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Kuhn is a surname of German origin. It may refer to the following: *
Abraham Kuhn (banker) Abraham Kuhn (June 20, 1819 – May 30, 1892) was an American merchant and banker of German-Jewish origins, a founding partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York City, one of the great US investment banking firms of the 19th and 20th centuries. Bor ...
(1819–1892), German-American founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. *
Abraham Kuhn (otolarynologist) Abraham Kuhn (January 28, 1838 – September 15, 1900) was an Alsatian otolarynologist born in Bissersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. He studied under Anton von Tröltsch (1829–1890) at the University of Würzburg, then continued his educat ...
(1838–1900), Alsatian otolaryngologist *
Adam Kuhn Adam Kuhn (28 November 1741 – 5 July 1817) was an American physician and naturalist, and one of the earliest professors of medicine in a North American university. Formative years Kuhn was born in Germantown, Province of Pennsylvania, a son ...
(1741–1817), American naturalist and physicist * Albert Kuhn (1860–1934), Washington state pioneer and businessman * Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963), American scholar of mythology and linguistics * Annette Kuhn, British author, cultural historian, and educator *
Anthony Kuhn Anthony Kuhn () is the National Public Radio correspondent in Seoul, South Korea. He was previously NPR's correspondent in Beijing, China. Before his roles in South Korea and China, he served as NPR correspondent for Southeast Asia based in Ja ...
, NPR correspondent in Beijing, China *
Bob Kuhn Bob Kuhn is a former mayor of Glendora, California. Kuhn was elected to the Glendora City Council in 1986 and was the city's mayor in 1990, 1993, and 1994. He also served as a Planning Commissioner from 1982 to 1986.Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn (born 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence of the Software Freedom Conservancy, having previously been executive director. Until 2010 he was the FLOSS C ...
(born 1973), American free software activist *
Bowie Kuhn Bowie Kent Kuhn (; October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984. He served as legal counsel for Ma ...
(1926–2007), American baseball commissioner *
Charles Kuhn Charles Harris Kuhn (March 20, 1892 – 1989), nicknamed Doc Kuhn, was a cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip ''Grandma (comic strip), Grandma''. He usually signed his drawings and comic strips Chas. Kuhn. Born in Prairie ...
(1892–1989), cartoonist *
Charles L. Kuhn Charles Louis Kuhn II (December 14, 1901 – July 21, 1985) was an American art historian and curator. Kuhn was the Director of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University from 1930 to 1968. Career Kuhn graduated from the University of Mi ...
(1902-1985), American academic and art historian *
Deanna Kuhn Deanna Zipse Kuhn (born 1944) is an American psychologist. She is Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is known for contributions to the psychology of science – the scientific study of scientific t ...
(born 1944), professor of psychology *
Franz Kuhn Franz Walther Kuhn (10 March 1884 – 22 January 1961) was a lawyer and a translator chiefly remembered for translating many Chinese novels into German, most famously the ''Dream of the Red Chamber''. Biography Kuhn studied law at the Universit ...
(1884–1961), German lawyer and translator of Chinese novels *
Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (19 November 1812 – 5 May 1881) was a German philologist and folklorist. Kuhn was born in Königsberg in Brandenburg's Neumark region. From 1841 he was connected with the Köllnisches Gymnasium at Berlin, of whic ...
(1812–1881), German philologist and folklorist * Frédéric Kuhn (born 1968), French hammer thrower *
Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn (3 December 1842 – 13 September 1894) was a German botanist, who specialized in the field of pteridology. He went by the name "Max," and his name was often written "Maximilian Friedrich Adalbert Kuhn." He stu ...
(1842–1894), German botanist *
Fritz Kuhn Fritz Kuhn (born 29 June 1955) is a German politician who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 2012 until 2021. He was co-chairman of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German Green party, in 2002 and its parliamentary group from 2002 to 2013. Early li ...
(born 1955), German Green Party politician *
Fritz Julius Kuhn Fritz Julius Kuhn (May 15, 1896 – December 14, 1951) was a German Nazi activist who served as elected leader of the German American Bund before World War II. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1934, but his citizenship was can ...
(1896–1951), leader of the German American Bund *
Harold W. Kuhn Harold William Kuhn (July 29, 1925 – July 2, 2014) was an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize along with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker. A former Professor Emeritus of Mathematics ...
(1925–2014), American mathematician, John von Neumann Theory Prize winner, developer of Kuhn poker *
Heino Kuhn Heino Gunther Kuhn (born 1 April 1984) is a South African cricketer who has played for the national team. He has played for Titans and Northerns in South African domestic cricket and in March 2018 signed a Kolpak contract with Kent County Cri ...
