Cohen is a Jewish surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 of biblical origins (see: Kohen

Kohen

A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

). It is a very common Jewish surname, comparable to 'Smith

Smith (surname)

Smith is an English family name originating in England. It is the most common surname in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, the second most common surname in Canada, and the fifth most common surname in Ireland...

' in an English-language context.

Bearing the surname indicates that one's patrilineal

Patrilineality

Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well....

 ancestors were priests in the Temple of Jerusalem. A single such priest was known as a Kohen

Kohen

A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

, and the hereditary caste descending from these priests is collectively known as the Kohanim

Kohen

A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

. As multiple languages were acquired through the Jewish diaspora

Jewish diaspora

The Jewish diaspora is the English term used to describe the Galut גלות , or 'exile', of the Jews from the region of the Kingdom of Judah and Roman Iudaea and later emigration from wider Eretz Israel....

, the surname acquired dozens of variants.

Being a Kohen

Kohen

A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

 imposes some limitations: by Jewish religious law a Kohen

Kohen

A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

 may not marry a divorced woman, and may not marry a proselyte

Proselyte

The biblical term "Proselyte", derives from the Koine Greek προσήλυτος/proselytos, as used in the Septuagint for "stranger", i.e. a "newcomer to Israel"; a "sojourner in the land", and in the New Testament for a convert to Judaism from Paganism...

 (someone who converted to Judaism). Nor should an observant Kohen

Kohen

A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

 come into contact with the dead.

An effort to trace whether or not people named 'Cohen' actually have a common genetic origin has been undertaken in the specific DNA signature

Genealogical DNA test

A genealogical DNA test examines the nucleotides at specific locations on a person's DNA for genetic genealogy purposes. The test results are not meant to have any informative medical value and do not determine specific genetic diseases or disorders ; they are intended only to give genealogical...

 associated with the name known as the Cohen Modal Haplotype.

Cohen may refer to:

People

Cohen, the surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 (or in a few cases, part of a double-barrelled surname) of many people:

Scientists

• Albert K. Cohen
  Albert K. Cohen
  Albert K. Cohen is a prominent American criminologist. He is known for his Subcultural Theory of delinquent urban gangs, including his influential book Delinquent Boys: Culture of the Gang. He has served as Vice President of the American Society of Criminology, and in 1993 he received the...
  
   (1918), an American sociologist
• Bernard Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms...
  
  , a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics.
• David B. Cohen
  David B. Cohen
  David B. Cohen was an American psychology professor.Born in Brooklyn, Cohen received his bachelor's degree in 1963 from Columbia College of Columbia University, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from University of Michigan in 1968...
  
   (1941-2004), an American psychology professor
• Emil Cohen
  Emil Cohen
  Emil Wilhelm Cohen was a German mineralogist, born in Jutland. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg and from 1867 to 1872 was assistant in mineralogy in the latter university. He then spent a year and a half in South Africa, where he studied diamond and gold deposits...
  
   (1842-1905), a German mineralogist (see also cohenite
  Cohenite
  Cohenite is a naturally occurring iron mineral with the chemical structure 3C. This forms a hard, shiny, silver mineral which was named by E. Weinschenk in 1889 after the German mineralogist Emil Cohen, who first described and analysed it. Cohenite is found in rod-like crystals in iron meteorites...
  
  )
• Ernst Julius Cohen (1869-1944), a Dutch chemist
• Henri Cohen (1932), a French mathematician who specializes in number theory.
• Irvin S. Cohen, a mathematician
• Jack Cohen
  Jack Cohen (scientist)
  Jack Cohen, FIBiol is a British reproductive biologist also known for his popular science books and involvement with science fiction.-Life:...
  
  , British biologist and special effects consultant
• Julius Berend Cohen (1859-1935), an English chemist
• Leon Cohen, mathematician and developer of Cohen's class distribution function‎
• Marvin L. Cohen
  Marvin L. Cohen
  Marvin L. Cohen is a Canadian-born American physicist. He is a professor of condensed matter physics and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.Cohen received his PhD from the...
  
  , a Canadian-born American condensed-matter physicist at the University of California, Berkeley
• Paul Joseph Cohen
  Paul Cohen (mathematician)
  Paul Joseph Cohen was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.-Early years:Cohen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, into a...
  
  , (1934-2007), an American mathematician who proved the independence of the continuum hypothesis
  Continuum hypothesis
  In mathematics, the continuum hypothesis is a hypothesis, advanced by Georg Cantor in 1874, about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states:Establishing the truth or falsehood of the continuum hypothesis is the first of Hilbert's 23 problems presented in the year 1900...
  
  
• Samuel T. Cohen (1921-2010), a physicist who is known for inventing the W70 warhead, the "enhanced neutron weapon" or neutron bomb
• Simon Baron-Cohen
  Simon Baron-Cohen
  Simon Baron-Cohen FBA is professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College...
  
  , a renowned British psychologist and director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
• Stanley Cohen
  Stanley Cohen (neurologist)
  Stanley Cohen is an American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine .He received his bachelor's degree in 1943 from Brooklyn College, where he had double-majored in chemistry and biology. After working as a bacteriologist at a milk processing plant to earn money, he...
  
   (born 1922), American Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine
• Stanley Norman Cohen
  Stanley Norman Cohen
  Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist.Cohen is a graduate of Rutgers University, and received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1960...
  
   (born 1935), an American geneticist
• Yoseph Bar-Cohen
  Yoseph Bar-Cohen
  Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who specializes in electroactive materials and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation , and is responsible for the Nondestructive Evaluation and Advance Actuators lab at JPL. Dr...
  
  , a physicist at the JPL who specializes in electroactive materials and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE)
• Henry Cohen, Baron Cohen of Birkenhead British physician and lecturer, former president of the GMC and the Royal Society of Medicine
  Royal Society of Medicine
  The Royal Society of Medicine is a British charitable organisation whose main purpose is as a provider of medical education, running over 350 meetings and conferences each year.- History and overview :...
  
  . The Lord Cohen Medal
  Lord Cohen Medal
  The Lord Cohen Medal is a British medical award honouring individuals who "have made a considerable contribution to ageing research, either through original discoveries or in the promotion of the subject of gerontology in its broadest aspect"...
  
   for Gerontology
  Gerontology
  Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging...
  
   is named after him.

