Cohen (surname)
Cohen is a Jewish surname. The family has the highest proliferation comparable to Müller and Schmidt in the German-speaking world or with Smith in the English-speaking world.
Origin and Meaning
Cohen is the biblical name of members of a group with priestly functions in Judaism ( Kohanim ). They are seen as male descendants of Aaron and Zadok.
Variants
Bearers of the name
A
- Abby Joseph Cohen ( born 1952 ), American economist
- Alan Cohen ( born 1934 ), British jazz musician and arranger
- Albert Cohen (1895-1981), Swiss writer
- Albert Cohen ( mathematician ) (born 1965 ), French mathematician
- Albert K. Cohen ( born 1918 ), American sociologist and criminologist
- Almog Cohen ( * 1988), Israeli football player
- Anat Cohen ( born 1975 ), Israeli jazz musician
- Andrew Cohen ( governor) ( 1909-1968 ), British governor of Uganda
- Andrew Cohen ( editor ) (born 1954 ), American Cutter
- Andrew Cohen ( Evolutionary Enlightenment ) ( born 1955 ), American Guru
- Andrew Cohen ( journalist) ( born 1955 ), Canadian journalist and author
- Andrew Cohen ( footballer ) ( born 1981 ), Maltese footballer
- Anita Müller -Cohen (1890-1962), Austrian social worker
- Arthur Cohen ( politician ) ( 1830-1914 ), English lawyer and politician
- Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986), American Jewish scholar and author
- Asi Cohen ( born 1974 ), Israeli comedian and actor
- Assaf Cohen (born 1972 ), American actor
- Avi Cohen (1956-2010), Israeli football player
- Aviad Cohen ( born 1975 ), Israeli singer and composer
- Avishai Cohen (born 1970 ), Israeli bassist
- Avner Cohen ( born 1951 ), Israeli philosopher and journalist
- Ayelet Cohen ( born 1985 ), Israeli basketball player
B
- Ben Cohen ( businessman ) ( Bennett R. Cohen; born 1951 ), American entrepreneur
- Ben Cohen ( rugby player ) (born 1978 ), English rugby player
- Benjamin Cohen ( born 1937 ), American economist
- Bennett Cohen (1890-1964), American screenwriter
- Bernard Cohen ( painter) ( born 1933), British painter and printmaker
- Bernard Leonard Cohen (1924-2012), American physicist
- Bernard Waley Cohen (1914-1991), British politician
- Beth Cohen, American archaeologist
- Boris Cohen ( * 1944 ), Russian painter
- Bram Cohen ( born 1975 ), American programmer
- Bruce Cohen, American film producer
C
- Carl Cohen ( born 1931 ), American philosopher
- Chris Cohen ( * 1987), English footballer
- Claude Cohen- Tannoudji ( born 1933), French physicist
- Colby Cohen ( * 1989), American ice hockey player
D
- Daniel Morris Cohen ( born 1930 ), American zoologist
- Danny Cohen ( musician), American musician
- Danny Cohen ( engineer), American engineer
- Danny Cohen ( Cinematographer ) ( born 1963 ), British cameraman
- Danny Cohen ( broadcast director ) ( born 1974 ), British radio director
- David Cohen ( historian ) ( 1882-1967 ), Dutch historian and Zionist
- David Cohen ( politician ) ( 1914-2005 ), American politician
- David Cohen de Lara (around 1602-1674 ), a Sephardic rabbi, philologist and scholar
- David X. Cohen (born 1966 ), American screenwriter and film producer
- Dick Cohen ( born 1949 ), American politician
- Douglas J. Cohen, American composer
E
- E.G.D. Cohen ( Ezekiel Godert David Cohen; b. 1923 ), American physicist
- Eli Cohen (1924-1965), Israeli spy
- Eli Cohen (actor ) ( born 1940 ), Israeli actor and director
- Eli Cohen ( politician ) ( b. 1949 ), Israeli politician and diplomat
- Eli Cohen ( football player, 1951) ( born 1951 ), Israeli football player and manager
- Eli Cohen ( footballer 1961) ( b. 1961 ), Israeli football player
- Eliezer Cohen ( born 1934 ), Israeli politician (National Union Jisra'el Beiteinu )
