Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means merchant. It is the cognate of the English Chapman (which had a similar meaning in the Middle Ages, though it disappeared from modern English). Kaufmann may refer to: Kaufmann 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 Bob Kauffman (1946–2015), American basketball player 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 David Kaufmann (1852–1899), Jewish-Austrian scholar Dieter Kaufmann (born 1941), 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 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 Frank Kaufmann (born 1952), American peace activist 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 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679–1735), Baroque composer from Thuringia (now in southern Germany) 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 Joan Kaufman, American child psychologist 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 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