Hans

American  

[hanz, hahns] / hænz, hɑns /

noun

1. a male given name, Germanic form of John.

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Example Sentences

The Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission will probe the county’s Correctional Health Services during its next meeting, specifically eight suicides and 10 drug-related deaths that occurred in 2025, said Hans Johnson, commission chair.

From Los Angeles Times

“Hans Christian Andersen bartered with a mermaid who lived in the cold waters of the Odense Fjord.”

From Literature

South Tyrol's designation as autonomous ushered in "remarkable economic and cultural development" as well as "a form of self-governance found in few other Italian provinces", tourism historian Hans Heiss told AFP.

From Barron's

Norwegian priest and missionary Hans Egede set out to reconnect with Greenland and convert whoever was there to Protestantism and found an Inuit community.

From The Wall Street Journal

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, German ethnologist Hans Himmelheber journeyed across Ivory Coast amassing a collection of ritual objects.

From Barron's