Kaufmann
Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means merchant. It is the cognate of the English Chapman (which had a similar meaning in the Middle Ages, though it disappeared from modern English). Kaufmann may refer to:
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Distribution of the surname in Germany
Kaufmann
- Alexander Kaufmann (1817–1893), German poet and folklorist, brother of Leopold
- Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
- Andrea Kaufmann (born 1969), Austrian politician
- Andreas Kaufmann (born 1973), German footballer
- Andy Kaufmann (born 1967), American basketball player
- Arthur Kaufmann (1872–1938), Austrian attorney, philosopher and chess master
- Arthur Kaufmann (artist) (1888–1971, German avant-garde painter
- Carl Kaufmann (1936–2008), West German sprint runner
- Christian Kaufmann (alpine guide) (1872-1939), Swiss mountain guide active in Canada
- Christian Kaufmann (canoeist) (born c. 1940), West German slalom canoeist
- Christine Kaufmann (1945–2017), German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman
- Daniel Kaufmann (footballer) (born 1990), Liechtensteiner footballer
- David Kaufmann (1852–1899), Jewish-Austrian scholar
- Dieter Kaufmann (born 1941), Austrian composer
- Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885–1955), US businessman and philanthropist
- Eduard Kaufmann (1860–1931), German physician and co-discoverer of the Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome
- Ernst Kaufmann (1895–1943), Swiss racing cyclist
- Eugen Kaufmann (1892–1984), German architect
- Evan Kaufmann (born 1984), German-American ice hockey player
- Fabio Kaufmann (born 1992), German-Italian footballer
- Felix Kaufmann (1895–1949), Austrian-American law philosopher
- Frank Kaufmann (born 1952), American peace activist
- Franz Kaufmann (1886–1944), German jurist and victim of the Holocaust
- Franziska Kaufmann (born 1987), Swiss curler
- Fritz Kaufmann (1905–1941), Swiss ski jumper and Nordic combined skier
- Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679–1735), Baroque composer from Thuringia (now in southern Germany)
- George Adams Kaufmann (1894–1963), British mathematician, translator and anthroposophist
- Gordon Kaufmann (1888–1949), English-born American architect
- Günther Kaufmann (1947–2012), German actor
- Hans Kaufmann (born 1948), Swiss politician and business consultant
- Heinz Kaufmann (1913–1997), German rower
- Herbert Kaufmann (1920–1976), German ethnologist, journalist, photographer and writer
- Hermann Kaufmann (born 1955), Austrian architect
- Hilde Kaufmann (1920–1981), German jurist and criminologist
- Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921), Austro-Hungarian painter
- Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969), German tenor
- Judith Kaufmann (born 1962), German cinematographer
- Julia Kaufmann (born 1984), German voice actress
- Karl Kaufmann (painter) (1843–1905), Austrian landscape and architectural painter
- Karl Kaufmann (1900–1965), German Nazi Gauleiter in Hamburg
- Konstantin von Kaufmann (1818–1882), Russian general, for whom "Mount Kaufmann" (or "Peak Kaufmann", now called Lenin Peak) was named
- Klaus Kaufmann (born 1948), Austrian pianist who founded the Austrian-Chinese-Music-University
- Lars Kaufmann (born 1982), German handball player
- Leon Kaufmann (1872-1933), Polish painter and pastellist
- Leonhard Kaufmann (born 1989) Austrian footballer
- Leopold Kaufmann (1821–1898), German politician, brother of Alexander
- Maurice Kaufmann (1927–1997), British actor
- Max R. Kaufmann, designer of the Kaufmann font family
- Max Rudolf Kaufmann (1886–1963), Swiss author, translator, and journalist
- Nico Kaufmann (1916–1996), Swiss pianist and composer
- Oskar Kaufmann (1873–1956), Hungarian-German Jewish architect
- Patricia A. (Trish) Kaufmann of Lincoln, Delaware
- Peter Kaufmann-Bohren (1886-1971), Swiss mountain guide
- Peter Kaufmann (Alpine guide) (1872-1939), Swiss mountain guide from Grindelwald
- Peter Kaufmann (politician) (born 1947), politician and businessman in Winnipeg
- Rainer Kaufmann (born 1959), German film director
- Richard von Kaufmann (1850–1908), German jurist and art collector
- Rudolf Kaufmann (1909–1941), German paleontologist and geologist, son of Walter (physicist)
- Sören Kaufmann (born 1971), German slalom canoeist
- Stefan Kaufmann (musician) (born 1960), German drummer
- Stefan Kaufmann (politician) (born 1969), German Bundestag member
- Stefan H.E. Kaufmann (born 1948), German microbiologist
- Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (born 1955), German politician
- Theodore Kaufmann (1814–1896), German-American painter
- Ulrich Kaufmann (1840–1917), Swiss mountain guide
- Walter Kaufmann (physicist) (1871–1947), German physicist
- Walter Kaufmann (composer) (1907–1984), Czech-born American ethnomusicologist
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher) (1921–1980), German philosopher
- Walter Kaufmann (author) (born 1924), German-Australian writer
- William G. Kaufmann (1869–1947), American politician
- Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889–1963), Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar
Given name
- Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912), American editor, lexicographer
