Hans (name)

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Hans
Pronunciation /ˈhɑːnz/ HAHNZ or /ˈhænz/ HANZ; German: [ˈhans]
Gender Male
Origin
Word/Name Pet Form of Johannes
Meaning God is gracious
Region of origin German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Other names
Related names Jack, Ian, Jan, Jannes, Jean, Jo, Joan
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Hans is a masculine given name. In German, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish, originally it is short for Johannes (John) but is also recognized in Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands as a name in its own right for official purposes.

"Hansel" (German Hänsel) is a variant, meaning "little Hans." Another variant with the same meaning is Hänschen, found in the German proverb "Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr," which translates roughly as: "What little Hans doesn't learn, grown-up Hans will never learn."

Other variants include: Hanns, Hannes, Hansi (also female), Hansele, Hansal, Hensal, Hanserl, Hännschen, Hennes, Hännes, Hänneschen, Henning, Henner, Honsa, Johan, Johann, Jan, Jannes, Jo, Joha, Hanselmann, Hansje.

Alternate forms

Pet, diminutive, alternative and other language forms are:

  • Hannes (Dutch, German, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish)
  • Hansi
  • Hovhannes (Armenian)
  • Jack
  • Johnny/Johnnie
  • Jonn
  • Yohanna (Arabic: يوحنا) the Arabic language derivative. Used among Arabic-speaking Christians.
  • Yahya (Arabic: يحيى), used among Arab and non-Arab Muslims.
  • Eoin (Irish language derivation of Seán; in Irish and Scottish Gaelic refers to the Apostle)
  • Evan (Welsh a pre-Christian Celtic subsequently equated to John)
  • Jevan (variation of Evan)
  • Giovanni, Gianni (Italian)
  • Ġwanni, Ġwann, Ġanni (Maltese)
  • Jan (Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German)
  • Janez, diminutives: Jan, Jani, Janko (Slovenian)
  • János (Hungarian); diminutive: Janci ('Zoltan --> Zoli' pattern)
  • Johan (Dutch, Swedish, Danish. Norwegian)
  • Joan (Catalan)
  • Jean (French)
  • João (Portuguese)
  • Johannes (Germanic: German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch)
  • Johan(n) (variation of Johannes)
  • Jón (Icelandic)
  • Jonas (Lithuanian)
  • Jovan (Serbian)
  • Juan (Spanish / Filipino)
  • Juhani, Juha, Jukka (Finnish)
  • Ansis (Latvian)
  • Ian (Scottish derived from Gaelic Iain)
  • Ion (Romanian)
  • Ivan (Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian and other Slavic language nations)
  • Sean (Irish Seán, after the French Jean)
  • Shane (anglicized form of Seán)
  • Shaun (anglicised form of Seán)
  • Shawn (anglicised form of Seán)
  • Shon (Israeli Hebrew) שון (from Shawn)
  • Siôn (Welsh)
  • Yohani (Kirundi)
  • Yohanes (Eritrean)
  • Giuàn (Western Lombard)

Feminine forms are:

  • Hanne/Hanna(h)
  • Ioana
  • Jana
  • Jane
  • Joana (Portuguese and Catalan)
  • Jeanne (French)
  • Joanne
  • Joan
  • Johanna
  • Johanne (Norwegian)
  • Jean
  • Janice, Janet, both shortened as "Jan"
  • Non-English variants adopted as English names include Jeanette
  • Seonaid, Sinead, Seonag

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Medicine

  • Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Austrian pediatrician, Asperger syndrome is named after him

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Politics & military

  • Hans Blix (born 1928) head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (2000–2003)
  • Hans, Count von Bülow (1774–1825), Prussian statesman
  • Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945), jurist and resistance fighter
  • Hans Frank (1900–1946), former high-ranking Nazi lawyer and official
  • Hans Friderichs (born 1931), German politician and businessman
  • Hans Dietrich Genscher (born 1927), West German politician
  • Hans Maier (born 1931), politician
  • Hans Oster (1887–1945), German Brigadier General and deputy head of Military Intelligence
  • Hans Scholl (1918–1943), resistance fighter
  • Hans Wiegel (born 1941), Dutch politician
  • Hans von Luck (1911–1997)

Science

  • Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973), Pf. of Hydraulic engineering, A. Einstein's son
  • Hans Bethe (1906–2005), Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis
  • Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields
  • Hans Charles Freeman (1929–2008), German-born Australian protein crystallographer who elucidated the structure of plastocyanin
  • Hans Geiger (1882–1945), Inventor of the Geiger counter
  • Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian diver, naturalist and film-maker
  • Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German born, British physician and biochemist. Identified citric acid cycle.
  • Hans Steffen (1865–1937), German geographer and explorer of Patagonia

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