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Christian Kautz (November 23, 1913 - July 4, 1948) was a Swiss racing driver.

Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, his career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix. Kautz was a test pilot for Lockheed in the USA during the Second World War. He died at only 34 years of age in an accident in a Maserati at the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten.

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