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.
- *Juvenile slang 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.
There are many people named Wiener, and many things named after them:
- Adolf Wiener, German rabbi; born in Murowana-Goslin, Posen district
- Adolf Wiesner (1807-1867), Prague-born Austrian and American journalist, author (originally Wiener) ([link])
- Alexander S. Wiener
- 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.
- Gina Kaus, born Regina Wiener
- Hugo Wiener, Austrian entertainer.
- Jean Wiener (born 1896), French pianist, composer
- Jacques Wiener, Belgian engraver; born at Hoorstgen
- Leo Wiener, American philologist, yiddish Linguist; born at Byelostok; the father of Norbert Wiener
- Leopold Wiener, Belgian engraver and sculptor; born in Holland
- Martin Wiener, U.S. political historian.
- Meïr Wiener (Meir Wiener), German teacher; born at Glogau
- 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:
- **The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics.
- **The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility.
- * Wiener, a crater on the far side of the Moon.
- Robert Wiener, CNN senior producer in Baghdad 1990-91 during the Gulf War.
- Rosalind Wiener Wyman, Los Angeles politician.``
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