- Kaufmann Kohler (1843–1926), German-born American Bible scholar, Reform rabbi and theologian
Kauffmann
- Guinevere Kauffmann (born 1968), German-American astrophysicist
- Stanley Kauffmann (1916–2013), long-time film critic for The New Republic
- Jean-Paul Kauffmann (born 1944), French journalist and writer
Kaufman
- Aaron Kaufman, American mechanic and fabricator, featured on the television show Fast N' Loud
- Abraham Kaufman (1885–1971), Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist
- Abraham Kaufman(Inventor)(1910–1961), Manufacturer, iron worker, Inventor of the folding chair
- Alan Kaufman (writer), American novelist and poet
- Alan S. Kaufman (born 1944), psychologist/IQ test developer
- Alexis Kaufman (born 1991), birth name of American professional wrestler Alexa Bliss
- Allen Kaufman (born 1933), chess professional
- Andrew Kaufman, Canadian writer
- Andy Kaufman (1949–1984), American entertainer
- Ariel Durant (born Chaya Kaufman, 1898–1981), historian and writer, wife of Will Durant
- Bel Kaufman (1911–2014), 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
- Brandon Kaufman (born 1990), American football player
- Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010), Israeli theoretical physicist
- Charlie Kaufman (born 1958), American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist
- Dan Kaufman, special effects artist
- David S. Kaufman (1813–1851), American politician
- David Kaufman (actor) (born 1961), American voice actor
- David Kaufman (author), theater critic
- Donald Kaufman (collector) (1930–2009), American toy collector
- Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman (born 1939), American politician
- Elaine Kaufman (1929–2010), American restaurateur
- George S. Kaufman (1889–1961), American playwright
- Gerald Kaufman (1930–2017), British member of parliament
- Harold R. Kaufman (born 1926), American physicist, developed Kaufman ion source
- Henry Kaufman (born 1927), German-American economist
- Herbert Kaufman (1878–1947)
- Irving Kaufman (1910–1992), American federal judge
- Irving Kaufman (singer) (1890–1976), American entertainer
- Isidor Kaufmann (Isidore Kaufmann, 1853–1921), Hungarian Jewish painter
- James C. Kaufman (born 1974)
- Jacob Kaufman, (1847–1920), Canadian manufacturer and industrialist
- Jake Kaufman (born 1981), American video game music composer
- Josh Kaufman (born 1976), American musician and winner of NBC's The Voice season 6
- Les Kaufman, Professor of Biology at Boston University
- Lloyd Kaufman (born 1945)
- Louis Kaufman (1905–1994), violinist
- Mel Kaufman (1958–2009), football player for the Washington Redskins
- Micha Kaufman (born 1946), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
- Millard Kaufman (1917–2009), American screenwriter and novelist
- Morris Kaufman, Manitoba judge
- Moisés Kaufman (born 1963), playwright and director
- Murray the K (Murray Kaufman, 1922–1982)
- Nadeen L. Kaufman (born 1945), psychologist/IQ test developer
- Nikolay Kaufman (born 1925), Bulgarian musicologist
- Philip Kaufman (born 1936), film director
- Philip A. Kaufman (Phil Kaufman), an American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award
- Robert Kaufman (1931–1991), American screenwriter and film producer
- Ruth Kaufman, British operations research specialist
- Smylie Kaufman (born 1991), professional golfer
- Steve Kaufman (1960–2010), artist
- Terrence Kaufman (born 1937), linguist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh
- Theodore N. Kaufman (1910–1986), businessman and writer
- Wendy Kaufman (born 1958)
- William E. Kaufman, rabbi, philosopher
- Dr. Kaufman, a villain in Tomorrow Never Dies
Kauffman
- Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Swiss-Austrian painter
- Calvin Henry Kauffman (1869–1931), American botanist and mycologist
- Craig Kauffman (1932–2010), Artist
- David Kauffman (born 1960), music artist, songwriter and producer for religious music
- Doug Kauffman (born 1969), American curler and golfer
- Draper Kauffman (1911–1979), Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy and son of James L. Kauffman, with whom he was the joint namesake of USS Kauffman (FFG-59)
- Elizabeth Bush, born Kauffman
- Ewing Marion Kauffman (1916-1993), Former owner of the Kansas City Royals and namesake of Kauffman Stadium
- George B. Kauffman (born 1930), American chemist
- John D. Kauffman (1847-1913), Amish "sleeping preacher".
- James Laurence Kauffman (1887–1963), United States Navy Vice Admiral and father of Draper Kauffman, with whom he was the joint namesake of USS Kauffman (FFG-59)
- Leah Kauffman (born c. 1986), American actress, singer and songwriter
- Léon Kauffman (1869–1952), 12th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
- Louis Kauffman (born 1945), American mathematician
- Marta Kauffman (born 1956), TV producer and writer
- Matthew Kauffman (born 1961), journalist
- Scott Kauffman (born 1956), businessman
- Stuart (Alan) Kauffman (born 1939), US theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher
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See also
- Kofman
- Koopman, Dutch equivalent
- Kauffman Amish Mennonite
- Kaufmann's (Kaufmann's Furniture Galleries), regional department store chain
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