Famous People with Name Lenz

Jörn Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jörn Lenz: is a German former footballer who played as a defender. During his career, Lenz had four different spells with Berliner FC Dynamo, and continues to serve as part of the club's backroom staff after retiring in 2008.

Günter Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günter Lenz: is a German jazz bassist and composer. First he learned, assisted by Carlo Bohländer, playing guitar and since the mid-1950s, he played jazz in the clubs of the U.S. Army. During the 1959/1960 national service, he switched to the bass. 1961 Albert Mangelsdorff picked him up as member of the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet. Since then Lenz has also became a member of the "hr-jazz ensemble," for which he arranged and composed too. In 1965 he worked in the quintet of Krzysztof Komeda. In 1968 he played with Joachim Kühn and Aldo Romano in a band led by Barney Wilen at the Berlin Jazz Days. 1970, he played with the George Russell Sextet, and also with a band led by Leon Thomas. 1972 Günter Lenz played with Lightning Hopkins. This allowed him to collect big band experience.

Sandy Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sandy Lenz: is a former American figure skater. Lenz was not selected to compete at the 1980 World Championships, but she continued to compete and won the St. Ivel international in Great Britain in the fall of 1980. However, she was then forced to retire due to inju

Josef "Sepp" Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Josef "Sepp" Lenz: is a West German luger who competed in the 1960s. He won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1962 FIL European Luge championships in Weissenbach, Austria. Lenz competed in the men's singles event at the 1964 Winter Olympics, but was severely injured at the luge track in Igls and did not compete as a result.

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz: was a Russian physicist of Baltic German ethnicity. He is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1833. After completing his secondary education in 1820, Lenz studied chemistry and physics at the University of Dorpat. He traveled with the navigator Otto von Kotzebue on his third expedition around the world from 1823 to 1826. On the voyage Lenz studied climatic conditions and the physical properties of seawater. The results have been published in "Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences" (1831).