Gauss (surname)
# Gauss (surname)

Gauss or Gauß or Gausz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German universal mathematician and physicist
* Friedrich Gustav Gauss [de] (1829–1915), German geologist, who also published some well-known logarithm tables (and thereby sometimes gets confused with Carl Friedrich Gauss, who introduced Gaussian logarithms earlier on)
* Christian Gauss (1878-1951), American literary critic
* Ernst Gauss, one of several pseudonyms of Germar Rudolf (b. 1964), German Holocaust denier and chemist
* Karl Johann Gauss (1875–1957), a Notable German Obstetrician and Professor
* Clarence E. Gauss (1887–1960), US Ambassador to China and Australia
