Kahn

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This page is about a German and Jewish family name. "Kahn" is also a common misspelling of the Mongolian name "Khan."

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People whose family name is or was Kahn include

• Albert Kahn – French banker
• Albert Kahn – American industrial architect
• Albert E. Kahn – American journalist
• Alfred R. Kahn – CEO of 4Kids Entertainment
• Ashley Kahn – American jazz historian
• Axel Kahn – French genetician
• Barbara B. Kahn – researcher at Joslin Diabetes Center
• Barbara E. Kahn – professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Brenda Kahn – American singer-songwriter
• C. Ronald Kahn – head researcher at Joslin Diabetes Center
• David Kahn – US historian, journalist and writer
• Fritz Kahn – German Jewish gynecologist, artist, and popular science writer
• Gilbert Kahn – French philosopher (1914-1995)
• Gus Kahn – musician and songwriter
• Gustave Kahn – French poet
• Herman Kahn – American futurologist
• Jean-François Kahn french journalist.
• Jeremy L. Kahn – American Street Luge Athlete
• Ken Kahn – creator of the ToonTalk computer programming language
• Louis I(sadore). Kahn – architect
• Madeline Kahn – American actress
• Oliver Kahn – German footballer
• Otto Hermann Kahn – banker and patron of the arts
• Paul W. Kahn, a professor at Yale Law School.
• Philippe Kahn – French-born entrepreneur
• Regis Kahn – French film director
• Reuben Leon Kahn – Lithuanian physician, famous for Kahn test
• Richard Ferdinand Kahn – (1905), English economist
• Robert Kahn – German composer
• Robert E. Kahn – ARPANET (see also History of the Internet)
• Roger Wolfe Kahn – jazz musician
• Shao Kahn - Mortal Kombat Character
• Sergey Kahn - Photographer
• Zadoc Kahn
• Kahn - the stage name for Dave Batista

• Kahn is also the first name of Hank Hill's neighbor on FOX cartoon King Of The Hill.

• Kahn is also the German word for a small boat. See also Schiff, Kohen (Cohen), Kohn (Cohn), Kann (Can, Cann), Kuhn (Cuhn, Koen), Kagan (Cahan, Kaan, Caan), Kogan (Kohan, Cohan), Coen, Cowen, Katz.

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• Cahn Ingold Prelog priority rules (CIP system, CIP convention), named after Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Ingold, Vladimir Prelog
• Edward Cahn
• John W. Cahn
• Lazard Cahn (?-1940), founder of the Cahnite.
• Leopold Cahn & Co. (cf. Leopold Cahn), see Bache & Co.
• Robert Sidney Cahn (Robert S. Cahn, Robert Cahn/Sidney Cahn)
• Sammy Cahn

see also: Cohan, Cohen, Cahan, Caan, Cain

[edit] Caan

• Ah Chun Caan.
• Hopop Caan.
• James Caan, an American actor.
• Scott Caan, an American actor.
• Caan, a member of the Cult of Skaro in Doctor Who.

see also Kaan