Cohen

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Cohen may refer to

• the most common Jewish surname, see Cohen (surname)
• similar names including Coen, Cohn, Kagan and Kahane
• Kohen, a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses

[edit] See also

• Cha Cha Cohen, a band formed in 1994 including singer Jacqui Cohen
• The Cohen Building of The Judd School in Tonbridge, England
• Cohen-kuhi Tau/4, a star 420 light-years away from Earth in the Taurus Constellation
• Cohen-Macaulay ring, a particular type of commutative ring in mathematics
• Cohen Modal Haplotype, a DNA signature identified with Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses
• Cohen's kappa, a statistical measure of inter-rater reliability
• Clinger-Cohen Act, a United States federal law that is designed to improve the way the federal government acquires and manages information technology (IT)
• Matt Cohen Prize, an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer
• Shaughnessy Cohen Award, a Canadian literary award
• Flast v. Cohen, a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that a taxpayer has standing to sue the government to prevent an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds
• Cohen v. California, a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech
• Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., a U.S. Supreme Court case establishing that freedom of the press does not exempt newspapers from generally applicable laws
• Cohens v. Virginia, a U.S. Supreme Court decision most noted for the Marshall Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters
• Cohen designation, an alphanumeric designation assigned to a half cent variety minted by the United States Mint. Derived from a classification system used to identify United States halfcent varieties minted 1793-1857. Named from the numismatist and author of American Half Cents: The Little Half Sisters, Roger S. Cohen Jr.