- Eliot A. Cohen ( born 1956 ), American political scientist and diplomat
- Emil Cohen (1842-1905), German mineralogist and geologist
- Emma Cohen ( born 1946 ), Spanish actress
- Emory Cohen ( * 1990), American actor
- Erminie Cohen ( born 1926 ), Canadian politician
- Ernst Cohen ( * 1951), German actor
- Ernst Julius Cohen (1869-1944), Dutch chemist
- Etan Cohen ( born 1974 ), American film director, producer and screenwriter
F
- Ferdinand Cohen- Blind (1844-1866), German bombers
- Floris Cohen ( born 1946 ), Dutch historian of science
- Fred Cohen ( born 1957 ), American computer scientist
- Frederic Cohen ( also Friedrich A. Cohen, Fritz A. Cohen; 1904-1967 ), German - American composer
G
- Gabriella Cohen, Italian ballet dancer
- Gary Cohen ( footballer ) ( born 1984 ), English footballer
- Gary G. Cohen ( born 1934 ), American theologian
- George Cohen ( born 1939 ), English footballer
- Gerald A. Cohen (1941-2009), Canadian social scientist
- Geula Cohen ( born 1925 ), Israeli journalist and politician
- Greg Cohen ( born 1953 ), American jazz musician
- Gustav Gabriel Cohen (1830-1906), German banker
- Gustave Cohen (1879-1958), French literature historian
B
- Harold Cohen ( b. 1928 ), British painter, graphic artist and computer scientist
- Harriet Cohen (1895-1967), English pianist
- Harry Cohen ( born 1949 ), British politician ( Labour Party )
- Harvey Cohen (1951-2007), American composer
- Henry Cohen (1869-1940), German textile merchant
- Henri Cohen ( b. 1947 ), French mathematician
- Henry Cohen ( numismatists ) ( 1806-1880 ), French numismatist
- Henry Cohen ( rabbi ) ( 1863-1952 ), American rabbi
- Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead ( 1900-1977 ), British physician
- Henry Cohen ( Military ) ( 1922-1999 ), American soldier and camp commander
- Herb Cohen (1933-2010), American artist manager
- Hermann Cohen ( Carmelite ) ( 1820-1871 ), German religious cleric and pianist
- Hermann Cohen (1842-1918), German philosopher
- Horace Cohen (born 1971 ), Dutch actor
I
- I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003), American historian of science
- Ilan Duran Cohen ( born 1963 ), French film director, screenwriter, producer and writer
- Irun R. Cohen ( born 1937 ), American immunologist
- Irvin Cohen (1917-1955), American mathematician
- Irving Cohen ( also Big Gangi or Jack Gordon II, 1904-1991 ), American actor
- Izhar Cohen ( born 1951 ), Israeli singer
J
- Jack Cohen ( politician ) ( 1886-1965 ), British politician
- Jack Cohen ( businessman ) ( 1898-1979 ), British businessman
- Jack Cohen ( biologist ) ( born 1933), British biologist
- Jacob Cohen ( businessman ) ( † 1919), German entrepreneur, founder of Werhahnmühle
- Jacob Cohen, maiden name of Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004), American actor
- Jacob Cohen ( psychologist ) ( 1923-1998 ), American psychologist
- Jacob Laurence Cohen (1898-1950), Canadian lawyer
- Jacob Willem Cohen (1923-2000), Dutch mathematician
- Janet Neel Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico ( born 1940 ), British writer, lawyer and politician
- Jay M. Cohen, American soldier and politician
- Jean -Louis Cohen ( b. 1949 ), French architect, author and art historian
- Jenny Cohen (1905-1976), German dentist
- Jerome A. Cohen, American legal scholar
- Yigal Cohen- Orgad ( b. 1937 ), Israeli politician
- Job Cohen ( b. 1947 ), Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
- Joe Cohen ( born 1984 ), American football player
- Joel E. Cohen ( born 1944 ), American physicist
- John Cohen ( psychologist ) ( born 1911 ), British psychologist and university lecturer
