Lasker (surname)
Lasker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Lasker (1880–1952), advertising pioneer; husband of Mary Woodward Lasker
- Berthold Lasker (1860–1928), German chess master; brother of Emanuel Lasker
- Eduard Lasker (1829–1884), German politician
- Edward Lasker (1885–1981), leading American chess and Go player
- Edward Lasker (businessman) (1912–1997), American businessman, son of ad executive Albert Lasker
- Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), German chess player, chess world champion, and mathematician; brother of Berthold Lasker
- Gabriel Lasker (1912–2002), American anthropologist
- Jonathan Lasker (born 1948), American artist
- Lawrence Lasker (born 1949), American screenwriter and producer
- Mary Lasker (1900–1994), health activist; wife of Albert Lasker
- Raphael Lasker (1838–1904), German-American rabbi
See also
[edit]- Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German Jewish poet