Kagan (surname)

Kagan is a surname. "Kagan" is a primarily Russian-Jewish surname which is derived from the surname "Kahan", which means Cohen (in Russian the consonant h is replaced with the consonant g). Notable people with the surname include:

• Bernhard Kagan (1866-1932), German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer
• Daryn Kagan (born 1963), former American newscaster
• Donald Kagan (born 1932), Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece (Frederick and Robert Kagan's father)
• Elena Kagan, (born 1960) dean of Harvard Law School, U.S. Solicitor General (under President Obama), and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Frederick Kagan (born 1970), professor of military history (Robert Kagan's brother)
• Henri Kagan, French chemist
• Helena Kagan, (1889-1978) pioneer-pediatrician of Israel
• Janet Kagan (1946–2008), author
• Jeremy Kagan (born 1945), American television director
• Jerome Kagan (born 1929), children developmental psychology
• Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan (1915–1995), British industrialist
• Kimberly Kagan (born 1972), military historian (Frederick Kagan's wife)
• Oleg Kagan (1946–1990), Russian violinist
• Robert Kagan (born 1958), American historian and political commentator (Frederick Kagan's brother)
• Robert A. Kagan, a law professor and author of a book on adversarial legalism
• Shelly Kagan, philosopher and ethicist at Yale University
• Shimon Kagan (born 1942), Israeli chess master
• Veniamin Kagan (1869–1953), Russian mathematician
• Vladimir Kagan (born 1927), German furniture designer
• Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838–1933), Polish-born rabbi, halakhist, and ethicist