- John Cohen (musician ) ( born 1932 ), American musician and filmmaker
- John S. Cohen (1870-1935), American politician (Georgia )
- Jonathan Reuben Cohen (born 1958 ), American philosopher
- Jules Cohen (1830-1901), French composer and organist
- Julia Cohen ( * 1989), American tennis player
- Julius B. Cohen (1859-1935), British chemist
L
- Larry Cohen ( born 1938 ), American filmmaker
- Laurence Jonathan Cohen (1923-2006), British philosopher
- Leonard Cohen ( b. 1934 ), Canadian writer, composer and singer
- Léonce Cohen (1829-1901), French composer
- Levy Barent Cohen (1740-1808), English financier and Municipal Workers
- Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton (1897-1966), British business leaders and politicians ( Labour Party )
- Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen (1888-1973), British lawyer
- Liran Cohen ( b. 1983 ), Israeli football player
- Louis Cohen (1904-1939), American Gangster
- Louis Cohen (1827-1889), German engineer and landowner
- Lynn Cohen, American actress
M
- Marcel Cohen ( linguist ) ( 1884-1974 ), French linguist
- Marcel Cohen, maiden name of Marcel Cravenne (1908-2002), French film director
- Mark R. Cohen ( born 1943 ), American historian, orientalist and university teachers
- Marvin Cohen ( born 1935 ), American physicist
- Matt Cohen ( author) ( 1942-1999 ), Canadian writer
- Matt Cohen (actor ) ( b. 1982 ), American actor
- Matt Cohen (ice hockey player) ( born 1985 ), American ice hockey player
- Mattanya Cohen (born 1965 ), Israeli diplomat
- Max Cohen ( lawyer ) ( 1842-1918 ), German lawyer and politician, MdHB
- Max Cohen ( journalist) ( Max Emanuel Cohen- Reuss; 1876-1963 ), German journalist and politician (SPD )
- Max Cohen- Olivar ( born 1945 ), Moroccan race car driver
- Meir Cohen ( born 1955 ), Israeli politician
- Meytal Cohen ( born 1984 ), American drummer
- Michael Cohen ( doctor ), American physician and university teacher
- Michael Cohen ( musician), American singer -songwriter
- Michael Cohen ( author) (born 1970 ), Australian author and journalist
- Michaël Cohen (born 1970 ), French actor
- Michael Cohen ( pharmacologist ), American pharmacologist
- Michael Cohen ( actor), Canadian actor
- Michael D. Cohen ( born 1945 ), American sociologist
- Mickey Cohen ( Meyer Harris " Mickey" Cohen; 1913-1976 ), American mobster
- Mike Cohen ( † 1988? ), American actor
- Mitch Cohen ( * 1952 ) U.S. American- German author, editor and translator
- Morris Cohen (General ) ( 1887-1970 ), British- Chinese adventurers and General
- Morris Cohen ( spy ) ( Peter Kroger; 1910-1995 ), American spy for the Soviet Union
- Morris Cohen ( Metallurg ) ( 1911-2005 ), American physicist and metallurgist
- Morris Raphael Cohen (1880-1947), Belarusian- American philosopher of religion
- Myron Cohen (1902-1986), American comedian
N
- Nathan Cohen ( born 1986 ), New Zealand rower
- Nathan Hermann Cohen (1833-1901), German physician and politician, MdHB
- Nick Cohen, British journalist
O
- Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959), American lawyer and writer
- Oliver Jackson -Cohen ( born 1986 ), British actor and model
- Oshri Cohen ( born 1984 ), Israeli actor
P
- Pat Cohen ( born 1957 ), American blues singer
- Patrick Cohen- Akenine (born 1966 ), French violinist and conductor
- Paul Cohen (music producer ) ( 1908-1970 ), American country music producer and manager
- Paul Cohen ( mathematician ) ( 1934-2007 ), American mathematician
- Paul Cohen ( neurophysiologist ), American neurophysiologist
- Paul Cohen ( saxophonist ), American saxophonist and music teacher
