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Hans‐Peter Hartung

Hans-Peter Hartung, born 1954, is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who led the Düsseldorf neurology department from 2001 to 2020 and led the 2002 mitoxantrone trial for progressive multiple sclerosis.

Hans‐Thomas Janka

Hans-Thomas Janka (born 1960) is a German astrophysicist who leads a core-collapse supernova research group at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany.

Hans‐Uwe Simon

Hans-Uwe Simon (born 1958 in Eisenach, Germany) is a German immunologist and pharmacologist known for research on eosinophil cell death, and president of Brandenburg Medical School in Neuruppin since 2021.

Hans‐Werner Mewes

Hans-Werner Mewes is a German bioinformatician who built the MIPS genome databases, led bioinformatics for the European yeast genome project, and became TUM professor emeritus in 2017.

Hans, Baron von Blixen Finecke, Jr.

Hans, Baron von Blixen-Finecke, Jr. (1916–2005), Swedish cavalry officer and eventing rider who won individual and team Olympic gold at Helsinki 1952 on Jubal, later a noted dressage coach in England.

Hansa

F.C. Hansa Rostock, German football club founded 28 December 1965 from SC Empor Rostock; last East German champion and cup winner 1991, 12 Bundesliga seasons, plays at the 29,000-seat Ostseestadion, now in the 3. Liga.

Hansa family

Hansa family (HNS, FIN 803): a high-inclination S-type asteroid family in the middle main belt around (480) Hansa, ~2.66 au, i~22°, 1,094 members, age ~460 Myr, shaped by secular resonances and the Yarkovsky effect.

Hansa Sandesha

Hansa Sandesha (හංස සන්දේශය, "The Swan Message") is a Sinhala messenger poem of the Kotte period in Sri Lanka, dated to 1457–1465 and attributed to Vidagama Maithri Thera.

Hansa Vilak

Hansa Vilak (හංස විලක්) is a 1980 Sinhala-language film directed by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, his directorial debut, known for Swarna Mallawarachchi's acting, Premasiri Khemadasa's music, and its Sarasaviya Awards wins.

Hansa-Park

Hansa-Park, also Hansaland until 1987, is Germany's only seaside theme park, in Sierksdorf on the Bay of Lübeck. Opened 15 May 1977, over 125 attractions, signature rides Schwur des Kärnan and Highlander.

Hansal Mehta (हंसल मेहता)

Hansal Mehta (हंसल मेहता), Indian film director, writer, and producer born in Mumbai, known for Shahid, CityLights, Aligarh, Omertà, Scam 1992, the National Film Award for Best Direction, and his True Story Films slate.

Hansaliyya

The Hansaliyya (الطريقة الحنصلية) was a Moroccan Sufi order based at a zawiya in the central High Atlas, with branches in Marrakesh, Rabat, Meknes, Tetouan, and Fez.

Hansan: Rising Dragon (한산: 용의 출현)

Hansan: Rising Dragon (한산: 용의 출현) is a 2022 South Korean historical war film directed by Kim Han-min, depicting Admiral Yi Sun-sin's victory at the 1592 Battle of Hansando.

Hansaviertel

The Hansaviertel is a residential district in Berlin's Tiergarten, rebuilt from 1955 to the early 1960s for the Interbau 1957 exhibition by more than 50 international architects.

Hanscom Air Force Base

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts: a U.S. Air Force Materiel Command installation for electronic systems acquisition, adjacent to civilian Hanscom Field; founded 1941-1942, home to AFLCMC directorates and the 66th Air Base Group, not a flying base since 1973.

Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League, also known as the Hansa, was a federation of north German merchant towns that dominated northern European trade from the 12th century until 1669.

Hanseatic Town of Visby

Hanseatic Town of Visby (Hansestaden Visby), UNESCO World Heritage Site on Gotland, Sweden, inscribed 1995 under criteria iv and v; main Baltic Hanseatic center 12th-14th centuries, with a 3.4 km medieval wall and over 200 warehouses.

Hanseki Hōkan

Hanseki Hōkan (版籍奉還) was the 1869 return of land and population registers by Japan's daimyo to the emperor, the first step toward abolishing the domains.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a 2013 action horror comedy, Tommy Wirkola's Hollywood debut, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as adult witch-hunting siblings; critically panned (17% RT, Metascore 23) but a $55.7M US grosser with a cult following.

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) is a German fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as KHM no. 15, tale type ATU 327A, about abandoned children who outwit a cannibal witch; the mother became a stepmother by 1840.

Hansen solubility parameter

The Hansen solubility parameter (HSP), introduced by Charles M. Hansen in 1967, splits cohesive energy into dispersion, polar, and hydrogen bonding components to predict solvent compatibility.

Hanseniaspora

Hanseniaspora (anamorph Kloeckera) is a genus of apiculate, bipolarly budding ascomycete yeasts in Saccharomycodaceae, named in 1912; H. uvarum dominates early wine fermentation, and species show genome reduction and gene loss.

Hanseong

Hanseong (한성; 漢城) was the first capital of the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje, in the Han River basin of present-day Seoul, from its founding until 475 CE.

Hanseong Bank

Hanseong Bank (한성은행) was a private commercial bank established in Seoul in February 1897, the first in Korea founded on purely ethnic Korean private capital and predecessor of Chohung Bank.

Hanseong Electric Tram

The Hanseong Electric Tram (한성 전차) was the electric streetcar service opened in Seoul, then Hanseong, in 1899, the first railway on the Korean Peninsula, which ran for nearly seventy years until its closure in 1968.

Hanseong Normal School

Hanseong Normal School (한성사범학교) was a government teacher-training school established in Seoul in 1895, the first modern normal school in Korea, and trained elementary school teachers until 1911.

Hanseong Treaty

The Hanseong Treaty (한성조약) was a five-article 1885 convention between Joseon Korea and Japan, signed at Seoul to settle the aftermath of the Gapsin coup of 1884.

Hanseongbu

Hanseongbu (漢城府) was the administrative district and governing office of the capital of Korea's Joseon dynasty, corresponding to today's Seoul, established in 1395 and lasting until 1910.

Hanserd Knollys

Hanserd Knollys (c. 1599–1691) was an English Particular Baptist minister, a founder of the denomination, educated at Cambridge and a leading London Baptist pastor for about fifty years.

Hanseul Nam

Hanseul Nam is a venture capital investor who joined Coatue Management as a Partner in 2026, after five years at Spark Capital investing in Anthropic and Crusoe.