Posner is a surname of German origin, meaning "a person from the city of Posen", now Poznań in Poland.[1] It is a fairly common surname among Ashkenazi Jews. Variants of the name are Posener and Pozner. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aaron Posner, 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
- Ed Posner (1933–1993), American information theorist and neural network researcher
- Elieser Posner (born 1937), American grain scientist
- Eric Posner (born 1965), American jurist and academic
- Ernst Posner (1892–1980), Prussian state archivist
- Gary H. Posner (1943–2018), American chemist
- Geoff Posner (born 1949), British producer of television and radio comedy
- Gerald Posner (born 1954), American journalist
- Herbert A. Posner (1925–2018), American politician
- Jerome B. Posner, American neurologist
- Kenneth Posner, American lighting designer
- Lindsay Posner (born 1959), British theatre director
- Michael Posner (disambiguation), multiple people
- Neal Pozner (1955–1994), sometimes credited as Neil Pozner, art director, editor, and writer known for his work in the comic book industry
- Rebecca Posner (1929–2018), British philologist, linguist and academic
- Richard Posner (born 1939), prominent American judge and jurist
- Ruth Posner (born 1933), Polish-born actress
- Sarah Posner, American journalist
- Seymour Posner (1925–1988), American politician
- Steven Posner (1943–2010), American corporate raider
- Tess Posner, American social entrepreneur and musician
- Tracy Posner (born 1962), American actress, animal rights rescuer and activist
- Trisha Posner, British non-fiction writer, wife of Gerald Posner
- Victor Posner (1918–2002), American entrepreneur, father of Tracy
- Vladimir Pozner (disambiguation), multiple people
- Walter Posner (born 1953), German football player
- Zalman I. Posner (1927–2014), American rabbi
See also
References
- ^ Patrick Hanks (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.