Gauss (surname)

Gauss or Gauß or Gausz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German universal mathematician and physicist
* Friedrich Gustav Gauss [de] (1829–1915), German geologist, who also published some well-known logarithm tables (and thereby sometimes gets confused with Carl Friedrich Gauss, who introduced Gaussian logarithms earlier on)
* Christian Gauss (1878-1951), American literary critic
* Ernst Gauss, one of several pseudonyms of Germar Rudolf (b. 1964), German Holocaust denier and chemist
* Karl Johann Gauss (1875–1957), a Notable German Obstetrician and Professor
* Clarence E. Gauss (1887–1960), US Ambassador to China and Australia

"Gauss" is also (rarely) used as a given name, e.g.:

* Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Brazilian engineer

## See also

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* Gaus (disambiguation)

Surname list

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