List of Famous people named Hans

Hans Olden (1892–1975) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Olden appeared in more than eighty films during his career, mostly in Austria but occasionally also in Germany. He was a supporter of the Austrian Nazi Party, his interest in Nazism pre-dating the Anchluss by some years. After the Second World War Olden appeared in a number of Heimat films.

Hans von Arnim was a German-Austrian classical philologist, who specialized in studies of Plato and Aristotle.

Hans Erdmann was a German composer. He produced several film scores for German films.

Hans Tropsch was a chemist responsible, along with Franz Fischer, for the development of the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Hans Leip, was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen.

Hans Friedrich August Carste was a German composer and conductor. He arrived in Berlin in 1931 after working in Vienna and Breslau. He composed film music and as well as songs for the stage. Electrola offered him and his orchestra an exclusive recording contract and he recorded many high quality sides for them. Hans Carste joined the NSDAP in 1933.

Hans Peter Sørensen (1886–1962) was the second Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, holding that office from 1946 to 1956 as a member of the Social Democratic Party.