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Hans Otterling

Hans Mikael Otterling is a Swedish venture capitalist, a Northzone general partner from 2006 who backed Spotify's first major funding round and helped attract investors to Klarna, now co-leading Norrsken22.

Hans P. Eugster

Hans P. Eugster (Hans-Peter Eugster, 1925–1987) was a Swiss-born American experimental petrologist and geochemist at Johns Hopkins University, known for the oxygen buffer technique and saline lake geochemistry.

Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen

Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826–1909) was a Danish chemist and founder of thermochemistry who made over 3,500 calorimetric measurements and proposed an 1895 periodic system used by Niels Bohr.

Hans Peter Koppe

Hans Peter Koppe (Hans-Peter Koppe), born 1958 in Leipzig, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eights for East Germany at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, with world silver and bronze in 1982 and 1981.

Hans Peter Luhn

Hans Peter Luhn was an IBM researcher who created the Luhn algorithm still used to validate credit card numbers, and pioneered KWIC indexing and automatic abstracting.

Hans Peter Pohl

Hans-Peter Pohl (born 1965, Triberg) is a retired German nordic combined skier, 1988 Calgary Olympic team gold medalist, 1987 world team champion, 1993 world team bronze medalist, and later a TV commentator.

Hans Peter Steinacher

Hans Peter Steinacher, born 1968 in Zell am See, is an Austrian sailor who won Olympic Tornado gold with Roman Hagara at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.

Hans Petersson

Hans Petersson (1902–1984) was a German mathematician who introduced the Petersson inner product on cusp forms and the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture, and led the Mathematical Institute at Münster.

Hans Petter Buraas

Hans Petter Buraas (Burre), born 1975 in Bærum, Norwegian alpine skier who won surprise slalom gold at Nagano 1998 in 1:49.31; one World Cup win (Sestriere 2000), ten podiums, retired 2007 after neck injury.

Hans Pettersson

Hans Pettersson (1888–1966) was a Swedish physicist and oceanographer, professor of oceanography at Gothenburg, who led the 1947–1948 Albatross deep-sea expedition, whose 20-meter sediment cores marked the beginning of palaeoceanography.

Sep 20, 2026

Hans Pópper

Hans Popper (1903–1988) was an Austrian-born pathologist and hepatologist, called the founder of modern hepatology, who built his career in Chicago and at Mount Sinai in New York.

Hans R. Brunner

Hans R. Brunner, born 1937, is a Swiss physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Lausanne known for renin research and early ACE inhibitor testing.

Sep 20, 2026

Hans R. Schöler

Hans R. Schöler, also known as Hans Schöler, is a German molecular biologist and stem cell researcher, born in Toronto in 1953, best known for discovering the transcription factor Oct4.

Hans Rademacher

Hans Rademacher (1892–1969) was a German-born mathematician and one of the twentieth century's most influential number theorists, best known for his exact convergent series for the partition function p(n), published in 1937.

Hans Raj Hans

Hans Raj Hans (born 1962, Shafipur near Jalandhar) is a Punjabi Sufi and folk singer trained by Ustad Puran Shah Koti, Padma Shri (2008) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winner, known for Kachche Dhaage (1999) with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and a BJP politician, MP from North West Delhi 2019, BJP's 2024 Faridkot candidate.

Hans Raj Tiwary

Hans Raj Tiwary is a Czech-based mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Charles University in Prague, known for proving exponential lower bounds on linear programs, recognized with the 2023 Gödel Prize.

Hans Ramberg

Hans Ramberg was a Norwegian geologist who studied mountain-chain formation and crustal deformation, building the Hans Ramberg Tectonic Laboratory at Uppsala University and writing Gravity, Deformation and the Earth's Crust in 1967.

Hans Rausing

Hans Rausing was a Swedish-born packaging industrialist who ran Tetra Pak for nearly four decades and sold his stake to his brother in 1995 for around $7 billion.

Hans Reiser

Hans Reiser is an American programmer who created ReiserFS, the first journaled filesystem in the standard Linux kernel, and was convicted of murdering his wife in 2008.

Hans Reissner

Hans Reissner (Hans Jacob Reissner) was a German engineer and mathematician who in 1916 published the first solution for a charged black hole, the Reissner–Nordström metric.

Hans Reiter (bacteriologist)

Hans Reiter (1881–1969) was a German bacteriologist who served as president of the Reich Health Office from 1933 to 1945 and helped plan typhus experiments on Buchenwald prisoners.

Hans Renata

Hans Renata is an Indonesian-born organic chemist and professor at Rice University, known for chemoenzymatic C–H functionalization and concise enzyme-enabled syntheses of complex terpenoids and steroids.

Hans Rinn

Hans Rinn (born 1953, Langewiesen) is an East German former luger, two-time Olympic doubles champion with Norbert Hahn (1976, 1980), 1976 singles bronze, four-time world and seven-time European champion, FIL Hall of Fame 2005.

Hans Ris

Hans Ris (1914–2004) was a Swiss-born cytologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for demonstrating that chloroplasts contain their own DNA.

Hans Robot (大族机器人)

Hans Robot (大族机器人), formally Shenzhen Han's Robot Co., Ltd., was a Shenzhen cobot maker incubated inside Han's Laser, rebranding as Guangdong Huayan Robotics in 2025.

Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling (1948–2017), Swedish physician and Karolinska professor of international health; co-founded Gapminder, created Trendalyzer data visualizations, named konzo, gave famous TED talks, and wrote Factfulness.

Hans Rudolf Brenner

Hans Rudolf Brenner is a molecular neurobiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel, known for research on how nerves form and stabilize the neuromuscular junction.

Hans Rudolf Herren

Hans Rudolf Herren, born 1947, is a Swiss entomologist whose Africa-wide biological control of the cassava mealybug saved an estimated 20 million lives, winning the 1995 World Food Prize.

Oct 22, 2026

Hans Sahl

Hans Sahl, born Hans Salomon (1902–1993), was a German journalist, poet, and translator who fled the Nazis in 1933 and spent over 50 years in exile.