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 whose family name is Klaus

 * Billy Klaus (1928–2006), US baseball player
 * Chris Klaus (born 1973), US entrepreneur
 * Frank Klaus (1887–1948), German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion
 * Josef Klaus (1910–2001), Chancellor of Austria 1966–1970
 * Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), Russian chemist
 * Václav Klaus (born 1941), Czech politician, former President of the Czech Republic

Notable persons whose given name is Klaus

 * Brother Klaus, Swiss patron saint
 * Klaus Augenthaler (born 1957), German football player and manager
 * Klaus Badelt (born 1967), German composer; most famous work to date is from Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Holocaust Perpetrator
 * Klaus Bargsten (1911–2000), German captain and sole survivor of the sunken U-boat U-521 in World War II
 * Klaus Dede (1935–2018), German writer
 * Klaus Iohannis (born 1959), Romanian Politician
 * Klaus Fischer (born 1949), German footballer
 * Klaus Flouride (born 1949), bassist of the Dead Kennedys
 * Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), German theoretical physicist and atomic spy
 * Klaus Gerhart (born 1965), outdoorsman and photographer
 * Klaus Isekenmeier (born 1975), German decathlete
 * Klaus Kinski (1926–1991), German actor
 * Klaus Lanzarini (born 1977), Italian freestyle swimmer
 * Klaus Meine (born 1948), lead singer of German hard rock band The Scorpions
 * Klaus Mertens (born 1949), German singer
 * Klaus Nomi (1944–1983), German entertainer
 * Klaus Perwas (born 1971), German basketball coach and former player
 * Klaus Schilling (1871-1946), German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
 * Klaus Schulze, German electronic music composer and musician
 * Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), German conductor
 * Klaus Voormann (born 1938), artist, musician, and record producer who was associated with the early days of The Beatles
 * Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 1943), theatrical name of Klaus Georg Steng, Austrian actor
 * Stefanos Klaus Athanasiadis (born 1988), Greek footballer of Greek and German origin
 * Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist

Characters

 * Klaus Baudelaire, character in the A Series of Unfortunate Events books
 * Klaus Heissler, character on American Dad!
 * Klaus, character on Beyblade: Metal Masters
 * Klaus Mikaelson, an original hybrid of vampire and werewolf on The Vampire Diaries as well as on The Originals
 * Klaus Daimler, character portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
 * Klaus, from Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2
 * Klaus Goldstein, a character in the Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart+ App
 * Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, an antagonistic character from the Girl Genius web-comic
 * Klaus, the Masked Man, from Japanese role-playing game, Mother 3, or more formally known in the u.s as earthbound 2.

Television

 * "Klaus" (The Vampire Diaries), a 2011 episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries
 * "Klaus" (The Originals), a spinoff of ' 'The Vampire Diaries''
 * "Klaus" ("A Series of Unfortunate Events"), episodes of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Literature

 * Klaus, a graphic novel miniseries by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora.

Klaus in a series of unfortunate events books

Movies

 * Klaus by Sergio Pablos