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Comments for JOHANN:

One famous bearer of the name is the father of Daniel Bernoulli, the famous mathematician, Johann Bernoulli. I only know this because I had to do a 500 word report on Daniel Bernoulli for school.
-- Kae Kae  8/21/2005
Borne by Johann Gutenburg (printing press).
-- amber monkey  3/17/2006
Pronounced YO-hun.
Not as popular as 'Johannes' in Germany.
-- JHK  9/3/2006
Listen to the German pronunciation of Johann here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html
-- _satu_  10/24/2006
German composer Johann Pachelbel, most known for his first and only cannon, the "Cannon in D".
-- x_songbird_x  12/11/2007
Also a famous bearer of the name Johann is Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a 19th-century Bohemian composer and virtuoso pianist. His is similar to that of Mozart.
-- JewellPhoenix  4/30/2008
First name of Mozart, whose full name was Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
-- Anonymous User  10/8/2008
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller was a German pianist and composer.
-- Anonymous User  3/14/2011
Johann of Austria (1538-1539), third son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. Died young.
-- CarolinW  2/26/2012

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