Educators

• Andrew Cohen, (1955-) an American guru, spiritual teacher, founder of the magazine What Is Enlightenment?, author, and musician
• Benjamin Cohen
  Benjamin Cohen (professor)
  Benjamin Jerry Cohen is the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara...
  
  , an American Professor
• I. Bernard Cohen
  I. Bernard Cohen
  I. Bernard Cohen was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of many books on the history of science and, in particular, Isaac Newton....
  
  , former professor of the history of science at Harvard University
• Brad Cohen
  Brad Cohen
  Brad Cohen is an American motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher and author who has severe Tourette syndrome . Cohen described his experiences growing up with the condition in his book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky...
  
  , a motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher and author
• Eliot A. Cohen
  Eliot A. Cohen
  Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies Program at SAIS and has specialized in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms...
  
  , a Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
  Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
  The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
  
   (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and currently serving as Counselor to the U.S. State Department
• Gerald Cohen
  Gerald Cohen
  Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher, formerly Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford...
  
  , the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford
• Glenn Cohen, Department Chair, Biological and Environmental Science, Troy University
• Joanna Waley-Cohen
  Joanna Waley-Cohen
  Joanna Waley-Cohen is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at New York University. She specializes in early modern Chinese history, Chinese imperial culture, and China and the West.-Biography:...
  
  , Professor of History at New York University, where she has taught since 1992
• Morris Cohen
  Morris Cohen (scientist)
  Morris Cohen .Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States, Cohen spent his entire career affiliated with MIT. He graduated from his undergraduate degree in 1933, receiving his doctorate three years later, and was appointed assistant professor of metallurgy in 1937...
  
  , (1911-2005) an emeritus Institute Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Henry Cohen
  Henry Cohen (rabbi)
  Henry Cohen was a Jewish Texan rabbi who served Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas from 1888 to 1952.-History in Galveston:...
  
  , rabbi
  Rabbi
  In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
  
   of the Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas
• Reuben Cohen
  Reuben Cohen
  H. Reuben Cohen, is a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and the third Chancellor of Dalhousie University.Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dalhousie University in 1942 and a Bachelor of Law degree from the Dalhousie Law School in 1944...
  
  , Canadian businessman, lawyer, and the third Chancellor of Dalhousie University
• Richard A. Cohen, lecturer on conversion therapy
• Richard I. Cohen
  Richard I. Cohen
  Richard I. Cohen is a professor of history, presently holding the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
  
  , professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Stanley Cohen
  Stanley Cohen (sociologist)
  Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.-Life:Cohen was born in Johannesberg, South Africa in 1942. He grew up in South Africa and was an undergraduate at the University of Witwatersrand, studying Sociology and Social Work. He came to London in...
  
   (born c. 1940s), Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics
• Stephen F. Cohen, scholar of Russian studies in the USA
• William W. Cohen, professor at the Machine Learning Department of Carnegie Mellon University

Writers

• Abraham Cohen de Herrera
  Abraham Cohen de Herrera
  Abraham Cohen de Herrera also known as Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abraham Irira was a religious philosopher and cabbalist. He is supposed by the historian Heinrich Graetz to have been born in 1570...
  
  , Spanish born philosopher, kabbalist, and professor. Works written in 17th century Amsterdam.
• Albert Cohen
  Albert Cohen
  Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization...
  
  , Greek-born Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French.
• Allen Cohen
  Allen Cohen (poet)
  Allen Cohen was an American poet. Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Brooklyn College and then moved to San Francisco in 1963. There, he founded and edited the San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper, which was published from 1966 to 1968...
  
  , editor of the San Francisco Oracle
  San Francisco Oracle
  The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle, was an underground newspaper published in 12 issues from September 20, 1966, to February 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of that city...
  
  .
• Claudia Cohen
  Claudia Cohen
  Claudia Lynn Cohen was an American gossip columnist, socialite, and television reporter.-Early life and education:...
  
  , American gossip columnist, socialite and television maven.
• David X. Cohen
  David X. Cohen
  David Samuel Cohen , primarily known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and he is the head writer and executive producer of Futurama.-Early life:...
  
  , writer for animated TV
  Television
  Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
  
   shows such as The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  and Futurama
  Futurama
  Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
  
  .
• Elie Aron Cohen
  Elie Aron Cohen
  Elie Aron Cohen was a Dutch doctor who, being Jewish, was sent to the Amersfoort concentration camp. He arrived there on September 16, 1943. His first wife, his first son as well as his parents-in-law were killed upon arrival, but he managed to survive through a combination of chance and skill...
  
   (1909-1993), doctor, Auschwitz survivor, and author.
• Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century.
• Hermann Cohen
  Hermann Cohen
  Hermann Cohen was a German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century".-Life:...
  
  , German philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism.
• Laurence Jonathan Cohen
  Laurence Jonathan Cohen
  Jonathan Cohen FBA was a British philosopher. He was Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy, 1957–90 and Senior Tutor, 1985–90 at The Queen's College, Oxford and British Academy Reader in Humanities, University of Oxford, 1982–84.Education: St...
  
   (1923-2006), British philosopher, writer of the book The Probable and the Provable (1977).
• Matt Cohen (1942-1999), known by the pseudonym Teddy Jam, a Canadian writer.
• Nick Cohen
  Nick Cohen
  Nick Cohen is a British journalist, author and political commentator. He is currently a columnist for The Observer, a blogger for The Spectator and TV critic for Standpoint magazine. He formerly wrote for the London Evening Standard and the New Statesman...
  
  , a British journalist, author, and political commentator.
• Randy Cohen
  Randy Cohen
  Randy Cohen is an American Emmy Award-winning writer and humorist known as the author of The Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine between 1999 and 2011. The column is syndicated throughout the U.S. and Canada.-Career:...
  
  , an American writer and humorist best known as the author of The Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine.
• Octavus Roy Cohen
  Octavus Roy Cohen
  Octavus Roy Cohen was an American author, born in South Carolina where he received his secondary education at the Porter Military Academy, now the exclusive Porter-Gaud School. He went on to receive a college education at the Clemson University...
  
