Kahn

For other uses, see Kahn (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Khan (name), which is a title and surname from Central Asia and South Asia; for other uses, see Khan (disambiguation).

Kahn is a German surname. Kahn is the German word for a small boat. It is also a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.

People with the surname Kahn

• Albert Kahn (banker) (1860–1940), French banker, philanthropist and photograph collector
• Albert Kahn (architect) (1869–1942), American industrial architect
• Albert E. Kahn (1912–1979), American journalist
• Alex Kahn (1967– ), American artist
• Alfred E. Kahn (1917–2010), American economist
• Alfred R. Kahn (1947– ), CEO of 4Kids Entertainment
• Ashley Kahn, American jazz historian
• Axel Kahn (1944– ), French geneticist
• Bob Kahn (1938– ), developer of the TCP and IP protocols
• Brian Kahn, American writer and radio host
• Brenda Kahn, American singer-songwriter
• David Kahn (1930– ), American historian, journalist and writer
• David Kahn (1961– ), American sports executive and current general manager of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949– ), former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Ely Jacques Kahn (1884–1972), American commercial architect
• Ernest Kahn, former President of San Miguel Corporation, Philippines.
• Gilles Kahn (1946–2006), French computer scientist
• Gus Kahn (1886–1941), musician and songwriter
• Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), French poet
• Hannah Kahn (1911–1988) was an American poet, born in New York City
• Herman Kahn (1922–1983), American military theorist and futurologist
• Irving Kahn (1905- ), American investment advisor and centenarian
• Jean-François Kahn (1938– ), French journalist
• Jeff Kahn, American mathematician at Rutgers University
• Leopold Kahn (1869–1938) French jeweler, businessman and philanthropist, former President of La Estrella Del Norte, one of the largest luxury goods importers in the Philippines during his time. Also the French Consul to the Philippines.
• Louis Kahn (1901–1974), architect
• Lucille Kahn (1902–1995), American actress and parapsychology advocate
• Madeline Kahn (1942–1999), American actress
• Oliver Kahn (1969– ), German footballer
• Otto Hermann Kahn (1867–1934), banker and patron of the arts
• Paul W. Kahn, a professor at Yale Law School.
• Philippe Kahn (1952– ), French-born entrepreneur
• Reuben Leon Kahn (1887–1979), Lithuanian physician
• Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905–1989), English economist
• Robert Kahn (composer) (1865–1951), German composer
• Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907–1962), jazz musician
• Shao Kahn, a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat universe
• Tom Kahn (1938–1992), U.S. social-democrat, civil-rights leader, and labor-union officer, who supported Solidarity (Polish trade-union)
• Yoel Kahn (1930– ), Hasidic Mashpia
• Zadoc Kahn (1839–1905), an Alsatian-French rabbi and chief rabbi of France

People with the surname Cahn

• Andrew Cahn (1951–), a British Civil Servant
• Anne Cahn, American disarmament expert
• Edward Cahn (director) (1899–1963), an American film director
• Edward Cahn (jurist) (born 1933), an attorney and former United States federal judge.
• John W. Cahn (1927– ), an American materials scientist and physicist
• Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007), a British metallurgist specializing in the properties of dislocations
• Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), an American musician

People with the personal name Kahn

• Kahn Fotuali'i (born 1982), New Zealand rugby union player of Samoan origin
• Kahn Morbee, Lead vocalist for the South African Band, The Parlotones

Fictional people

• Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank Hill's neighbor in the television cartoon series King of the Hill

See also

• Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rule
• Caan (disambiguation), Kaan (disambiguation)
• Cann (disambiguation), Kan (surname), Kann (disambiguation)
• Khan (name)
• Kahn process networks, first introduced by Gilles Kahn