the name of the following geographic features:

  • the Meißner (range), an important mountain range in Hesse, Germany
  • Hoher Meißner, the highest peak of the Meißner range
  • Meißner, Hesse, a community in the district Werra-Meißner-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany

Surnames

Meissner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname and its variants include:

  • Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian engineer and physicist
  • Andy Meisner (born 1973), American politician
  • August Gottlieb Meißner (1753–1807), German writer
  • Beate Meißner (born 1982), German politician
  • Boris Meissner (1915–2003), German lawyer and social scientist
  • Bruno Meissner (1868–1947), German assyriologist
  • Carl Meissner (1800–1874), Swiss botanist
  • Christian Meissner (born 1969), German politician
  • Meisner's Banksia, Australian shrub
  • Carl Meissner (1830–1900), German Latin scholar
  • Constantin Meissner (1854-1942), Romanian teacher
  • Elena Meissner (1867–1940), Romanian feminist
  • Elinor Meissner Traeger (1906–1983), composer
  • Ernst Meisner (born 1982), Dutch dancer and choreographer
  • Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1796–1860), German obstetrician
  • Fred Meissner (1931–2007), American geologist and engineer
  • Freda Meissner-Blau (1927–2015), Austrian politician and activist
  • Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist
  • Meissner's corpuscle, type of mechanoreceptor
  • Meissner's plexus, intestinal nerve plexus
  • Greg Meisner (born 1959), American football player
  • Günter Meisner (1926–1994), German actor
  • Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), German writer and novelist
  • Heike Meißner (born 1970), German hurdler and runner
  • Heinrich August Meissner (1862–1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha
  • James Meissner (1896–1936), American World War I flying ace
  • Janusz Meissner (1901–1978), Polish writer and aviator
  • Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
  • Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
  • Joern Meissner (born 1970), German academic and business consultant
  • (1701–1770), German sculptor and wood carver
  • Karl Meissner (1891–1959), German-American physicist
  • Katrin Meissner (born 1973), German swimmer
  • Kimmie Meissner (born 1989), American figure skater
  • Krzysztof Antoni Meissner (born 1961), Polish theoretical physicist
  • Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), American historian of 20th century China
  • Otto Meissner (1880–1953), head of the Office of the Reich President, Germany
  • Paul Traugott Meissner (1778–1864), Austrian chemist
  • Randy Meisner (1946–2023), founder of the band the Eagles and solo artist
  • Randy Meisner (1978 album), self-titled
  • Randy Meisner (1982 album), self-titled
  • Renate Meissner (born 1950), German sprinter and triple Olympic champion
  • Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting coach
  • Meisner technique, an acting technique
  • Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Native American feminist philosopher
  • Silvio Meißner (born 1973), German football player
  • Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
  • Stefan Meissner (born 1973), German football player
  • Stuart Meissner (born 1962), American federal prosecutor and politician
  • Verne Meisner (1938–2005), American polka musician
  • Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
  • Meissner effect, decay of a magnetic field inside a superconductor
  • Werner Meißner (1937–2025), German economist, president of the Goethe University Frankfurt (1994–2000)
  • Wolf Meissner (born 1969), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian

See also

  • Messner

References