Jahn (name)

Jahn (Jähn) is a German surname. Notable people with this surname include the following: *

Constanze Jahn Constanze Jahn (born 12 January 1963) is a German chess FIDE titles, Woman International Master (WIM) (1991). Biography At the 1990s Constanze Jahn was one of the leading female chess players in East Germany. In 1991, in Graz she shared first pl ...

(born 1963), German chess player *

David Jahn David Jahn is a neo-burlesque impresario, filmmaker and musician based in Prague, Czech Republic. Burlesque Jahn is best known for his louche MC persona Sonny VargasJohnston, R."Cabaret-style shows takes the striptease back in time" ''Prague Po ...

(born 1975), Czech burlesque impresario * Erich Jahn (born 1907), Hitler Youth leader *

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (11August 177815October 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement as well as influencing the German Campaign of 1813, during which a coalition of ...

(1778–1852), German educator, founding figure of German Turner athletic movement * Gunnar Jahn (1883–1971), Norwegian politician and resistance member * Gunter Jahn (1910–1992), German U-boat commander * Hans Max Jahn (1853–1906), German physical chemist * Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), German-American architect * Hermann Arthur Jahn (1907–1979), British scientist *

Jan Jahn Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn (4 June 1739 – 18 August 1802, both in Prague) was a Czech painter and art historian. Jahn studied painting from an early age, under his father until 1758 and later under established painters Jan Ferdinand Schor and Fran ...

(1739–1802), Czech painter and art historian * Jeff Jahn (born 1970), American artist and critic * Johann Jahn (1750–1816), German Orientalist * Kurt Jahn (1892–1966), German general * Marie-Luise Jahn (1918–2010), German physician *

Martin Jahn Martin Jahn (born January 21, 1970) is a Czech economist, politician and top manager. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic for Economic Policy from August 2004 to December 2005. Since 2006 he has been working in top management ...

(c. 1620 – c. 1682), German church musician, minister, hymnwriter *

(born 1970), Czech economist and politician * Joseph

Michael Jahn Joseph Michael Jahn (born August 4, 1943) is an American journalist, author and memoirist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Sayville, New York. He moved to New York City in 1966 and was educated at Dowling College, Adelphi Universit ...

(born 1943), American author and critic * Molly Jahn, American plant scientist and food security policy advisor * Otto Jahn (1813–1869), German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music * Patrick Jahn (born 1983), German football player *

Robert G. Jahn Robert George Jahn (April 1, 1930 – November 15, 2017) was an American plasma physicist, Professor of Aerospace Science, and Dean of Engineering at Princeton University. Jahn was also a founder of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies R ...

(1930–2017), American scientist, electrical engineer, and psychic investigator *

Ryan David Jahn Ryan David Jahn (born 1979) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Biography Born in Arizona, Jahn spent much of his youth moving between his father's apartment in Austin, Texas, and his mother's various rentals in and around Los Angeles, Cal ...

(born 1979), American novelist and screenwriter * Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), German astronaut * Thomas Jahn (born 1965), German film and television director * Wilhelm Jahn (1835–1900), Austro-Hungarian orchestral conductor * Willie Jahn (1889–1973), German athlete, leader of the ''Wandervogel'' youth movement, folksong composer, publisher, World War II army officer {{surname, Jahn, Jähn German-language surnames Surnames from given names