Klein is the Dutch and German word for "small", which came to be used as a family name, and thence passed into the names of places, concepts and discoveries associated with bearers of this surname.

People with the surname Klein

• Klein, A. M.(Abraham Moses Klein) (1909-1972), Canadian poet
• Klein, Allen (born 1931), Beatles manager
• Klein, Bernard, U.S. businessman and politician
• Klein, Bruce, Chairman, Immortality Institute
• Klein, Calvin, U.S. fashion designer
• Klein, Chris (born 1979), U.S. actor
• Klein, Chris (born 1976), U.S. soccer player
• Klein, Charles "Chuck" Herbert (1904-1958), U.S. baseball player
• Klein, David (born 1935), Governor, Bank of Israel
• Klein, Ernest (1899-1983), Canadian linguist and rabbi
• Klein, (Christian) Felix (1849-1925), German mathematician
• Frederick C Klein sportswriter
• Klein, Gary, aluminum bicycle designer and manufacturer
• Klein, George (1904-1992), Canadian inventor
• Klein, Gérard, French science fiction writer
• Klein, Gerda Weissmann, Holocaust survivor
• Klein, Isaac (1905-1979), U.S. rabbi
• Jacob Theodor Klein
• Klein, Joe (born 1946), U.S. journalist and novelist (Primary Colors)
• Klein, Jonathan (born 1976), U.S. screenwriter, producer, director
• Klein, Julian (composer and director) (born 1973), German composer and director
• Klein, Julian (grandson)(born January 21 1992) Grandson of Allen Klein
• Klein, Julius Leopold (1810-1876), Hungarian dramatist
• Klein, Lawrence Robert (born 1920), U.S. economist
• Klein, Marty, U.S. sex therapist
• Mathias Klein founder of Klein tools
• Klein, Melanie (1882-1960), British psychotherapist
• Klein, Naomi (born 1970), Canadian author
• Klein, Oskar (1894-1977), Swedish physicist
• Klein, Ralph (born 1942), Canadian politician
• Klein, Robert (born 1942), U.S. stand-up comedian and actor
• Klein, Robert E. (born 1947), U.S. photojournalist, author of children's books
• Klein, Robin (born 1936), Australian author of children's books
• T. E. D. Klein, U.S. author
• Klein, Todd, comic book letterer
• Wilhelm Klein
• Klein, William(Klein Vilmos), psychologist
• Klein, Yves (1928-1962), French artist

A.M. Klein (February 14, 1909-August 20, 1972) was a Canadian author. ... A.M. Klein (February 14, 1909-August 20, 1972) was a Canadian author. ... Allen Klein (born December 18, 1931) is a business manager. ... Bernard Klein is a businessman in Hollywood, Florida. ... Bruce Klein, President of Novamente LLC. Bruce Jason Klein (born April 11, 1974) currently lives in San Francisco, California, and is the President of Novamente LLC, a privately held AI software company focused on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). ... Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is a well-known American fashion designer. ... Chris Klein Christopher Frederick Klein (born March 14, 1979) is an American actor. ... Chris Klein (born January 4, 1976 in St. ... Charles Herbert Klein (October 7, 1904 - March 28, 1958) was a Major League Baseball player who played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1928-33, 1936-39, 1940-44), Chicago Cubs (1934-36) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1939). ... David Klein may refer to: David Klein, American artist David Klein, governor of the Bank of Israel Dave Klein, cinematographer Category: ... Ernest Klein (1899 - February 4, 1983) was a Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. ... Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849, Düsseldorf, Germany – June 22, 1925, Göttingen) was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, function theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. ... Frederick C. Klein (1938–) is an American sportswriter and the author or co-author of 12 books on sports and business. ... Gary Klein can be considered the innovator of the oversized tube aluminum bicycle, which is now a feature of the cycling market. ... George Johnn Klein, O.C., M.B.E., B.A.Sc. ... Gérard Klein is a French science-fiction writer with sociological training. ... Gerda Weissman Klein (b. ... Isaac Klein (1905-1979). ... Daniel Gralath (* 30 May 1708 in Danzig (Gdansk); † 23 July 1767 in Danzig) was a German physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig. ... Joe Klein (b. ... Primary Colors, a 1996 novel by Anonymous (later revealed by Donald Foster to be journalist Joe Klein), is a roman à clef about U.S. President Bill Clintons first presidential campaign in 1992. ... Jonathan Klein Corporate Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Getty Images]] Jonathan Klein, a native of South Africa, co-founded stock-photography company Getty Images in London, England in 1995. ... Julius Leopold Klein (1810 - August 2, 1876) was a German writer of Jewish origin born at Miskolcz, Hungary. ... Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist. ... Dr. Marty Klein is an American marriage counsellor and sex therapist. ... Melanie Klein Melanie Klein, (1882 - 1960), Austrian psychotherapist, built on the work of Sigmund Freud, particularly in the area of child psychology. ... Naomi Klein (born May 5, 1970 [1]) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. ... Ralph Phillip Klein MLA (born November 1, 1942), leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, is the current premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. ... Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is a Jewish-American stand-up comedian and occasional actor. ... Robin Klein (born 1936, Kempsey, New South Wales) is a well-known Australian author of over 40 childrens books for both older and younger readers who lives near Melbourne. ... Theodore Eibon Donald Klein (born 1947) is an American horror writer and editor. ... Todd Klein is a well-known and respected comic book letterer. ... Wilhelm Klein (November 28, 1850, Karánsebes (today Caransebeş), Krassó-Szörény megye, Hungary - 1924), was an Hungarian-Austrian archeologist. ... William Klein (born 19th April 1928, New York City) is an American photographer, painter and film-maker. ... Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism. ...

