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Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559–1632), Brabant-born general of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War; victor of White Mountain and Lutter, stormer of Magdeburg, defeated at Breitenfeld, died of wounds at Rain.

Johann Urb

Johann Urb (Johann Urb, born 1977, Tallinn) is an Estonian-American actor, producer, and former model known for Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil: Retribution and Vigilante in Arrow.

Johann Voldemar Jannsen

Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819–1890) was an Estonian journalist and national awakening figure who founded Estonian-language newspapers and initiated the first Estonian Song Festival, held in Tartu in 1869.

Johann von Goch

Johann von Goch, born Johann Pupper, was a priest of the archdiocese of Utrecht who founded the priory of Thabor near Mecheln and wrote four treatises attacking scholastic theology.

Johann von Sporck

Johann von Sporck, also spelled Spork, was a Westphalian cavalry commander who served Bavaria and the Habsburg emperor from 1620 to 1675, rising from a farming family to Imperial Count.

Johann von Staupitz

Johann von Staupitz (c. 1460–1524) was a German Augustinian vicar general, Wittenberg professor of Bible, and later Benedictine abbot in Salzburg, remembered as Martin Luther's confessor and mentor.

Johann von Werth

Johann von Werth (Jan von Werth, Jean de Werth) was a German cavalry general of the Thirty Years' War, born a farmer's son in 1591 and made an imperial count.

Johann W. Kolar

Johann W. Kolar is an Austrian-Swiss electrical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus, best known for heading the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory and inventing the Vienna Rectifier.

Sep 27, 2026

Johann Wadephul

Johann Wadephul, born 1963, in Husum, is a German CDU politician serving as Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and in the Bundestag since 2009.

Johann Wigand

Johann Wigand (1523–1587) was a German Lutheran theologian of the strict Gnesio-Lutheran party, a professor at Jena and Königsberg who helped complete the Magdeburg Centuries and signed the Formula of Concord in 1579.

Johann Wilhelm Ebel

Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861) was a German evangelical preacher in Königsberg, East Prussia, who led the Awakening movement there and became the central figure of the Mucker controversy.

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824–1914) was a German physicist at the University of Münster who discovered cathode rays in 1869 and established the transport numbers of ion migration in electrolysis.

Johann Wilhelm Preger

Johann Wilhelm Preger (1827–1896) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian in Munich whose three-volume History of German Mysticism in the Middle Ages provoked controversy with Catholic scholars.

Johann Wilhelm Rothstein

Johann Wilhelm Rothstein (1853–1925) was a German Reformed theologian and Old Testament scholar who held chairs at Halle, Breslau, and Münster and contributed to Kautzsch's Textbibel.

Johann Winckler

Johann Winckler (1642–1705) was a German Lutheran theologian and, from 1684, chief pastor at St. Michaelis in Hamburg, a friend of Spener and a leading figure in early Lutheran Pietism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet and Weimar statesman, author of Werther, Faust, and Wilhelm Meister; led Sturm und Drang, co-founded Weimar Classicism with Schiller, and wrote Zur Farbenlehre.

Johann Zarco

Johann Zarco (born 1990, Cannes) is a French MotoGP rider for Castrol Honda LCR, number 5. Two-time Moto2 World Champion (2015, 2016), first to defend that title; MotoGP wins at Phillip Island 2023 and Le Mans 2025.

Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis

The Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis is a German literary prize for literary criticism and the essay, awarded since 1964 by the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

Johanna Blake

Johanna M. Blake is an American research hydrologist and geochemist at the USGS New Mexico Water Science Center in Albuquerque, who received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Johanna Braddy

Johanna Braddy (Johanna Elizabeth Braddy, born 1987, Atlanta) is an American actress known as Anna on UnREAL, Shelby Wyatt on Quantico, Jenny Matrix on Video Game High School, and the voice of Princess Yue in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Johanna Duplantis

Johanna Duplantis (born 2002, Lafayette, Louisiana) is a Swedish pole vaulter, sister of world record holder Mondo Duplantis; LSU senior vaulter with a 4.39 m personal best set at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Oct 15, 2026

Johanna Este Oil and Gas Field

Johanna Este is an oil field in Ecuador's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 2015 and operated by Andes Petroleum, producing over 10,000 barrels per day by 2016.