Lasker (surname)

Lasker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Albert Lasker (1880–1952), advertising pioneer; husband of Mary Woodward Lasker
• Andrew Lasker (born 1982), American basketball player
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1925), German-British cellist
• Berthold Lasker (1860–1928), German chess master; brother of Emanuel Lasker
• Daniel Lasker (actor), Zimbabwean filmmaker and actor
• Daniel J. Lasker (born 1949), American-born Israeli philosopher
• 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
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright
• Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), German chess player, chess world champion, and mathematician; brother of Berthold Lasker
• Frances Lasker Brody (1916–2009), American arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist
• Gabriel Lasker (1912–2002), American anthropologist
• Greg Lasker (born 1964), American football player
• Jonathan Lasker (born 1948), American artist
• Jordan Lasker, American independent researcher
• Lawrence Lasker (born 1949), American screenwriter and producer
• Mary Lasker (1900–1994), health activist; wife of Albert Lasker
• Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, author, playwright and educator
• Morris E. Lasker (1917–2009), United States federal judge
• Raphael Lasker (1838–1904), German-American rabbi
• Renate Lasker-Harpprecht (1924–2021), German author and journalist
• Reuben Lasker (1929–1988), American fisheries scientist

See also

• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German Jewish poet
• Simon Lasker (Pyro), Marvel Comics character