Mencken (surname)

Mencken (surname)

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

• Anastasius Ludwig Mencken (de) (1752, Helmstedt – 1801, Potsdam), Prussian administrative reformer
• August Mencken, Sr. (1854–1899), German-American cigar maker
  • August Mencken, Jr. (1889–1967), American civil engineer and author; son of August Mencken, Sr.
  • H. L. Mencken (1880, Baltimore, Maryland – 1956, Baltimore, Maryland), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, and satirist; son of August Mencken, Sr.
    • H. L. Mencken House