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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 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) ([1])
• 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.
• Hugo Wiener, Austrian entertainer.
• 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.``
• John Wieners, U.S. poet.

It can be a misspelling of Weiner.

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