Klaus

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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.

Notable persons whose family name is Klaus[]

• Billy Klaus (1928–2006), US baseball player
• Chris Klaus (born 1973), US entrepreneur
• Frank Klaus (1887–1948), German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion
• Fred Klaus (born 1967), German footballer
• Josef Klaus (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; most famous work to date is from Pirates of the Caribbean
• 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
• Klaus Dede (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
• Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), German theoretical physicist and atomic spy
• Klaus Gerhart (born 1965), outdoorsman and photographer
• Klaus Iohannis (born 1959), Romanian Politician
• Klaus Isekenmeier (born 1975), German decathlete
• Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), German politician
• Klaus Kinski (1926–1991), German actor
• Klaus Lage (born 1950), German musician
• Klaus Lanzarini (born 1977), Italian freestyle swimmer
• Klaus Löwitsch (1936–2002), German actor
• Klaus Meine (born 1948), lead singer of German hard rock band The Scorpions
• Klaus Mertens (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
• Klaus Schilling (1871–1946), German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
• Klaus Schulze, 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 Wowereit (born 1953), German politician
• Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 1943), theatrical name of Klaus Georg Steng, Austrian actor
• Stefanos Klaus Athanasiadis (born 1988), Greek footballer of Greek and German origin
• Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist
• , Digital Finance Practitioner & Crypto Trader

Characters[]

• Klaus, character on Beyblade: Metal Masters
• Klaus, from Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• Klaus, the Masked Man, from Japanese role-playing game, Mother 3, or more formally known in the u.s as Earthbound 2.
• Klaus Baudelaire, character in the A Series of Unfortunate Events books
• Klaus Daimler, character portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Klaus Goldstein, a character in the Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart+ App
• Klaus Hargreeves, #4 The Seance, character from The Umbrella Academy comic and TV show.
• Klaus Heisler, character on American Dad!
• Klaus Mikaelson, a hybrid of vampire and werewolf in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, portrayed by Joseph Morgan
• Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, an antagonistic character from the Girl Genius web-comic
• Klaus, the reclusive woodcutter and toymaker from the Netflix Original 2019 film Klaus

See also[]

• Claus, a variant of name
• Klaukkala, Finnish village, whose name is partly based on the name Klaus^[1]

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