Leffler Explained

Leffler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849–1892), Swedish author
• Edward G. Leffler, salesman who started the first mutual fund
• Frederick H. Leffler (died 1953), American politician and newspaperman
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846–1927), Swedish mathematician
• Greg Leffler (born 1951), former driver in the CART Championship Car series
• Isaac Leffler (1788–1866), represented Virginia's 18th congressional district in the US House of Representatives in the 1820s
• Jason Leffler (1975–2013), NASCAR/Indy Car driver from Long Beach, California
• John Leffler, former Australian racing driver
• John Compton Leffler (1900-1987), Episcopal priest, dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle (1951-1971)
• Marta Leffler (1903–1990), American actress better known as Marta Linden
• Melvyn P. Leffler, American historian, and Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia
• Samuel J Leffler, computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day
• Shepherd Leffler (1811–1879), one of the two original U.S. Representatives from Iowa

See also

• 28394 Mittag-Leffler (1999 RY36) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 13, 1999, by P. G. Comba at Prescott
• Mittag-Leffler's theorem
• Mittag-Leffler function
• Mittag-Leffler Institute, mathematical research institute located in Djursholm, a suburb of Stockholm
• Mittag-Leffler star of a complex-analytic function is a set in the complex plane obtained by attempting to extend that function along rays emanating from a given point