Klaus
Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas.
Notable persons with the family name
- Billy Klaus, American baseball player
- Chris Klaus, American entrepreneur
- Felix Klaus, German football player, son of Fred Klaus
- Frank Klaus, German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion
- Fred Klaus, German football player and manager, father of Felix Klaus
- Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria 1966–1970
- Karl Ernst Claus, Russian chemist
- Václav Klaus, Czech politician, former President of the Czech Republic
- Walter K. Klaus, American politician and farmer
Notable persons with the given name
- Brother Klaus, Swiss patron saint
- Klaus Augenthaler, German football player and manager
- Klaus Badelt, German composer
- Klaus Barbie, German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Holocaust Perpetrator
- Klaus Bargsten, German captain and sole survivor of the sunken U-boat U-521 in World War II
- Klaus Berntsen, Danish politician
- Klaus Dede, German writer
- Klaus Dibiasi, Italian sports diver
- Klaus Doldinger, German saxophonist and film music composer
- Klaus Fischer, German footballer
- Klaus Flouride, bassist of the Dead Kennedys
- Klaus Fuchs, German theoretical physicist and atomic spy
- Klaus Gerhart, outdoorsman and photographer
- Klaus Iohannis, Romanian politician
- Klaus Isekenmeier, German decathlete
- Klaus Kinkel, German politician
- Klaus Kinski, German actor
- Klaus Köchl, Austrian politician
- Klaus Lage, German musician
- Klaus Lanzarini, Italian freestyle swimmer
- Klaus Laser, German actor
- Klaus Löwitsch, German actor
- Klaus Mäkelä, Finnish conductor and cellist
- Klaus Meine, lead singer of German hard rock band Scorpions
- Klaus Mertens, German singer
- Klaus Nomi, German entertainer
- Klaus Ofczarek, Austrian opera singer and actor
- Klaus Perwas, German basketball coach and former player
- Klaus Rinke, German artist
- Klaus Rogge, German rower
- Klaus Schilling, German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
- Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist
- Klaus Schulze, German electronic music composer and musician
- Klaus Schwab, German professor who founded the World Economic Forum
- Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor
- Klaus Voormann, artist, musician, and record producer who was associated with the early days of The Beatles
- Klaus Voussem, German politician
- Klaus Wowereit, German politician
Pen name
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, theatrical name of Klaus Georg Steng, Austrian actor
Characters
- Klaus from Beyblade: Metal Masters
- Klaus from Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Klaus from Mother 3
- Klaus Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Klaus Daimler from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Klaus Hargreeves from The Umbrella Academy
- Klaus Heisler from American Dad!
- Klaus Mikaelson from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals
- Klaus von Wolfstadt from Maiden Rose
- Baron Klaus Wulfenbach from Girl Genius
- Klaus from Klaus
- Klaus from Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Klaus, the titular character from Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job
- Klaus from ''Don't Starve''