Wiener
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Wiener (sometimes pronounced viener) can mean:
- Adjectival form of Vienna (Ger. Wien).
- A citizen of Vienna, Austria.
- A hot dog or sausage (also Wiener Wurst or weenie).
- A Wiener dog, more correctly a dachshund.
- A Wiener schnitzel.
- A slang term for penis.
- Wiener Neustadt (lit. Viennese newtown) south of Vienna.
- Various compositions by Johann Strauss II have Wiener in the title:
- Wiener Frauen, waltz.
- Wiener Bonbons, waltz.
- Wiener Blut (waltz) or Wiener Blut (operetta), two compositions of the same name.
- Wiener Blut, album by the Austrian pop singer Falco.
- Wiener Konzerthaus, Viennese concert hall.
- Wiener Musikverein, Viennese concert hall.
- Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester, Viennese orchestra.
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Viennese orchestra.
- Wiener Staatsoper, Viennese opera company.
- Wiener Werkstätte, Austrian design workshop.
- Wiener Sportclub, Viennese athletics and football club.
- Wiener Stadtpark, Viennese public park.
- Wiener Festwochen, annual Viennese arts festival.
- Wiener Ringstraße, Viennese circular boulevard.
- Wiener Prater, former Viennese royal hunting park.
- Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter, classic Austrian television series.
- Wiener Städtische, an Austrian insurance company.
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There are many people named Wiener, and many things named after them:
- Adolf Wiener, (1812-95), German rabbi; born in Murowana-Goslin, Posen district
- Adolf Wiesner (1807-67), Prague-born Austrian and American journalist, author (originally Wiener) ([1])
- Alexander S. Wiener (1907-76), leader in the fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics
- Alfred Wiener, German Jewish campaigner against Nazism and anti-semitism
- Wiener Library, London institute for the study of the Holocaust
- Aloys Wiener, see Perlin Lipmann Sonnenfels; Austrian scholar
- Gina Kaus, born Regina Wiener, (1894-1985), Austrian author and translator
- Hugo Wiener, (1904-93), Austrian Jewish composer, singer, pianist, entertainer, and author
- Jacques Wiener, (1815-99), Belgian Jewish-Flemish engraver; born at Hoorstgen
- Jean Wiener (born 1896), French pianist, composer
- Leo Wiener, American philologist, Yiddish Linguist; born at Byelostok; father of Norbert Wiener
- Leopold Wiener, Belgian engraver and sculptor; born in the Netherlands
- Martin Wiener, U.S. political historian
- Meïr Wiener (Meir Wiener), German teacher; born at Glogau
- Michael J. Wiener Canadian cryptologist
- Norbert Wiener, American mathematician
- The Wiener process, a mathematical model related to Brownian motion.
- The Wiener equation.
- The Wiener filter.
- The Paley–Wiener theorem.
- The Shannon-Wiener index.
- The Norbert Wiener Prizes:
- Wiener, a crater on the far side of the moon
- The Wiener process, a mathematical model related to Brownian motion.
- Robert Wiener, CNN senior producer in Baghdad 1990-91 during the Gulf War
- Rosalind Wiener Wyman, Los Angeles politician
- Wieners
- John Wieners, U.S. poet.
It can be a misspelling of Weiner.
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