Lutz
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Lutz is a short form of Ludwig
and may refer to:
Ludwig
Ludwig may refer to:* Ludwig , a German name* Ludwig , a German surname* Ludwig , a 1972 film by Luchino Visconti about Ludwig II of Bavaria* Ludwig , a 1977 animated children's series...
and may refer to:
People with the surname Lutz
- Adolfo LutzAdolfo LutzAdolfo Lutz was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases....
, Brazilian physician - Alois LutzAlois LutzAlois Lutz was an Austrian figure skater. He invented the Lutz jump. He performed it for the first time in competition in 1913.-References:*...
, Austrian figure skater, for whom the Lutz jumpLutz jumpThe Lutz is a figure skating jump, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913. It is a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.- Lutz technique:...
is named - Al LutzAl LutzAl Lutz is an Internet journalist who publishes critical commentary and behind-the-scenes reports primarily about the Disneyland Resort in California and other Disney businesses...
, American internet journalist - Berta LutzBerta LutzBerta Maria Júlia Lutz was a zoologist, and scientist who became a leading figure of the feminist movement in Brazil....
, Brazilian scientist and feminist - Bob LutzBob Lutz (tennis player)Robert Lutz was a top amateur and professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. He and his longtime partner Stan Smith were one of the best doubles teams of all time. Together they won many major titles all over the world. In 1972 Lutz was briefly the World No. 7 ranked male player in the...
, American tennis player - Bobby LutzBobby LutzBobby Lutz is an American men's college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at North Carolina State University under head coach Mark Gottfried. Lutz was head coach of the Charlotte 49ers basketball team from 1998 to 2010....
, American basketball coach - Carl LutzCarl LutzCarl Lutz was the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He helped save tens of thousands of Jews from deportation to Nazi Extermination camps during the Holocaust. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews...
, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII - Christopher LutzChristopher LutzChristopher Lutz is a German chess grandmaster and the German chess champion in 1995 and 2001. In 2000 he was a member of the German team that won a silver medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul....
, German chess grandmaster - Eduard Ritter von LutzEduard von LutzEduard Ritter von Lutz was a Bavarian Major General and War Minister under Maximilian II of Bavaria and under Ludwig II of Bavaria.- Biography :...
(1810–1893), Bavarian Major General and War Minister - Élisabeth Lutz, French mathematician
- Estevan Lutz, Brazilian writer of science fiction
- Friedel LutzFriedel LutzAlfred "Friedel" Lutz is a former German football player.Friedel Lutz joined Eintracht Frankfurt in 1955 and carried on playing for the club, with whom he reached the 1960 European Cup final against Real Madrid , until 1973...
, German football player - Gary LutzGary LutzGary Lutz is an American writer of both poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in NOON, The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Unsaid, Fence, StoryQuarterly, The Believer, Cimarron Review, 3rd Bed, Slate Magazine, New York Tyrant, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Apocalypse Reader ,...
, American writer of poetry and fiction - George Lutz and Kathy Lutz, basis for the family depicted in The Amityville Horror
- Giles A. LutzGiles A. LutzGiles Alfred Lutz was a prolific author of fiction in the Western genre. Born in March 1910 in Missouri, United States, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the American West that were published in pulp magazines...
, American author of Western novels - Hans LutzHans LutzHans Lutz is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Germany, who represented West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the Men's Team Pursuit, alongside Gregor Braun, Peter Vonhof and Günther Schumacher...
, German track and road cyclist - Hartmut LutzHartmut LutzHartmut Lutz is professor of American and Canadian studies at the University of Greifswald, Germany, with a special interest in Native American and Native Canadian studies.-Life:Lutz was born in Rendsburg, Germany, and studied at the University of Kiel...
, German professor of Canadian and American Studies - Jack LutzJack LutzJack Lutz is a theoretical computer scientist and computational theorist best known for developing the concepts of resource bounded measure and effective dimension. He is currently a professor at Iowa State University.-External links:*...
, American computer scientist - John LutzJohn LutzJohn Lutz is an American writer who mainly writes mystery novels. He has received an Edgar Award and the Shamus Award twice, and his novel Single White Female was the basis for the 1992 film starring Bridget Fonda...
, American author of mystery novels - John Lutz (television writer)John Lutz (television writer)John Lutz is an American actor, writer and comedian.-Biography:The son of a Lutheran minister, Lutz grew up in suburban Chicago and Detroit. He attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, majoring in psychology and minoring in...
, American television writer and actor- J. D. Lutz, a fictional character played by this person on 30 Rock
- Kellan LutzKellan LutzKellan Christopher Lutz is an American fashion model, and film and television actor, who is best known for playing Emmett Cullen in the Twilight series.-Early life:...
