Arts and Music

• Johannes Brahms (born 1833, died 1897)

  German composer and pianist.

  • Composed Hungarian Dances and a famous lullaby (see list of Romantic Composers)
• Johannes Ciconia (died 1411)

  Dutch composer and musical theorist.

  • Known for his writings on musical development (see list of Composers of Early Music)
• Johannes Itten

  Swiss painter, sculptor and educator.

  • Developed the basic design curriculum used at the Bauhaus (see list of Graphic Designers)
• Johannes Vermeer (born 1632, died 1675)

  Dutch painter.

  • Painted The Kitchenmaid (see list of Artists of the 17th & 18th Centuries)

Science and Philosophy

• Johannes A. G. Fibiger (born 1867, died 1928)

  Danish pathologist who was the first to produce cancer in laboratory rats.

  • 1926 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)
• Johannes Kepler (born 1571, died 1630)

  German astronomer.

  • Formulated the laws of planetary motion, including the fact that the planets travel in elliptical orbits (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)
• Johannes Stark

  German physicist who headed Hitler's Reich Physical-Technical Institute from 1933-39.

  • 1919 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Johannes D. van der Waals (born 1837, died 1923)

  Dutch physicist who studied the gaseous and liquid states of matter.

  • 1910 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)

The Literary World

• Johannes V. Jensen (born 1873, died 1950)

  Danish poet and novelist.

  • 1944 Nobel Prize winner for Literature (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature)