Kranz (surname)

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Kranz is a German language-derived surname; in German the word means wreath.

People bearing the name include:

• Ashley Kranz, winner of CMT Canada's "CMT Casting Call 2007"
• Bernhard Kranz, German highly decorated Hauptmann der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II
• Carl Frederick Kranz, German-born minister and teacher, founder of the German Evangelical Proseminary, founding president of Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois
• Fran Kranz, American actor
• Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager
• George Kranz, German dance music singer and percussionist
• Hugo Kranz, German-born businessman and political figure in Ontario, Canada
• Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, Jewish Lithuania (Belarus)-born preacher (maggid)
• James P. Kranz Jr., American lawyer
• Ken Kranz, American NFL football player
• Markus Kranz, German football coach and former player
• Neal Kranz, Guam wrestler
• Paula Dean Broadwell (née Kranz), American writer, academic, and anti-terrorism professional
• Stanislaus Kranz, birth name of Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer
• Walther Kranz, German Classical philologist and historian of philosophy

Places include:

• Kranz Peak, a peak in the Queen Maud Mountains
• Kręcko (German: Kranz), a village in western Poland

Other uses include:

• Frankfurter Kranz, a cake specialty believed to originate from Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Kranz anatomy, a characteristic leaf anatomy often possessed by C4 plants
• Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania, a 1978 Italian comedy film