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Klaus Michael Bonsack
Klaus Michael Bonsack (1941–2023) was a German luger who competed for East Germany and won four Olympic medals, including doubles gold with Thomas Köhler at Grenoble 1968.
Klaus Michler
Klaus Michler (born 1970, Stuttgart) is a German field hockey player, Olympic gold medallist with the re-unified Germany at Barcelona 1992 (2-1 over Australia), European champion 1991 and 1995, 162 caps for Crefelder HTC.
Klaus Mikaelson
Niklaus Mikaelson (Klaus), the Original vampire-werewolf hybrid of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, played by Joseph Morgan; son of Esther and Ansel, father of Hope, killed in The Originals finale.
Klaus Moje
Klaus Moje (1936–2016) was a German-born glass artist, founding head of the Glass Workshop at the Canberra School of Art and a pioneer of kiln-formed mosaic glass.
Klaus Mølmer
Klaus Mølmer is a Danish theoretical physicist in quantum optics and professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for the Mølmer–Sørensen gate for trapped ions.
Klaus Mosbach
Klaus Mosbach (1932–2024) was a Swedish biochemist and professor at Lund University, known for developing molecular imprinting and antibody mimics, including his 1993 Nature drug assay paper.
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen (born 1947) is a German polymer chemist known for bottom-up synthesis of nanographenes and graphene nanoribbons at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Klaus Nomi
Klaus Nomi (Klaus Sperber, 1944–1983) was a German countertenor and New Wave performance artist in New York's East Village, famous for his six-octave operatic voice, alien persona, 1979 Saturday Night Live appearance with David Bowie, and albums Klaus Nomi and Simple Man.
Klaus Oswatitsch
Klaus Oswatitsch (1910–1993) was an Austrian fluid dynamicist and gas dynamicist who held the fluid mechanics chair at the Vienna University of Technology from 1960 to 1980.
Klaus Palme
Klaus Palme, born 1951, is a German plant biologist at the University of Freiburg whose research established how the PIN carriers transport the hormone auxin between cells.
Klaus Pantel
Klaus Pantel, born 1960, is a German physician and oncologist directing the Institute of Tumor Biology in Hamburg, known for research on disseminated tumor cells.
Klaus Patau
Klaus Patau (1908–1975) was a German-born American geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose team first linked an extra chromosome 13 to Patau syndrome in 1960.
Klaus Peter Hofmann
Klaus Peter Hofmann (1943–2024) was a German biochemist and biophysicist whose pioneering research on the visual pigment rhodopsin shaped understanding of signal transmission in cell membranes and drug development.
Klaus Pfeffer
Klaus Pfeffer is a German infection immunologist who directs the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and won the Leibniz Prize in 2004.
Klaus Rajewsky
Klaus Rajewsky is a German immunologist known for his work on B cells, germinal centers, and developing conditional gene targeting in mice, leading a research group in Berlin.
Klaus Reichert
Klaus Reichert, born 1947 in Hanau, is a retired West German foil fencer, OFC Bonn dentist, Olympic team gold 1976 and silver 1984, three world team titles 1977, 1983, 1987.
Klaus Renft Combo
The Klaus Renft Combo, also known as Renft, was a rock band from Leipzig in East Germany, banned by the state in 1975 for its critical lyrics.
Klaus Richtzenhain
Klaus Richtzenhain (1934–2025), East German middle-distance runner nicknamed Zappel; won 1,500 m silver at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics behind Ronnie Delany, set a 1957 indoor 3,000 m world record, later an engineer in Erfurt.
Klaus Riekemann
Klaus Riekemann (born 19 May 1940, Dorsten) is a German rower, Olympic gold medallist in the coxed fours at Rome 1960 for the Unified Team of Germany, twice European coxed pair champion (1958, 1959), later a masters rower with Minerva Bath Rowing Club.
Klaus Rifbjerg
Klaus Rifbjerg (1931–2015) was a Danish writer, critic, and editor who worked in every genre; his novel Den kroniske uskyld and 1960 collection Konfrontation named a whole movement in Danish modernism.
Klaus Roth
Klaus Roth (1925–2015) was a British number theorist who won the 1958 Fields Medal, the first British winner, for his theorem on approximating algebraic numbers by rationals.
Klaus Ruedenberg
Klaus Ruedenberg, born 1920 in Germany, is a theoretical chemist at Iowa State University known for orbital localization, even-tempered basis sets, and his wave-mechanical theory of the covalent bond.
Klaus Schmidt‐Rohr
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, also known as K. Schmidt-Rohr, is a German-born solid-state NMR spectroscopist and professor of chemistry at Brandeis University, known for Nafion fuel-cell membrane research.
Klaus Schönert
Klaus Schönert (1927–2011) was a German comminution scientist and professor of mineral processing at the Technical University of Clausthal whose research led to the high-pressure grinding roll.
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten (1947–2016) was a German-born computational biophysicist who pioneered the "computational microscope" approach and led the Illinois group that developed the widely used NAMD and VMD programs.
Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze (1947–2022), German electronic music pioneer of the Berlin School, godfather of techno. Drummer for Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel; solo albums Irrlicht, Timewind, Moondawn, Dune; more than 60 albums.
Klaus Schwab
Klaus Schwab, born 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany, is the engineer and economist who founded the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1971 and led it for 55 years.
Klaus Steinbach
Klaus Steinbach, born 1953, West German freestyle swimmer, 1972 Olympic silver and 1976 bronze in relays, 1975 world champion, first under 50 s for 100 m freestyle short course, later NOK president 2002-2006 and orthopedic surgeon.
Klaus Tafelmeier
Klaus Tafelmeier (Klaus-Dieter Tafelmeier), West German javelin thrower born 1958 in Singen; 1986 European champion and first official world record holder with the new javelin, 85.74 m, Como 1986; fourth at Seoul 1988.
Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber (1952-2023), German board game designer, creator of The Settlers of Catan (1995); former dental technician, Spiel des Jahres winner for Barbarossa, founder of CATAN GmbH with his family.