# Hanns

Hanns is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Hanns Blaschke (1896–1971), Austrian politician
* Hanns Bolz (1885–1918), German expressionist and cubist painter
* Hanns Brandstätter (born 1949), Austrian fencer
* Hanns Braun (1886–1918), German athlete
* Hanns Cibulka (1920–2004), German Bohemian poet and diarist
* Hanns Eckelkamp (1927–2021), 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 Wolf (1894–1968), German composer and conductor
* 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 Heise (1913–1992), 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 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 (1931–2017), German mycologist and professor emeritus
* Hanns Laengenfelder (1903–1982), 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 Lothar (1929–1967), German film actor
* Hanns Ludin (1905–1947), German Nazi diplomat executed for war crimes
* Hanns Maaßen (1908–1983), German journalist and writer
* Hanns Malissa (1920–2010), Austrian analytical chemist and environmental chemist
* Hanns von Meyenburg (1887–1971), Swiss pathologist
* Hanns Nägle (1902–?), German bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s
* 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 (1888–1945), 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