- Paul Cohen (tenor saxophonist ) ( Pablo Cohen ), American tenor saxophonist and record producer, husband of Lila Downs
- Peggy Cohen, maiden name of Peggy Brixhe ( born 1925 ), Portuguese tennis and badminton player
- Peter Cohen ( born 1946 ), Swedish documentary
- Philip Cohen ( † 1949), American Gangster
- Philip Abraham Cohen (1790-1856), German entrepreneur
- Pierre Cohen ( born 1950 ), French politician ( Parti Socialiste ), Mayor of Toulouse
- Preston Scott Cohen, American architect
R
- Ra'anan Cohen ( born 1941 ), Israeli politician
- Ran Cohen ( born 1937 ), Israeli politician
- Randolph Cohen (born 1965 ), American economist
- Richard Cohen ( born 1952 ), American psychotherapist
- Richard I. Cohen, an Israeli historian and university teacher
- Rob Cohen ( born 1949 ), American film director
- Robert Cohen ( boxer ) ( born 1930 ), French boxer
- Robert Cohen ( German scholar ) ( born 1941 ), Swiss literary scholar
- Robert Cohen ( screenwriter ), Canadian screenwriter, producer and actor
- Robert Cohen ( cello ) ( born 1959 ), British cellist
- Robert Waley Cohen (1877-1952), British chemist
- Roger Cohen ( born 1955 ), British journalist and author
- Ronald Cohen ( businessman ) ( born 1945 ), British entrepreneur
- Ronald E. Cohen ( born 1957 ), American geophysicist
- Rudolf Cohen ( * 1937 ), German psychologist and university lecturer
S
- Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971 ), English actor
- Salomon Jacob Cohen (1772-1845), Jewish teacher and author
- Samuel Cohen ( composer ) ( 1870-1940 ), Composer
- Samuel Cohen ( physicist ) ( 1921-2010 ), American physicist
- Sasha Cohen ( born 1984 ), American figure skater
- Scott Cohen (born 1964 ), American actor
- Selma Jeanne Cohen (1920-2005), American dance historian
- Seymour S. Cohen ( * 1917 ), American biochemist and cancer researcher
- Sharon Cohen, known as Dana International (born 1972 ), Israeli singer
- Shaughnessy Cohen (1948-1998), Canadian politician
- Shaye JD Cohen ( born 1948 ), American literary scholar
- She'ar Yashuv Cohen ( * 1927), Israeli Chief Rabbi
- Simon Baron -Cohen (born 1958 ), British psychologist
- Stanley Cohen ( * 1922 ), American neuroscientist and biochemist
- Stanley Cohen ( politician ) ( 1927-2004 ), British politician
- Stanley Cohen ( sociologist ) ( 1942-2013 ), English sociologist
- Stanley Norman Cohen ( born 1935 ), American geneticist
- Stephan Cohen (born 1978 ), French billiards player
- Stéphanie Cohen- Aloro ( b. 1983 ), French tennis player
- Stephen F. Cohen ( born 1938 ), American historian, Slavic and high school teachers
- Steven A. Cohen ( born 1956 ), American entrepreneur and art collector
- Steven J. Cohen ( born 1953 ), French Cutter
- Stuart David Cohen, known as David Blue (1941-1982), American singer
T
- Taika Cohen ( born 1975 ), New Zealand actor and director
- Tamir Cohen ( born 1984 ), Israeli football player
- Tanner Cohen ( born 1986 ), American actor and singer
- Tiffany Cohen (born 1966 ), American swimmer
U
- Uzi Cohen (1952-2008), Israeli politician ( Likud )
W
- Wilbur J. Cohen (1913-1987), American sociologist
- William Cohen ( born 1940 ), American politician (Maine)
- William W. Cohen (1874-1940), American politician (New York)
Y
- Yaron Cohen, known as Dana International (born 1972 ), Israeli singer
- Yitzhak Cohen ( born 1951 ), Israeli politician
- Yoel Cohen ( born 1953 ), British journalist and university teacher
- Yousef Hamadani Cohen, Chief Rabbi in Iran
Fictional people
- Cohen family from the series O.C., California
- Brian Cohen in The Life of Brian
- Cohen the Barbarian from the Discworld novels, see characters and locations of the Discworld novels # Cohen the Barbarian