List of Famous people with last name Lessing

Doris Lessing

Doris May Tayler
First Name Doris
Last Name Lessing
Born on October 22, 1919
Died on November 17, 2013 (aged 94)

Doris May Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

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Erich Lessing

First Name Erich
Last Name Lessing
Born on July 13, 1923
Died on August 29, 2018 (aged 95)
Born in Austria

Erich Lessing was an Austrian photographer. Lessing became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1955 and was a contributor since 1979. His portraits of poets, musicians, physicists and astronomers were published in around 60 books.

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

First Name Gotthold
Died on February 15, 1781
Born in Germany, Saxony

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre.

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Gottfried Lessing

Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing
First Name Gottfried
Last Name Lessing
Born on December 14, 1914
Died on April 11, 1979 (aged 64)
Born in Russia

Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing was a German lawyer, political activist, and diplomat.

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Otto Lessing

First Name Otto
Last Name Lessing
Born on February 24, 1846
Died on November 22, 1912 (aged 66)

Otto Lessing was a prominent German Historicist sculptor whose work largely shaped the appearance of Berlin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the son of history and landscape painter Carl Friedrich Lessing and the great great nephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

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Johann Gottfried Lessing

First Name Johann
Last Name Lessing
Died on August 22, 1770
Born in Germany, Saxony
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Karl Friedrich Lessing

First Name Karl
Last Name Lessing
Born on February 15, 1808
Died on January 4, 1880 (aged 71)

Karl Friedrich Lessing was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

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Karl Gotthelf Lessing

First Name Karl
Last Name Lessing
Born on July 10, 1740
Died on February 17, 1812 (aged 71)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Karl Gotthelf Lessing was a German mint director, comedy writer and the first biographer and estate manager of his brother Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Among other things, he was the later owner of the Vossische Zeitung, which was still called "Royal Privilegirte Berlinische Zeitung of State and learned matters" at this time.

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Lena Lessing

First Name Lena
Last Name Lessing
Born on October 5, 1960 (age 64)
Born in Germany
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Christian Friedrich Lessing

First Name Christian
Last Name Lessing
Born on August 10, 1809
Died on March 13, 1862 (aged 52)

Christian Friedrich Lessing was a German botanist who was a native of Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781).

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