   (1891-1959), writer and author.
• Richard Cohen (columnist), syndicated columnist for the Washington Post.
• Richard E. Cohen
  Richard E. Cohen (National Journal)
  Richard E. Cohen is a journalist and author. He is a congressional correspondent for POLITICO. He received the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress in 1990. He wrote a biography of Dan Rostenkowski, Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old...
  
  , congressional correspondent for a political magazine in the United States.
• Robert Cohen, Canadian comedy writer.
• Simcha Bunim Cohen
  Simcha Bunim Cohen
  Simcha Bunim Cohen is an Orthodox rabbi and author who has written English-language halachic works that deal with the intricate laws of Shabbat and Jewish holidays.-Biography:...
  
  , Orthodox rabbi and author
• Ya'akov Cohen
  Ya'akov Cohen (writer)
  Ya'akov Cohen was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.- Early life :...
  
  , Israeli writer.

Musicians

• Aviad Cohen
  Aviad Cohen
  Aviad Cohen is a Christian singer and songwriter. In 2004 he converted from Conservative Judaism to Christianity. When he was an adherent of Judaism he went by the name "50 Shekel," but has since dropped that name after his conversion to Christianity.-Albums:-External links:* *...
  
  , formerly known as "50 shekel" an Israeli/American singer-songwriter, composer and arranger
• Allen Cohen
  Allen Cohen (composer)
  Allen Cohen is an American composer, arranger, conductor, vocal coach, pianist and university professor.-Education:Cohen holds his B.A. degree in Music and Drama from Ripon College and M.F.A...
  
  , American composer
• Avishai Cohen, Israeli jazz bassist, composer and arranger
• Douglas J. Cohen
  Douglas J. Cohen
  Douglas J. Cohen is an award-nominated composer and lyricist. He is a member of ASCAP, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, and the Dramatists Guild of America.-Works:*The Big Time- Book by Douglas Carter Beane, music & lyrics by Cohen....
  
  , American composer/lyricist
• Ellen Naomi Cohen, American singer known as "Mama" Cass
• Alla Elana Cohen
  Alla Elana Cohen
  Alla Elana Cohen is a distinguished composer, pianist, music theorist and teacher. Receiving her education in Moscow, Russia, and graduating from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the highest honors of distinction, Ms...
  
  , Russian classical composer, pianist, teacher, music theorist and author
• Harriet Cohen
  Harriet Cohen
  Harriet Cohen CBE was a British pianist.-Biography:Harriet Cohen was born in London and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay, having won the Ada Lewis scholarship at the age of 12. She made her debut at a Chappell's Sunday concert at the Queen's Hall a year later...
  
  , British pianist
• Jim Cohen
  Jim Cohen
  Jim Cohen is an American human rights activist, attorney, environmentalist, and former candidate for the United States Senate seat from Minnesota then held by Republican Norm Coleman. Cohen sought the endorsement of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but withdrew his candidacy after...
  
  , American pedal steel guitarist
• Judy Kay Cohen (1952-), American singer known as Juice Newton
  Juice Newton
  Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist...
  
  
• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  , Canadian singer-songwriter, also best-selling author of Beautiful Losers
  Beautiful Losers
  Beautiful Losers is a novel by Leonard Cohen. Published in 1966 by McClelland and Stewart, it was the Canadian novelist-poet's second novel, and precedes his career as a singer-songwriter...
  
   and other novels
• Lynne A Cohen, Oboe
  Oboe
  The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
  
   and English Horn player
• Marc Cohn
  Marc Cohn
  Marc Craig Cohn is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician.- Personal life :Cohn was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College....
  
  , American singer-songwriter
• Mathilda Cohn
  Mathilda Berwald
  Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née Cohn Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née Cohn Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née Cohn (9 March 1798 in Helsinki in Finland - 3 May 1877 in Stockholm, was a Finnish and Swedish concert singer. She was later appointed official singer (Hovsångare) of the Swedish royal court....
  
  , Swedish singer, hovsångare
  Hovsångare
  Hovsångare , literally Court Singer, is a title awarded by the Swedish monarch to a singer who, by their vocal art, has contributed to the international standing of Swedish singing. The formal title was introduced by King Gustav III of Sweden in 1773, with the first recipients being Elisabeth Olin...
  
  
• Patrick Cohen, French pianist
• Paul Cohen
  Paul Cohen (saxophonist)
  Paul Cohen is an American saxophonist. He is active as a performer, teacher, historian, musicologist, and author in areas related to the saxophone.-Education:He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, and M.M. and D.M.A...
  
  , American saxophonist
• Raymond Cohen
  Raymond Cohen
  Raymond Cohen was an English classical violinist.-Early life and education:Born in 27 July 1919 in Manchester into a musical family and educated at Manchester Grammar School. At the age of fifteen he won the Adolph Brodsky scholarship to the Manchester College of Music...
  
  , British violinist
• Samuel Cohen (composer), composer of Hatikvah
• Sander Cohen
  Sander Cohen
  Sander Cohen is a character in the 2007 2K video game BioShock. Cohen lived among the most famous individuals in Rapture. As one of Rapture's more respected musicians, playwrights and poets, Cohen resided in a lavish apartment in Mercury Suites, along with other Rapture celebrities such as Frank...
  
  , a fictional musician in the video game BioShock
  Bioshock
  BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and designed by Ken Levine. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. It became available on Steam on August 21, 2007...
  
  
• Shavit Cohen, popular Israeli musician
• Stuart David Cohen (1941-1982), American singer-songwriter known as David Blue
• Tim Cohen, American musician
• Treyc Cohen, X Factor
  The X Factor (UK series 7)
  The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner of which receives a £1 million recording contract with the Syco Music record label. The seventh series started on ITV on 21 August 2010 and ended on 12 December 2010. The winner was Matt Cardle and...
  
   finalist
• Yaron Cohen (now Sharon Cohen), Israeli singer known as Dana International
  Dana International
  Sharon Cohen , professionally known as Dana International is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever...
  
  

Artists

• Ryosuke Cohen
  Ryosuke Cohen
  is a mail artist. He was responsible for the Brain Cell mail art project, which he began in June of 1985 and retains thousands of members in more than 80 countries, e.g. Hans Braumüller, Theo Breuer, Michael Leigh or Litsa Spathi. In August 2001 he began the Fractal Portrait Project...
  