Places

• Klein, Montana, community in the United States
• Klein, Texas, community in the United States
• Klein-Betschkerek, community in Romania
• Klein Bonaire, island near Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles

Klein is a census-designated place located in Musselshell County, Montana. ... Klein is an unincorporated community in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston within north Harris County, Texas, bordering on Houston to the South and Tomball to the North. ... Klein-Betschkerek (german, romanian: Becicherecu Mic) is a village in romanian Banat, near the city of Timişoara. ... Anthem: Tera di Solo y suave biento Capital Kralendijk Largest city Kralendijk Official language(s) Dutch Government See Politics of the Netherlands Antilles  - Bonaire Administrator  - Governor of N.A. Frits Goedgedrag Constitutional monarchy part of the Netherlands Antilles  Area  - Total 288 km² 111 sq mi  Population  - 2001 census 10,791...

Mathematical/scientific

• Klein bottle, name for a particular non-orientable surface
• Klein quartic, name for a particular Riemann surface
• Klein four-group, name for a particular non-cyclic finite group
• Klein-Gordon equation
• Klein-Nishina Formula
• Clifford-Klein form
• Kaluza-Klein theory

The Klein bottle immersed in three-dimensional space. ... The Klein quartic x3y + y3z + z3x = 0, named after Felix Klein, is a Riemann surface, and a curve of genus 3 over the complex numbers C. The Klein quartic has automorphism group isomorphic to the projective special linear group G = PSL(2,7). ... This article is about the mathematical group. ... The Klein-Gordon equation (Klein-Fock-Gordon equation or sometimes Klein-Gordon-Fock equation) is the relativistic version of the Schrödinger equation. ... The Klein-Nishina formula provides an accurate prediction of the angular distribution of x-rays and gamma-rays which are incident upon a single electron. ... In mathematics, a Clifford-Klein form is a double coset space Γ/G H, where G is a reductive Lie group, H a closed subgroup of G, and Γ a discrete subgroup of G that acts properly discontinuously on the homogeneous space G H. A suitable discrete subgroup Γ may... In physics, Kaluza-Klein theory (or KK theory, for short) is a model that seeks to unify the two fundamental forces of gravitation and electromagnetism. ...

Other

• Klein Modellbahn, Austrian model railway manufacturer
• United States v. Klein, a precedent-setting US court case

Klein Modellbahn is an Austrian model railway manufacturer producing in HO scale only. ... United States v. ...

See also

• List of people by name: Kl

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