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Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means merchant. It may refer to:

Kaufmann

• Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902-1984), Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
• Christine Kaufmann (born 1945), Austrian actor
• Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885–1955), prominent US businessman and philanthropist
• Eduard Kaufmann, German physician
• Eugen Kaufmann (b. 1892), German architect
• Felix Kaufmann (1895-1949), Austrian-American law philosopher
• Frank Kaufmann (b. 1952), Peace Activist
• Georg Friedrich Kaufmann (1679-1735), Baroque composer from Thuringia (now in southern Germany)
• Gordon Kaufmann (1888-1949), English-born American architect
• Hans Kaufmann (born 1948), Swiss politician and business consultant
• Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
• Maurice Kaufmann, British actor
• Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-German Jewish architect
• Patricia A. (Trish) Kaufmann of Lincoln, Delaware
• Peter Kaufmann, politician and businessman in Winnipeg
• Stefan Kaufmann (born 1960), German drummer
• Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann
• Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1921-1980), German philosopher
• Walter Kaufmann (composer) (1907-1984), Czech-born American ethnomusicologist
• Walter Kaufmann (physicist) (1871-1947), German physicist
• Prof. Rabbi Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889-1963), Bible scholar
• Isaac Kaufmann-Funk, American editor, lexicographer
• Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi

• Kaufmann's (Kaufmann's Furniture Galleries), regional department store chain
• Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome

• Mount Kaufmann
• Peak Kaufmann
• Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

• Kaufmann is also a font family designed by Max R. Kaufmann.

Kauffmann

• Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), Swiss-Austrian painter
• Léon Kauffmann, the 12th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• Stanley Kauffmann, long-time film critic for The New Republic

Kaufman

• Kaufman, Texas
• Kaufman County, Texas

• Alan S. Kaufman (1944- ), psychologist/IQ test developer
• Andrew Kaufman, Canadian writer
• Andrew ("Andy") (Geoffrey) Kaufman (1949-1984), American entertainer
• Ariel Durant (born Chaya Kaufman), historian and writer, wife of Will Durant
• Bel Kaufman (1911- ), author of Up the Down Staircase and granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem
• Benjamin Kaufman (Medal of Honor) (March 10, 1894-February 5, 1981) World War I Medal of Honor recipient.
• Boris Kaufman, younger brother of Dziga Vertov
• Charles("Charlie") (Stuart) Kaufman, American screenwriter
• David S. Kaufman, American politician
• David Kaufman, American voice actor
• David Kaufman, theater critic
• David Kaufmann, Jewish-Austrian scholar
• Denis Abramovich Kaufman
• Denis Arkadievich Kaufman
• Donald Kaufman
• Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman, American politician
• George S(imon) Kaufman (Kaufmann), American playwright
• Gerald Kaufman, British Member of Parliament
• Harold R. Kaufman, American physicist
• Henry Kaufman (b. 1927), German-American economist
• Herbert Kaufman
• Irving Kaufman (1910-1992), American federal judge
• Irving Kaufman (1890-1976) American entertainer
• Isidor Kaufman (Isidore Kaufmann), Hungarian Jewish painter
• James C. Kaufman
• Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818-1882) Russian general
• Lloyd Kaufman
• Louis Kaufman, violinist
• Mel Kaufman, football player for the Washington Redskins.
• Millard Kaufman, American screenwriter and novelist
• Morris Kaufman, a Manitoba judge
• Moisés Kaufman, playwright and director
• Murray the K (Murray Kaufman)
• Nadeen L. Kaufman psychologist/IQ test developer
• Nikolay Kaufman, Bulgarian musicologist
• Philip Kaufman, film director
• Philip A. Kaufman (Phil Kaufman), an American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award
• Stephen R. Kaufman
• Terrence Kaufman, linguist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh
• Wendy Kaufman
• William E. Kaufman, rabbi, philosopher

• The name of a fictional taxi service company on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• Dr. Kaufman, a villain in Tomorrow Never Dies

Kauffman

• Kauffman, California

• Elizabeth Bush, born Kauffman
• Ewing Marion Kauffman
• George B. Kauffman, (1930-) American chemist
• Louis Kauffman, American mathematician
• Marta Kauffman, TV producer and writer
• Matthew Kauffman, journalist
• Scott Kauffman, businessman
• Stuart (Alan) Kauffman, US theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher
• USS Kauffman (FFG-59)
• Kauffman's Distillery Covered Bridge
• Kauffman Stadium, named after Ewing Kauffman

See also

• Kofman

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

German

Etymology

From kaufen and Mann.

Noun

Kaufmann m. (genitive Kaufmanns or Kaufmannes, plural Kaufleute)

1. merchant, businessman, trader

Derived terms

• kaufmännisch