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