Hanns Heise

Hanns is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Hanns Blaschke (1896–1971), Austrian politician
• Hanns-Peter Boehm (born 1928), German chemist and professor emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany
• Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), German expressionist and cubist painter
• Hanns Brandstätter (born 1949), Austrian fencer
• Hanns Braun (1886–1918), German athlete
• Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1764–1841), German portraitist
• Hanns Cibulka (1920–2004), German Bohemian poet and diarist
• Hanns Eckelkamp (born 1927), German film producer and founder of Atlas Filmverleih
• Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), Austrian composer
• Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871–1943), German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels
• Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs (1927–1995), German journalist
• Hanns In der Gand, pen name of Ladislaus Krupski (1882–1947), Swiss folklorist and collector of traditional and military songs
• Hanns Bruno Geinitz (1814–1900), German geologist, born at Altenburg, the capital of Saxe-Altenburg
• Hanns Georgi (1901–1989), German painter, printmaker and book illustrator
• Hanns Goebl (1901–1986), Bavarian sculptor who worked for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
• Hanns Grössel (1932–2012), German literary translator and broadcasting journalist
• Hanns Günther, pseudonym of Walter de Haas (1886–1969), a prolific German author, translator, and editor of popular science books
• Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award, German award for journalism
• Hanns Heise (1913–1992), highly decorated Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II
• Hanns Hopp (1890–1971), German architect
• Hanns Hörbiger (1860–1931), Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol
• Hanns Dieter Hüsch (1925–2005), German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator
• Hanns Jana (born 1952), German fencer
• Hanns Jelinek (1901–1969), Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonym Hanns Elin
• Hanns Johst (1890–1978), German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate
• Hanns-Christian Kaiser (born 1969), German artist
• Hanns Kerrl (1887–1941), German Nazi politician
• Hanns Kilian (1905–1981), German bobsledder who competed from the late 1920s to the late 1930s
• Hanns Kräly (1884–1950), credited in the United States as Hans Kraly, was a German actor and screenwriter
• Hanns Kreisel (born 1931), German mycologist and professor emeritus
• Hanns Laengenfelder (1903–1982), highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II
• Hanns Lilje (1899–1977), German Lutheran bishop and one of the pioneers of the ecumenical movement
• Hanns Lippmann (1890–1929), German film producer of the silent era
• Hanns-Heinrich Lohmann (1911–1995), Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), in the Waffen SS during World War II
• Hanns Lothar (1929–1967), German film actor
• Hanns Ludin (1905–1947), German diplomat
• Hanns Maaßen (born 1908), German journalist and writer
• Hanns Malissa (1920–2010), Austrian analytical chemist and environmental chemist
• Hanns von Meyenburg (born 1887), Swiss Pathologist
• Hanns Nägle (born 1902), German bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s
• Hanns-Horst von Necker (1903–1979), highly decorated Generalmajor in the Luftwaffe during World War II
• Hanns-Josef Ortheil (born 1951), German author, scholar of German literature, and pianist
• Hanns Albin Rauter (1895–1949), high-ranking Austrian-born Nazi war criminal
• Hanns Sachs (1881–1947), one of the earliest psychoanalysts, and a close personal friend of Sigmund Freud
• Hanns Scharff (1907–1992), German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War
• Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915–1977), German business executive and employer and industry representative
• Hanns Schwarz, Austrian film director
• Hanns Seidel (1901–1961), German politician and Bavarian prime minister from 1957 to 1960
• Hanns Egon Wörlen (1915–2014), German architect and art patron
• Hanns Zischler (born 1947), German actor most famous in America for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film Munich