Leading Figures in History

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

62247 persons found

Hermann Heinrich Gossen

b. 1810

Prussian economist (1810–1858)

Hermann Hesse

b. 1877

German writer (1877–1962)

Hermann Hreiðarsson

b. 1974

Icelandic footballer and coach (born 1974)

Hermann Huppen

b. 1938

Belgian comic book creator (1938–2026)

Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia

Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony (died 1217)

Hermann II, Count of Celje

Styrian prince and magnate

Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

Count Palatine of Lotharingia from 1064 to 1085

Hermann Knoflacher

b. 1940

Austrian civil engineer (born 1940)

Hermann Kolbe

b. 1818

German chemist (1818–1884)

Hermann Lang

German racing driver (1909–1987)

Hermann Lux (footballer)

b. 1893

German footballer

Hermann Minkowski

b. 1864

German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)

Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)

b. 1876

Chancellor of Germany (1920, 1928–1930)

Hermann Oberth

b. 1894

Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894–1989)

Hermann Obrecht

Swiss politician (1882-1940)

Hermann of Reichenau

b. 1013

German 11th-century Benedictine monk

Hermann of Wied

Roman Catholic archbishop (1477–1552)

Hermann Raster

b. 1827

American journalist

Hermann Rorschach

b. 1884

Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1884–1922)

Hermann Scherchen

German conductor (1891-1966)

Hermann Schlegel

b. 1804

German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist

Hermann Schlichting

b. 1907

German fluid dynamics engineer

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)

Hermann Trautschold

b. 1817

German-Russian geologist and paleontologist (1817–1902)