Hahn
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People
- von HahnVon Hahnvon Hahn is the name of the German-Baltic-Russian noble family with the coat of arms: Striding red rooster on the silver shield.-Origin:...
, the name of the German-Baltic-Russian noble family - Ida, Countess von Hahn-HahnIda, Countess von Hahn-HahnCountess Ida von Hahn-Hahn was a German author.-Biography:She was born at Tressow, in the duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She was the daughter of Carl Friedrich Graf von Hahn , who was well known for his enthusiasm for stage productions, upon which he squandered a large portion of his fortune...
(1805-1880), German author - Alfred HahnAlfred HahnAlfred A. Hahn was an architect in Toledo, Ohio and the founder of the Hahn and Hayes architectural firm. He designed the United States Post Office in Oberlin, Ohio . It was designed in neoclassical architecture style and dedicated in 1933...
, architect - Billy HahnBilly HahnBilly Hahn is a basketball assistant coach for the West Virginia Mountaineers under head coach Bob Huggins. During his head coaching and assistant coaching career, Hahn has coached and recruited 19 future NBA players and set various school records at Maryland with numerous NCAA Tournament...
(born 1955), American basketball coach - Carl Hugo HahnCarl Hugo HahnCarl Hugo Hahn was a German missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and South-West Africa for most of his life. Together with Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt he set up the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero people in Gross Barmen...
(1818-1895), German missionary in Namibia - Carl Wilhelm HahnCarl Wilhelm HahnDr. Carl Wilhelm Hahn was a German zoologist and author of the first German monograph on spiders. C. W. Hahn was an all-round natural scientist – not at all unusual for his time. Surprisingly he seems to have been almost forgotten...
(1786-1835), German zoologist - Joe HahnJoe HahnJoseph "Joe" Hahn , better known by his stage name, Mr. Hahn, is an American turntablist and director best known as the DJ and sampler for the band Linkin Park.-Personal Biography:...
(born 1977), DJ of Linkin Park - Johannes HahnJohannes HahnJohannes 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...
(born 1957), Austrian politician - Dave HahnDave HahnDave Hahn is a professional mountain guide, ski patroller, journalist and lecturer. On May 20, 2011 he reached the summit of Mt. Everest for the 13th time - the most for a non-Sherpa climber. Among Hahn’s other notable accomplishments are his 27 summits of Vinson Massif, Antarctica’s highest mountain...
(born 1959), guitarist,Singer/songwriter - David HahnDavid HahnDavid Charles Hahn , also called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", is an American who attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17. A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's...
, the "Radioactive Boy Scout" - David Hahn (Nebraska)David Hahn (Nebraska)David Hahn is the CEO of Internet development company New Digital Group and was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Nebraska in 2006.-Biography:...
, 2006 Democratic candidate for Governor of Nebraska - David Hahn (cartoonist)David Hahn (cartoonist)David Hahn is a Portland, Oregon-based comic book artist born in Los Angeles in 1967. He is best known for his work illustrating the comic book mini-series Bite Club and its sequel Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit for DC Comics, where he also illustrated stories for Robin, Fables, Batman: The...
, cartoonist - Edith Hahn BeerEdith Hahn BeerEdith Hahn Beer was an Austrian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding her Jewish identity and marrying a Nazi officer.-Early life and education:Hahn was one of three daughters born to Klothilde and Leopold Hahn...
(1914-2009), Jewish Holocaust survivor - Erwin HahnErwin HahnErwin L. Hahn is a U.S. physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance . In 1950 he discovered the spin echo....
(born 1921), U.S. physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) - Hans HahnHans HahnHans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.-Biography:...
(1879-1934), Austrian mathematician - Hans "Assi" Hahn, German World War II fighter ace
- Hilary HahnHilary HahnHilary Hahn is an American violinist.Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia. Beginning her studies when she was three years old at Baltimore's Peabody Institute, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age ten, and in 1991, made her major orchestral debut with the...
(born 1979), violinist - James K. Hahn (born 1950), politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles, California
- Janice HahnJanice HahnJanice Kay Hahn is the U.S. Representative from California's 36th congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party. She was previously a Los Angeles City Councilwoman representing the 15th district from 2001 to 2011...
, politician, member of the Los Angeles City Council - Rylan Hahn, Business owner, entrepreneur, Canadian Real Estate finance expert
- Jessica HahnJessica HahnJessica Hahn is an American model and actress. She is best known for a sex scandal involving televangelist Jim Bakker while she was employed as a church secretary.-Jim Bakker scandal:...
