Cohn is a
Jewish surname (related to the last name Cohen). Notable people and characters with the surname include:
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Al Cohn (1925–1988), American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Alan D. Cohn, American government official
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Alfred A. Cohn (1880–1951), American screenwriter
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Alice Cohn (1914–2000), German graphic artist
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Art Cohn (1909–1958), American sportswriter, screenwriter and author
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Arthur Cohn (b. 1927), Swiss film producer
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Arthur Cohn (1894–1940), mathematician known for Cohn's irreducibility criterion
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Avern Cohn (1924–2022), United States District Court judge
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Bernard Cohn (anthropologist) (1928–2003), anthropologist and scholar of British colonialism in India
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Bernard Cohn (politician) (1835–1889), American businessman and politician in Los Angeles
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Craig Cohn (b. 1983), birth name of American professional wrestler Craig Classic
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Clementine Cohn (born 1861), German writer
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit (b. 1945), French-German politician
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Dan Cohn-Sherbock (b. 1945), Jewish theologian
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David Cohn (b. 1995), American-Israeli player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
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Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892–1953), American scientist
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Emil Cohn (1854–1944), German physicist
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Erich Cohn (1884–1918), German chess master
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Ernst Max Cohn (1920–2004), American philatelic researcher and expert
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Falk Cohn (1833–1901), German rabbi
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Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), German biologist
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Gary Cohn (b. 1960), American investment banker
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Gary Cohn (comics) (b. 1952), American comic book writer
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Gary Cohn (journalist) (1952–2024), American journalist
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Gertrud Cohn (1876–1942), German victim of the Nazi regime
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Gretta Cohn, American cellist and podcast producer, CEO of Pushkin Industries
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Gustav Cohn (1840–1919), German economist
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Harry Cohn (1891–1958), American co-founder of Columbia Pictures Corporation
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Harvey Cohn (1884–1965), American track and field athlete
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James Cohn (1928–2021), American composer
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Joan Cohn (née Joan Perry), the widow of Harry Cohn
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Joseph Judson Cohn (d. 1996), MGM producer, founder of J.J. Cohn Estate
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Lawrence H. Cohn (1937–2016), American cardiac surgeon and researcher
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Leonie Cohn (1917–2009), German-born BBC Radio producer
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Leopold Cohn (author) (1856–1915), German author and philologist
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Leopold Cohn (Christian clergyman) (1862–1937), Hungarian-American minister and evangelist
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Linda Cohn (b. 1959), American sportscaster
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Marc Cohn (b. 1959), American singer-songwriter
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Mariano Cohn (b. 1975), Argentine TV and film director
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Marthe Cohn (1920–2025), French author, nurse, spy and Holocaust survivor
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Mathilda Cohn (1798–1877), birth name of Finnish and Swedish concert singer Mathilda Berwald
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Mindy Cohn (b. 1966), American actress, comedian and singer
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Nate Cohn, American journalist
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Nik Cohn (b. 1946), British rock journalist
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Norman Cohn (1915–2007), British historian
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Norman Cohn (1907–1972), birth name of American saber fencer Norman C. Armitage
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Oskar Cohn (1869–1934), German politician
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Priscilla Cohn (1933–2019), American philosopher and animal rights activist
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Rebecca Cohn (b. 1954), American politician
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Robert Cohn (b. 1949), Canadian business executive, founder of Octel Communications
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Robert Cohn, a character in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises
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Ronald Cohn (1943–2022), American zoologist, co-founder of The Gorilla Foundation
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Roy Cohn (1927–1986), American lawyer
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Ruth Cohn (1912–2010), German-born psychotherapist, educator, and poet
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Waldo Cohn (1910–1999), American biochemist
See also
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Coen (disambiguation)
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Cohen (surname)
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Cohen (disambiguation)
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Kahane
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Kohen, a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses
