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Hans Scherfig
Hans Scherfig (Hans Christian Scherfig, 1905–1979) was a Danish writer, painter, and communist known for satirical novels like Det forsømte forår and naivist jungle paintings.
Hans Schochlin
Hans Schöchlin (Hans Wilhelm Schöchlin, 1893–1978), Swiss rower and architect; Olympic gold in coxed pairs with brother Karl at Amsterdam 1928; also 1936 literature art competitor.
Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl (1918–1943), German medical student and co-founder with Alexander Schmorell of the White Rose resistance group; wrote and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, arrested 18 February 1943, executed 22 February 1943.
Hans Schouten
Hans Schouten is a marine geophysicist and Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, co-author of a 2003 Nature paper defining an ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge.
Hans Schreiber
Hans Schreiber is an immunologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, known for research on tumor-specific antigens and T-cell receptor therapy in cancer immunotherapy.
Hans Selye
Hans Selye (1907-1982), Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist, father of stress research; proposed the 1936 general adaptation syndrome (alarm, resistance, exhaustion), named stress and glucocorticoids, wrote 39 books, never won the Nobel Prize.
Hans Speidel
Hans Speidel (1897–1984), German general: Rommel's chief of staff in Normandy, 20 July 1944 resistance participant, Bundeswehr founding figure, and first German NATO LANDCENT commander 1957–1963.
Hans Spemann
Hans Spemann was a German embryologist, professor at the University of Freiburg, who discovered the organizer effect in embryonic development and won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hans Stanggassinger
Hans Stanggassinger (born 1960, Berchtesgaden) is a German former luger for West Germany; with Franz Wembacher he won men's doubles gold at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, plus World and European medals, and later worked as a park ranger.
Hans Steinbichler
Hans Steinbichler is a German pioneer in laser and optical metrology who co-founded the industrial 3D printing company EOS GmbH with Hans J. Langer in 1989.
Hans Stoermann Næss
Hans Stoermann-Næss (Hans Henrik Stoermann-Næss, 1886–1958), Norwegian sailor from Bergen; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in 12 metres class aboard Atlanta, the event's only entrant; later a shipbroker.
Hans Stuck
Hans Stuck, known as Hans Stuck Sr. (1900–1978), was a German racing driver who won Grands Prix for Auto Union in the 1930s and was nicknamed the "Bergkönig" for his dominance of European hillclimb racing.
Hans Suess
Hans Suess (1909–1993) was an Austrian-born American geochemist, professor at UC San Diego from 1958 to 1977, known for the Suess effect and work on nuclear shell model.
Hans Swildens (Johan D. Swildens)
Hans Swildens, also known as Johan D. Swildens, is a venture capital investor who founded Industry Ventures, a secondary-stakes firm acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2026.
Hans Tausen
Hans Tausen, born around 1494 into a peasant family at Birkende on Funen, was a Danish reformer whose Lutheran preaching at Viborg from 1525 helped bring the Reformation to Denmark.
Hans Thacher Clarke
Hans Thacher Clarke was an American organic chemist who chaired Columbia's biochemistry department for nearly three decades, determined the thiazole structure of vitamin B1, and coordinated wartime penicillin research.
Hans Theilig
Hans Theilig (1914-1976), German field handball player; Olympic gold and top scorer (22 goals) at Berlin 1936, 1938 world champion outdoors and indoors, and three-time German champion.
Hans Thirring
Hans Thirring (1888–1976) was an Austrian theoretical physicist at the University of Vienna who predicted the Lense–Thirring effect in 1918 and later co-founded the Pugwash movement.
Hans Thoenen
Hans Thoenen (1928–2012) was a Swiss neurobiologist best known for cloning BDNF and studying CNTF, and director of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich from 1977.
Hans Troyer
Hans Troyer, American trail ultrarunner from Newnan, Georgia; 2025 UltraRunner of the Year #5; won 2025 JFK 50 Mile (5:10:25) and 2026 Black Canyon 100K (7:20:00); 8th at 2025 Western States; Hoka athlete.
Hans Tung
Hans Tung is an American venture capitalist and Managing Partner of Notable Capital in San Francisco, known for early investments in Airbnb, Xiaomi, Peloton, and Anthropic.
Hans Ullrich Grapenthin
Hans Ullrich Grapenthin (Hans-Ullrich Grapenthin, born 1943), East German goalkeeper for FC Carl Zeiss Jena; 1976 Olympic football gold medalist with GDR, 21 caps, GDR Footballer of the Year 1980 and 1981.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) was a Swiss Catholic theologian and priest whose fifteen-volume trilogy on beauty, goodness, and truth ranks among the twentieth century's great theological works.
Hans Ussing
Hans Ussing (1911–2000) was a Danish physiologist and biophysicist at the University of Copenhagen who founded the quantitative study of epithelial transport, devising the flux-ratio equation and the Ussing chamber.
Hans van Helden
Hans van Helden (born 1948, Almkerk) is a Dutch-born speed skater who won three bronze medals at Innsbruck 1976, set 1500 m and 5000 m world records, then skated for France at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.
Hans Verhagen
Hans Verhagen, full name Hans Pieter Verhagen (1939–2020), was a Dutch poet, journalist, and filmmaker, a leading figure of the neorealist movement De Nieuwe Stijl.
Hans Victor Clausen
Hans Victor Clausen (1861–1937) was a Danish historian, schoolteacher, and topographer whose 1891 border line through Schleswig, the Clausen-linjen, became in essence the Danish-German frontier fixed at the 1920 reunification.
Hans Vijlbrief
Hans Vijlbrief (born 1963) is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party who serves as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment in the Jetten government.
Hans Vogt (German inventor)
Hans Vogt (1890–1979) was a German inventor and sound-film technician who, with Josef Engl and Joseph Massolle, created the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, ancestor of optical cinema soundtracks.
Hans von Aachen
Hans von Aachen (1552–1615) was a German Northern Mannerist painter, imperial chamber painter to Rudolf II and Matthias, known for portraits and small mythological cabinet paintings in Prague.