List of Famous people named Hans

Name Hans is among the most common names in Germany, Switzerland, Austria. Often it's a shorthand for Johannes. Similar names: Johannes, Hanns, Hansi, Hansa. Here are some famous Hanses:

Hans Georg Dehmelt

First Name Hans
Last Name Dehmelt
Born on September 9, 1922
Died on March 7, 2017 (aged 94)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment.

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Hans Rinner

First Name Hans
Last Name Rinner
Born on March 18, 1963
Died on February 16, 2018 (aged 54)
Born in Austria, Styria

Hans Rinner was an Austrian businessman and football administrator. Since 7 December 2009 he was the President of the Austrian Football Bundesliga. Rinner was also the owner and manager of a refrigeration company. From 2007 to 2010 he was president of SK Sturm Graz and then until 2016, member of the Supervisory Board. Since 2016 he was honorary president of the club.

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Hans Leyendecker

First Name Hans
Last Name Leyendecker
Born on May 12, 1949 (age 77)

Hans Leyendecker is a German journalist. He writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is one of Germany's best known investigative journalists.

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Hans Böhm

First Name Hans
Last Name Böhm
Born on January 1, 1458
Died on July 19, 1476 (aged 18)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Hans Böhm, often known as the Drummer of Niklashausen, was born in the village of Helmstadt in the south-central region of Germany known as Franconia. The year of Böhm's birth is unknown; peasants made little impact in the written historical record. Böhm was a religious revolutionary: his inconspicuous existence changed abruptly.

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Hans Söllner

First Name Hans
Last Name Söllner
Born on December 24, 1955 (age 70)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Johann Michael Söllner, better known as Hans Söllner, is a German singer-songwriter, who sings in Bavarian-German. Throughout German-speaking countries, especially in Bavaria and Austria, he is famous for publicly criticizing the German government and political systems in general to a vast extent. His lyrics are like stories, as they mainly deal with being in conflict with the law and everyday life problems.

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Hans Weigel

First Name Hans
Last Name Weigel
Born on May 29, 1908
Died on August 12, 1991 (aged 83)
Born in Austria

Julius Hans Weigel was an Austrian Jewish writer and a theater critic. He lived in Vienna, except during the period between 1938 and 1945, when he lived in exile in Switzerland. He was a lifetime companion of the Austrian actress Elfriede Ott.

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Hans Stark

First Name Hans
Last Name Stark
Born on June 14, 1921
Died on March 29, 1991 (aged 69)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Hans Stark was an SS-Untersturmführer and head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger

First Name Hans
Last Name Enzensberger
Born on November 11, 1929 (age 96)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a German author, poet, translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr.

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Hans Koenigsmann

Hans-Jörg Königsmann
First Name Hans
Last Name Koenigsmann
Born on January 1, 2000 (age 26)

Hans-Jörg Koenigsmann is a German aerospace engineer who was Vice President of Mission Assurance for SpaceX until his retirement in 2021.

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Hans Werner Kettenbach

First Name Hans
Last Name Kettenbach
Born on April 20, 1928
Died on January 5, 2018 (aged 89)

Hans Werner Kettenbach was a German journalist and writer.

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