Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

62247 persons found

Hank Worden

b. 1901

American actor (1901-1992)

Hanna Barysiewicz

b. 1888

Reputed oldest woman in Belarus (1888–2007)

Hanna Melnychenko

b. 1983

Ukrainian heptathlete

Hanna Neumann

German-born mathematician (1914–1971)

Hanna Öberg

b. 1995

Swedish biathlete (born 1995)

Hanna Pakarinen

b. 1981

Finnish singer (born 1981)

Hanna Ralph

b. 1888

German actress (1888–1978)

Hanna Reitsch

German aviator and test pilot

Hanna Schwamborn

b. 1992

German actress (born 1992)

Hannah Arendt

b. 1906

German, Jewish, and American historian and philosopher (1906–1975)

Hannah Cockroft

b. 1992

British wheelchair racer

Hannah Frank

b. 1908

British artist

Hannah Hauxwell

b. 1926

English farmer (1926–2018)

Hannah Höch

b. 1889

German artist (1889–1978)

Hannah Louise Shearer

b. 1945

American television writer

Hannah Miley

b. 1989

Scottish swimmer

Hannah Mitchell

English suffragette and socialist

Hannah More

English poet and playwright (1745–1833)

Hannah Murray

b. 1989

English actress

Hannah Simone

b. 1980

British actress (born 1980)

Hannah Storm

b. 1962

American sportscaster (born 1962)

Hannah Szenes

Jewish poet and anti-Nazi fighter in World War II

Hannah Webster Foster

18th and 19th-century American novelist

Hannah Weiner

American poet (1928–1997)