Famous People with Name Hein

Melvin Jack Hein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Melvin Jack Hein: was a professional American football player for the New York Giants. Hein played fifteen seasons for the Giants (1931-45) and never missed a down due to injury.

Piet Hein            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Piet Hein: was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".[1]

Jotun Hein            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jotun Hein: is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of University College, Oxford. Hein was previously Director of Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Kyaw Hein            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Kyaw Hein: a five-time Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmese film actor, film director and singer. Kyaw Hein starred in hundreds of films, and directed several films, and was considered one of the most important actors in Burmese cinema.[1] However, on his 61st birthday, he announced he would retire from the film industry to live as an Theravada Buddhist monk.[2]

Karl Hein            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Hein: was a German athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw. Born in Hamburg, he won the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. He was born and died in Hamburg.