Kahan may refer to:

Places

Kahan, Pakistan Kahan is a village in Kohlu District in Pakistan's Balochistan province. It is bounded by Kohlu to the north, Barkhan to the North East, Dera Bugti to the East and South East, Sibbi to the west and South West, and Loralai in the west and North We ...

, a village and tehsil in Balochistan, Pakistan * Kahan, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Kahan Godar, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Kahan, Kuhbanan, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Kahan-e Pain, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Kowhan, Tiran and Karvan, also known as Kahān, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran

People

* Arcadius Kahan, American historian *

Barbara Kahan Barbara Joan Kahan OBE born Barbara Joan Langridge (18 March 1920 – 6 August 2000) was a British social worker. She rose to chair the National Children's Bureau and to co-chair the Pindown Enquiry. Description Kahan was born in Horsted Keynes ...

, British social worker *

Bente Kahan Bente Kahan (born 23 September 1958) is a Norwegian solo vocalist, actress, musician, director and playwright. She is best known for her renditions and productions of Yiddish folk music and plays. Since 2002, she has lived and worked in Poland. ...

, Norwegian singer and actress *

Dan Kahan Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His professional expertise is in the fields of criminal law and evidence, and he is known for his theory of cultural cognition. Education After attending a boarding ...

, American professor of law * Ed Kahan, IBM executive * Henry O. Kahan, American lawyer and politician * Herman Kahan, Norwegian businessman, rabbi, author, and Holocaust survivor *

Judith Kahan Judith Ellen Kahan (born May 24, 1948) is an American retired actress and television writer. Early years Kahan was born May 24, 1948, in Roslyn Heights, New York, an affluent area of suburban Long Island, one of three sisters born to Sidney and ...

, American actress and writer *

Kahan Singh Nakai Sardar Kahan Singh Nakai (died 1873) was the sixth and last chief of the Nakai Misl. He was the grandson of the famous Sikh chief, Ran Singh Nakai and Sardarni Karmo Kaur. His aunt, Maharani Datar Kaur was one of the wives of Ranjit Singh, Ma ...

, Nakai Misl leader *

Louis Kahan Louis Kahan AO (25 May 190516 July 2002) was an Austrian-born Australian artist whose long career included fashion design, illustration for magazines and journals, painting, printmaking and drawing. He is represented in most major collections i ...

, Australian artist * Maksim Kahan, Israeli sports shooter *

Marcy Kahan Marcy Kahan (born 4 July) is a British playwright and radio dramatist, who is half-Canadian and half- American. She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC. She was born in Montreal, educated at Somerville College, Oxford and trained ...

, British playwright and radio dramatist * Marius Kahan, English musician *

Nathan Kahan Nathan Kahan (born 12 February 1971 in Antwerp) is a Belgian retired middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. He represented his country at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as two World Championships. His best result came early ...

, Belgian runner *

Noah Kahan Noah Kahan ( ; born January 1, 1997) is an American singer-songwriter who signed with Republic Records in 2017. His breakthrough single, " Hurt Somebody", achieved gold status in the United States and charted in multiple international markets. T ...

, American singer *

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan Rebecca Beth Bauer-Kahan (née Bauer; born October 28, 1978) is an American attorney and politician who has served as a member of the California State Assembly from the 16th district since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, her district e ...

, American attorney and politician *

Richard Kahan Richard Kahan is a Canadian television actor and writer. He is known for his role as Marco Pacella in the television series ''The 4400'' and for his role as Gil Kurvers on the Canadian television series teen soap '' Edgemont''."Ex-Winnipeger ca ...

, Canadian actor and writer *

Scott I Kahan Scott I. Kahan is an American physician, writer, and internationally recognized expert on obesity prevention and treatment. He is the director of the Strategies To Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of more than 7 ...

, American physician *

Steve Kahan Stephen Samuel Kahan (August 6, 1939 – August 4, 2019) was an American character actor, best known for playing Captain Ed Murphy in the Lethal Weapon film series. Life and career Kahan appeared in many films, most prominently those of director ...

, American actor *

William Kahan William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to nu ...

, Canadian mathematician *

Yitzhak Kahan Yitzhak Kahan (; November 15, 1913 – April 24, 1985) was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1982 until 1983. He was the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut also known as the Kahan ...

, Israeli judge *

Zelda Kahan Zelda Kahan (1886 – 1969) was a British communist. Born into a Jewish family in Russia in 1886, Kahan's family were forced to emigrate, and she moved to Britain at an early age. The Kahans lived at 6 Clapton Square in Hackney, London. She ...

, British communist

Other uses

Jane Kahan Gallery Jane Kahan Gallery is an art gallery located in New York City that specializes in modern art. The gallery collection is founded on prints, monotypes, and paintings, including ceramics and works on paper by Pablo Picasso, and tapestries by artis ...

, an art gallery in New York City *

Kahan summation algorithm In numerical analysis, the Kahan summation algorithm, also known as compensated summation, significantly reduces the numerical error in the total obtained by adding a sequence of finite- precision floating-point numbers, compared to the naive app ...

, a mathematical algorithm attributed to William Kahan *

Kahan Commission The Kahan Commission (ועדת כהן), formally known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut, was established by the Israeli government on 28 September 1982, to investigate the Sabra and Shatila massacre (16 ...

, an Israeli investigation into the Sabra and Shatila Massacre in Lebanon * Paden–Kahan subproblems, a mathematical problem in inverse kinematics

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