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'''Kirchner''' is an [[occupational surname]] of German origin, derived from the [[Middle High German]] word {{lang|gmh|kirchenaere}} ('[[Sexton_(office)|sexton]]', 'priest', 'church assistant' or 'church property administrator').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=kirchner|title=Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com|author=|date=|website=www.ancestry.com|accessdate=15 January 2019}}</ref> Notable people with the name include:
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==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==
* [[Alby Kirchner|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==
* [[List of minor planets: 16001–17000#441|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,<ref name=jm/> one of two species in the genus ''[[Tympanoctomys]]''<ref name=jm>{{Citation | author = Pablo Teta | author2 = Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas | author3 = Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo | title = A new species of the tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina | journal = [[Journal of Mammalogy]] | volume = 95 | issue = 1 | pages = 60–71 | year = 2014 | url = http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160?journalCode=mamm | doi = 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160 | doi-access = free | hdl = 11336/22721 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref name = MSW3>{{MSW3 Hystricognathi | id = 13400390 | pages = 1573}}</ref>
* [[Kirchner Cultural Centre]], cultural centre located in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
* [[Kirchneriella]], genus of green algae in the family Selenastraceae<ref>See the [[National Center for Biotechnology Information|NCBI]] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=55412 webpage on Kirchneriella].  Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=[[National Center for Biotechnology Information]] | accessdate=2020-12-29}}</ref>
* [[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
==References==
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