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

Erika Meitner (born 1975), American poet Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist Philipp Meitner (1838–1910), Austrian lawyer and chess master; father of Lise

See also Lotte Meitner-Graf (1898–1973), Austrian photographer meitnerium, chemical element named after Lise Meitner