List of Famous people with last name Zahn

Steven James Zahn is an American actor. He also works regularly in television, including the recurring role of Davis McAlary on HBO's Treme and Ronnie LaFontaine on ABC's Modern Family (2014–2015). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Happy, Texas and he was later nominated again for the same award for his performance in Rescue Dawn.

Wilhelm Zahn was a German Kriegsmarine officer during the Second World War. He was U-boat First Watch Officer, then became U-boat commander and was finally promoted to Korvettenkapitän on 1 April 1943. As commander of U-56 he was able to avoid detection by the destroyers surrounding HMS Nelson and came in close proximity to the British flagship, launching three torpedoes against her whilst she was carrying Winston Churchill and the high military command of the British Navy. Following that incident he became widely known as the "Man who almost killed Churchill" amongst the U-boat submariner corps. He was one of the commanding officers during the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff which has been described as "Adolf Hitler's Titanic".

Robert Zahn was a German classical archaeologist, specializing in ceramics and other small objects of Greek antiquity.

Peter von Zahn was a German author, film maker, and journalist.

Professor Joachim Zahn was the chairman of Daimler Benz AG between 1971 and 1979.

Timothy Zahn is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy. He is known for the Thrawn series of Star Wars novels, and has published several other series of science fiction and fantasy novels, in addition to many works of short fiction.