  , internationally known mail artist (whose surname is a stylistic spelling of Japanese
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
   Kōen and does not derive from the Hebrew name)
• Lynne Cohen
  Lynne Cohen
  Lynne Cohen is an American-Canadian photographer.Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Cohen was educated in printmaking and sculpture in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. Cohen has lived and worked in Canada since 1973, initially in Ottawa, and in Montreal since 2005...
  
  , professional fine art photographer
• Dan Colen
  Dan Colen
  Daniel Colen is an artist based in New York. His work consists of painted sculptures appropriating low-cultural ephemera, graffiti-inspired paintings of text executed in paint, and installations.-Education:...
  
  , artist based in New York (whose surname was changed from "Cohen" by his paternal grandfather)

Technologists

• Bram Cohen
  Bram Cohen
  Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent...
  
  , American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program and protocol BitTorrent

Entertainment industry people

• Alexis Cohen
  Alexis Cohen
  Alexis Cohen was a reality TV show contestant and singer born in Brooklyn, New York best known for her appearances on American Idol and compared her singing style to vocalists such as Grace Slick, Janis Joplin and Pat Benatar...
  
  , American Idol contestant
• Albert Cohen, Israeli actor and singer
• Assi Cohen
  Assi Cohen
  Asi Cohen is an Israeli comedian and actor. He is best known for his appearances in the feature film Colombian Love , as well as for television performances in Love Hurts , "Rak BeYsrael" with his comedy duo of "Asi and Guri", his role in Mesudarim , and for his...
  
  , Israeli comedian and actor
• Bruce Cohen
  Bruce Cohen
  Bruce Cohen is an American film producer. Cohen and his producing partner, Dan Jinks, run The Jinks/ Cohen Company. Cohen and Jinks produced American Beauty, winner of the 1999 Academy Award for Best Picture...
  
  , film producer
• David X. Cohen
  David X. Cohen
  David Samuel Cohen , primarily known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and he is the head writer and executive producer of Futurama.-Early life:...
  
  , writer and producer for television
• Emil Cohen
  Emil Cohen
  Emil Wilhelm Cohen was a German mineralogist, born in Jutland. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg and from 1867 to 1872 was assistant in mineralogy in the latter university. He then spent a year and a half in South Africa, where he studied diamond and gold deposits...
  
   (1911-2000), Jewish comedian and singer, in the tradition of Myron Cohen
• Emma Cohen
  Emma Cohen
  Emma Cohen is a Spanish actress, director, producer and writer. She has appeared in many Spanish language films.-Selected filmography:* Tuset Street...
  
  , Spanish actress whose real name is Emmanuela Beltran Rahola
• Erin Cohen, American actress whose stage name is Erin Daniels
  Erin Daniels
  Erin Daniels is an American actress. She is known for her role as Dana Fairbanks on The L Word .-Early life:...
  
  . Became known through her role as Dana Fairbanks in The L Word
  The L Word
  The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...
  
  
• Herman Cohen
  Herman Cohen
  Herman Cohen was a producer of B-movies during the 1950s, who helped to popularize the teen horror movie genre with films like the cult classic I Was a Teenage Werewolf....
  
  , producer of B-movies during the 1950s, who helped to popularize the teen horror movie genre
• Ira Cohen
  Ira Cohen
  Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life...
  
  , filmmaker, poet and photographer
• Jem Cohen
  Jem Cohen
  Jem Alan Cohen is an award-winning New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats and collaborations with music artists. He is the recipient of the Independent Spirit Award and many first place awards for feature filmmaking...
  
  , a filmmaker known for his blending of media formats and collaborations with music artists
• Jeff Cohen, his claim to fame is appearing as Chunk in the 1985 classic Steven Spielberg production The Goonies
• Joel H. Cohen
  Joel H. Cohen
  For the film director, see Joel Coen.Joel H. Cohen is a writer for Saturday Night Live, Suddenly Susan and The Simpsons...
  
  , a writer for The Simpsons
• Larry Cohen
  Larry Cohen
  Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films - often containing a police procedural element - during 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (1941 - ), film director and brother of Ronni Chasen
• Liskula Cohen
  Liskula Cohen
  Liskula Cohen is a Canadian-born fashion model, based in New York, who has appeared in, and on the covers of, various fashion magazines including Vogue, Elle, and Cleo....
  
  , Canadian born, New York based model, involved in an Internet privacy lawsuit.
• Matt Cohen
  Matt Cohen (actor)
  Matthew Joseph "Matt" Cohen is an American film and television actor best known for playing Aiden Dennison on the teen drama South of Nowhere.-Life and career:...
  
  , an American film and television actor
• Myron Cohen
  Myron Cohen
  Myron Cohen was an American comedian and raconteur.Cohen began as a salesman in the New York City garment industry. When calling on customers, before showing his samples, he would tell a joke in order to put everyone at ease and establish a friendly mood...
  
   (1902-1986), an American comedian and raconteur
• Rob Cohen
  Rob Cohen
  Robert "Rob" Cohen is an American film director, producer and writer.-Early life:Cohen was born in Cornwall, New York. He was raised and spent his childhood in the Town of Newburgh and graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 1967...
  
  , an American film director, producer and writer
• Ronni Chasen
  Ronni Chasen
  Ronni Sue Chasen was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others...
  
   (1946-2010), American publicist born Ronni Cohen, sister of director Larry Cohen
• Sacha Baron Cohen
  Sacha Baron Cohen
  Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist. He is most widely known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno...
  
  , English comedian
• Sidney M. Cohen
  Sidney M. Cohen
  Sidney M. Cohen is a Canadian television director specializing in live multi-camera productions requiring minimal editing and is also a TV program creator.He was born in Montreal, Quebec and began his career with CFCF-TV and later CBC Television...
  
  , a Canadian television director and program creator
• Rodney Dangerfield
  Rodney Dangerfield
  Rodney Dangerfield , was an American comedian, and actor, known for the catchphrases "I don't get no respect!," "No respect, no respect at all... that's the story of my life" or "I get no respect, I tell ya" and his monologues on that theme...
  
   was born Jacob Cohen
• Sid James
  Sid James
  Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...
  
