Kautz

Kautz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Albert Kautz (1839–1907), American naval officer, born at Georgetown, Ohio
• August Kautz (1828–1895), German-American soldier and Union Army cavalry officer during the American Civil War
• Christian Kautz (1913–1948), auto racing driver from Switzerland
• Jacob Kautz (1500–1532), Anabaptist who posted seven theses to the door of the Worms Cathedral in 1527
• Julius Kautz (1829–1909), Hungarian economist

See also

• Kautz Creek, tributary of the Nisqually River in the Mount Rainier National Park of Washington
• Kautz Creek Falls, waterfall on Kautz Creek in the Mount Rainier National Park of Washington
• Kautz Glacier, narrow glacier on the southern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington
• Kautz Family YMCA Archives collects the historical records of its national organization, the YMCA of the USA
• Kautz filter, named after William H. Kautz, is a fixed-pole traversal filter, published in 1954
• Kautz graph, directed graph of degree M and dimension N + 1, which has (M + 1)MN vertices labeled by all possible strings of length N + 1 which are composed of characters chosen from an alphabet A containing M + 1 distinct symbols, subject to the condition that adjacent characters in the string cannot be equal…
• Wilson-Kautz Raid, cavalry operation in south central Virginia in late June 1864 during the American Civil War