List of Famous people with last name Kauffmann

Jean-Paul Kauffmann is a French journalist and writer, a former student of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.

Götz Kauffmann was an Austrian stage, film and television actor, cabaret artist and writer.

Sylvie Kauffmann is a French journalist for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the newspaper Le Monde. She worked for AFP in France in 1979 and as a foreign correspondent from 1980 to 1988. Kauffmann joined Le Monde as Moscow correspondent in 1988 and later Eastern and Central Europe correspondent from 1989 to 1993. She worked in the United States from 1993 to 2001 and Latin America in 2002 and 2003. Kauffman was appointed deputy chief editor of Le Monde in 2003 and covering Southeast Asia as reporter-in-large from 2006 to 2009. In 2010, she was appointed the newspaper's first woman editor-in chief, serving in the role until 2011.

Henrik Kauffmann was the Danish ambassador to the United States during World War II, who signed over part of Greenland to the US.