Arts and entertainment Authors •
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish author •
Hans Henning Atrott (1944–2018), German author and theorist •
Hans Einer (1856–1927), Estonian language teacher, author of schoolbooks and a cultural figure •
Hans Fallada (1893–1947), German writer •
Hans Herbjørnsrud (1938–2023), Norwegian author •
Hans Holzer (1920–2009), Austrian-American author and parapsychologist •
Hans Henny Jahnn (1894–1959), German playwright and novelist •
Hans Lorbeer (1901–1973), German politician and writer •
Hans Erich Nossack (1901–1977), German writer
Music •
Hans Guido von Bülow (1830–1894), German pianist and conductor •
Hans Gruber (conductor) (1925–2001), Canadian conductor •
Hans Raj Hans (born 1962), Indian singer •
Hans Hartz (1943–2002), German singer •
Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012), German composer •
Hans Poulsen (1945–2023), Australian songwriter/musician •
Hans Söllner (born 1955), German singer-songwriter •
Hans Zender (1936–2019), German composer and conductor •
Hans Zimmer (born 1957), German film composer
Painters and sculptors •
Hans Coumans (1943–1986), Dutch painter •
Hans Ruedi Giger (1940–2014), Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer •
Hans Heysen (1877–1968), Australian landscape painter •
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543), German Renaissance portraitist • •
Hans Seyffer (1460–1509), German sculptor
Other arts and entertainment •
Hans Albers (1891–1960), German singer and actor, stage name •
Hans Christensen (silversmith) (1924–1983), Danish-born American silversmith •
Hans Clarin (1929–2005), German actor •
Hans Conried (1917–1982), American comedian and actor •
Hans Kaldoja (1942–2017), Estonian actor •
Hans Klok (born 1969), Dutch magician •
Dolph Lundgren (born Hans Lundgren) (born 1957), Swedish actor and martial artist •
Hans van Manen (1932–2025), Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer •
Hans Matheson (born 1975), Scottish actor •
Hans Moser (actor) (1880–1964), Austrian actor born Jean Julier •
Hans Heinz Moser (1936–2017), Swiss actor •
Hans Obma, American politician •
Hans Werner Olm (born 1955), German cabaret performer and comic •
Hans Roosipuu (1931–2017), Estonian film director •
Hans Rosenthal (1925–1987), German entertainer and presenter, named •
Hans Söhnker (1903–1981), German actor •
Hans H. Steinberg (born 1950), German actor •
Hans Strydom (actor) (born 1947), South African actor •
Hans Wegner (or Hans Jørgensen Wegner, 1914–2007), Danish furniture designer
Medicine •
Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Austrian pediatrician for whom
Asperger syndrome is named •
Hans Berger (1873–1941), German neurologist •
Hans Sauer (1857–1939), South African general practitioner, lawyer, and businessman
Military and paramilitary •
Hans Aumeier (1906–1948), German Nazi SS deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes •
Hans Berndtson (born 1945), Swedish Army lieutenant general •
Hans Bothmann (1911–1946), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant •
Hans Dreyer (1930/31–2015), South African Police major general and head of
Koevoet •
Hans Hagnell (1919–2006), Swedish politician •
Hans Helwig (1881–1952), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant •
Hans Horrevoets (1974–2006), Dutch sea sailor •
Hans Hüttig (1894–1980), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant •
Hans Kalm (1889–1981), Estonian-born military officer •
Hans Krebs (SS general) (1888–1947), Moravian-born Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes •
Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general) (1898–1945), last German Army chief of staff during World War II •
Hans Loritz (1895–1946), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant •
Hans von Luck (1911–1997), German officer •
Hans Möser (1906–1948), German Nazi SS concentration camp officer executed for war crimes •
Hans Osara (c. 1560–1601), Finnish lieutenant in the Cudgel War •
Hans Oster (1887–1945), German brigadier general and deputy head of military intelligence •
Hans Simonsson (Swedish Navy officer) (1880–1965), Swedish Navy vice admiral
Politics •
Hans Apel (1932–2011), German politician •
Hans Barchue (died 2023), Liberian politician •
Hans Bentzien (1927–2015), East German writer and politician •
Hans Blix (born 1928), Swedish diplomat and politician •
Hans, Count von Bülow (1774–1825), Prussian statesman •
Hans Eichel (born 1941), German politician •
Hans Ekström (born 1958), Swedish politician •
Hans Filbinger (1913–2007), German politician •
Hans Frank (1900–1946), German Nazi lawyer and governor general of Nazi-occupied Poland executed for war crimes •
Hans Friderichs (1931–2025), German politician and businessman •
Hans Dietrich Genscher (1927–2016), German politician •
Hans Gualthérie van Weezel (born 1941), Dutch politician and diplomat •
