Gauss or Gauß or Gausz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German universal mathematician and physicist (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
"Gauss" is also (rarely) used as a given name, e.g.: Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Brazilian engineer
See also Gaus (disambiguation)