Top Celebrity Names Starting With Johann

1. Rank
   1
   

   Johann von Klenau

   1758 - 4712 BC Male
   

   Austrian General of Cavalry In Napoleonic Wars

   
   

   Johann von Klenau, also called Johann Josef Cajetan von Klenau und Janowitz, the son of a Bohemian noble, was a field marshal in the Habsburg army. Klenau joined the Habsburg military as a teenager and fought in Austria's wars with the Ottoman Empire, the French Revolutionary Wars, and commanded a corps in several important battles of the Napoleonic Wars.… read more

2. Rank
   2
   

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   1749 - 1832 Male
   

   Philosopher, Poet, and Writer

   
   

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long poem of modern European literature.… read more

3. Rank
   3
   

   Johann Sebastian Bach

   1685 - 1750 Male
   

   Composer and Organist

   
   

   Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Period. He enriched many established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach wrote much music, which was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty.… read more

4. Rank
   4
   

   Johann Pachelbel

   1653 - 1706 Male
   

   Composer, Organist, Musician

   
   

   Johann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era.… read more

5. Rank
   5
   

   Johann Rode von Wale

   1445 - 1511 Male
   

   Prince-archbishop of Bremen

   
   

   Johann Rode von Wale was a Catholic cleric, a Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, a chronicler, a long-serving government official and as John III Prince-archbishop of Bremen between 1497 and 1511.

6. Rank
   6
   

   Johann Heinrich Zedler

   1706 - 1751 Male
   

   Encyclopedist

   
   

   Johann Heinrich Zedler was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon (Great Universal Lexicon), the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century. After training as a bookseller, Zedler founded his own publishing house in 1726.… read more

7. Rank
   7
   

   Johann Friedrich Herbart

   1776 - 1882 Male
   

   Philosopher and Psychologist

   
   

   Johann Friedrich Herbart was a German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel; this in particular in relation to aesthetics. That does not take into account his thought on education.… read more

8. Rank
   8
   

   Johann Gottlieb Fichte

   1762 - 1814 Male
   

   Philosopher

   
   

   Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and those of the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.… read more

9. Rank
   9
   

   Johann Jakob Froberger

   1616 - 1667 Male
   

   Composer, Virtuoso, Organist

   
   

   Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was among the most famous composers of the era and influenced practically every major composer in Europe by developing the genre of keyboard suite and contributing greatly to the exchange of musical traditions through his many travels.… read more

10. Rank
    10
    

    Johann Wilhelm Meigen

    1764 - 1845 Male
    

    Entomologist, Scientist, Biologist

    
    

    Johann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.

11. Rank
    11
    

    Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

    1805 - 1859 Male
    

    Mathematician

    
    

    Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory (including creating the field of analytic number theory), as well as to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.… read more

12. Rank
    12
    

    Johann Ewald

    1744 - 1813 Male
    

    Regular, Military Person, General

    
    

    Johann von Ewald was a German military officer from Hesse-Kassel. After first serving in the Seven Years' War, he was the commander of the jäger corps of the Hessian Leib Infantry Regiment attached to British forces in the American Revolutionary War. He arrived with his troops, first serving in the Battle of White Plains in October 1776. He saw regular action until his capture at Yorktown in 1781.… read more

13. Rank
    13
    

    Johann Joachim Winckelmann

    1717 - 1768 Male
    

    Archaeologist

    
    

    Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. Called, "[t t]he prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology", Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art.… read more

14. Rank
    14
    

    Johann Philipp Reis

    1834 - 1874 Male
    

    Inventor

    
    

    Johann Philipp Reis was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone.

15. Rank
    15
    

    Johann Gottfried Herder

    1744 - 1803 Male
    

    Romantic Nationalist Philosopher

    
    

    Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.

16. Rank
    16
    

    Johann Flierl

    1858 - 1947 Male
    

    Lutheran Missionary

    
    

    Johann Flierl, was a pioneer Lutheran missionary in New Guinea. He established mission schools and organized the construction of roads and communication between otherwise remote interior locations. Under his leadership, Lutheran evangelicalism flourished in New Guinea. He founded the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in the Sattelberg, and a string of filial stations on the northeastern coast of New Guinea.… read more

17. Rank
    17
    

    Johann Eck

    1486 - 1543 Male
    

    Pedant, Theologian

    
    

    Dr. Johann Maier von Eck was a German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar.… read more

18. Rank
    18
    

    Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Age 42 Male
    

    Icelandic Musician and Composer

    
    

    Jóhann Jóhannsson is an Icelandic composer and producer. The BBC has called him "an intrepid musical enigma" and his work has been called "elegant, haunting and melancholic". His music is frequently informed by minimalism, film music, baroque music and drone music and combines classical orchestration with electronic music . Jóhann's arresting ‘Englabörn’ album from 2002 was one of the very first and most influential releases in the broad-reaching post-classical / modern composition field.… read more

19. Rank
    19
    

    Johann Hari

    Age 33 Male
    

    Writer, Columnist, Journalist

    
    

    Johann Eduard Hari is a British journalist who was a columnist at The Independent and The Huffington Post, and contributed to several other publications. In 2011, Hari admitted to plagiarism, was suspended from The Independent and surrendered his 2008 Orwell Prize. He also admitted to making Wikipedia edits, under a pseudonym, to attack his critics, and has said that he plans to undergo training in journalism ethics.… read more

20. Rank
    20
    

    Johann Strauss II

    1825 - 1899 Male
    

    Austrian Composer

    
    

    Johann Strauss II, also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr. , the Younger, or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet.… read more

21. Rank
    21
    

    Johann Friedrich Struensee

    1737 - 1772 Male
    

    De Facto Regent of Denmark

    
    

    Count Johann Friedrich Struensee was a German doctor. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose in power to a position of “de facto” regent of the country, where he tried to carry out widespread reforms.… read more

22. Rank
    22
    

    Johann Reuchlin

    1455 - 1522 Male
    

    Humanist, Scholar, Writer

    
    

    Johann Reuchlin (29 January 1455 – 30 June 1522) was a German humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew. For much of his life, he was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in Germany.

23. Rank
    23
    

    Johann Dzierzon

    1811 - 1906 Male
    

    Beekeeper

    
    

    Johann Dzierzon, in or Dzierżoń, also John Dzierzon, was a pioneering apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees and designed the first successful movable-frame beehive. Dzierzon came from a Polish family in Silesia. Trained in theology, he combined his theoretical and practical work in apiculture with his duties as a Roman Catholic priest, before being compulsorily retired by the Church and eventually excommunicated.… read more