Klaus

Notable persons whose family name is Klaus

• Billy Klaus, US baseball player
• Chris Klaus, US entrepreneur
• Frank Klaus, German-American boxer, 1913 Middleweight Champion
• 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 whose given name is Klaus

• Brother Klaus, Swiss patron saint
• Klaus Augenthaler, German football player and manager
• Klaus Badelt, German composer; most famous work to date is from Pirates of the Caribbean
• 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 Dede, German writer
• Klaus Doldinger, German musician
• Klaus Iohannis, Romanian Politician
• 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 Isekenmeier, German decathlete
• Klaus Kinkel, German politician
• Klaus Kinski, German actor
• Klaus Lage, German musician
• Klaus Lanzarini, Italian freestyle swimmer
• Klaus Löwitsch, German actor
• Klaus Meine, lead singer of German hard rock band The Scorpions
• Klaus Mertens, German singer
• Klaus Nomi, German entertainer
• Klaus Perwas, German basketball coach and former player
• Klaus Schilling, German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
• Klaus Schulze, German electronic music composer and musician
• Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor
• Klaus Voormann, artist, musician, and record producer who was associated with the early days of The Beatles
• Klaus Wowereit, German politician
• Klaus Maria Brandauer, theatrical name of Klaus Georg Steng, Austrian actor
• Stefanos Klaus Athanasiadis, Greek footballer of Greek and German origin
• Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist

  Characters

• Klaus Baudelaire, character in the A Series of Unfortunate Events books
• Klaus Heisler, 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.
• Klaus Hargreeves, #4 The Seance, character from The Umbrella Academy comic and TV show.

  Television

• "Klaus", 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
• "Klaus" The Umbrella Academy , episodes of The Umbrella Academy

  Literature

• Klaus, a comic book miniseries and series of one-shots by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora.
• Klaus, A Series of Unfortunate Events, book series by Lemony Snicket

  Movies

• Klaus, a Spanish animated movie directed by Sergio Pablos