  , actor, was born Joel Solomon Cohen
• Tanner Cohen
  Tanner Cohen
  -Career:In 2006, Cohen appeared as Tad Becker in 5 episodes of the American soap opera As The World Turns. He appeared along side Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in the 2007 thriller The Life Before Her Eyes...
  
  , a american actor and singer

Sports and athletics

• Alan N. Cohen
  Alan N. Cohen
  Alan Norman Cohen was the former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets, and chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, owner of the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers.Cohen began his career in law and entertainment some years after he graduated from Columbia...
  
  , American former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets
• Almog Cohen
  Almog Cohen
  Almog Cohen is an Israeli footballer currently playing for 1. FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga.-Career:Cohen began his career with Beitar Tubruk and signed for Maccabi Netanya in summer 2006. In February 2010, Maccabi Netanya F.C. confirmed that he was set to join 1. FC Nuremberg in the 2010 summer...
  
  , Israeli professional association footballer.
• Andrew Cohen
  Andrew Cohen (footballer)
  Andrew Cohen is a Maltese international footballer who plays professionally for Maltese Premier League side Hibernians, as a striker.-Career:Born in Paola, Cohen has spent his entire professional career with hometown club Hibernians....
  
  , Maltese international footballer
• Andy Cohen (baseball), former New York Giant player
• Audra Cohen
  Audra Cohen
  Audra Marie Cohen is a right-handed American 5' 9" professional tennis player with a two-handed backhand, living in Plantation, Florida, who was the # 1 collegiate female tennis player in the United States in 2007...
  
  , American 2007 NCAA Women's Tennis Singles Champion
• Avi Cohen
  Avi Cohen
  Avraham "Avi" Cohen was an Israeli footballer who played as a defender. He was best known for his spell playing for Liverpool in England. After retirement from active football and management, he was the chairman of the Israel Professional Footballers Association for over five years until he was...
  
  , former Israeli footballer who was the first to play in England
• Ben Cohen
  Ben Cohen (rugby player)
  Benjamin Christopher "Ben" Cohen, MBE is a former England rugby union international. He began his professional career with Northampton Saints in 1996; in 2007 he moved to France to represent Brive before returning to England two years later to join Sale Sharks...
  
  , world cup winning rugby union footballer who plays wing for CA Brive
  CA Brive
  Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin is a French rugby union team founded in 1910 and based in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the département of Corrèze of the Limousin région . They wear black and white and play in the Stade Amédée-Domenech .- History :The club was created on 15 March 1910 established on...
  
   and England
• Chris Cohen
  Chris Cohen
  Christopher 'Chris' David Cohen is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Nottingham Forest. Notionally a midfielder, able to operate equally at centre-midfield or left-midfield, he has also been employed for periods as an emergency left-back...
  
  , English footballer currently playing for Nottingham Forest
• Colby Cohen
  Colby Cohen
  Colby Cohen is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League as a prospect for the Boston Bruins.-Amateur:...
  
   (born 1989), American ice hockey player
• Eli Cohen, Israeli football manager
• Gary Cohen
  Gary Cohen
  Gary Cohen is an American sportscaster, best known as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball....
  
  , American sportscaster, best known as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the New York Mets
• Gary Cohen (footballer)
  Gary Cohen (footballer)
  Gary Dane Cohen is an English former professional footballer who played from 2002 until 2010...
  
  , English professional football player who joined Grimsby Town on a season-long loan deal from Scottish Second Division side Gretna
• George Cohen
  George Cohen
  George Reginald Cohen MBE was the right back for England in the side which won the 1966 World Cup. He is the uncle of Rugby Union World Cup winner, Ben Cohen.-Football career:...
  
   (born 1939), the soccer right back for England in the side which won the 1966 World Cup
• Glen Cohen
  Glen Cohen
  Glendon Howard "Glen" Cohen is a Jamaican-born British athlete . He represented Great Britain at the Olympic games of 1976 and 1980 in the 400 metres. He represented Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club. His personal best of 45.49 was achieved in 1978....
  
  , British athlete.
• Harlan Cohen
  Harlan Cohen
  Harlan Cohen is an American volleyball coach who led both the United States men's and women's national teams during the mid-1960s. Cohen coached the men in 1966. He coached the women to a gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games and a silver medal at the 1967 World Championships in Tokyo...
  
  , American volleyball coach
• Haskell Cohen
  Haskell Cohen
  Haskell Cohen was the public relations director of the National Basketball Association from 1950 to 1969. He is known as the creator of the NBA All-Star Game. He was inducted to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions in basketball.-Career:In 1951, Cohen joined the NBA...
  
  , American sports writer and former National Basketball Association
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   (NBA) public relations director
• Henri Cohen (water polo), Belgian Olympic silver medalist, water polo
• Howard Cosell
  Howard Cosell
  Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these...
  
  , American sportscaster born Howard Cohen
• Jacob Cohen (footballer)
  Jacob Cohen (footballer)
  - Playing career :Cohen was bought by Brighton & Hove Albion from Hapoel Beersheba for £40,000 in October 1990, but made just six appearances.-Footnotes:...
  
  , Israeli former professional association footballer
• Jeff Cohen
  Jeff Cohen (basketball)
  Jeffrey Maxwell Cohen was an All-American basketball player at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia during his senior season in 1960-61...
  
  , All-American college basketball player at William & Mary in 1960-61
• Larry Cohen (soccer)
  Larry Cohen (soccer)
  Larry Cohen is a South African professional footballer who currently plays for Wits University F.C.- Early life :Larry Cohen was born to Martin Cohen, one of South Africa's prominent footballers in the 1970s....
  
  , South African footballer and son of Martin Cohen
• Liran Cohen
  Liran Cohen
  Liran Cohen is a Israeli football player who plays as a midfielder for Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała.-Club:He previously played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maccabi Petah Tikva and Bnei Yehuda....
  
  , Israeli footballer
• Martin Cohen (soccer), South African footballer
• Matt Cohen (ice hockey)
  Matt Cohen (ice hockey)
  Matt Cohen is an American professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for Fife Flyers. He most recently played for the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, posting 5 assists in 40 games during his one season with the Freezers in 2010–11.Cohen is Jewish.-Regular season...
  
