Kamm

Kamm, Kamp is a German or Jewish surname, from the German word for "comb", most likely a metonymic occupational surname for a comb maker, or a wool comber.^[1]

Kamm is also an alternative form of the surname Kam, Kahm, Cam, Cahm (קם), from Middle High German kâm "mould".^[2]

Notable people with the surname include:

• Wunibald Kamm (1893–1966), automotive engineer, known for the Kamm tail
• Willie Kamm (1900–1988), baseball player
• Antony Kamm (1931–2011), English publisher and writer.
• Frances Kamm (b. c. 1948), American philosopher
• William Kamm (b. 1950), leader of a Catholic sect
• John Kamm, American businessman and human rights activist
• Oliver Kamm (b. 1963) British writer
• Kris Kamm (b. 1964), American actor
• John Kamm (entrepreneur) (b. 1971)
• Anat Kamm (b. 1987), Israeli journalist involved in the Anat Kamm–Uri Blau affair

See also

• Roter Kamm crater

References

1. Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
2. Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer, Eva H. Guggenheimer, Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary (1992), p. 380.