Lasker
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Lasker may refer to a number of different subjects.
- Lasker, North Carolina
- One of several awards given by the Lasker Foundation for research
[edit] The surname Lasker
Lasker and Laski means "a man from Polish shtetl Lask".
- Albert Lasker (1880-1952), an advertising pioneer
- Eduard Lasker (1829-1884), a German politician
- Edward Lasker (1885-1981), a leading American chess and go player
- Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), a German Jewish poet
- Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), a German chess player and mathematician
- Raphael Lasker, an American rabbi
[edit] See also
- Laski or Lasky, a village in Poland
- Laski (disambiguation)
- Lask, a town in Poland