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Alexander Kaufmann (1817–1893), German poet and folklorist, brother of Leopold •
Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri •
Andrea Kaufmann (born 1969), Austrian politician •
Andreas Kaufmann (born 1973), German footballer •
Andy Kaufmann (born 1967), American basketball player •
Arthur Kaufmann (1872–1938), Austrian attorney, philosopher and chess master •
Arthur Kaufmann (artist) (1888–1971), German avant-garde painter •
Bobby Kaufmann (born 1985), American politician •
Carl Kaufmann (1936–2008), West German sprint runner •
Christian Kaufmann (alpine guide) (1872–1939), Swiss mountain guide active in Canada •
Christian Kaufmann (canoeist) (born c. 1940), West German slalom canoeist •
Christine Kaufmann (1945–2017), German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman •
Christine Kaufmann (politician) (born 1951), Montana State Senate •
Daniel Kaufmann (footballer) (born 1990), Liechtensteiner footballer •
Danielly Kaufmann (born 1984), Luxembourg-Brazilian visual artist •
David Kaufmann (1852–1899), Jewish-Austrian scholar •
Dieter Kaufmann (1941–2025), Austrian composer •
Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885–1955), US businessman and philanthropist •
Eduard Kaufmann (1860–1931), German physician and co-discoverer of the Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome •
Elsie Effah Kaufmann (1969), Ghanaian academic and biomedical engineer •
Eric Kaufmann (born 1970), Canadian demographer •
Ernst Kaufmann (1895–1943), Swiss racing cyclist •
Eugen Kaufmann (1892–1984), German architect •
Evan Kaufmann (born 1984), German-American ice hockey player •
Fabio Kaufmann (born 1992), German-Italian footballer •
Felix Kaufmann (1895–1949), Austrian-American law philosopher •
Franz Kaufmann (1886–1944), German jurist and victim of the Holocaust •
Franziska Kaufmann (born 1987), Swiss curler •
Fritz Kaufmann (1905–1941), Swiss ski jumper and Nordic combined skier •
George Adams Kaufmann (1894–1963), British mathematician, translator and anthroposophist •
Gordon Kaufmann (1888–1949), English-born American architect •
Günther Kaufmann (1947–2012), German actor •
Hans Kaufmann (born 1948), Swiss politician and business consultant •
Heinz Kaufmann (1913–1997), German rower •
Herbert Kaufmann (1920–1976), German ethnologist, journalist, photographer and writer •
Hermann Kaufmann (born 1955), Austrian architect •
Hilde Kaufmann (1920–1981), German jurist and criminologist •
Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921), Austro-Hungarian painter •
Jeff Kaufmann (born 1963), American politician •
Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969), German tenor •
Judith Kaufmann (born 1962), German cinematographer •
Julia Kaufmann (born 1984), German voice actress •
Karl Kaufmann (painter) (1843–1905), Austrian landscape and architectural painter •
Karl Kaufmann (1900–1965), German Nazi Gauleiter in Hamburg •
Karl Maria Kaufmann (1872-1951), German Biblical archaeologist •
Konstantin von Kaufmann (1818–1882), Russian general, for whom "Mount Kaufmann" (or "Peak Kaufmann", now called Lenin Peak) was named •
Klaus Kaufmann (born 1948), Austrian pianist who founded the Austrian-Chinese-Music-University •
Lars Kaufmann (born 1982), German handball player •
Leon Kaufmann (1872–1933), Polish painter and pastellist •
Leonhard Kaufmann (born 1989) Austrian footballer •
Leopold Kaufmann (1821–1898), German politician, brother of Alexander •
Malte Kaufmann (born 1976), German economist, entrepreneur and politician •
Manfred Kaufmann (born 1978), Liechtenstein politician •
Maurice Kaufmann (1927–1997), British actor • Max R. Kaufmann, designer of the
Kaufmann font family •
Max Rudolf Kaufmann (1886–1963), Swiss author, translator, and journalist •
Michael Kaufmann (born 1964), German politician •
Miranda Kaufmann (born 1982), British historian •
Myron Kaufmann (1921–2010), American author •
Nico Kaufmann (1916–1996), Swiss pianist and composer •
Oskar Kaufmann (1873–1956), Hungarian-German Jewish architect •
Patricia A. (Trish) Kaufmann of Lincoln, Delaware •
Peter Kaufmann (Alpine guide) (1872–1939), Swiss mountain guide from Grindelwald •
Peter Kaufmann (politician) (born 1947), politician and businessman in Winnipeg •
Peter Kaufmann-Bohren (1886–1971), Swiss mountain guide •
Rainer Kaufmann (born 1959), German film director •
Richard von Kaufmann (1850–1908), German jurist and art collector •
Rudolf Kaufmann (1909–1941), German palaeontologist and geologist, son of Walter (physicist) •
Sören Kaufmann (born 1971), German slalom canoeist •
Stefan Kaufmann (musician) (born 1960), German drummer •
Stefan Kaufmann (politician) (born 1969), German Bundestag member •
Stefan H.E. Kaufmann (born 1948), German microbiologist •
Stevie Kaufmann, (1913–2004), American socialite •
Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (born 1955), German politician •
Theodore Kaufmann (1814–1896), German-American painter •
Ulrich Kaufmann (1840–1917), Swiss mountain guide •
Walter Kaufmann (author) (1924–2021), German-Australian writer •
Walter Kaufmann (composer) (1907–1984), Czech-born American ethnomusicologist •
Walter Kaufmann (philosopher) (1921–1980), German philosopher •
Walter Kaufmann (physicist) (1871–1947), German physicist •
William Kaufmann (1918-2008) American nuclear strategist •
William G. Kaufmann (1869–1947), American politician •
Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889–1963), Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar
Given name •
Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912), American editor, lexicographer •
Kaufmann Kohler (1843–1926), German-born American Bible scholar, Reform rabbi and theologian == Kauffmann==