Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name
Nicholas
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the n ...
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Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
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Billy Klaus
William Joseph Klaus (December 9, 1928 – December 3, 2006) was an American professional baseball shortstop and third baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Boston / Milwaukee Braves (–), Boston Red Sox (–), Baltimore Or ...
(1928–2006), American baseball player
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Chris Klaus
Christopher W. Klaus (born 1973 in Sarasota, Florida) is an American technology entrepreneur. He was founder and CTO of Internet Security Systems (ISS), a company which he started in the early 1990s, and then sold to IBM in 2006 for $1.3B. As o ...
(born 1973), American entrepreneur
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Frank Klaus
Frank Klaus (December 30, 1887, in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania – February 8, 1948) was an American boxer from 1904 to 1918. Klaus claimed the vacant World Middleweight Championship in 1913 and was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in ...
(1887–1948), German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion
* Fred Klaus (born 1967), German footballer
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Josef Klaus
Josef Klaus (15 August 1910 – 25 July 2001) was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as State Governor (''Landeshauptmann'') of Salzburg from 1949 to 1961, as Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1963 and as ...
(1910–2001), Chancellor of Austria 1966–1970
* Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), Russian chemist
* Václav Klaus (born 1941), Czech politician, former President of the Czech Republic
* Walter K. Klaus (1912–2012), American politician and farmer
Notable persons whose given name is Klaus
* Brother Klaus, Swiss patron saint
* Klaus Augenthaler (born 1957), German football player and manager
* Klaus Badelt (born 1967), German composer
* Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Holocaust Perpetrator
* Klaus Bargsten (1911–2000), German captain and sole survivor of the sunken U-boat U-521 in World War II
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Klaus Berntsen
Klaus Berntsen (12 June 1844 – 27 March 1927) was a Danish politician, representing the Liberal party, Venstre. He was Council President of Denmark from 1910 to 1913. He served as minister of defence from 1910 to 1913 and again from 1920 ...
(1844–1927), Danish politician
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Klaus Dede
Klaus Dede (1 June 1935 in Nordenham, Oldenburg – 5 May 2018, Oldenburg) was a German writer and journalist.
Life
Dede was born 1935 in Nordenham-Blexen. His father was a Lutheran priest. After school Dede studied during the 1950s. Later Dede w ...
(1935–2018), German writer
* Klaus Doldinger (born 1936), German musician
* Klaus Fischer (born 1949), German footballer
* Klaus Flouride (born 1949), bassist of the Dead Kennedys
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Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly aft ...
(1911–1988), German theoretical physicist and atomic spy
* Klaus Gerhart (born 1965), outdoorsman and photographer
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Klaus Iohannis
Klaus Werner Iohannis (; ; also spelled Johannis; born 13 June 1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist and former teacher who has been serving as the president of Romania since 2014. He became leader of the National Liberal Party (Romania), Na ...
(born 1959), Romanian politician
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Klaus Isekenmeier
Klaus Isekenmeier (born 14 April 1975 in Salzkotten, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a retired German decathlete. His personal best score was 8310 points, achieved in June 1997 in Ratingen
Ratingen ( li, Rotinge) is a town in the district of Mettmann ...
(born 1975), German decathlete
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Klaus Kinkel
Klaus Kinkel (17 December 1936 – 4 March 2019)
(1936–2019), German politician
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Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...
(1926–1991), German actor
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Klaus Lage
Klaus Lage (born 16 June 1950) is a German musician from Soltau, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land ...
(born 1950), German musician
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Klaus Lanzarini
Klaus Lanzarini (born 18 January 1977 in Latina) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Italy, who participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native country. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 4 × 100 m fre ...
(born 1977), Italian freestyle swimmer
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Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch (8 April 1936 – 3 December 2002) was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series ''Peter Strohm''.
He appeared in several films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, beginn ...
(1936–2002), German actor
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Klaus Meine
Klaus Meine (born 25 May 1948) is a German singer and songwriter, best known as the longtime frontman of the hard rock band Scorpions. Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker are the only two members of the group to appear on every Scorpions album, ...
(born 1948), lead singer of German hard rock band Scorpions
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Klaus Mertens
Klaus Mertens (born 25 March 1949, in Kleve) is a German bass and bass-baritone singer who is known especially for his interpretation of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach for bass voice.
Career
Klaus Mertens took singing lessons ...
(born 1949), German singer
* Klaus Nomi (1944–1983), German entertainer
* Klaus Ofczarek (1939–2020), Austrian opera singer and actor
* Klaus Perwas (born 1971), German basketball coach and former player
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Klaus Schilling
Claus Karl Schilling (5 July 1871 – 28 May 1946), also recorded as Klaus Schilling, was a German tropical medicine specialist who participated in the Nazi human experiments at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II.
Though never a m ...
(1871–1946), German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
* Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist
* Klaus Schulze (1947-2022), German electronic music composer and musician
* Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), German conductor
* Klaus Voormann (born 1938), artist, musician, and record producer who was associated with the early days of The Beatles
* Klaus Schwab (born 1938), German professor who founded the World Economic Forum
* Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), German politician
Nickname
* Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 1943), theatrical name of Klaus Georg Steng, Austrian actor
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Klaukkala
Klaukkala (; sv, Klövskog , ) is the southern-most urban area ( fi, taajama) of the Nurmijärvi municipality in Uusimaa, Finland, located near Lake Valkjärvi. It is the largest urban area in Nurmijärvi, and despite the fact that it officially ...
, Finnish village, whose name is partly based on the name Klaus