Kahn is a surname of German origin. Kahn means "small boat", in German. It is also a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Cahn.

Given name

• Kahn Fotuali'i (born 1982), New Zealand rugby-union player of Samoan origin

• Kahn Singh Nabha (1861–1938), Punjabi Sikh scholar, writer, anthologist, lexicographer, and encyclopedist

Surname

• Albert Kahn (banker) (1860–1940), French banker and philanthropist

• Albert Kahn (architect) (1869–1942), American industrial architect

• Albert E. Kahn (1912–1979), American journalist

• Alex Kahn (born 1967), American artist

• Alexander Kahn (1881–1962), American lawyer and newspaper editor

• Alfred E. Kahn (1917–2010), American economist

• Alfred R. Kahn (born 1947), American businessman

• Anne-Marcelle Kahn, née Schrameck (1896–1965), first French woman engineer to graduate from l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne

• Ashley Kahn, American jazz historian

• Aunia Kahn (born 1977), American artist

• Axel Kahn (1944–2021), French geneticist

• Barbara B. Kahn, American endocrinologist and professor

• Brian Kahn, American writer and radio host

• Brenda Kahn (born 1967), American singer-songwriter

• Charles H. Kahn, American philosopher

• Charles N. Kahn III (born 1952), American businessman

• C. Ronald Kahn (born 1944), American physician and scientist

• David Kahn (writer) (1930–2024), American historian, journalist and writer

• David Kahn (sports executive) (born 1961), American sports executive

• Dominique Strauss-Kahn (born 1949), French managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• Emilie Kahn, Canadian musician

• Ely Jacques Kahn (1884–1972), American commercial architect

• Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), German doctor and graphic designer

• Gilles Kahn (1946–2006), French computer scientist, described Kahn process networks

• Gus Kahn (1886–1941), American musician and songwriter

• Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), French poet

• Hannah Kahn (1911–1988), American poet from New York City

• Harold L. Kahn (1930–2018), American historian

• Herman Kahn (1922–1983), American military theorist and futurologist

• Irving Kahn (1905–2015), American investor

• Israel Kahn (born 1988), Peruvian footballer

• Jean-François Kahn (1938–2025), French journalist and essayist

• Jeff Kahn (mathematician), American mathematician

• Jenette Kahn (born 1947), American comic book editor

• Julius Kahn (congressman) (1861–1924), American congressman

• Julius Kahn (inventor) (1874–1942), American engineer, industrialist, and manufacturer

• Larry Kahn (tiddlywinks), American tiddlywinks champion

• Lehman Kahn (1827–1915), Belgian educationalist and writer

• Lisa B. Kahn, American economist

• Lisa M. Kahn (1921–2013), German-American scholar and poet

• Lloyd Kahn (born 1935), American publisher and author

• Louis Kahn (1901–1974), American architect

• Louis B. Kahn (1918–2012), American computer scientist and statistician

• Louis Kahn (admiral) (1895–1967), French admiral

• Lucian Kahn (born 1982), American 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) (born 1930), American film editor

• Michael Kahn (theatre director) (born 1937), American theater director and drama educator

• Morris Kahn (1930–2026), Israeli entrepreneur

• Oliver Kahn (born 1969), German footballer

• Otto Hermann Kahn (1867–1934), German-born American banker and patron of the arts

• Paul W. Kahn (born 1952), American legal scholar

• Philippe Kahn (born 1952), French-born American entrepreneur

• Reuben Leon Kahn (1887–1979), Lithuanian physician

• Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905–1989), English economist

• Robert Kahn (composer) (1865–1951), German composer

• Robert Kahn (computer scientist) (born 1938), American electrical engineer, developer of the TCP and IP protocols

• Robert Louis Kahn (1918–2019), psychologist and social scientist

• Robert Ludwig Kahn (1923–1970), professor of German studies and poet

• Roger Kahn (1927–2020), American author and sports journalist

• Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907–1962), American jazz musician

• Ruth Ward Kahn (1872–?), American writer

• Sam Kahn (1911–1987), South African anti-apartheid politician, activist and lawyer

• Tom Kahn (1938–1992), American social-democrat, civil-rights leader, and labor-union officer

• Yoel Kahn (1930–2021), American Chabad rabbi

• Zadoc Kahn (1839–1905), Alsatian-French rabbi

Fictional characters

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

• Shao Kahn, a fictional character in Mortal Kombat video game series

• Kotal Kahn, a fictional character in Mortal Kombat video game series

• Commander Kahn, a character in the 2006 rhythm game Elite Beat Agents

• Noel Kahn, in the American TV series Pretty Little Liars

See also

• Khan (title), historic Mongolic and Turkic title

• Khan (surname), surname in Central and South Asia

• Kan (surname)

• Caan (disambiguation); Kaan (disambiguation)

• Cann (disambiguation); Kann (disambiguation)

• Cohen

• Kahneman

References