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Kohn is a surname. It may be related to Cohen. It may also be of German origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfie Kohn (born 1957), American lecturer and author * Arnold Kohn (1905–1984), Croatian Zionist and longtime president of the Jewish community Osijek * Avrohom Yitzchok Kohn (1914-1996), Hasidic rabbi * Bernard Kohn (born 1931), French-American architect * Charlotte Kohn (born 1948 in Vienna), Austrian journalist * Dan Kohn-Sherbock, American-British Jewish theologian * David Kohn (1838–1915), Russian archaeologist * Donald Kohn (1942), American economist, former Federal Reserve Vice Chair * Eugene Kohn (1887–1977), American rabbi * Fritz Kortner (born as Fritz Nathan Kohn) (1892–1970), Austrian-born stage and film actor * Joseph J. Kohn (1932–2023), Czechoslovakian-American mathematician * Hans Kohn (1891–1971), American philosopher and historian * Howard and Clara Kohn (1861–1933) and (1899–1988), American cattle ranchers * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cohen (surname)
Cohen () is a surname of Jewish, Samaritan and Biblical origins (see: Kohen). It is a very common Jewish surname (the most common in Israel). Cohen is one of the four Samaritan last names that exist in the modern day. Many Jewish immigrants entering the United States or United Kingdom changed their name from Cohen to Cowan (sometimes spelled " Cowen"), as Cowan was a Scottish name. The name "Cohen" is also used as a given name. Origin Bearing the surname often (although not always) indicates that one's patrilineal ancestors were priests in the Temple of Jerusalem. Although not all Kohenic lines stem from Aaron, the brother of Moses, he is generally regarded as the patriarch of the lineage and the first Kohen. A single such priest was known as a Kohen, and the hereditary caste descending from these priests is collectively known as the Kohanim. As multiple languages were acquired through the Jewish diaspora, the surname acquired dozens of variants. Not all persons with related su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kohn
Michael Thomas Kohn (born June 26, 1986) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels in the 13th round (409th overall) of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft after playing college baseball at the College of Charleston. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Angels in 2010, and also played for the Atlanta Braves. Professional career Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Kohn made his major league debut on July 26, 2010, against the Boston Red Sox at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. He finished the season appearing in 24 games, going 2-0. In 2011, Kohn struggled with control, walking 9 in 12.1 innings and allowing 10 runs. He spent the entire 2012 season on the disabled list due to Tommy John surgery. Fully healthy in 2013, Kohn was a bullpen mainstay for the Angels, appearing in a career high 63 games. On September 2, 2014, Kohn was designated for assignment. On September 8, 2014, Kohn chose free agency rather than accepting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cohan
Cohan is a surname of Irish origins. It is a variant of Cohane, which itself is an Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Cadhain. Cohan is also a variant spelling of the Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ... surname Cohen. This version of that name is commonly found among Jews in France. Notable people named Cohan include: * Chris Cohan (born 1950), owner of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA * Don Cohan (1930–2018), American Olympic bronze medal winner in sailing * George M. Cohan (1878–1942), American entertainer (member of Four Cohans) * Helen Cohan (1910–1996), American stage dancer, film actress * Lauren Cohan (born 1982), English-American actress * Peter Cohan, American businessman * Robert Cohan (1925–2021), British-American dancer and choreog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coen (other)
Coen may refer to: * Coen (name), a given name and surname * Enrico Coen (1957), a British botanist * Coen brothers, a U.S. filmmaker sibling duo * Coen River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia; named after ''Jan Pieterszoon Coen'' in 1623 ** Coen, Queensland, Australia; named after the Coen River *** Coen Airport (IATA airport code: CUQ; ICAO airport code: YCOE), Coen, Cook, Queensland, Australia *** Coen Carrier Station, Coleman Close, Coen, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia; a telegraph station * Coen River (Costa Rica) * Coen Tunnel, Amsterdam, Netherlands; named after ''Jan Pieterszoon Coen'' ** Second Coen Tunnel The Second Coen Tunnel is a tunnel under the North Sea Canal, next to the Coen Tunnel in Amsterdam. The tunnel was built in combination with a new highway connection, the Westrandweg, to the A5 motorway (Netherlands), A5 motorway. The tunnel cons ..., Amsterdam, Netherlands; next to the First ''Coen Tunnel'' * Coen Tunnel (Mingo Junction), Ohio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cahn
