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For other uses, see Kahn (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Khan (name). For other uses, see Khan.

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.[1]

Given 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

Surname

  • 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

Fictional 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

See also

  • Khan (title), historic Mongolic and Turkic title
  • Khan (surname), surname in Central and South Asia
  • Kan (surname)
  • Caan (disambiguation); Kaan (disambiguation)
  • Cann (disambiguation); Kann (disambiguation)
  • Cohen
  • Kahneman

References

  1. ↑ "Kahn" in the Wiktionary
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