Kahn

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– ), 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
• Brenda Kahn, American singer-songwriter
• David Kahn (1930– ), US historian, journalist and writer
• 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
• Jean-François Kahn (1938– ), French journalist
• 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
• 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 metallurgist specializing in the properties of dislocations
• Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), an American musician

People with the personal name Kahn

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, Kaan
• Kan, Kann, Cann
• Khan

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