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Klaus is aGerman,Dutch andScandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given nameNicholas.

• Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseball player
• Chris Klaus (born 1973), American entrepreneur
• Frank Klaus (1887–1948), German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion
• Fred Klaus (born 1967), German footballer
• 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
• Walter K. Klaus (1912–2012), American politician and farmer

• Brother Klaus, Swiss patron saint
• Klaus Augenthaler (born 1957), German football player and manager
• Klaus Badelt (born 1967), German composer
• 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 Berntsen (1844–1927), Danish politician
• Klaus Dede (1935–2018), German writer
• Klaus Doldinger (born 1936), German musician
• 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 Iohannis (born 1959), Romanian politician
• Klaus Isekenmeier (born 1975), German decathlete
• Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), German politician
• Klaus Kinski (1926–1991), German actor
• Klaus Köchl (born 1961), Austrian politician
• Klaus Lage (born 1950), German musician
• Klaus Lanzarini (born 1977), Italian freestyle swimmer
• Klaus Laser (1942–2020), German actor
• Klaus Löwitsch (1936–2002), German actor
• Klaus Mäkelä, (born 1996) Finnish conductor and cellist
• Klaus Meine (born 1948), lead singer of German hard rock bandScorpions
• Klaus Mertens (born 1949), German singer
• Klaus Nomi (1944–1983), German entertainer
• Klaus Ofczarek (1939–2020), Austrian opera singer and actor
• Klaus Perwas (born 1971), German basketball coach and former player
• Klaus Rogge (born 1979), German rower
• Klaus Schilling (1871–1946), German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
• Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist
• Klaus Schulze (1947-2022), German electronic music composer and musician
• Klaus Schwab (born 1938), German professor who founded theWorld Economic Forum
• 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 Wowereit (born 1953), German politician

• Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 1943), theatrical name of Klaus Georg Steng, Austrian actor

• Klaus fromBeyblade: Metal Masters
• Klaus fromXenoblade Chronicles andXenoblade Chronicles 2
• Klaus fromMother 3
• Klaus Baudelaire fromA Series of Unfortunate Events
• Klaus Daimler fromThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Klaus Hargreeves fromThe Umbrella Academy
• Klaus Heisler fromAmerican Dad!
• Klaus Mikaelson fromThe Vampire Diaries andThe Originals
• Klaus von Wolfstadt fromMaiden Rose
• Baron Klaus Wulfenbach fromGirl Genius
• Klaus fromKlaus
• Klaus fromAnimal Crossing: New Horizons
• Klaus, the titular character fromForklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job

• Claus, a variant of the name
• Klaukkala, Finnish village, whose name is partly based on the name Klaus^[1]
• Klavs, a variant of the name
• Kloyz, a Yiddish school
• Klaus

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