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Hans Leutenegger

Hans (Hausi) Leutenegger, born 16 January 1940 in Bichelsee, Thurgau, is a Swiss bobsledder, entrepreneur, and actor who won four-man bobsleigh gold at Sapporo 1972 and founded Hans Leutenegger AG.

Hans Lewy (1904–1988) was a German-born American mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, joined UC Berkeley in 1935, and co-created the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy stability condition.

Hans Lietzmann

Hans Lietzmann (1875–1942) was a German Protestant church historian and New Testament scholar who held chairs at Jena and Berlin and founded the Handbuch zum Neuen Testament.

Hans Lindberg

Hans Lindberg (Hans Ottar Lindberg), Danish handball right wing born 1981 in Tåstrup. Olympic gold 2024, world champion 2019 and 2023, European champion 2008 and 2012; all-time Bundesliga top scorer with 3,114 goals; retired 2026 as HØJ Elite sports manager.

Hans Lineweaver

Hans Lineweaver (1907–2009) was an American biochemist who spent 44 years at the USDA and co-authored the 1934 Lineweaver–Burk plot, the most highly cited paper in JACS history.

Hans List

Hans List (1896–1996) was an Austrian engineer who built his career on the internal combustion engine, founding the Graz firm that became AVL and editing a 14-volume engine reference series.

Hans Luther

Hans Luther (1879 to 1962) was a German administrator who served twice as Weimar chancellor in 1925 and 1926, later leading the Reichsbank and serving as ambassador to the United States.

Hans Lutz

Hans Lutz, born 1949 in Stuttgart, West German track cyclist specializing in the 4,000 m pursuit; Olympic bronze 1972 individual pursuit, Olympic gold 1976 team pursuit, multiple world champion, later cycling promoter and Württemberg Cycling Association president 2012-18.

Hans Maass

Hans Maass (1911–1992) was a German mathematician and Heidelberg professor, trained under Erich Hecke, who founded the theory of non-holomorphic modular forms, now called Maass forms, in his 1949 paper.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022), also published as Andreas Thalmayr, was a German poet, essayist, editor, and translator; Gruppe 47 member, founder of Kursbuch, editor of Die Andere Bibliothek, Georg Büchner Prize winner 1963.

Hans Maharaj (हंस राम सिंह रावत)

Hans Maharaj, also known as Hans Ram Singh Rawat, was an Indian Sant Mat teacher (1900–1966) who preached in Delhi from 1930 and founded the Divine Light Mission.

Hans Maier

Hans Maier (Johann Adolf Friedrich Maier, 1909-1943), German rower for MRV Amicitia Mannheim; Olympic silver coxless fours 1932, gold coxed fours 1936; killed at the Mareth Line, Tunisia. Distinct from the Dutch water polo player and the Bavarian politician of the same name.

Hans Mark

Hans Mark (1929–2021) was a German-born American aerospace engineer who directed NASA Ames, served as Secretary of the Air Force, and led the University of Texas System.

Hans Martin Senn

Hans Martin Senn is a Swiss-born theoretical and computational chemist, a lecturer and group leader at the University of Glasgow since 2007, known for QM/MM methods for biomolecular systems.

Hans Matheson

Hans Matheson, born 1975 in Stornoway, Scotland, is a Scottish actor and musician known for Marius in Les Misérables (1998), Yuri Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago (2002), Lord Coward in Sherlock Holmes, and his 2019 albums Sail the Sea and The Healing Waves.

Hans Mauch

Hans Adolph Mauch was a German-born American engineer who led V-1 rocket development, moved to the United States in 1946, and created the S-N-S hydraulic prosthetic knee.

Hans Meerwein

Hans Meerwein was a German organic chemist (1879–1965) whose work on carbocations and oxonium salts produced named reactions such as the Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction and the Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement.

Oct 22, 2026

Hans Memling

Hans Memling (c. 1435–1494) was a German-born Early Netherlandish painter who settled in Bruges and became that city's leading artist, known for calm portraits and altarpieces.

Hans Molisch

Hans Molisch (1856–1937) was an Austrian botanist and plant physiologist who coined "allelopathy", created the Molisch carbohydrate test, and held chairs at Graz, Prague, and Vienna.

Hans Morgenthau

Hans J. Morgenthau (1904–1980), German-born American political scientist, University of Chicago; author of Politics Among Nations (1948) and six principles of political realism; founder of classical realism, later contrasted with Waltz's neorealism.

Hans Münch

Hans Wilhelm Münch (1911–2002), Waffen-SS physician at the Rajsko Hygiene Institute near Auschwitz, tested prisoners for typhus and ran Block 10 streptococcus experiments; he was the sole acquitted defendant at the 1947 Kraków Auschwitz trial.

Oct 22, 2026

Hans Namuth

Hans Namuth (1915–1990) was a German-born American photographer and filmmaker whose 1950 pictures of Jackson Pollock shaped the painter's public image and the understanding of his working method.

Hans Neurath

Hans Neurath (1909–2002) was an Austrian-born American protein biochemist, founding chairman of the University of Washington's biochemistry department and founding editor of the journals Biochemistry and Protein Science.

Hans Nielsen

Hans Nielsen most often denotes Hans Jakob Nielsen (1899–1967), Danish amateur boxer for AK Jyden who won lightweight gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, Denmark's only Olympic boxing champion; namesakes include a speedway world champion.

Hans Nielsen Hauge

Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771–1824) was a Norwegian lay preacher and revivalist who from 1796 spread pietism through preaching, printing, and business networks, becoming Norway's first nationwide popular movement.

Hans Niemann

Hans Moke Niemann (born 2003) is an American chess grandmaster, FM 2016, IM 2018, GM 2021, peak rating 2742. Known for beating Magnus Carlsen at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup and the ensuing Chess.com online-cheating report and FIDE case.

Hans Noll

Hans Noll (1924–2021) was a Swiss-born American molecular biologist who discovered that multiple ribosomes traverse each messenger RNA, the structures called polyribosomes, and determined the genetic coding ratio.

Hans Nordvik

Hans Nordvik (Hans Theodor Nordvik (Torbergsen-), 1880-1960), Norwegian sport shooter with Christiania Skytterlag, Oslo; two Olympic golds in 100 m running deer team single and double shot at Antwerp 1920, after 35th in military rifle at Stockholm 1912.

Hans Oeschger

Hans Oeschger (1927–1998) was a Swiss climatologist and professor at the University of Bern who pioneered measuring ancient atmospheric CO2 in polar ice and identified abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger climate events.