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Hans Berglund
Hans Berglund (Hans Gustaf Bo Berglund, 1918–2006), Swedish sprint kayaker; won K2 1,000 m gold with Lennart Klingström at London 1948, 1938 world K2 silver, K4 world gold, father of Bo Berglund.
Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe, also known as Hans Albrecht Bethe, was a German-American nuclear physicist who explained how stars produce energy and won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hans Beyer
Hans Beyer (Hans Anton Beyer, 1889–1965), Norwegian gymnast from Bergen's Bergens TF; won gold with Norway in the men's team free system event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Not the German athletes Udo, Uwe, or Hans-Georg Beyer.
Hans Bisgaard
Hans Bisgaard (1955–2022) was a Danish pediatric asthma researcher, professor of pediatrics at the University of Copenhagen from 1998, and founder of the COPSAC childhood asthma birth-cohort study at Gentofte Hospital.
Hans Bleich
Hans Bleich (1909–1985) was an Austrian-born civil engineer and applied mechanician who first applied shakedown theory in 1932 and spent his career as professor of civil engineering at Columbia University.
Hans Børli
Hans Børli (1918–1989) was a Norwegian poet, author, and timber cutter who lived in Eidskog, Norway, and is known as the poet of the forest.
Hans Bourquin
Hans Bourquin (30 May 1914 – November 1997) was a Swiss rowing coxswain of Seeclub Biel who, aged barely 14, coxed Karl and Hans Schöchlin to coxed pairs gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is Mary Mapes Dodge's 1865 children's novel about a poor Dutch brother and sister hoping to win a skating race; it popularized the finger-in-the-dike story and shaped American images of Holland.
Hans Buehler
Hans Buehler, born 1974, is a German-trained quant researcher who served as Co-CEO of XTX Markets from 2023 to 2025 and won Risk.net's 2022 Quant of the Year award.
Hans Busch
Hans Busch (1884–1973) was a German physicist who founded electron optics, showing in 1927 that a magnetic coil acts on electrons as a lens, enabling the electron microscope.
Hans C. Oettgen
Hans C. Oettgen, born in Cologne, Germany in 1958, is a physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital whose research on IgE and mast cells shaped food allergy treatment.
Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt
Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854–1925) was a German mathematician who rigorously proved Riemann's explicit formula in 1895, introduced the von Mangoldt function, and helped prove the prime number theorem.
Hans Carossa
Hans Carossa (1878–1956) was a German physician and writer, one of the most widely read German autobiographical prose authors of the 1920s, best known for Rumänisches Tagebuch.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (H.C. Andersen), Danish author 1805-1875, born in Odense; literary fairy-tale writer whose tales, including The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, are translated into over 160 languages, distinct from the physicist Hans C. Andersen.
Hans Christian Andersen (1952 film)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) is a Samuel Goldwyn musical biopic directed by Charles Vidor, starring Danny Kaye as the Danish storyteller, with Frank Loesser songs, six Oscar nominations, and a deliberately fictionalized biography.
Hans Christian Hagedorn
Hans Christian Hagedorn (1888–1971) was a Danish physician who co-founded Danish insulin production in 1923 and invented protamine insulin, the principle behind NPH insulin, still the most used intermediate-acting insulin.
Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851) was a Danish physicist who discovered in 1820 that an electric current deflects a compass needle, the first link between electricity and magnetism.
Hans Clevers
Hans Clevers is a Dutch molecular geneticist known for identifying the Lgr5 stem cell marker and pioneering organoid technology, growing miniature organs from stem cells.
Hans Cloos
Hans Cloos (1885–1951) was a German geologist who pioneered granite tectonics and wet-clay model experiments of rock deformation, held the geology chair at Bonn from 1926, and wrote Conversation with the Earth.
Hans Conrad von Orelli
Hans Conrad von Orelli, usually publishing as Conrad von Orelli, was a Swiss Reformed theologian and Old Testament scholar who taught at Basel from 1873 until his death in 1912.
Hans Conried
Hans Conried (Hans Georg Conried Jr., 1917-1982), American comic character and voice actor from Baltimore. Voiced Captain Hook and Mr. Darling in Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash, and played Dr. T.; famed as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas's show.
Hans Coper
Hans Coper (1920–1981) was a German-born British studio potter who fled Nazi Germany in 1939, worked with Lucie Rie, and made sculptural vessels including candlesticks for Coventry Cathedral in 1962.
Hans D. Ochs
Hans D. Ochs is a pediatric immunologist and professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital, known for identifying genes causing primary immunodeficiency diseases, including FOXP3.
Hans Dersch
Hans F. Dersch (born 1967, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American breaststroke swimmer, University of Texas alumnus, and 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay as a heats swimmer; later a swim coach.
HANS device
HANS device (Head And Neck Support), the original frontal head restraint invented by Robert Hubbard and Jim Downing; tethers helmet to harness to prevent basilar skull fractures, mandatory in F1 since 2003.
Hans Driesch
Hans Driesch (1867–1941) was a German experimental embryologist turned philosopher, the last great spokesman for vitalism, known for his 1891 sea urchin experiments and his concept of entelechy.
Hans E. Kinck
Hans E. Kinck (Hans Ernst Kinck, 1865–1926) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist who renewed Norwegian prose through dialect and psychological fiction.
Hans Egede
Hans Egede (1686–1758) was a Norwegian Lutheran missionary who sailed to Greenland in 1721 seeking lost Norse settlers, found none, and instead missionized the Inuit for fifteen years.
Hans Egon Holthusen
Hans Egon Holthusen (1913–1997) was a German lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar who became one of the most influential critics of the early Federal Republic.
Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren is a Swedish evolutionary biologist, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University since 1999, known for avian genome evolution and speciation genomics in flycatchers.