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Hans von Bülow

Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow (1830–1894), German conductor, pianist, and composer; premiered Wagner's Tristan and Meistersinger, built the Meiningen Hofkapelle, and led the Berlin Philharmonic 1887–1892.

Hans von Euler-Chelpin

Hans von Euler-Chelpin was a German-born Swedish biochemist at Stockholm University who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Arthur Harden for work on enzymes in fermentation.

Hans von Ohain

Hans von Ohain (1911–1998) was a German aerospace engineer who invented the turbojet that made the world's first jet-powered flight, in the Heinkel He 178, in 1939.

Oct 21, 2026

Hans von Rosen

Hans Robert von Rosen (1888–1952), Swedish cavalry officer and equestrian; won Olympic team jumping gold at Stockholm 1912 (Lord Iron) and Antwerp 1920 (Poor Boy), plus 1920 individual dressage bronze on Running Sister.

Hans von Seeckt

Hans von Seeckt (1866–1936), German colonel general, Mackensen's chief of staff in WWI, then Chef der Heeresleitung 1920–1926 who built the Versailles-limited 100,000-man Reichswehr, held executive power in 1923, and later advised Chiang Kai-shek in China.

Hans W. Liepmann

Hans W. Liepmann (1914–2009) was a German-born American fluid dynamicist, the von Kármán Professor at Caltech and director of its aeronautics laboratory, GALCIT, from 1972 to 1985.

Hans Wallach

Hans Wallach (1904–1998) was a German-born experimental psychologist at Swarthmore College, a National Academy of Sciences member known for the kinetic depth effect and the precedence effect in sound localization.

Oct 21, 2026

Hans Walter

Hans Walter (1889-1967), Swiss rower of Grasshopper Club Zürich; stroke of the coxed four that won Olympic gold at Antwerpen 1920 and Paris 1924, plus 1924 coxless-four bronze; not the Liechtenstein skier Hans-Walter Schädler.

Oct 22, 2026

Hans Warren

Hans Warren, full name Johannes Adrianus Menne Warren (1921–2001), was a Dutch poet and literary critic whose candid diary series Geheim dagboek, published from 1981, made him one of the most discussed Dutch diarists.

Hans Wedel

Hans Wedel (born 1940) was a Swedish cardiologist and biostatistician in Gothenburg, professor at the Nordic School of Public Health, known for the 4S and SOS trials.

Oct 22, 2026

Hans Wegner

Hans Jørgensen Wegner (1914–2007) was a Danish furniture designer known as the master of the chair, who created around 500 chairs, including the Wishbone Chair and the Round Chair.

Hans Wehberg

Hans Wehberg (1885–1962) was a German jurist and pacifist, professor of international law in Geneva, who helped prepare the 1928 Briand-Kellogg Pact and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.

Hans Weidel

Hans Weidel (1903-1985), German lawyer, NSDAP and SS member, and Wehrmacht military judge in occupied Warsaw promoted to superior staff judge; postwar Gütersloh notary, grandfather of AfD leader Alice Weidel.

Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012), German composer, also known for Das Floß der Medusa and The Bassarids; lived in Italy from 1953, wrote 15 operas and 10 symphonies, blended serialism with lyricism, and was a committed political leftist.

Hans Wigzell

Hans Wigzell is a Swedish immunologist known for work on natural killer cells and transplantation tolerance, and rector of Karolinska Institutet from 1995 to 2003.

Hans Wilsdorf

Hans Wilsdorf (1881–1960) was a Bavarian-born, London-naturalised watch merchant who founded Rolex in London in 1905, built it into the leading Swiss wristwatch brand, and left it to a foundation.

Hans Wilsdorf Foundation

The Hans Wilsdorf Foundation (Fondation Hans Wilsdorf) is a Geneva-based Swiss foundation, set up in 1945, that has been Rolex's sole owner since 1960 and funds charities in Geneva.

Oct 21, 2026

Hans Woellke

Hans Woellke (Hans-Otto Woellke, 1911–1943), German shot putter, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist at 16.20 m; later a Schutzpolizei captain killed by partisans in Belarus, triggering the Khatyn massacre.

Hans Wynberg

Hans Wynberg, also known as Hans Wijnberg (1922–2011), was a Dutch organic chemist who pioneered asymmetric organocatalysis using cinchona alkaloids like quinine as chiral catalysts.

Hans Zassenhaus

Hans Zassenhaus (1912–1991) was a German mathematician who worked in group theory, number theory, and computation, known for the Zassenhaus (butterfly) lemma, Zassenhaus groups, and a proof of the Schur–Zassenhaus theorem.

Hans Zellweger

Hans Zellweger (Hans Ulrich Zellweger, 1909–1990) was a Swiss-American pediatrician and University of Iowa professor whose patients led to Zellweger syndrome being named for him.

Hans Zhang

Hans Zhang (张翰, born 1984, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang; birth name Zhang Han 张汉) is a mainland Chinese actor famous as Murong Yunhai in Meteor Shower (2009); starred in Boss & Me, Wolf Warrior 2; wrote and produced the controversial Gentlemen of East 8th (2022).