Hans Gustafsson (1923–1998), Swedish politician •
Hans Hamilton (1758–1822), Anglo-Irish politician •
Hans Koschnick (1929–2016), German politician •
Hans Kruus (1891–1976), Estonian historian, academic and politician •
Hans Linton (1939–2010), Swedish diplomat •
Hans Rasmus Hansen (1896–1971), Danish politician •
Hans Rebane (1882–1961), Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist •
Hans Reingruber (1888–1964) was a German academic and transport minister of East Germany •
Hans Strijdom (1893–1958), South African politician and Prime Minister •
Hans Unander (born 1970), Swedish politician •
Hans Vijlbrief (born 1963), Dutch state secretary •
Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926–2020), German politician •
Hans Wiegel (1941–2025), Dutch politician
Science •
Hans Ankum (1930–2019), Dutch legal scholar •
Hans Avé Lallemant (1938–2016), Dutch-born American geologist •
Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German-American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate •
Hans Bos (born 1950), Dutch biochemist and cancer researcher •
Hans Capel (1936–2023), Dutch physicist •
Hans Cohen (1923–2020), Dutch microbiologist •
Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973), Swiss-American professor of hydraulic engineering, son of Albert Einstein •
Hans Freeman (1929–2008), German-born Australian protein crystallographer who elucidated the structure of plastocyanin •
Hans Geiger (1882–1945), German physicist, inventor of the Geiger counter •
Hans Hass (1919–2013), Austrian diver, naturalist and film-maker •
Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German-born, British physician and biochemist; identified citric acid cycle •
Hans Küng (1928–2021), Swiss Catholic theologian and author •
Hans Langmaack (born 1934), German computer scientist and mathematician •
Hans Lauda (1896–1974), Austrian industrialist •
Hans Lowey, Austrian-American chemist •
Hans Merensky (1871–1952), South African geologist •
Hans Oeschger (1927–1998), Swiss climatologist •
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields •
Hans Steffen (1865–1937), German geographer and explorer of Patagonia •
Hans Trass (1928–2017), Estonian ecologist and botanist •
Hans von Ohain (1911–1998), German Physicist, and Aerospace pioneer.
Sports •
Hans Christian Bernat (born 2000), Danish professional footballer •
Hans Christensen (footballer) (1906–1992), Danish footballer •
Hans Dersch (born 1967), American breaststroke swimmer •
Hans Eller (1910–1943), German rower •
Hans Erkens (born 1952), Dutch footballer •
Harold Goldsmith, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer •
Hans Halberstadt (1885–1966), German-born American Olympic fencer •
Hans Knecht (1913–1996), Swiss road racing cyclist •
Hans Krankl (born 1953), Austrian football player and trainer •
Hans Lutz (born 1949), German track and road cyclist •
Hans Maier (water polo player) (1916–2018), Dutch Olympic water polo player •
Hans Maier (rower) (1909–1943), German Olympic rower •
Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player •
Hans Parrel (born 1944), Dutch water polo player •
Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (born 1988), Chilean tennis player •
Hans Sarpei (born 1976), Ghanaian soccer player •
Hans Stolfus (born 1976), American beach volleyball player •
Hans Vanwijn (born 1995), Belgian basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League •
Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1887–1943), German sports director •
Hans Vonk (born 1970), South African soccer player •
Hans Wieselgren (born 1952), Swedish Olympic fencer •
Hans Wouda (born 1941), Dutch water polo player
Other fields • Hans or
John, King of Denmark, Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union •
Hans Werner Aufrecht (born 1936), German automotive engineer, one of the founders of AMG Engine Production and Development •
Hans Benno Bernoulli (1876–1959), Swiss architect •
Hans Besig (1908–1965), German Classical archaeologist and teacher •
Hans Biebow (1902–1947), German chief of Nazi administration of the Ghetto, executed for war crimes •
Hans Claessen (1563–1624), Dutch founder of the New Netherland Company •
Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945), German jurist and resistance fighter •
Hans Otto Hoheisen (1905–2003), South African conservationist and philanthropist •
Hans Mayer (1907–2001), German literary scholar •
Hannes Meyer (or Hans Emil Meyer, 1889–1954), Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus •
Hans Niemann (born 2003), American chess player •
Hans Raastad (born 1943), Norwegian socialist •
Hans Jürgen Rösler (1920–2009), German mineralogy professor •
Hans Scholl (1918–1943), German resistance fighter •
Hans Wesemann (1895–1971), German journalist and Gestapo agent •
Hans Wittwer (1894–1952), Swiss architect and Bauhaus teacher ==Fictional characters==