Haas (name)

Haas, also de Haas, is a German and Dutch surname, also Jewish (Ashkenazic), usually from Hase or de Haas, the German and Dutch words for "hare". It is also a given name. Notable people with the surname include the following:

* Andreas Haas (born 1982), German footballer
* Arthur Erich Haas (1884–1941), Austrian physicist
* Barbara Haas (born 1996), Austrian tennis player
* Bernt Haas (born 1978), Austrian footballer
* Bill Haas (born 1982), American golfer
* Bob Haas (born 1942), former chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
* Brittany Haas (born 1987), American Fiddler
* Carl Haas (1929–2016), American auto racing impresario
* Charles F. Haas (1913–2011), American film and television director
* Charles S. Haas (born 1952), American screenwriter and actor
* Charlie Haas (born 1972), American professional wrestler
* Christian Haas (born 1958), German sprinter
* Chrislo Haas (1956–2004), German musician
* Christl Haas (1943–2001), Austrian Olympic skiing champion
* Clark Haas (1919–1978), American cartoonist
* Conrad Haas (1509–1576), Austrian military engineer
* Damien Haas (born 1990), German-born American actor.
* Daniel Haas (born 1983), German footballer
* Darius de Haas (born 1968), American stage actor and singer
* David Haas (born 1957), American author and composer of liturgical music
* Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American actress
* Earle Haas (1888–1981), inventor of the modern menstrual tampon
* Eddie Haas (born 1935), American baseball outfielder and manager
* Eduard Haas (1897–1989), Austrian inventor of Pez candy
* Ernst Haas (1921–1986), Austrian photographer and photojournalist
* Ernst B. Haas (1924–2003), American political scientist
* Felix Haas, German investor
* Frank Joseph Haas, former Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia
* Fred Haas (1916–2004), American golfer
* Fritz Haas (zoologist) (1886–1969)
* Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz (1885–1973), Dutch physicist
* Gene Haas (born 1952), American machine tool manufacturer
* Georg Haas (physician) (1886–1971), German medical doctor
* Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), Austrian composer
* Hans Haas (1886–1935), German Protestant theologian
* Harald Haas (born 1968), German professor of Mobile Communications, University of Edinburgh
* Helmut Haas (fl. 1949), discoverer of the Haas effect, a psychoacoustic effect
* Hildegarde Haas (1926–2002), German-born American artist
* Hugo Haas (1901–1968), Czech film actor and director
* Isaac Haas (born 1995), American basketball player
* Jacob de Haas (1872–1937), UK journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement
* Jay Haas (born 1953), American professional golfer
* Johann Wilhelm Haas (1649–1723), German Trumpet maker.
* Josef Haas (1937–2024), Swiss cross country skier
* Joseph Haas (1879–1960), German composer
* Karen L. Haas (born 1962), American government administrator and lobbyist
* Karl Haas (1913–2005), American classical music radio show host
* Karl Wilhelm Jacob Haas (1900–1970), German émigré musicologist and conductor
* Kim Haas, American journalist and television host
* Leonard Haas (1915–1998), Wisconsin politician and President of UW-Eau Claire
* Lisbeth Haas (born 1954), American historian and anthropologist
* Lukas Haas (born 1976), American film actor
* Mario Haas (born 1974), Austrian footballer
* Marius Haas (born 1945), German journalist and diplomat
* Mary Haas (1910–1996), American linguist
* Mauritz de Haas (1832–1895), Dutch-American marine painter
* Maximilian Haas (born 1985), German footballer
* Michael Haas, multiple people
* Mimi Haas (born 1946), American billionaire businesswoman
* Monique Haas (1909–1987), French pianist
* Moose Haas (born 1956), American baseball player
* Mule Haas (1903–1974), American baseball player
* Nathan Haas (born 1989), Australian cyclist
* Nico de Haas (1907–1995), Dutch National-Socialist editor, photographer, and artist
* Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Czech Jewish composer
* Payne Haas (born 1999), Australian rugby league footballer
* Payton Haas (born 1979), American actor
* Peter E. Haas (1918–2005), American businessman
* Peter E. Haas Jr. (born 1948), American businessman and philanthropist.
* Peter M. Haas (born 1955), American political scientist
* Peter W. Haas (born 1964), Slovak fine art photographer
* Radek Haas (born 2000), Czech ice hockey goaltender
* Rene Haas (born 1962), American businessman
* Richard Haas (born 1936), American muralist
* Robert Haas (clergyman) (fl. 1836–1868), 19th-century German Lutheran minister
* Robert Haas (musicologist) (1886–1960), Austrian musicologist
* Russ Haas (1974–2001), American professional wrestler
* Saskia Rao-de Haas (born 1971), Dutch cellist of music from India
* Shira Haas (born 1995), Israeli actress
* Sidney V. Haas (1870–1964), American pediatrician and originator of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet
* Thomas J. Haas, American university president
* Tiffany Haas (born c. 1983), American softball player
* Tiphaine Haas (born 1992), French actress
* Tommy Haas (born 1978), German tennis player
* Toxey Haas (born 1960), American businessman
* Wander Johannes de Haas (1878–1960), Dutch physicist and mathematician
* Walter A. Haas (1889–1979), American president and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
* Walter A. Haas, Jr. (1916–1995), American president and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
* Walter H. Haas, (1917–2015), American amateur astronomer, founder of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO)
* Waltraut Haas (1927–2025), Austrian actress and singer
* Werner Haas (1927–1956), German motorcycle racer
* Wilhelm Haas (1896–1981), German Ambassador.
* Wolf Haas (born 1960), Austrian author
* Wolfgang Haas (born 1948), archbishop in Liechtenstein

## Given name

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* Haas Visser 't Hooft (1905–1977), Dutch field hockey player

## See also

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* Haas (disambiguation)
* Hass (surname)

Surname list

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Family names derived from the word "hare"

Germanic|

* West Germanic: De Haas, Haas, Hase, Haase, Hare
* Germanized: Saitschick

Romance|

* French: Lapin
* Iberian: Conejo, Coello, Conill, Coelho
* Italian: Coniglio
* Romanian: Epure, Epureanu, Epurescu

Slavic|

* East Slavic: Zaichik/Zaychik, Zaichikov/Zaychikov, Zaykov, Zayats, Zaychuk/Zaichuk, Zayets, Zaychenko, Zaytsev
* South Slavic: Zec, Zajc, Zajec, Zajkov, Zaychev
* West Slavic: Zajac, Zając, Zajączkowski/Zajančkauskas/Zayonchkovsky, Zajíc, Zajić, Zajkowski, Zajonc, Králík, Królik, Krulik

Other|

* Estonian: Jänes
* Hungarian: Nyúl
* Latvian: Zaķis
* Turkish: Tavşan

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