Leading Figures in History

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

24408 persons found

Johann Jakob Froberger

German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso and organist

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Swiss paleontologist (1672–1733)

Johann Joachim Becher

b. 1635

German physician (1635–1682)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

German art historian (1717–1768)

Johann Josef Loschmidt

Austrian scientist (1821–1895)

Johann Karl Ordonez

b. 1734

Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée

b. 1710

Johann Kuhnau

German composer and polymath (1660–1722)

Johann Ludwig Bach

German composer

Johann Mattheson

German composer, critic and lexicographer (1681–1764)

Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger

b. 1779

Austrian painter (1779–1853)

Johann Nikolaus Götz

b. 1721

German poet (1721-1781)

Johann Palisa

Austrian astronomer (1848–1925)

Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson

b. 1992

Icelandic politician (born 1992)

Johann Peter Hebel

b. 1760

German writer (1760–1826)

Johann Philipp Förtsch

b. 1652

German baroque composer, statesman and doctor

Johann Reuchlin

German humanist and scholar (1455–1522)

Johann Stamitz

b. 1717

Czech composer and violinist

Johann Stobäus

b. 1580

German composer (1580–1646)

Johann Strauss II

Austrian composer (1825–1899)

Johann Stumpf (writer)

b. 1500

Swiss historian

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

Catholic marshal of the Thirty Years' War (1559–1632)

Johann Ulrich von Cramer

German judge, legal scholar and Enlightenment philosopher

Johann Uz

German poet (1720–1796)