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Johanna Rosén
Johanna Rosén is a Swedish materials physicist and professor at Linköping University working on 2D materials, including MXenes and boridene, for energy storage and water purification.
Johanna Schaller-Klier
Johanna Schaller-Klier (née Schaller, later Johanna Klier), born 1952, East German 100 m hurdler; 1976 Olympic gold and 1980 Olympic silver, 1978 European champion, PB 12.56.
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna Schmitt is an evolutionary ecologist and plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis, known for field experiments showing how Arabidopsis thaliana adapts to climate.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland 2009–2013 for the Social Democratic Alliance; first woman to head Iceland's government and first openly gay head of government worldwide; Althingi member 1978–2013.
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri, born Johanna Heusser (1827–1901), was a Swiss writer who began publishing at 44 and wrote Heidi, one of the world's most translated children's classics.
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
Johanna (Jo) van Gogh-Bonger (1862–1925), Dutch editor, translator, and wife of Theo van Gogh; inherited Vincent's letters and paintings after the brothers died, published his letters in 1914, organized exhibitions and sales, and built Vincent van Gogh's posthumous fame.
Johanna Vancura
Johanna Vancura (Wendler), 1915–1998, Austrian sprinter from Vienna. 1936 Berlin Olympian, 100 m semifinalist; multiple Austrian sprint champion; 1934 Women's World Games relay bronze.
Johannes A. Lercher
Johannes A. Lercher is an Austrian catalysis scientist who directs the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and holds a chemistry chair at the Technische Universität München.
Johannes Andreas Quenstedt
Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (1617–1688) was a German Lutheran dogmatician and professor at Wittenberg, customarily named the third of the great Lutheran dogmaticians after Johann Gerhard and Abraham Calov.
Johannes Aspeby
Johannes Aspeby is a Swedish video-game developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, coded the goat in Goat Simulator, and later served as the studio's CEO.
Johannes Belsheim
Johannes Belsheim, also known as Johannes Engebretsen Belsheim, was a Norwegian Lutheran pastor, born at Vang i Valdres, who left the ministry in 1875 to edit old Latin biblical manuscripts.
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948), German Generaloberst, led the 8th Army in Poland 1939, protested SS atrocities in memoranda, commanded 1st Army and Army Groups G and H in the West, and died by suicide at Nuremberg.
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), Hamburg-born German composer, pianist, and conductor active in Vienna; wrote four symphonies, Ein deutsches Requiem, and about 200 songs, no opera; champion of classical forms against the Liszt-Wagner New German School.
Johannes Büchner
Johannes Buchner (born 1960) is a German biochemist who heads the Chair of Biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich and is known for his work on molecular chaperones.
Johannes C. Mol
Johannes C. Mol is a Dutch chemist at the University of Amsterdam whose 1968 isotope-labeling experiments on olefin metathesis are cited by the Nobel Committee.
Johannes C. Walter
Johannes C. Walter, also known as Johannes Walter, is an American biochemist and HHMI investigator at Harvard Medical School who studies how vertebrate cells replicate and repair DNA.
Johannes Campanus
Johannes Campanus (about 1500 to 1575) was a Dutch-born Reformation theologian from the diocese of Liège who denied the Trinity and was condemned by Luther and Melanchthon.
Johannes Cele
Johannes Cele, also Johan Cele, was a Dutch schoolmaster and rector of the Latin school at Zwolle from about 1375 to 1417, teaching 800 to 1,000 pupils.
Johannes Cocceius
Johannes Cocceius, also Johannes Coccejus (1603–1669), was a Dutch Reformed theologian of German birth, a leading exponent of covenant theology whose Sabbath views sparked the Cocceian–Voetian controversy.
Johannes Cochlaeus
Johannes Cochlaeus, born Johannes Dobeneck, was a German Catholic priest and humanist (1479–1552) who became Martin Luther's most prolific literary opponent; his 1549 Commentaria long shaped Catholic accounts of the Reformation.
Johannes Crocius
Johannes Crocius (1590–1659) was a German Reformed theologian who served as court preacher to Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel and professor of theology at Marburg and Kassel.
Johannes D. Veldhuis
Johannes D. Veldhuis, also known as J. D. Veldhuis, is an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for deconvolution methods that measure pulsatile hormone secretion and its decline with aging.
Johannes Daniel Falk
Johannes Daniel Falk was a German writer, satirist, and philanthropist who founded the Gesellschaft der Freunde in der Not in Weimar in 1813 and wrote "O du fröhliche".
Johannes Dantiscus
Johannes Dantiscus, in Polish Jan Dantyszek, was a Polish-Lithuanian humanist, Neo-Latin poet, and royal diplomat who served three kings and became Bishop of Warmia in 1537.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch physicist who won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics for his equation of state for gases and liquids.
Johannes Drusius
Johannes Drusius, born Jan van den Driesche (1550–1616), was a Flemish Protestant Orientalist and biblical exegete who held chairs of Hebrew at Oxford, Leiden, and Franeker.
Johannes Evangelista Gossner
Johannes Evangelista Gossner (Goßner) was a Bavarian-born Catholic priest who converted to Lutheranism, became pastor of a Berlin congregation, and founded the Gossner Mission in 1836.
Johannes Ewald
Johannes Ewald (1743–1781) was a Danish poet and dramatist, considered his country's leading lyricist, who wrote the royal anthem "Kong Christian stod ved høien Mast".
Johannes F.E. Mann
Johannes F.E. Mann, also known as Johannes Mann, is a German nephrologist, Professor of Medicine at Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1989, known for kidney and cardiovascular protection trials in diabetes.
Johannes Falkenberg
Johannes Falkenberg (c. 1364 – after 1429) was a Pomeranian Dominican theologian whose Satira, accusing Poland's king of heresy, was tried at the Council of Constance.