title: Tappen (surname)
text: # Tappen (surname)
  
  Tappen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Abraham B. Tappen (1823–1896), American lawyer and politician
  * Gerhard Tappen (1866–1953), German World War I general
  * Kathryn Tappen (born 1981), NESN sportscaster
  * Sarah Cornelia Tappen (d. 1800), wife of George Clinton, fourth Vice President of the United States from 1805 to 1812
  