Top Celebrity Names Starting With Johannes

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   Johannes Rau

   1931 - 2006 Male
   

   Politician, Reporter, Minister

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   Johannes Rau was a German politician of the SPD. He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.

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   Johannes Hahn

   Age 54 Male
   

   Politician, Second, Congressman

   
   

   Johannes Hahn, born on the 2 December 1957, is an Austrian politician and that country's member of the second Barroso Commission. He replaced as Austria's representative Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Hahn is a member of the Österreichische Volkspartei and the European People's Party (EPP). In February 2011, renewed allegations of plagiarism on his doctoral thesis emerged that mirror those of several German politicians including former German Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg.… read more

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   Johannes Kepler

   1571 - 1630 Male
   

   Mathematician, Astronomer, Astrologer

   
   
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   Johannes Brahms

   1833 - 1897 Male
   

   Composer, Conductor, Pianist

   
   

   Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene.… read more

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   Johannes Gutenberg

   1398 - 1468 Male
   

   Inventor Who Invented Movable Type

   
   

   Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.… read more

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   Johannes Vermeer

   1632 - 1675 Male
   

   Painter

   
   

   Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.… read more

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   Johannes S. Andersen

   1898 - 1970 Male
   

   Norwegian Criminal, Businessman and Resistance Fighter During the Second World War

   
   

   Johannes Sigfred Andersen was a Norwegian resistance fighter during the Second World War, a member of the Norwegian Independent Company 1 (NOR.I.C.1). He was nicknamed "Gulosten"; 'The Yellow Cheese'. He also used the surname Ostein during the war. Andersen was a controversial character, because of his pre-war life as a well-known career criminal and a series of incidents that occurred during the war years.… read more

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   Johannes Wiedewelt

   1731 - 1802 Male
   

   Sculptor

   
   

   Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish neoclassical sculptor, was born in Copenhagen to royal sculptor to the Danish Court, Just Wiedewelt, and his wife Birgitte Lauridsdatter. Following in his father’s footsteps, he too became a royal sculptor introducing neoclassical ideals to Denmark in the form of palace decorations, garden sculptures and artifacts and, especially, memorial monuments. He was undoubtedly the best known Danish sculptor before Bertel Thorvaldsen.… read more

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   Johannes Andenæs

   1912 - 2003 Male
   

   Politician, Professor

   
   

   Johannes Bratt Andenæs, often shortened to Johs. Andenæs was a Norwegian jurist. He was a professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oslo from 1945 to 1982, and served as rector from 1970 to 1972.… read more

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    Johannes Virolainen

    1914 - 2000 Male
    

    Finnish Prime Minister

    
    

    Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician. Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland.… read more

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    Johannes Scotus Eriugena

    815 AD - 877 AD Male
    

    Theologian, Philosopher

    
    

    Johannes Scotus Eriugena was an Irish theologian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius.