Kahl (
German
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) is a
surname
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. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alfred Kahl
Alfred Detlef Fritz Kahl (18 February 1877 – November, 1946) was a German schoolteacher who took up microscopy in mid-life and became a leading authority on ciliated protozoa. In a burst of scientific productivity that lasted just nine years, h ...
(1877–1946), German academic
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Bruno Kahl
Bruno Guntram Wilhelm Kahl (born 12 July 1962 in Essen, West Germany) is a German civil servant and administrative lawyer. Since 1 July 2016, he has been President of the Federal Intelligence Service (''Bundesnachrichtendienst'').
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(1914–1999), German Wehrmacht officer
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Chris Kahl (born 1977), American musician
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Colin Kahl
Colin Hackett Kahl is an American political adviser and academic serving as the under secretary of defense for policy in the Biden administration. Previously, Kahl served as the national security advisor to the vice president under then-Vice Pres ...
(born 1971), American gov official
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Daniel Kahl (born 1960), American-Japanese television personality
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Gordon Kahl
Gordon Wendell Kahl (January 8, 1920 – June 3, 1983) was an American member of the far right Posse Comitatus movement who was involved in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement officers in the United States in 1983.Tony Spilde''Changing li ...
(1920–1983), American animator
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Margot Kahl (born 1961), Chilean engineer and television host
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Milt Kahl
Milton Erwin Kahl (March 22, 1909 – April 19, 1987) was an American animator. He was one of (and often considered the most influential of) Walt Disney's supervisory team of animators, known as Disney's Nine Old Men.
Biography
Kahl was born i ...
(1909–1987), American animator
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Nick Kahl (politician)
Nicholas Kahl is an attorney and Democratic politician from Oregon. He served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011. He is a practicing lawyer in Portland, Oregon.
Early life and education
Kahl was born in East Multnomah ...
(born 1977), American politician
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Nick Kahl (baseball)
Nicholas Alexander Kahl (April 10, 1879 – July 13, 1959) was a Major League Baseball second baseman. He played in 40 games for the Cleveland Naps
The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The G ...
(1879–1959), American baseball player
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Oscar Kahl (born 1997), Thai football player
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Thede Kahl
Thede Kahl (born 30 March 1971 in Hamburg) is a German ethnographer and ethnolinguist. He is the head of the Institute of South Slavic Studies in the University of Jena (in which he is a professor), in Germany. His research focuses are the Slav ...
(born 1971), German academic
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German-language surnames