Kirchner

Not to be confused with Kirshner or Kirschner.

Kirchner is an occupational surname of German origin, derived from the Middle High German word kirchenaere ('sexton', 'priest', 'church assistant' or 'church property administrator').^[1] Notable people with the name include:

Arts

• Alfred Kirchner (born 1937), German actor, theatre director, opera director, theatre manager
• Athanasius Kircher, a/k/a Athanasius Kirchner (1602–1680), German Jesuit scholar and polymath
• Claude Kirchner (1916–1993), American television announcer and children's personality
• Emma Kirchner (1830–1909), German photographer who lived and worked in the Netherlands.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist artist
• Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), German actor
• Jaime Lee Kirchner (1981), American actress
• Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), American composer
• Marilena Kirchner (1997), German volksmusik and schlager singer
• Paul Kirchner (1952), American illustrator and comic-book author
• Raphael Kirchner (1876–1917), Austrian artist and illustrator
• Shabier Kirchner (born 1987/1988), Antiguan cinematographer and filmmaker
• Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903), German composer
• Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German violist and composer

Politics

• Alicia Kirchner (born 1946), Argentine politician
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), Argentine politician, former President and Vice-President of Argentina
• Máximo Kirchner (born 1977), Argentine politician
• Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina
• Russ Kirchner Jr., American businessman
• William G. Kirchner (1916–1999), American politician and businessman

Sports

• Albert Edward Lester "Alby" Kirchner (1888–1942), Australian rules footballer
• Andreas Kirchner (1953–2010), German hammer thrower and bob pusher
• H. E. Kirchner (1937–1993), American basketball player
• Mark Kirchner (1970), German biathlete
• Michael Kirchner or Corporal Kirchner (1957–2021), American professional wrestler
• Zane Kirchner (1984), South African rugby player

Other

• 16441 Kirchner, asteroid discovered in 1989
• Friedrich Kirchner (1885–1960), German General during the Second World War
• James Kirchner, University of California professor
• Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), anti-Nazi dissident
• Kirchner's viscacha rat, species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014,^[2] one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys^[2][3]
• Kirchner Cultural Centre, cultural centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Kirchneriella, genus of green algae in the family Selenastraceae^[4]
• Kirchner Peak, isolated peak in Antarctica
• Kirchnerism, Argentine political movement
• Kirchner v. Venus (1859), English Law case precedent that defined freight as "the reward payable to the carrier of for the safe carriage and delivery of goods"
• Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925), German botanist and agronomist