Cohn is a Jewish

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(related to the last name Cohen).

Notable people sharing the surname "Cohn"

* Al Cohn (1925–1988), American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer *

Alan D. Cohn Alan D. Cohn is an American lawyer and former government official who served as Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk in the United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Policy from 2012 to 2015. Biography Coh ...

, American government official *

Alfred A. Cohn Alfred A. Cohn (March 26, 1880 – February 3, 1951) was an American author, journalist and newspaper editor, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered for his work on ''The Jazz Singer'', which wa ...

(1880–1951), American screenwriter *

Alice Cohn Alice Cohn (1914–2000) was a German-Jewish graphic artist and master forger for the Dutch resistance during World War II. Career Cohn left Lichtenstein in 1936, to live in the Netherlands on a student visa. Initially settling in Amster ...

(1914–2000), German graphic artist *

Art Cohn Art Cohn (April 5, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American sportswriter, screenwriter and author. Cohn and Hollywood producer Mike Todd died in a plane crash in New Mexico in 1958. Career Sportswriter Cohn was born in New York City. Early in h ...

(1909–1958), American sportswriter, screenwriter and author * Arlen Cohn (1953-), author of ''Friends of a Feather'' and ''Solar System SOS'' * Arthur Cohn (b. 1927), Swiss film producer * Arthur Cohn (1894–1940), mathematician known for Cohn's irreducibility criterion *

Avern Cohn Avern Levin Cohn (July 23, 1924 – February 4, 2022) was a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Personal life Cohn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Irwin I. and Sadie L ...

(1924-2022), United States District Court judge * Bernard Cohn (1928-2003), American anthropologist * Craig Cohn (b. 1983), birth name of American professional wrestler Craig Classic * Daniel Cohn-Bendit (b. 1945), French-German politician *

Dan Cohn-Sherbock Dan Mark Cohn-Sherbok is a rabbi of Reform Judaism and a Jewish theologian. He is Professor Emeritus of Judaism at the University of Wales. Biography Born in Denver, Colorado, he graduated from East High School (Denver) and was a student at ...

(b. 1945), Jewish theologian *

David Cohn David Cohn (דייוויד כהן; born March 28, 1995) is an American-Israeli basketball player. He plays for the Newcastle Eagles in the British Basketball League. Cohn earlier played in Israel and Germany. He plays the point guard position. B ...

(b. 1995), American-Israeli player in the

Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...

Edwin Joseph Cohn Edwin Joseph Cohn (December 17, 1892 – October 1, 1953) was a protein scientist. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover 911 and the University of Chicago 914, PhD 1917 he made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was r ...

(1892–1953), American scientist * Emil Cohn (1854–1944), German physicist *

Erich Cohn Erich Cohn ( he, אריק קוהן, March 1, 1884, Berlin – August 28, 1918, France) was a German chess master. He won or tied for 1st in several tournaments in Berlin (1902, 1905, 1906, 1909/10, 1914). In strong tournaments, he tied for 11 ...

(1884–1918), German chess master *

Ernst Max Cohn Ernst Max Cohn (March 31, 1920 – December 30, 2004), was a multi-lingual philatelic researcher and expert from Alabama, who advocated re-researching original philatelic sources rather than relying on subsequent published philatelic literature. ...

(1920–2004), American philatelic researcher and expert *

Ferdinand Cohn Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology. Ferdinand J. Cohn was born in the Jewish quarter of Breslau in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia ...

(1828–1898), German biologist *

Gary Cohn Gary David Cohn (born August 27, 1960) is an American business leader who served as the 11th Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's econo ...

(b. 1960), American investment banker *

(b.1952), American comic book writer *

Gretta Cohn Gretta Cohn is a cellist who is best known for playing cello in the rock group Cursive from 2001-2005. She left the group in August 2005. Her departure was announced on the Cursive website in late August: Cursive regrets to announce the departure ...

, cellist and podcast producer *

Gustav Cohn Gustav Cohn (12 December 1840 in Marienwerder, West Prussia – 17 September 1919) was a German economist, noted for his pioneering contributions to the theory and policy of transportation and public finance. He was educated at Berlin and Jena univ ...

(1840–1919), German economist *

Harry Cohn Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation. Life and career Cohn was born to a working-class Jewish family in New York City. His father, Joseph Cohn, wa ...

(1891–1958), American co-founder of Columbia Pictures Corporation *

Harvey Cohn Harvey Wright Cohn (December 4, 1884 – July 29, 1965) was an American track and field athlete and a member of the Irish American Athletic Club. A native of New York City, Cohn competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, the 1906 Intercalated Games in ...

