Kahn
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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.
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[edit] 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
- Gus Kahn (1886–1941), musician and songwriter
- Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), French poet
- 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
[edit] People with the surname Cahn
- Edward Cahn (1899–1963), an American film director
- John W. Cahn (1927– ), an American Scientist
- Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007), a metallurgist specializing in the properties of dislocations
- Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), an American musician
[edit] People with the personal name Kahn
- Fictional people
- Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank Hill's neighbor in the television cartoon series King of the Hill