Famous People with Name Hanna

Hanna Yablonka            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Hanna Yablonka: is an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. She is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and staff historian for the Ghetto Fighters' House.

Hanna Reitsch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hanna Reitsch: was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. Reitsch was the first woman to fly a helicopter, a rocket plane, and a jet fighter. S

Hanna Polak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Hanna Polak: In 2002, she was awarded Best Producer of Documentary and Short Fiction Movies at the International Film Festival in Krakow, Poland for Railway Station Ballad. In 2004, she completed work on The Children of Leningradsky in collaboration with HBO. The Children of Leningradsky received many awards internationally, including an Oscar nomination, an International Documentary Association Award for Best Documentary, two Emmy nominations, and the Gracie Allen Award, given by Women in Radio and Television. The movie was enthusiastically accepted by critics.

Hanna Lis            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Hanna Lis: is a Polish TV journalist. She started her career working for Polish National Television (where, among other duties, she ran the news programme "Teleexpress"), but in 2002 transferred to the commercial station TV4 (dependent on Polsat), where she ran another informational programme "Dziennik". In 2004 she moved to Polsat, where she was an anchor of the news programme "Wydarzenia". She filed a report from Poland toCNN during Pope's John Paul II illness.

Hanna Bakula            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Hanna Bakula: is a Polish painter.

Adelbert Edward Hanna            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adelbert Edward Hanna: was a physician and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Lanark South from 1913 to 1917 as a Conservative and Lanark from 1917 to 1918 as a Unionist Party member. He practised medicine in Perth. Hanna was surgeon for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1895, he married Bessie Scott. Hanna was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1913 by-election held after the death of John Graham Haggart. He died in office in Westmount, Quebec at the age of 54.