Posner (surname)
Posner is a surname of German origin, meaning "a person from the city of Posen", now Poznań in Poland. 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, German urologist
- David M. Posner, American rabbi
- David Posner, fictional character in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys
- Ed Posner, American information theorist and neural network researcher
- Elieser Posner, American grain scientist
- Eric Posner, American jurist and academic
- Ernst Posner, Prussian state archivist
- Gary H. Posner, American chemist
- Geoff Posner, British producer of television and radio comedy
- Gerald Posner, American journalist
- Henry Posner III, American investment and rail entrepreneur
- Herbert A. Posner, American politician
- Jerome B. Posner, American neurologist
- Kenneth Posner, American lighting designer
- Lindsay Posner, British theatre director
- Michael Posner (disambiguation), multiple people
- Neal Pozner, sometimes credited as Neil Pozner, art director, editor, and writer known for his work in the comic book industry
- Rebecca Posner, British philologist, linguist and academic
- Richard Posner, prominent American judge and jurist
- Ruth Posner, Polish-born British actress, dancer and choreographer
- Sarah Posner, American journalist
- Seymour Posner, American politician
- Steven Posner, American corporate raider
- Tess Posner, American social entrepreneur and musician
- Tracy Posner, American actress, animal rights rescuer and activist
- Trisha Posner, British non-fiction writer, wife of Gerald Posner
- Victor Posner, American entrepreneur, father of Tracy
- Vladimir Pozner (disambiguation), multiple people
- Walter Posner, German football player
- Zalman I. Posner, American rabbi