, American actor - Mark A. Lutz, Swiss-born economics professor
- Mark Lutz (actor)Mark Lutz (actor)Mark Douglas Lutz is a Canadian actor, who is best known for playing Groosalugg in the television series Angel and for writing and starring in the two-hour movie on the life and death of Victor Davis....
, American actor - Mark Lutz (athlete), US American sprinter
- Meyer LutzMeyer LutzWilhelm Meyer Lutz was a German-born English composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and burlesques of well-known works....
, 19th century German composer - Oswald LutzOswald LutzGeneral Oswald Lutz was a German General who oversaw the motorization of the German Army in the late 1920s and early 1930s and was appointed as the first General der Panzertruppe of the Wehrmacht in 1935....
, First German General of Armored Troops - Otto Lutz, designer of a swing-piston engineSwing-piston engineA swing-piston engine is a type of internal combustion engine in which the pistons move in a circular motion inside a ring-shaped "cylinder", moving closer and further from each other to provide compression and expansion. Generally two sets of pistons are used, geared to move in a fixed...
- Bob Lutz (businessman), V.P. of General Motors
- Russell LutzRussell LutzRussell William Lutz is an American science fiction author. His work has appeared in several books, webzines, and magazines, including Byzarium, The SiNK, scifantastic, and anotherealm. He won the 2005 SFFWorld First Place prize for short fiction for the short story "Fall"...
, American science fiction author - William D. Lutz, American linguist
- Zach LutzZach LutzZachary "Zach" Craig Lutz is an American professional baseball player. A right-handed third baseman, he currently plays in the minor league system of the New York Mets, of Major League Baseball....
(born 1986), American professional baseball player
People with the first name Lutz
- Lutz AltepostLutz AltepostLutz Altepost is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s...
, German flatwater canoer - Lutz DombrowskiLutz DombrowskiLutz Dombrowski is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.Dombrowski was the best ever long jumper from the former East Germany. After winning at the European cup in 1979 he won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympic games in Moscow. In 1982, he was European champion. He...
, German track & field athlete - Lutz GoepelLutz GoepelLutz Goepel is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Saxony.He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party...
, German politician - Lutz Graf Schwerin von KrosigkLutz Graf Schwerin von KrosigkJohann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, born Johann Ludwig von Krosigk and known as Lutz von Krosigk was a German jurist and senior government official, who served during May of 1945 in the historically unique position of Leading Minister of the German Reich, the equivalent of a Chancellorship in...
, German politician - Lutz JacobiLutz JacobiLutske Jacobi is a Dutch politician and former civil servant. As a member of the Labour Party she has been an MP since November 30, 2006. She focuses on matters of natural environment, rural area, agriculture, horticulture, fishery, recreation and the Wadden Sea.- External links :...
, Dutch politician - Lutz RathenowLutz RathenowLutz Rathenow is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification...
, German dissident writer and poet - Lutz D. SchmadelLutz D. SchmadelLutz D. Schmadel is a German astronomer who works at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut of the University of Heidelberg.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. His special interest is the orbit/course of the asteroids...
, German astronomer
Places
- Lutz, FloridaLutz, FloridaLutz is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The population was 19,344 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Lutz is located at ....
, a small community in the United States- Old Lutz Elementary SchoolOld Lutz Elementary SchoolThe Old Lutz Elementary School is a historic school in Lutz, Florida. It is located at 18819 U.S. 41, North. On August 15, 1996, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places....
, historic schoolhouse
- Old Lutz Elementary School
- LützLützLütz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Treis-Karden, whose seat is in the like-named municipality...
, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Other uses
- Lutz-Jeanselme syndrome, a severe medical condition
- Lutz jumpLutz jumpThe Lutz is a figure skating jump, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913. It is a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.- Lutz technique:...
, a figure skating jump - Lutz Kelker biasLutz Kelker biasThe Lutz-Kelker bias is a systematic bias that applies to measurements of astronomical distance. In particular, it causes measured parallaxes to stars to be larger than their actual values. This causes inferred luminosities and distances to be too small, which poses a problem to astronomers...
, bias applied to measurements of astronomical distance - Nagell–Lutz theoremNagell–Lutz theoremIn mathematics, the Nagell–Lutz theorem is a result in the diophantine geometry of elliptic curves, which describes rational torsion points on elliptic curves over the integers.-Definition of the terms:Suppose that the equationy^2 = x^3 + ax^2 + bx + c \...
, a mathematical theorem