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Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann (born 1952) is a German labor economist who founded the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn and directs the Global Labor Organization.
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs (Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 1911–1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist who passed atomic bomb secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1949.
Klaus G. Hoehn
Klaus G. Hoehn is a German agricultural engineer and pioneer of digital agriculture who rose to Vice President of Advanced Technology and Engineering at Deere & Company.
Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth, full name Claus Johannes Groth, was a German poet and philologist from Heide who established Low German as a literary language with his 1852 collection Quickborn.
Klaus Gruner
Klaus Gruner (born 1952, Frankenhausen, Saxony) is a German handball player, East Germany's 1980 Moscow Olympic champion (23-22 overtime final win over the USSR), 112 caps, 295 goals, later a coach.
Klaus H. Hofmann
Klaus Heinrich Hofmann was a German-born American biochemist and peptide chemist who spent five decades at the University of Pittsburgh and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963.
Klaus H. Kaestner
Klaus H. Kaestner, born 1961 in Münster, is a German-born American geneticist and genetics professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for FoxA and intestinal stem cell research.
Klaus Hahlbrock (molecular biologist)
Klaus Hahlbrock is a German plant molecular biologist known for work on how plants activate defense genes against UV light and fungal attack, and on phenylpropanoid metabolism.
Klaus Hasselmann
Klaus Hasselmann, born 1931 in Hamburg, is a German physicist and oceanographer who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for physical modeling of Earth's climate.
Klaus Hepp
Klaus Hepp (born 1936) is a theoretical physicist, professor at ETH Zurich from 1967 to 2002, known for a rigorous proof of the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk renormalization theorem.
Klaus Hommels
Klaus Hommels is a Swiss-based venture capital investor who founded Lakestar in Zurich in 2012, after early angel investments in Skype, Facebook, Spotify, and Airbnb.
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek is an ecological economist and environmental scientist who studies how household consumption drives environmental impacts, and is a professor at the University of Groningen.
Klaus Iohannis
Klaus Werner Iohannis, born 1959 in Sibiu, ethnic German and former Sibiu mayor, was President of Romania 2014–2025, re-elected 2019, resigned February 2025 after the annulled 2024 election.
Klaus Jänich
Klaus Jänich is a German mathematician who took his doctorate at Bonn in 1964 under Friedrich Hirzebruch and proved the theorem of Atiyah, now called the Atiyah–Jänich theorem.
Klaus Jurgen Grunke
Klaus-Jürgen Grünke (born 1951, Bad Lauchstädt) is an East German track cyclist, 1976 Montreal Olympic champion and 1975 world champion in the 1,000 m time trial (1:05.927), with seven GDR titles.
Klaus Katzur
Klaus Katzur (1943–2016), East German breaststroke swimmer from Potsdam; silver in the 4×100 m medley relay at Munich 1972, double European champion 1970, later chaired the Association of German Olympians.
Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil (1934–2022) was a German-American meteoriticist who co-developed the first energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer and directed the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico.
Klaus Kern
Klaus Kern is a German physicist who directs the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and won the 2008 Leibniz Prize for his work on nanostructures.
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (born Klaus-Günther Nakszynski, 1926–1991) was a German actor famous for villain roles and five combative Werner Herzog collaborations, including Aguirre, Nosferatu, and Fitzcarraldo, and for his scandalous autobiography.
Klaus Koste
Klaus Koste (Klaus Köste, 1943-2012), East German artistic gymnast; 1972 Munich Olympic vault champion, team bronze 1964/68/72, European horizontal bar champion 1971 and 1973, 34 GDR national titles.
Klaus Kroppelien
Klaus Kröppelien (born 1958, Rostock) is a German rower, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in the men's double sculls with Joachim Dreifke, also world champion 1979 (quadruple sculls) and 1981 (double sculls).
Klaus Lage
Klaus Lage, born 1950 in Soltau, is a German Deutschrock and pop singer-songwriter whose 1984 hit "1000 und 1 Nacht (Zoom!)" reached number 5 on the German chart.
Klaus Ley
Klaus Ley is a German-born immunologist, professor at the Medical College of Georgia, known for the leukocyte adhesion cascade and for treating atherosclerosis as an immune disease.
Klaus Lindpaintner
Klaus Lindpaintner is an Austrian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and cardiovascular genetics, known for large 1990s prospective studies of gene polymorphisms and heart disease, and later industry roles at Roche, Pfizer, and Thermo Fisher.
Klaus M. Hahn
Klaus M. Hahn is an American cell biologist and Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for fluorescent biosensors and optogenetic tools like photoactivatable Rac1.
Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (1906–1949) was a German novelist, essayist, and playwright, son of Thomas Mann, best known for the exile novel Mephisto and his antifascist exile work.
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (Klaus Georg Steng), Austrian stage and film actor and director born 1943 in Bad Aussee; Burgtheater member since 1972, star of Mephisto (1981), Never Say Never Again, and Out of Africa, later a director and Reinhardt Seminar professor.
Klaus Meerholz
Klaus Meerholz is a physical chemist who has held the chair of physical chemistry at the University of Cologne since 2002, working on OLEDs and organic photovoltaics.
Klaus Meine
Klaus Meine (born 1948, Hanover) is the German lead vocalist and lyricist of the Scorpions, joining in 1969/70 after Mushrooms and Copernicus. Known for surviving a 1981 vocal-cord crisis before Blackout and for writing Wind of Change.
Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger, born 1958, is an isotope geochemist and geochronologist, professor of geochemistry at the University of Bern since 2009, now emeritus, known for dating planetary core formation.