Kautz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Albert Kautz (1839–1907), American naval officer, born at Georgetown, Ohio
  • August Kautz (1828–1895), German-American soldier and Union Army cavalry officer during the American Civil War
  • Christian Kautz (1913–1948), auto racing driver from Switzerland
  • Jacob Kautz (1500–1532), Anabaptist who posted seven theses to the door of the Worms Cathedral in 1527
  • Julius Kautz (1829–1909), Hungarian economist

See also

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  • Kautz Creek, tributary of the Nisqually River in the Mount Rainier National Park of Washington
  • Kautz Creek Falls, waterfall on Kautz Creek in the Mount Rainier National Park of Washington
  • Kautz Glacier, narrow glacier on the southern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington
  • Kautz Family YMCA Archives collects the historical records of its national organization, the YMCA of the USA
  • Kautz filter, named after William H. Kautz, is a fixed-pole traversal filter, published in 1954
  • Kautz graph, directed graph of degree M and dimension N 1, which has (M 1)MN vertices labeled by all possible strings of length N 1 which are composed of characters chosen from an alphabet A containing M 1 distinct symbols, subject to the condition that adjacent characters in the string cannot be equal…
  • Wilson-Kautz Raid, cavalry operation in south central Virginia in late June 1864 during the American Civil War