(1884–1965), American track and field athlete *

James Cohn James Cohn (February 12, 1928 – June 12, 2021) was a Newark, New Jersey-born American composer. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in C ...

(b. 1928), American composer * Joan Cohn (née Joan Perry), the widow of

* Joseph Judson Cohn (d. 1996), MGM producer, founder of

J.J. Cohn Estate Scarecrow, historically the J.J. Cohn Estate, is a California wine producer. The estate is located in Rutherford, CA, within the Rutherford AVA in the Napa Valley AVA zone. History In 1943, Joseph Judson Cohn, an MGM executive producer of film ...

Lawrence H. Cohn Lawrence H. Cohn, (March 11, 1937 – January 9, 2016) was an American-born pioneering cardiac surgeon, researcher, and medical educator. He had been on the surgical staff at Harvard Medical School since 1971 and had been a Professor of Surge ...

(1937–2016), American cardiac surgeon and researcher *

Leonie Cohn Leonie Clara Cohn (1917-2009, married name Findlay) was a BBC radio producer. Early life and education Cohn was born on 22 June 1917 in Königsberg to a Jewish family. In 1935, she moved to Italy to study at the University of Rome. Both of he ...

(1917-2009), German-born BBC Radio producer * Leopold Cohn (1862–1937), Hungary-born Christian clergyman * Leopold Cohn (1856–1915), German author and philologist * Linda Cohn (b. 1959), American sportscaster * Marc Cohn (b. 1959), American singer-songwriter * Mathilda Cohn (1798–1877), birth name of Finnish and Swedish concert singer

Mathilda Berwald Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née ''Cohen (surname), Cohn'' (9 March 1798 in Helsinki in Finland – 3 May 1877 in Stockholm),svar.ra.seHedvig Eleonora döda/ref> was a Finnish and Swedish people, Swedish concert singer. She was later appointed offi ...

* Mindy Cohn (b. 1966), American actress, comedian and singer * Nate Cohn, American journalist * Nik Cohn (b. 1946), British rock journalist * Norman Cohn (1915–2007), British historian * Norman Cohn (1907–1972), birth name of American saber fencer

Norman C. Armitage Norman Armitage (January 1, 1907, as Norman Cudworth Cohn, – March 14, 1972) was an American saber fencer. Early life Armitage, who was Jewish, was born in Albany, New York. Fencing career College Armitage began fencing for the Columbia L ...

Oskar Cohn Oskar Cohn (15 October 1869 – 31 October 1934) was a German lawyer, Zionist and socialist politician. He was a member of the German and Prussian parliament and the Weimar National Assembly representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany and ...

(1869–1934), German politician *

Priscilla Cohn Priscilla T. Neuman Cohn Ferrater Mora (; December 14, 1933 – June 27, 2019) was an American philosopher and animal rights activist. She was Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, associate director of the Oxford Ce ...

(1933–2019), American philosopher and animal rights activist * Rebecca Cohn (b. 1954), American politician *

Robert Cohn Robert Cohn is a Canadian born entrepreneur and businessman known for founding Octel Communications, the company that commercialized voice mail and was largely responsible for making it ubiquitous on cell phones, in companies and on residential ...

(b. 1949), Canadian business executive, founder of Octel Communications * Ronald Cohn, co-founder of The Gorilla Foundation *

Roy Cohn Roy Marcus Cohn (; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarth ...

(1927–1986), American lawyer *

Ruth Cohn Ruth Charlotte Cohn (born 27 August 1912 in Berlin, died 30 January 2010 in Düsseldorf) was a psychotherapist, educator, and poet. She is best known as the creator of a method for learning in groups called theme-centered interaction (TCI). She w ...

(1912–2010), German-born psychotherapist, educator, and poet

Other

* ''La Danse de Gengis Cohn'' (''The Dance of Genghis Cohn''), a novel by Romain Gary * '' Marc Cohn'', eponymous 1991 album * Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, concert hall and theatre within the

Dalhousie Arts Centre The Dalhousie Arts Centre, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, contains a number of theatres (including an outdoor rooftop theatre), Dalhousie Art Gallery, classrooms, and a sculpture garden. It remains the premier performing arts ve ...

in Halifax, Nova Scotia * Robert Cohn, a character in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel '' The Sun Also Rises''

Notable people sharing the surname "Cohn"

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