Cahn is a Germanized form of the Jewish surname Cohen, another variant of which is Kahn. People with the surname Cahn * Andrew Cahn (born 1951), British civil servant * Anne Hessing Cahn (c. 1930–2024), German-born American political author and arms control expert * Audrey Cahn (1905–2008), Australian microbiologist and nutritionist * Edgar S. Cahn (1935–2022), American professor, CEO of TimeBanks USA * Edward Cahn (director) (1899–1963), American film director * Edward Cahn (jurist), attorney and U.S. federal judge * Ester Samuel-Cahn (1933–2015), Israeli statistician and educator * Jean Camper Cahn (1935–1991), American lawyer and social activist * John W. Cahn (1928–2016), American materials scientist and physicist * Jonathan Cahn (born 1959), American Messianic minister and writer * Lillian Cahn (1923–2013), Hungarian-born American businesswoman and designer, co-founder of Coach Inc. * Marcelle Cahn (1895-1981), French painter * Miles Cahn (1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOHN
Kohn is a surname. It may be related to Cohen. It may also be of German origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfie Kohn (born 1957), American lecturer and author * Arnold Kohn (1905–1984), Croatian Zionist and longtime president of the Jewish community Osijek * Avrohom Yitzchok Kohn (1914-1996), Hasidic rabbi * Bernard Kohn (born 1931), French-American architect * Charlotte Kohn (born 1948 in Vienna), Austrian journalist * Dan Kohn-Sherbock, American-British Jewish theologian * David Kohn (1838–1915), Russian archaeologist * Donald Kohn (1942), American economist, former Federal Reserve Vice Chair * Eugene Kohn (1887–1977), American rabbi * Fritz Kortner (born as Fritz Nathan Kohn) (1892–1970), Austrian-born stage and film actor * Joseph J. Kohn (1932–2023), Czechoslovakian-American mathematician * Hans Kohn (1891–1971), American philosopher and historian * Howard and Clara Kohn (1861–1933) and (1899–1988), American cattle ranchers * Ladisl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yetta Kohn
Yetta Kohn (March 9, 1843 – April 24, 1917) was a German-American immigrant who came to New Mexico and became a businesswoman, rancher, and ferry operator. After her husband died in 1877, Kohn operated the family's wool and hide business. She became a real estate investor and a cattle rancher. The T4 Cattle Company ranch, which has remained a family business, in Montoya, New Mexico has become one of the largest private ranches in the United States. Besides mercantile stores, Kohn has also operated banks, a ferry, and a post office. Early life and marriage Yetta Louise Goldsmith was born on March 9, 1843, in Bavaria, Germany. She came to the United States from Le Havre, France when she was 10, arriving in New York City on the ship ''William Tell'' in 1853. She traveled west with three family members, whose whereabouts were then unknown. According to Sharon Fried, after the age of ten, there was "no apparent parental nurturing or direction". She lived in Leavenworth of Kansas T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn (; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction). This computational simplification led to more accurate calculations on complex systems as well as many new insights, and it has become an essential tool for materials science, condensed-phase physics, and the chemical physics of atoms and molecules. Early years in Canada Kohn arrived in England as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation immediately after the annexation of Austria by Hitler. He was from a Jewish family, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonja Kohn
Sonja Kohn (née Türk; born 5 August 1948) is an Austrian banker. Biography Kohn was born to Jewish refugees from the Holocaust from Eastern Europe. She grew up in Vienna. In the 1970s, with her husband Erwin Kohn, she started an import-export business and moved to Milan, Italy. In the 1980s, she lived for a time in New York City and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. In 1994, she founded the Bank Medici in Vienna. One year later, she moved to New York State. They lived in Monsey, a large, ultraorthodox Jewish community. The Kohns founded a small brokerage firm, the ''Eurovaleur Inc''. In New York City, she became known as "Austria’s woman on Wall Street." Kohn only got into investing after staying home to raise her five children. In the 1990s, they moved back to Vienna. Bank Medici was relaunched in 2003 as an Aktiengesellschaft. She is shareholder of 75 percent and is head of the bank's supervising board. She also was consultant of the Vienna Stock Exchange unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurd Køhn
Sigurd Eystein Køhn (6 August 1959 – 26 December 2004) was a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer. Career Køhn was born in Kristiansand, Norway, and started playing the violin and the clarinet at the age of 9, and begun playing the alto saxophone when he was 14. He moved to Oslo when he was 19 years old, and became quickly a part of the city's jazz life. In the 1980s, he played the saxophone with different fusion and soul bands ("Lava", "Son of Sam", "The Heavy Gentlemen" and more), but he returned to the jazz in the 1990s. He played with the jazz quartet The Real Thing from 1992 until his death, in addition to his own "Sigurd Køhn Quartet" from 1994 and "Køhn/Johansen Sextet" from 1999. In 1996, Køhn's first record under his own name was released, ''More Pepper, Please''. On the album, Køhn performed the music of Art Pepper, in cooperation with, among others, Dag Arnesen and Jarle Vespestad. The album was well received. He performed with the band a-ha on their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert D
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
