Kuhn is a surname of German origin, derived from the Old German name Conrad. It may refer to the following people:
- Abraham Kuhn (1838–1900), Alasatian otolaryngologist
- Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963), American scholar of mythology and linguistics
- Anke Kühn (born 1981), German field hockey player
- Bradley M. Kuhn (born 1973), American free software activist
- Bowie Kuhn (1926–2007), American Major League Baseball commissioner
- Dieter Kühn (born 1956), East German association football player
- Franz Kuhn (1884–1961), German lawyer and translator of Chinese novels
- Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812–1881), German philologist and folklorist
- Frédéric Kuhn (born 1968), French hammer thrower
- Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn (1842–1894), German botanist
- Fritz Kuhn (born 1955), German Green Party politician
- Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896–1951), leader of the German American Bund
- Harold W. Kuhn (born 1925), American mathematician, 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize winner, developer of Kuhn poker
- Joachim Kühn (born 1944), German jazz pianist
- John Kuhn (born 1982), American football player
- Judy Kuhn (born 1958), American singer and actress, Tony Award winner
- Köbi Kuhn (born 1943), head coach of the Switzerland national football team
- Maggie Kuhn (1905–1995), American activist, founder of the Gray Panthers
- Oskar Kuhn (1908–1990), German paleontologist
- Peter Kuhn (1955–2009), American race car driver
- Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), Austrian biochemist, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Rick Kuhn (born 1955), Marxist economist and lecturer at the Australian National University
- Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944), American author, investment banker, China specialist and PBS host
- Simone Kuhn (born 1980), Swiss beach volleyball player
- Steve Kuhn (born 1938), American jazz pianist
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996), American philosopher and historian of science, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Walt Kuhn (1877–1949), American painter
Famous quotes containing the word kuhn:
“People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we’re supposed to be.”
—Maggie Kuhn (b. 1905)
“In a sense that I am unable to explicate further, the proponents of competing paradigms practice their trades in different worlds.”
—Thomas S. Kuhn (1922)
“Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, We have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.”
—Maggie Kuhn (b. 1905)