Kirchner is an occupational surname of German origin, derived from the Middle High German word ('sexton', 'priest', 'church assistant' or 'church property administrator'). Notable people with the name include:

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 Zuzana Kirchnerová (born 1978), Czech film director

Politics Alicia Kirchner (born 1946), Argentine politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), former President and Vice-President of Argentina Máximo Kirchner (born 1977), Argentine politician Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina Oliver Kirchner (born 1966), German politician Russ Kirchner Jr., American businessman William G. Kirchner (1916–1999), American politician and businessman

Sports 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 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 Johannes Kirchner (1859-1940), German epigrapher Kirchner's viscacha rat, species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014, one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys Kirchner Cultural Centre, cultural centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina Kirchneriella, genus of green algae in the family SelenastraceaeSee the NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella. Data extracted from the 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

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