  , American ice hockey player
• Mickey Cohen (soccer)
  Mickey Cohen (soccer)
  Mickey Cohen is an American former professional soccer goalkeeperwho played in the North American Soccer League and American Soccer League.Cohen attended Long Island University where he played on the men's soccer team. In 1971, he signed with the Connecticut Wildcats of the American Soccer League...
  
  , American footballer (soccer)
• Norman Cohn
  Norman Cohn
  Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA was a British academic, historian and writer who spent fourteen years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex.-Life:...
  
   (Norman Armitage), US sabre fencer, 17-time US champion, Olympic bronze
• Ohad Cohen
  Ohad Cohen
  Ohad Cohen is an Israeli footballer player who plays in the goalkeeper position for Hapoel Ironi Rishon LeZion.-External links:*...
  
  , Israeli footballer
• Robert Cohen (boxer)
  Robert Cohen (boxer)
  Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:...
  
  , French & Algerian world champion bantamweight boxer
• Sasha Cohen
  Sasha Cohen
  Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen is a U.S. figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion.-Personal life:...
  
  , American US Figure Skating Champion & Olympic silver
• Shimon Cohen
  Shimon Cohen
  Shimon Cohen is an Israeli former professional association footballer who played for the Israeli national team and the Baltimore Bays of the National Professional Soccer League....
  
  , Israeli footballer
• Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
  Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
  Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro is a former French female professional tennis player.Her highest singles ranking was #61, achieved on October 5, 2003...
  
  , French tennis player
• Steven Cohen (footballer), French-Israeli professional association footballer
• Tamir Cohen
  Tamir Cohen
  Tamir Cohen is an Israeli football midfielder who plays for Maccabi Haifa. He is the son of the late Maccabi Tel Aviv and Liverpool player Avi Cohen.-Early career:Cohen started his career in Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team where in 2001–02 he won the double...
  
  , Israeli footballer (Bolton Wanderers
  Bolton Wanderers F.C.
  Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....
  
   & national team)
• Tanhum Cohen-Mintz
  Tanhum Cohen-Mintz
  Tanhum Cohen-Mintz is a former Israeli basketball player. He is 6' 8" tall, and played center.-Basketball career:He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv....
  
   (born 1939), Latvian-born Israeli basketball player
• Tiffany Cohen
  Tiffany Cohen
  Tiffany Lisa Cohen is a double gold champion in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics .Cohen is Jewish....
  
  , American double gold champion in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  1984 Summer Olympics
  The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
  
  , Hall of Fame
• Zion Cohen
  Zion Cohen
  Zion Cohen is an Israeli football striker who last played for Maccabi Tel-Aviv.The 22 year-old striker came from Hapoel Ashkelon scored 15 goals in Ashkelon and promoted the team together with Carlos Chacana to the second league....
  
  , Israeli footballer

Spies

• Eli Cohen
  Eli Cohen
  Eli Cohen was an Israeli spy. He is best known for his work in Syria, where he developed close relationships with the political and military hierarchy and became the Chief Adviser to the Minister of Defense. He was eventually exposed and executed in Syria in 1965...
  
  , an Israeli spy
• Lona Cohen
  Lona Cohen
  Leontine Theresa "Lona" Cohen , also known while she was in London as Helen Kroger, was an American spy for the Soviet Union. She was the wife of another spy, Morris Cohen.-Espionage:...
  
  , an American member of the Communist Party USA who was recruited into Soviet espionage in 1939 by her husband
• Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)
  Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)
  Morris Cohen also known in London as Peter Kroger was an American convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union. His wife Lona was also an agent.-Birth and education:...
  
   (1910-1995, also known as Peter Kroger), was a Soviet spy who helped pass Manhattan Project secrets to the USSR

Politicians

• Aharon Cohen
  Aharon Cohen
  Aharon Cohen was a senior member of Mapam, a pro-USSR Israeli political party which existed during the first two decades of statehood.Born, 1910, in Britchany, Bessarabia in what was the Tsarist empire, now Romania. He came to Palestine in 1929 where he joined kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakin, near Haifa....
  
  , senior member of Mapam
  Mapam
  Mapam was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.-History:Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook and represented...
  
  , born 1910.
• Andrew Cohen (statesman)
  Andrew Cohen (statesman)
  Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen KCMG KCVO OBE was Governor of Uganda from 1952 to 1957.- Early life and education :...
  
  , former Governor of Uganda
• Daniel Cohn-Bendit
  Daniel Cohn-Bendit
  Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a Franco-German politician, active in both countries. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and he was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge...
  
  , a European politician who was a leader of the student protesters during the May 1968 riots in France
• David Cohen (politician), an American politician, noted for his service in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• David B. Cohen (mayor), an American politician, mayor of Newton, Massachusetts
  Newton, Massachusetts
  Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...
  
  
• Erminie Cohen
  Erminie Cohen
  Erminie Joy Cohen, is a retired Canadian senator.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, she graduated from Mount Allison University.Erminie J. Cohen is well known to New Brunswickers for her tireless efforts to help those in need...
  
  , retired Canadian senator
• Geula Cohen
  Geula Cohen
  Geulah Cohen is an Israeli former Irgun and Lehi member, politician, and journalist.-Biography:Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate of Palestine...
  
   (born 1925), Israeli politician and journalist
• Harry Cohen
  Harry Cohen
  Harry Michael Cohen is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead from 1983 to 2010.-Early life:...
  
  , Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
• Jay M. Cohen
  Jay M. Cohen
  Jay M. Cohen is a retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy and Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology of the United States Department of Homeland Security....
  
  , Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology, USA
• Job Cohen
  Job Cohen
  Marius Job Cohen is a Dutch social democratic politician and former legal scholar of Jewish background. Since 2010 he has been the leader of the Labour Party and since June 17, 2010 he has been a member of the House of Representatives, where he also is the Parliamentary group leader of the Labour...
  
  , Dutch politician of the Dutch Labour Party
• Lita Indzel Cohen
  Lita Indzel Cohen
  Lita Indzel Cohen is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.Cohen is a 1958 graduate of Lower Merion High School. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1965...
  
