Hans
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Hans may refer to:
  • Hans, Marne
    Hans, Marne
    Hans is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.-History:During the Battle of Valmy the castle of Hans was the head-quarter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Prussian army....

    , a commune in France
  • Hans, Magazine, a Hindi literary magazine in India
  • Hans Island
    Hans Island
    Hans Island is a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring , located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait—the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea...

    , contested between Greenland and Canada
  • Hans (name)
    Hans (name)
    Hans is a masculine given name. In German, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish, originally it is short for Johannes but is also recognized in Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands as a name in its own right for official purposes....

    , a given name
    • Note: most rulers named Hans are known as John
      John (name)
      John is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Latin Ioannes, Iohannes, which is in turn a form of the Greek , Iōánnēs. This Greek name is a form of the Hebrew name , , which means "God is generous"...

       in English-speaking countries, e.g. John of Denmark.
  • Hans, a James Bond henchman
  • Hans, a German enemy character in the fighting game Human Killing Machine
    Human Killing Machine
    Human Killing Machine, commonly abbreviated as HKM, is a 2D fighting game developed by Tiertex and published by U.S. Gold, released in March 1989. It was touted as a sequel to Tiertex's home computer conversion of Street Fighter...

  • Hans (comic book), by Grzegorz Rosiński
  • HANS device
    HANS device
    The HANS device is a safety item compulsory in many car racing sports...

    , a racing car safety device
  • Clever Hans
    Clever Hans
    Clever Hans was an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks....

    , the "wonder horse", demonstrated the "Pygmalion effect
    Pygmalion effect
    The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform...

    ".
  • HANS!, a popular variation on snap frequently played by festival-goers.
  • Hans A Gujjar
    Gujjar
    The Gurjar are an ethnic group in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Alternative spellings include Gurjara, Gujar, Gurjjara and Gūrjara. The spelling Gurjara or Gurjar is preferable to the rest....

    i tribal clan of Pakistani administered Kashmir

  • See Also, Han (disambiguation)
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