Jahn

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Jahn (Jähn) is a German surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

  • Constanze Jahn (born 1963), German chess player
  • David Jahn (born 1975), Czech burlesque impresario
  • Eduard Jahn (1871–1942), German mycologist and microbiologist
  • Erich Jahn (born 1907, date of death unknown), Hitler Youth leader
  • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852), German educator, founding figure of German Turner athletic movement
  • Gunnar Jahn (1883–1971), Norwegian politician and resistance member
  • Gunter Jahn (1910–1992), German U-boat commander
  • Hans Max Jahn (1853–1906), German physical chemist
  • Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), German-American architect
  • Hermann Arthur Jahn (1907–1979), British scientist
  • Jan Jahn (1739–1802), Czech painter and art historian
  • Jeff Jahn (born 1970), American artist and critic
  • Johann Jahn (1750–1816), German Orientalist
  • Kurt Jahn (1892–1966), German general
  • Marie-Luise Jahn (1918–2010), German physician
  • Martin Jahn (c. 1620 – c. 1682), German church musician, minister, hymnwriter
  • Martin Jahn (born 1970), Czech economist and politician
  • Joseph Michael Jahn (born 1943), American author and critic
  • Molly Jahn, American plant scientist and food security policy advisor
  • Otto Jahn (1813–1869), German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music
  • Patrick Jahn (born 1983), German football player
  • Robert G. Jahn (1930–2017), American scientist, electrical engineer, and psychic investigator
  • Ryan David Jahn (born 1979), American novelist and screenwriter
  • Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), German astronaut
  • Thomas Jahn (born 1965), German film and television director
  • Wilhelm Jahn (1835–1900), Austro-Hungarian orchestral conductor
  • Willie Jahn (1889–1973), German athlete, leader of the Wandervogel youth movement, folksong composer, publisher, World War II army officer