(born 1959), celebrity, nude model, and church secretary - Kenneth HahnKenneth HahnKenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.-Biography:Hahn...
(1920-1997), politician, member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors - Kimberly HahnKimberly HahnKimberly Hahn is a Catholic apologist and author. She is the eldest child of Jerry and Patricia Kirk, and is married to apologist and author Scott Hahn....
(born 1957), Catholic author and apologist - Kurt HahnKurt HahnKurt Martin Hahn was a German educator whose philosophies are considered internationally influential.-Biography:...
(1886-1974), German teacher and education reformer - Matthaeus Hahn (1739-1790), priest and inventor
- Otto HahnOtto HahnOtto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...
(1879-1968), German chemist, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739-1790), German priest and inventor
- Reynaldo HahnReynaldo HahnReynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie....
(1874-1947), composer and lover of Marcel Proust - Scott HahnScott HahnScott Hahn is a contemporary author, theologian, and Catholic apologist. His works include Rome Sweet Home and The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth. He currently teaches at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic university in the United States.-Education:Hahn received his...
(born 1957), Catholic writer and apologist - Wolfgang HahnWolfgang HahnWolfgang Hahn was a German mathematician who worked on special functions, in particular orthogonal polynomials. He introduced Hahn polynomials, the Hahn class, and the Hahn–Exton q-Bessel function.-External links:*...
(born 1911) German mathematician
Places
- Hahn, Rhineland-PalatinateHahn, Rhineland-Palatinate-History:Within Hahn’s municipal limits are traces of Roman and Frankish settlement. The placename Hahn, originally written Hagene , and later also Haan, Han, Hane, and Hain, originally meant, according to the Rhenish toponym researcher Heinrich Dittmaier, “wattled fence”, then later “enclosed...
, a municipality in Germany- Hahn Air BaseHahn Air BaseHahn Air Base was a frontline NATO facility in Germany for over 40 years during the Cold War...
, a former frontline NATO facility near Hahn
- Hahn Air Base
- Hahn am SeeHahn am SeeHahn am See is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-Location:The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur und Hachenburg...
, a municipality Germany - Hahn bei MarienbergHahn bei MarienbergHahn bei Marienberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-Location:...
, a municipality in Germany - Kenneth Hahn State Recreation AreaKenneth Hahn State Recreation AreaKenneth Hahn State Recreation Area or "Hahn Park" is a state park and recreation area in the California Department of Parks and Recreation system...
or Hahn Park, a state park and recreational area in California - Hahn Horticulture GardenHahn Horticulture GardenThe Peggy Lee Hahn Horticulture Garden , formerly the Virginia Tech Horticulture Garden, is a horticulture garden located on the Virginia Tech campus on Washington Street SW, Blacksburg, Virginia. The largest public garden in western Virginia, it is open daily without charge.The garden was...
, on the campus of Virginia Tech University - Hahn (crater)Hahn (crater)Hahn is a lunar impact crater that is located near the northeastern limb of the Moon. The crater appears oval when viewed from the Earth due to foreshortening. It is located less than one crater diameter to the southeast of Berosus, a slightly smaller formation.The inner wall of Hahn contains a...
, on the Moon
Businesses
- The Hahn CompanyThe Hahn CompanyThe Hahn Company, San Diego, California, alternately known as Ernest W. Hahn, Inc., was a major American shopping center owner and developer from the 1950s to the 1980s. It is now defunct....
, a defunct American shopping center owner and developer - Hahn AirHahn AirHahn Air Lines GmbH, operating as Hahn Air, is a company with its head office in Dreieich, Germany.Hahn Air has been specialised in providing global sales and distribution services to airlines for many years...
, a German airline - Hahn breweryHahn BreweryHahn Brewery was established by Dr Charles "Chuck" Hahn in 1986 at an old factory site in the suburb of Camperdown in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, a brewery in Sydney, Australia
Other uses
- Red-shouldered MacawRed-shouldered MacawThe Red-shouldered Macaw is the smallest macaw being 30–35 centimetres in length. It is a parrot native to the tropical lowlands, savannah, and swamplands of Venezuela, the Guianas, Bolivia, Brazil, and far south-eastern Peru...
or Hahn's Macaw, a small parrot in the family Psittacidae