List of Famous people with last name Katz

Janina Katz was a Polish-Danish writer. A Polish Jew, she emigrated to Denmark in 1969. In 1991, she published her first collection of poems Min mors datter.

Robert Katz was an American novelist, screenwriter, and non-fiction author.

Michael Katz is an Austrian film producer. He has produced films for cinematic release as well as made-for-television movies and television series. He has worked with Michael Haneke on most of his films, including Amour. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Amour along with Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt and Veit Heiduschka in 2013.

Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

Ya'akov Dov "Katzele" Katz is an Israeli politician. He led the National Union party from 2008 to 2012, for whom he was a member of the Knesset, and is also the Executive Director of Beit El yeshiva Center Institutions and Arutz Sheva.

Phillip Walter Katz was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the Zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit between System Enhancement Associates (SEA) and Katz's company, PKWARE, Inc., was widely publicized in the BBS community in the late 1980s. Phil Katz's software business was very successful, but he struggled with social isolation and chronic alcoholism in the last years of his life.

Samuel Michael "Sam" Katz, is a Canadian businessman and former politician who was the 42nd mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 2004 to 2014. He is the owner of the Winnipeg Goldeyes and a member of the Order of Manitoba.