Haas (name)

Haas, also de Haas, is a German and Dutch surname, also Jewish (Ashkenazic), usually from Hase or de Haas, the German and Dutch words for "hare". It is also a given name. Notable people with the surname include the following:

• Andreas Haas (born 1982), German footballer
• Arthur Erich Haas (1884–1941), Austrian physicist
• Barbara Haas (born 1996), Austrian tennis player
• Bernt Haas (born 1978), Austrian footballer
• Bill Haas (born 1982), American golfer
• Bob Haas (born 1942), former chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Brittany Haas (born 1987), American Fiddler
• Carl Haas (1929–2016), American auto racing impresario
• Charles F. Haas (1913–2011), American film and television director
• Charles S. Haas (born 1952), American screenwriter and actor
• Charlie Haas (born 1972), American professional wrestler
• Christian Haas (born 1958), German sprinter
• Chrislo Haas (1956–2004), German musician
• Christl Haas (1943–2001), Austrian Olympic skiing champion
• Clark Haas (1919–1978), American cartoonist
• Conrad Haas (1509–1576), Austrian military engineer
• Damien Haas (born 1990), German-born American actor.
• Daniel Haas (born 1983), German footballer
• Darius de Haas (born 1968), American stage actor and singer
• David Haas (born 1957), American author and composer of liturgical music
• Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American actress
• Earle Haas (1888–1981), inventor of the modern menstrual tampon
• Eddie Haas (born 1935), American baseball outfielder and manager
• Eduard Haas (1897–1989), Austrian inventor of Pez candy
• Ernst Haas (1921–1986), Austrian photographer and photojournalist
• Ernst B. Haas (1924–2003), American political scientist
• Felix Haas, German investor
• Frank Joseph Haas, former Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia
• Fred Haas (1916–2004), American golfer
• Fritz Haas (zoologist) (1886–1969)
• Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz (1885–1973), Dutch physicist
• Gene Haas (born 1952), American machine tool manufacturer
• Georg Haas (physician) (1886–1971), German medical doctor
• Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), Austrian composer
• Hans Haas (1886–1935), German Protestant theologian
• Harald Haas (born 1968), German professor of Mobile Communications, University of Edinburgh
• Helmut Haas (fl. 1949), discoverer of the Haas effect, a psychoacoustic effect
• Hildegarde Haas (1926–2002), German-born American artist
• Hugo Haas (1901–1968), Czech film actor and director
• Isaac Haas (born 1995), American basketball player
• Jacob de Haas (1872–1937), UK journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement
• Jay Haas (born 1953), American professional golfer
• Johann Wilhelm Haas (1649–1723), German Trumpet maker.
• Josef Haas (born 1937), Swiss cross country skier
• Joseph Haas (1879–1960), German composer
• Karen L. Haas (born 1962), American government administrator and lobbyist
• Karl Haas (1913–2005), American classical music radio show host
• Karl Wilhelm Jacob Haas (1900–1970), German émigré musicologist and conductor
• Kim Haas, American journalist and television host
• Leonard Haas (1915–1998), Wisconsin politician and President of UW-Eau Claire
• Lisbeth Haas (born 1954), American historian and anthropologist
• Lukas Haas (born 1976), American film actor
• Mario Haas (born 1974), Austrian footballer
• Marius Haas (born 1945), German journalist and diplomat
• Mary Haas (1910–1996), American linguist
• Mauritz de Haas (1832–1895), Dutch-American marine painter
• Maximilian Haas (born 1985), German footballer
• Michael Haas, multiple people
• Mimi Haas (born 1946), American billionaire businesswoman
• Monique Haas (1909–1987), French pianist
• Moose Haas (born 1956), American baseball player
• Mule Haas (1903–1974), American baseball player
• Nathan Haas (born 1989), Australian cyclist
• Nico de Haas (1907–1995), Dutch National-Socialist editor, photographer, and artist
• Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Czech Jewish composer
• Payne Haas (born 1999), Australian rugby league footballer
• Payton Haas (born 1979), American actor
• Peter E. Haas (1918–2005), American businessman
• Peter E. Haas Jr. (born 1948), American businessman and philanthropist.
• Peter M. Haas (born 1955), American political scientist
• Peter W. Haas (born 1964), Slovak fine art photographer
• Radek Haas (born 2000), Czech ice hockey goaltender
• Rene Haas (born 1962), American businessman
• Richard Haas (born 1936), American muralist
• Robert Haas (clergyman) (fl. 1836–1868), 19th-century German Lutheran minister
• Robert Haas (musicologist) (1886–1960), Austrian musicologist
• Russ Haas (1974–2001), American professional wrestler
• Saskia Rao-de Haas (born 1971), Dutch cellist of music from India
• Shira Haas (born 1995), Israeli actress
• Sidney V. Haas (1870–1964), American pediatrician and originator of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet
• Thomas J. Haas, American university president
• Tiffany Haas (born c. 1983), American softball player
• Tiphaine Haas (born 1992), French actress
• Tommy Haas (born 1978), German tennis player
• Toxey Haas (born 1960), American businessman
• Wander Johannes de Haas (1878–1960), Dutch physicist and mathematician
• Walter A. Haas (1889–1979), American president and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Walter A. Haas, Jr. (1916–1995), American president and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Walter H. Haas, (1917–2015), American amateur astronomer, founder of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO)
• Waltraut Haas (born 1927), Austrian actress and singer
• Werner Haas (1927–1956), German motorcycle racer
• Wilhelm Haas (1896–1981), German Ambassador.
• Wolf Haas (born 1960), Austrian author
• Wolfgang Haas (born 1948), archbishop in Liechtenstein

Given name

• Haas Visser 't Hooft (1905–1977), Dutch field hockey player

See also

• Haas (disambiguation)
• Hass (surname)