(born 1984), South African cricketer * Ida Soule Kuhn (1869–1952), American political and social activist * Johannes von Kuhn (1806–1887), German Catholic theologian * Joseph Kuhn-Régnier (1873–1940), French illustrator * John Kuhn (born 1982), American football player * Judy Kuhn (born 1958), American singer and actress, Tony Award winner *
Keegan Kuhn Keegan Kuhn is an American documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and professional musician. He is best known for co-directing the documentary films '' Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret'' and ''What the Health'', along with Kip Andersen. ...
, American documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and professional musician * Köbi Kuhn (1943–2019), Swiss football coach * Maggie Kuhn (1905–1995), American activist, founder of the Gray Panthers * Markus Kuhn (American football) (born 1986), German-born American football player * Markus Kuhn (computer scientist) (born 1971), German computer scientist * Mickey Kuhn (1932–2022), American child actor *
Oliver Kuhn Oliver Wall Kuhn (August 14, 1898 – October 8, 1968), nicknamed "Doc Kuhn", was an American football, baseball and basketball player for the Vanderbilt University Commodores and later a prominent businessman of Tampa, Florida. As a colle ...
(1898–1968), "Doc Kuhn", American football, baseball and basketball player * Oskar Kuhn (1908–1990), German paleontologist *
Philip A. Kuhn Philip A. Kuhn (September 9, 1933 – February 11, 2016) was an American historian of China and the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.Fairbank Center for Chinese St ...
(1933–2016), Harvard professor and China expert * Paul Kuhn (disambiguation), several people * Peter Kuhn (1955–2009), American race car driver *
Richard Kuhn Richard Johann Kuhn (; 3 December 1900 – 1 August 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins". Biography Early life Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austria ...
(1900–1967), Austrian biochemist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *
Rick Kuhn Rick Kuhn (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher ...
(born 1955), Australian Marxist economist and lecturer *
Robert Lawrence Kuhn Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born November 6, 1944) is a public intellectual, international corporate strategist and investment banker. He has been called “one of the Western world’s most prolific interpreters of Beijing’s policies.” Outside C ...
(born 1944), American author, investment banker, China specialist and PBS TV documentary host * Robert Verrill Kuhn (known as Bob Keane, 1922–2009), American clarinetist, producer and label owner *
Roland Kuhn Roland Kuhn (4 March 1912 – 10 October 2005) was a Swiss psychiatrist who discovered that the drug imipramine had antidepressant properties. he was born in Biel and died in Scherzingen. In 1957, Kuhn published the results of his observations o ...
, Swiss psychiatrist *
Simone Kuhn Simone Kuhn (born 2 September 1980, in Wattwil) is a female professional beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who represented her native country at the beach volleyball tournaments of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the 200 ...
(born 1980), Swiss beach volleyball player *
Steve Kuhn Steve Kuhn (born March 24, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator. Biography Kuhn was born in New York City, New York, to Carl and Stella Kuhn (née Kaufman), and was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. Hi ...
(born 1938), American jazz pianist *
Thomas Kuhn Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term '' paradigm ...
(1922–1996), American philosopher and historian of science, author of ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' *
Walt Kuhn Walter Francis Kuhn (October 27, 1877 – July 13, 1949) was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Biography Kuhn was born in New York ...
(1877–1949), American painter Kihn (variant)Kinh
at Ancestry.com, Retrieved March 9, 2014 * Greg Kihn, American musician and novelist *
Martin Kihn Martin Kihn is an American writer and digital marketer. Early life and education Martin Kihn was born in Zambia, where his parents met while working in a hospital. His South African-born father is a doctor, and his Scottish mother, a former actre ...
, American writer and digital marketer *
W. Langdon Kihn Wilfred (or William) Langdon Kihn (September 5, 1898 – December 12, 1957) was a portrait painter and illustrator specializing in portraits of American Indians. Life and career He was born in Brooklyn, New York, son of Alfred Charles Kihn and ...
(1898–1957), American painter and illustrator


See also

* Kühn, disambiguation *
Kühn (surname) Kühn is a surname of German origin, derived from the Old German name Conrad.Kuhn
House of Names. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
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Kuhn Island Kuhn Island ( da, Kuhn Ø) is a coastal island in Hochstetter Bay, eastern Greenland. There are coal deposits on the island. The island was discovered by the Second German North Polar Expedition (1869-1870) and is named after Franz Kuhn von ...
, an island of Greenland * Kuhn (.hack), a fictional character in the ''.hack'' franchise * Kuhn, Loeb & Co., an American investment bank * KUHN, a Louisiana-based radio station


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