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Klaus is a German given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas.

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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
  • 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

    • 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 (born 1935), German writer
  • Klaus Iohannis (born 1959), Romanian Politician
  • 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 Isekenmeier (born 1975), German decathlete
  • Klaus Kinski (1926–1991), German actor
  • Klaus Lanzarini (born 1977), Italian freestyle swimmer
  • Klaus Meine (born 1948), lead singer of German hard rock band The Scorpions
  • Klaus Mertens (born 1949), German singer
  • Klaus Neumann (1923–2000), German World War II Luftwaffe Ace
  • Klaus Nomi (1944–1983), German entertainer
  • 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 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

    • Characters

  • Klaus Baudelaire, character in the A Series of Unfortunate Events books
  • Klaus Heissler, character on American Dad!
  • Klaus, character on Beyblade: Metal Masters
  • Klaus Mikaelson, an original hybrid of vampire and werewolf on The Vampire Diaries as well as on The Originals
  • Klaus Daimler, character portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • Klaus, original name of Zanza, the main antagonist from Xenoblade Chronicles
  • Klaus Goldstein, a character in the Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart+ App
  • Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, an antagonistic character from the Girl Genius web-comic

    • Television

  • "Klaus" (The Vampire Diaries), a 2011 episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries

    • References

    Klaus Wikipedia
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