List of Famous people with last name Lepsius

Karl Richard Lepsius was a pioneering Prussian egyptologist, linguist and modern archaeologist.

Sabine Lepsius was a German portrait painter.

Oliver Lepsius is a German professor of jurisprudence at the University of Bayreuth.

Reinhold Lepsius was a German painter, especially of portraits, and graphic artist.

Renate Lepsius was a German journalist, historian and politician (SPD). She resigned from the German parliament ("Bundestag") ahead of the 1987 election, by which time she had spent almost fifteen years as a high-profile member of it. That same year saw the publication of, "Frauenpolitik als Beruf. Gespräche mit SPD Parlementarierrinnen", which the respected commentator Rolf Zundel, writing in 1987, described as "probably the most impressive book about women in politics for many years".

M. Rainer Lepsius was a German sociologist. A particular interest was in the work of Max Weber: he was prominent among the co-compilers of the (eventually) 47 volume edition of the Complete Works of Weber.

Johannes Lepsius was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and a PhD in 1880 with an already award-winning work. Lepsius was one of the founders and the first chairman of the German–Armenian Society.