Hanns
Hanns is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Hanns Blaschke, Austrian politician
- Hanns-Peter Boehm, German chemist and professor emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany
- Hanns Bolz, German expressionist and cubist painter
- Hanns Brandstätter, Austrian fencer
- Hanns Braun, German athlete
- Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German portraitist
- Hanns Cibulka, German Bohemian poet and diarist
- Hanns Eckelkamp, German film producer and founder of Atlas Filmverleih
- Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer
- Hanns Heinz Ewers, German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels
- Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist
- Hanns In der Gand, pen name of Ladislaus Krupski, Swiss folklorist and collector of traditional and military songs
- Hanns Bruno Geinitz, German geologist, born at Altenburg, the capital of Saxe-Altenburg
- Hanns Georgi, German painter, printmaker and book illustrator
- Hanns Goebl, Bavarian sculptor who worked for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
- Hanns Grössel, German literary translator and broadcasting journalist
- Hanns Günther, pseudonym of Walter de Haas, a prolific German author, translator, and editor of popular science books
- Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award, German award for journalism
- Hanns Heise, Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II
- Hanns Hopp, German architect
- Hanns Hörbiger, Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch, German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator
- Hanns Jana, German fencer
- Hanns Jelinek, Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonym Hanns Elin
- Hanns Johst, German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate
- Hanns-Christian Kaiser, German artist
- Hanns Kerrl, German Nazi politician
- Hanns Kilian, German bobsledder who competed from the late 1920s to the late 1930s
- Hanns Kräly, credited in the United States as Hans Kraly, was a German actor and screenwriter
- Hanns Kreisel, German mycologist and professor emeritus
- Hanns Laengenfelder, Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II
- Hanns Lilje, German Lutheran bishop and one of the pioneers of the ecumenical movement
- Hanns Lippmann, German film producer of the silent era
- Hanns-Heinrich Lohmann, Obersturmbannführer, in the Waffen SS during World War II
- Hanns Lothar, German film actor
- Hanns Ludin, German Nazi diplomat executed for war crimes
- Hanns Maaßen, German journalist and writer
- Hanns Malissa, Austrian analytical chemist and environmental chemist
- Hanns von Meyenburg, Swiss pathologist
- Hanns Nägle, German bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s
- Hanns-Horst von Necker, Generalmajor in the Luftwaffe during World War II
- Hanns-Josef Ortheil, German author, scholar of German literature, and pianist
- Hanns Albin Rauter, high-ranking Austrian-born Nazi war criminal
- Hanns Sachs, one of the earliest psychoanalysts, and a close personal friend of Sigmund Freud
- Hanns Scharff, German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War
- Hanns Martin Schleyer, German business executive and employer and industry representative
- Hanns Schwarz, Austrian film director
- Hanns Seidel, German politician and Bavarian prime minister from 1957 to 1960
- Hanns Egon Wörlen, German architect and art patron
- Hanns Zischler, German actor most famous in America for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film Munich
