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Kahn

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.

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
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
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

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) (born 1933), an attorney and former United States federal judge.
John W. Cahn (1927– ), an American materials scientist and physicist
Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007), a metallurgist specializing in the properties of dislocations
Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), an American musician

People with the personal name Kahn

Fictional people
Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank Hill's neighbor in the television cartoon series King of the Hill

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Kahn" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Slovenian.

Translation(s) in other languages: Arabic: كان (توضيح), German: Kahn (Begriffsklärung), Japanese: カーン, Chinese: 卡恩.


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