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Johannes Moe

Johannes Moe (1926–2023) was a Norwegian structural and shipbuilding engineer, professor of shipbuilding and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and managing director of SINTEF from 1977 to 1989.

Johannes Mollerup

Johannes Mollerup (1872–1937) was a Danish mathematician, professor at the Technical University of Denmark from 1916, known for the Bohr–Mollerup theorem and the Danish analysis textbook he wrote with Harald Bohr.

Johannes Moser (footballer)

Johannes Mathias Moser, Austrian footballer born 2008 in Klagenfurt, left winger for FC Red Bull Salzburg; top scorer with 8 goals at the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup, signed to 2030.

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted was a Danish physical chemist and professor at Copenhagen who defined acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors in 1923.

Johannes Pauli

Johannes Pauli (c. 1450/1455 – after 1519) was a German Franciscan preacher remembered for Schimpf und Ernst, the first German-language Schwank book, printed in 1522.

Johannes Poliander

Johannes Poliander, born Johann Gramann (1487–1541), was a German Lutheran Reformer and hymn writer who as pastor of the Altstadt church in Königsberg helped establish the Protestant church in Prussia.

Johannes Radebe

Johannes Radebe, South African dancer and choreographer from Zamdela, Sasolburg; Strictly Come Dancing professional from 2018, runners-up with John Whaite in 2021; author of Jojo: Finally Home and Lola in Kinky Boots.

Johannes Rau

Johannes Rau (1931–2006), German SPD politician; North Rhine-Westphalia science minister 1970–1978, its Minister-President 1978–1998, eighth Federal President 1999–2004; first German head of state to address the Knesset in German.

Johannes Rivius

Johannes Rivius, born Johann von der Becke (1500–1553), was a German humanist, pedagogue, and Protestant theologian from Attendorn in Westphalia who shaped the 16th-century school system of Albertine Saxony.

Johannes Rydberg

Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854–1919) was a Swedish physicist at Lund University whose 1890 formula for spectral series, with the Rydberg constant, underlies Bohr's 1913 atomic model.

Johannes Rydzek

Johannes Rydzek, German nordic combined skier born 1991 in Oberstdorf, double Olympic champion (Pyeongchang 2018), seven-time world champion, 26 World Cup wins; retired March 2026 at Holmenkollen.

Sep 19, 2026

Johannes Schildt

Johannes Schildt, born in 1988, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the digital healthcare company Kry and served as its chief executive from 2015 until December 2024.

Johannes Schmidt (Danish biologist)

Johannes Schmidt, in full Ernst Johannes Schmidt (1877–1933), was a Danish marine biologist who traced eel larvae across the Atlantic to the Sargasso Sea breeding ground.

Johannes Schulthess

Johannes Schulthess (1763–1836) was a Swiss Reformed theologian, canon of the Grossmünster in Zürich, professor at the University of Zürich, and co-editor of the complete edition of Zwingli's works.

Johannes Sleidanus

Johannes Sleidanus, born Johann Philippi or Philippson (1506 to 1556), was a German diplomat and historian whose 1555 Commentaries became the first comprehensive contemporary history of the Reformation.

Johannes Söding

Johannes Söding is a computational biologist who leads a Max Planck group in Göttingen and created the widely used protein bioinformatics tools HHpred, MMseqs2, and Foldseek.

Johannes Stark

Johannes Stark (1874–1957) was a German experimental physicist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields, the Stark effect.

Sep 27, 2026

Johannes Steiniger

Johannes Steiniger (born 1987) is a German CDU politician who has served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy since 2026.

Johannes Thingnes Bø

Johannes Thingnes Bø (born 1993), Norwegian biathlete, brother of Tarjei Bø; five Olympic golds, 22 world titles, five World Cup overall globes; retired March 2025 at Holmenkollen.

Oct 22, 2026

Johannes Thurzó

Johannes Thurzó (Hungarian: Thurzó János; Slovak: Ján Thurzo, 1437–1508) was a Kraków merchant and mining engineer who co-founded the Thurzó–Fugger copper company with Jakob Fugger in 1494.

Johannes Trithemius

Johannes Trithemius, born Johannes Heidenberg (1462–1516), was a Benedictine abbot of Sponheim who built one of Germany's largest monastic libraries and wrote the first printed book on cryptography.

Johannes Ude

Johannes Ude (1874–1965) was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, and fourfold doctor, professor of dogmatics at Graz, who opposed capitalism and adopted Silvio Gesell's Freiwirtschaft.

Oct 22, 2026

Jóhannes úr Kötlum

Jóhannes úr Kötlum, born Jóhannes Bjarni Jónasson (1899–1972), was an Icelandic poet, novelist, translator, and member of parliament, best known internationally for his 1932 children's verse book Jólin koma.

Johannes V. Barth

Johannes V. Barth, born 1962, is a German surface physicist who has held the chair of surface and interface physics at the Technical University of Munich since 2006.

Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes V. Jensen was a Danish author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944, best known for Kongens Fald and the evolutionary cycle Den lange Rejse.

Sep 24, 2026

Johannes van den Bosch

Johannes van den Bosch (1780–1844) was a Dutch statesman and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1830 to 1833, who devised the Cultivation System on Java.

Johannes van der Corput

Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (1890–1975) was a Dutch analytic number theorist whose method of exponential sums transformed number theory, whose 1935 sequence became the prototype for quasi-Monte Carlo methods, and who founded Amsterdam's Mathematisch Centrum.