  , American politician
• Pierre Cohen
  Pierre Cohen
  Pierre Cohen is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Haute-Garonne department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche group....
  
  , French politician, Mayor of Toulouse
• Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen is an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children....
  
  , Israeli politician and Knesset member of the Meretz-Yachad party
• Shaughnessy Cohen
  Shaughnessy Cohen
  Elizabeth Shaughnessy Cohen was a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Windsor—St. Clair for the Liberal Party of Canada from 1993 until her death in 1998....
  
  , Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Windsor—St. Clair for the Liberal Party from 1993 to 1998
• Stanley Cohen
  Stanley Cohen (politician)
  Stanley Cohen was a British Labour Party politician. He was on the trade unionist right-wing of the party during the early 1980s struggle for control of the party, and as such suffered deselection at the hands of his constituency party.Cohen was educated at St. Patrick and St. Charles Roman...
  
   (1927-2004), a British Labour politician
• Steve Cohen
  Steve Cohen
  Stephen Ira Cohen is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Tennessee's 9th district includes almost three-fourths of Memphis. Cohen is Tennessee's first Jewish congressman....
  
  , a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's Ninth District
• William Cohen
  William Cohen
  William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as Secretary of Defense under Democratic President Bill Clinton.-Early life and education:...
  
  , a politician and former US Secretary of Defense
• Ya'akov Cohen
  Ya'akov Cohen
  Ya'akov Cohen is an Israeli rabbi and former politician.-Biography:Born in Bnei Brak, Cohen was ordained as a rabbi at the Beit Talmud LeHora'a. He founded the Hassidic Bnei Brak Seminary in 1980 and served as a director until 2001....
  
  , Israeli rabbi and politician

Businesspeople

• Albert D. Cohen
  Albert D. Cohen
  Albert Diamond Cohen, was a Canadian entrepreneur, community builder, philanthropist, and Officer of the Order of Canada. He was Chairman, Co-President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Gendis Inc. , a Toronto Stock Exchange listed Canadian real estate and investment company headquartered in...
  
  , a Canadian businessman who is the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Gendis Incorporated
• Alex Cohen, founder of successful marketing agency Xander Marketing
• Ben Cohen
  Ben Cohen (ice cream)
  Ben Cohen , is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's.-Early life:Raised in the town of Merrick on Long Island by his parents Frances and Irving, Cohen first met and befriended his future business partner, Jerry Greenfield, in a junior high school gym class in 1963...
  
  , a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
• Benjamin Cohen, a British internet entrepreneur and journalist
• Evan Montvel Cohen
  Evan Montvel Cohen
  Evan Montvel Cohen is an American businessman from the island of Guam. He was a founder and the first chairman of the liberal Air America Radio. Cohen has worked primarily in the broadcasting industry and in politics.-Early life:...
  
  , a co-founder and the first chairman of Air America Radio
• Henry Cohen, the director of Föhrenwald, the third largest Displaced Persons camp in the American sector of post-WWII Germany
• Jack Cohen
  Jack Cohen (Tesco)
  Sir John Edward Cohen , born Jacob Edward Kohen and commonly known as Jack Cohen, was a British businessman who founded the Tesco supermarket chain.-Career:...
  
   (1898-1979), British businessman
• Jay Cohen
  Jay Cohen
  Jay Cohen is the cofounder and CEO of World Sports Exchange , an online gambling company from 1996 until July 24, 2000, when he was the first United States citizen to be convicted in US Federal Court for violation of the Federal Wire Act for operating an online gambling company from a jurisdiction...
  
  , the former CEO of World Sports Exchange (WSEX), an online gambling company
• Joshua Lionel Cowen
  Joshua Lionel Cowen
  Joshua Lionel Cowen , born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains....
  
   b. Joshua Lionel Cohen, toy train magnate
• Lyor Cohen
  Lyor Cohen
  Lyor Cohen is the North American Chairman and CEO of Recorded Music for Warner Music Group . He has been a pioneer in the development of hip hop music and influential in the development of hip hop music acts, including Beastie Boys, Foxy Brown, LL Cool J, Jam Master Jay, Nas, Run-D.M.C...
  
  , CEO of Warner Music Group
• Stephen M. Cohen
  Stephen M. Cohen
  Stephen Michael Cohen is an American who gained notoriety after acquiring control of the domain name Sex.com in 1995. He was later implicated in involvement in running the controversial peer-to-peer service EarthStation 5....
  
  , owner of the Internet domain name Sex.com
• Steven A. Cohen
  Steven A. Cohen
  Steven "Steve" A. Cohen is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder of SAC Capital Advisors, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund focusing primarily on equity market strategies....
  
  , a billionaire hedge fund investor and founder of SAC Capital Partners

Lawyers

• Arthur Cohen
  Arthur Cohen
  Arthur Cohen KC was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.After three years' study at the gymnasium in Frankfort-on-the-Main, he entered as a student at University College London. Thence he proceeded to Cambridge University at a time when it was almost impossible for a Jew to gain...
  
  , an English barrister and king's counsel
• Felix S. Cohen
  Felix S. Cohen
  Felix Solomon Cohen was an American lawyer and scholar who made a lasting mark on legal philosophy and fundamentally shaped federal Indian law and policy.- Biography :...
  
   (1907-1953), a lawyer and legal scholar who developed an expertise in law concerning natural resources, statehood and economic development for American territories, Indian affairs, and immigration and minority problems
• George H. Cohen
  George H. Cohen
  George H. Cohen is the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama....
  
  , American director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
• Roy Cohn
  Roy Cohn
  Roy Marcus Cohn was an American attorney who became famous during Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare. Cohn gained special prominence during the Army–McCarthy hearings. He was also an important member of the U.S...
  
   (1927–1986), an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communism in the U.S. government
• Jerome A. Cohen
  Jerome A. Cohen
  Jerome Alan Cohen is a professor of law at New York University School of Law, an expert in Chinese law, a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as "of counsel" at the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.Cohen was originally...
  
  , a professor of law at New York University School of Law and an expert in Chinese law
• Lionel Leonard Cohen, Law Lord, one of "the three wise men"
• Bradford Cohen, a contestant on the Apprentice 2 and celebrity Florida criminal defense lawyer

Fictional characters

• Brian Cohen, a fictional character and the main character of Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team...
  
