Gauss (surname)

Gauss or Gauß or Gausz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German universal mathematician and physicist
  • Friedrich Gustav Gauss (1829–1915), German geologist, who also published some well-known logarithm tables (and thereby sometimes gets confused with Carl Friedrich Gauss, who introduced Gaussian logarithms earlier on)
  • Christian Gauss, literary critic
  • Ernst Gauss, one of several pseudonyms of Germar Rudolf, German Holocaust denier and chemist
  • Karl Johann Gauss (1875-1957), a Notable German Obstetrician and Professor
  • Clarence E. Gauss (1887-1960), US Ambassador to China and Australia

See also

"Gauss" is also (rarely) used as a given name, eg:

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