Kahn
For other uses, see Kahn (disambiguation).
Kahn is a German surname. Kahn is the German word that means, in informal contexts, small boat. It is also a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.
People with the personal name Kahn
- Kahn Fotuali'i (1982– ), New Zealand rugby union player of Samoan origin
People with the surname Kahn
- Afzal Kahn (1974– ) Bradford based businessman and designer
- 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 (1917–2010), 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
- Brian Kahn ( – ), American writer and radio host
- Brenda Kahn ( – ), American singer-songwriter
- David Kahn (writer) (1930– ), American historian, journalist and writer
- David Kahn (sports executive) (1961– ), American sports executive and former general manager of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949– ), former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Ely Jacques Kahn (1884–1972), American commercial architect
- 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
- Irving Kahn (1905–2015), American investment advisor and centenarian
- Israel Kahn (1988– ), Peruvian footballer
- Jean-François Kahn (1938– ), French journalist
- Jeff Kahn ( – ), American mathematician at Rutgers University
- Julius Kahn (1861-1924), United States congressman
- Louis Kahn (1901–1974), architect
- Lucian Kahn (1982- ), 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) (1935– ), American film editor
- Oliver Kahn (1969– ), German former 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 Kahn (1927–), American author and sports journalist
- Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907–1962), jazz musician
- Sam Kahn (1911–1987), South African anti-apartheid politician, activist and lawyer
- Shao Kahn ( – ), a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat universe
- Tom Kahn (1938–1992), U.S. social-democrat, civil-rights leader, and labor-union officer, who supported Solidarity (Polish trade-union)
- 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) (1933 – ), an attorney and former United States federal judge.
- John W. Cahn (1927– ), an American materials scientist and physicist
- Lilian Cahn (1923–2013), Hungarian-born American businesswoman
- Miriam Cahn (1949– ), Swiss painter
- Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007), a British metallurgist specializing in the properties of dislocations
- Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), an American musician
Fictional characters
- Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank Hill's neighbor in the television cartoon series King of the Hill
See also
- Caan (disambiguation), Kaan (disambiguation)
- Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rule
- Cann (disambiguation), Kan (surname), Kann (disambiguation)
- Kahn process networks, first introduced by Gilles Kahn
- Khan (name)