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Kahn
Surname list
Kahn is a surname of German origin. Kahn means "small boat", in German. It is also a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.
01Given name
- Kahn Fotuali'i (born 1982), New Zealand rugby-union player of Samoan origin
- Kahn Singh Nabha (1861-1938), Punjabi Sikh scholar, writer, anthologist, lexicographer, and encyclopedist
02Surname
- Albert Kahn (banker) (1860-1940), French banker and philanthropist
- Albert Kahn (architect) (1869-1942), American industrial architect
- Albert E. Kahn (1912-1979), American journalist
- Alex Kahn (born 1967), American artist
- Alexander Kahn (1881-1962), American lawyer and newspaper editor
- Alfred E. Kahn (1917-2010), American economist
- Alfred R. Kahn (born 1947), American businessman
- Anne-Marcelle Kahn, née Schrameck (1896-1965), first French woman engineer to graduate from l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne
- Ashley Kahn, American jazz historian
- Aunia Kahn (born 1977), American artist
- Axel Kahn (1944-2021), French geneticist
- Barbara B. Kahn, American endocrinologist and professor
- Brian Kahn, American writer and radio host
- Brenda Kahn (born 1967), American singer-songwriter
- Charles H. Kahn, American philosopher
- Charles N. Kahn III (born 1952), American businessman
- C. Ronald Kahn (born 1944), American physician and scientist
- David Kahn (writer) (1930-2024), American historian, journalist and writer
- David Kahn (sports executive) (born 1961), American sports executive
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn (born 1949), French managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Emilie Kahn, Canadian musician
- Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972), American commercial architect
- Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), German doctor and graphic designer
- Gilles Kahn (1946-2006), French computer scientist, described Kahn process networks
- Gus Kahn (1886-1941), American musician and songwriter
- Gustave Kahn (1859-1936), French poet
- Hannah Kahn (1911-1988), American poet from New York City
- Harold L. Kahn (1930-2018), American historian
- Herman Kahn (1922-1983), American military theorist and futurologist
- Irving Kahn (1905-2015), American investor
- Israel Kahn (born 1988), Peruvian footballer
- Jean-François Kahn (1938-2025), French journalist and essayist
- Jeff Kahn (mathematician), American mathematician
- Jenette Kahn (born 1947), American comic book editor
- Julius Kahn (congressman) (1861-1924), American congressman
- Julius Kahn (inventor) (1874-1942), American engineer, industrialist, and manufacturer
- Larry Kahn (tiddlywinks), American tiddlywinks champion
- Laure Favre-Kahn (born 1976), French classical pianist
- Lehman Kahn (1827-1915), Belgian educationalist and writer
- Lisa B. Kahn, American economist
- Lisa M. Kahn (1921-2013), German-American scholar and poet
- Lloyd Kahn (born 1935), American publisher and author
- Louis Kahn (1901-1974), American architect
- Louis B. Kahn (1918-2012), American computer scientist and statistician
- Louis Kahn (admiral) (1895-1967), French admiral
- Lucian Kahn (born 1982), American singer, songwriter and guitarist of Schmekel
- Lucille Kahn (1902-1995), American actress and parapsychology advocate
- Madeline Kahn (1942-1999), American actress
- Michael Kahn (film editor) (born 1930), American film editor
- Michael Kahn (theatre director) (born 1937), American theater director and drama educator
- Morris Kahn (1930-2026), Israeli entrepreneur
- Oliver Kahn (born 1969), German footballer
- Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934), German-born American banker and patron of the arts
- Paul W. Kahn (born 1952), American legal scholar
- Philippe Kahn (born 1952), French-born American entrepreneur
- Reuben Leon Kahn (1887-1979), Lithuanian physician
- Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905-1989), English economist
- Robert Kahn (composer) (1865-1951), German composer
- Robert Kahn (computer scientist) (born 1938), American electrical engineer, developer of the TCP and IP protocols
- Robert Louis Kahn (1918-2019), psychologist and social scientist
- Robert Ludwig Kahn (1923-1970), professor of German studies and poet
- Roger Kahn (1927-2020), American author and sports journalist
- Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907-1962), American jazz musician
- Ruth Ward Kahn (1872-?), American writer
- Sam Kahn (1911-1987), South African anti-apartheid politician, activist and lawyer
- Tom Kahn (1938-1992), American social-democrat, civil-rights leader, and labor-union officer
- Yoel Kahn (1930-2021), American Chabad rabbi
- Zadoc Kahn (1839-1905), Alsatian-French rabbi
03Fictional characters
- Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank Hill's neighbor in the television cartoon series King of the Hill
- Shao Kahn, a fictional character in Mortal Kombat video game series
- Kotal Kahn, a fictional character in Mortal Kombat video game series
- Commander Kahn, a character in the 2006 rhythm game Elite Beat Agents
- Noel Kahn, in the American TV series Pretty Little Liars
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