  .
• Kirsten Cohen
  Kirsten Cohen
  Kirsten Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Kelly Rowan. Kirsten is the wife of Sandy Cohen, mother to Seth Cohen, and the adoptive mother of Ryan Atwood...
  
  , a fictional character on the FOX television series The OC
• Mark Cohen, a fictional character in the play Rent.
• Sandy Cohen
  Sandy Cohen
  Sanford "Sandy" Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX series The O.C., portrayed by Peter Gallagher.Sandy, a lawyer, raconteur, and son of Sophie Cohen, is married to Kirsten Cohen. Their eldest child, Seth, is something of a social misfit. Sandy's father left his mother when he was young and...
  
  , a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C.
• Seth Cohen
  Seth Cohen
  Seth Ezekiel Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Adam Brody. Seth was one of the "core four" characters on The O.C. alongside Ryan Atwood, Marissa Cooper, and Summer Roberts.-Background:...
  
  , a fictional character on FOX television series The O.C.
• Sander Cohen
  Sander Cohen
  Sander Cohen is a character in the 2007 2K video game BioShock. Cohen lived among the most famous individuals in Rapture. As one of Rapture's more respected musicians, playwrights and poets, Cohen resided in a lavish apartment in Mercury Suites, along with other Rapture celebrities such as Frank...
  
  , a fictional character from the video game BioShock
  Bioshock
  BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and designed by Ken Levine. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. It became available on Steam on August 21, 2007...
  
  
• Max Cohen, a character in Darren Aronofsky
  Darren Aronofsky
  Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...
  
  's film "Pi
  Pi
  ' is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. is approximately equal to 3.14. Many formulae in mathematics, science, and engineering involve , which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants...
  
  ."

Names needing to be sorted

• Gil "Gilligan" Cohen, Israeli radio personality
• Henry Cohen
• J. M. Cohen
  J. M. Cohen
  J. M. Cohen was a prolific translator of European literature. Born in London, he was a graduate of Cambridge University. After working in his father's manufacturing business from 1925 until 1940, he was moved by a wartime shortage of teachers to become a schoolmaster...
  
  , a prolific translator (into English) of European literature
• Jeff Cohen (media critic)
  Jeff Cohen (media critic)
  Jeff Cohen is a journalist, media critic, professor, and the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting , a media watchdog group in the US. He was formerly a lawyer for the ACLU and authored or co-authored five books that criticize media bias, mainly written with Norman Solomon...
  
  , the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a media watchdog group in the US
• John Cohen, a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers as well as a photographer and filmmaker
• Kalman J. Cohen
  Kalman J. Cohen
  Kalman J. Cohen was an American economist and among the pioneers of studying market microstructure. Cohen was the Distinguished Bank Research Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He served at Duke since 1974. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he was a tenured professor at...
  
  , an American economist
• Larry Cohen (bridge player)
  Larry Cohen (bridge player)
  Larry Neil Cohen is an American bridge player and writer. He is the winner of 25 North American Bridge Championships including the Vanderbilt, two Spingolds, two Reisingers, three Life Master Pairs, and four Blue Ribbon Pairs as well as a two-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs.He...
  
  , American bridge champion
• Larry Cohen (union leader)
  Larry Cohen (union leader)
  Larry Cohen is president of the Communication Workers of America, a 700,000 member labor union representing workers in Canada and the United States...
  
  , American union leader
• Liepmann Cohen (c. 1630-1714, also known as Leffmann Behrends), was the German financial agent of the dukes and princes of Hanover
• Mickey Cohen
  Mickey Cohen
  Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was a gangster based in Los Angeles and part of the Jewish Mafia, and also had strong ties to the American Mafia from the 1930s through 1960s.-Early life:...
  
   (1913-1976), a gangster in 1940s and 1950s
• Morris Cohen (adventurer)
  Morris Cohen (adventurer)
  Morris Abraham "Two-Gun" Cohen was a British mercenary of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to the Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese army.-Early years:...
  
  , (1887-1970, also known as "Two-Gun"), a British-born adventurer who became a bodyguard for Sun Yat-sen
• Morris Raphael Cohen
  Morris Raphael Cohen
  Morris Raphael Cohen was an American philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen....
  
  , (1880-1947), an American Jewish philosopher who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis
• Yousef Hamadani Cohen
  Yousef Hamadani Cohen
  Yousef Hamadani Cohen is the chief rabbi and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran . He has served in that position since January 1994....
  
   - Spiritual leader and chief Rabbi for the Jewish community in Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  
• Former name of Henri Corwin, Dutch philatelist

See also

• Kohen
  Kohen
  A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....
  
  , a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses
• Cohn
  Cohn
  Cohn is a common Jewish surname and may refer to:* Al Cohn* Arthur Cohn, Swiss film producer* Daniel Cohn-Bendit * Dan Cohn-Sherbock* Edwin J Cohn **...
  
  
• Barney Cohen (disambiguation)
• Baron-Cohen
  Baron-Cohen
  Baron-Cohen is a surname. Baron Cohen is part of the name or title of several notable people, some of whom belong to a family with surname that might be written Baron-Cohen, but choose not to use the hyphen...
  
  
• Benjamin Cohen (disambiguation)
• Bernard Cohen (disambiguation)
  Bernard Cohen (disambiguation)
  Bernard Cohen may refer to:* Bernard L. Cohen, physicist at the University of Pittsburgh* I. Bernard Cohen, former professor of the history of science at Harvard University* Bernard Cohen * Bernard Cohen...
  
  
• Henri Cohen (disambiguation)
• Jack Cohen (disambiguation)
• Jacob Cohen (disambiguation)
• Morris Cohen (disambiguation)
• Paul Cohen (disambiguation)
• Richard Cohen (disambiguation)
• Samuel Cohen (disambiguation)
  Samuel Cohen (disambiguation)
  Samuel Cohen may refer to:*Sam Cohen , Australian Senator*Samuel Cohen , arranger of Hatikvah anthem*Samuel N. Cohen, Canadian businessman*Samuel T. Cohen physicist...
  
  
• Stanley Cohen (disambiguation)
• Cowen (disambiguation)

External links

• “The Tribe: The Cohen-Levi Family Heritage”