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Harald Schmidt
Harald Schmidt, also known as Harald H.H.W. Schmidt, is a pharmacologist and professor emeritus at Maastricht University, known for nitric oxide research and drug repurposing.
Harald Schwalbe
Harald Schwalbe (born 1966) is a German chemist, professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, known for NMR studies of riboswitch RNA regulation and protein folding, and executive director of Instruct-ERIC.
Harald Sonnenberg
Harald Sonnenberg (1935–2026) was a German-born renal physiologist at the University of Toronto who won the 1986 Canada Gairdner International Award for discovering atrial natriuretic factor.
Harald Sontheimer
Harald Sontheimer is an American neuroscientist known for discovering how brain tumors cause epilepsy, and Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia since 2021.
Harald Stein
Harald Stein (born 1942 in Kiel) is a German hematopathologist who discovered Ki-67 and CD30, described new lymphoma entities, and led pathology at the Charité.
Harald Stenmark
Harald Stenmark is a Norwegian cell biologist and cancer researcher, professor at the University of Oslo, known for work on endocytosis, the FYVE domain, and the ESCRT machinery.
Harald Stenvaag
Harald Stenvaag, born 1953 in Ålesund, is a Norwegian sport shooter considered Norway's most decorated, with three world titles and Olympic silver in 1992 and bronze in 2000.
Harald Strøm
Harald Strøm (1897–1977), Norwegian speed skater and footballer from Horten; World Allround Champion 1922, European Champion 1923, 5,000 m world record holder 1922–1929, and 1924 Chamonix Norwegian flagbearer.
Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
Harald Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer who directed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1936 to 1948; the ocean-transport unit sverdrup is named for him.
Harald T. Friis
Harald T. Friis (1893–1976) was a Danish-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs known for the Friis transmission equation, the noise figure definition, and his cascade formulas.
Harald Uhlig
Harald Uhlig is a German macroeconomist at the University of Chicago since 2007, best known for his 2005 agnostic sign-restriction method for identifying monetary policy shocks.
Harald V of Norway
Harald V (1937–2026), King of Norway from 17 January 1991 to 28 August 2026; first prince born in Norway in 567 years, WWII exile in the US, married Queen Sonja, succeeded by Haakon VIII.
Harald Vilimsky
Harald Vilimsky (born 1966) is an Austrian politician of the Freedom Party of Austria who has sat in the European Parliament since 2014 and leads its FPÖ delegation.
Harald von Boehmer
Harald von Boehmer (1942–2018) was a German-born immunologist who established how the thymus selects T cells and discovered the pre-T cell receptor, working at Basel, Paris, and Harvard.
Harald Wallin
Harald Wallin, full name Johan Harald Alfred Wallin, was a Swedish sailor from Gothenburg who won 8-meter silver at the 1908 Olympics and 10-meter gold in 1912.
Harald Wartooth
Harald Wartooth (Harald Hildetand, "battle tooth") is a semi-legendary Danish king of Saxo's Gesta Danorum and Icelandic sagas, last of the Skjöldungs, who fell at the mythical Battle of Brávellir against his nephew Sigurd Ring.
Harald Weinfurter
Harald Weinfurter is an experimental quantum physicist and professor at LMU Munich since 1999, known for early quantum teleportation, device-independent quantum key distribution, and long-distance entanglement of atoms.
Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer is a German social psychologist and sociologist who studies memory, mass violence, and climate change, wrote Täter and Klimakriege, and directs the Futurzwei foundation in Berlin.
Harald Winkler
Harald Winkler (born 1962, Graz) is an Austrian bobsledder, not the show jumper Hans Günter Winkler; he won four-man gold at Albertville 1992 with pilot Ingo Appelt, and took world silver 1993 and bronze 1990.
Harald zur Hausen
Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023) was a German virologist who established that HPV causes most cervical cancer, earning half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Haraldskær Woman
Haraldskær Woman (Haraldskærkvinden), also long called Queen Gunhild, is a Danish Iron Age bog body found 20 October 1835 in Haraldskær Mose near Vejle; about 40 years old at death, strangled, never conserved, displayed at Kulturmuseet Vejle.
Haraldur Sigurðsson
Haraldur Sigurðsson, born 1939 in Stykkishólmur, Iceland, is an Icelandic volcanologist and geochemist, emeritus professor at the University of Rhode Island known for work on the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption and Icelandic rhyolites.
Haram (حَرَام)
Haram (حَرَام) is the category of prohibited acts, foods, and things in Islamic law, what God forbids, in contrast to halal; the same Arabic word also means sacred or inviolable.
Haram of Mecca
The Haram of Mecca (الحرم المكي) was the inviolable sanctuary precinct around the Ka'ba in pre-Islamic Mecca, run by the tribe of Quraysh from the fifth century AD.
Haramachi power station
Haramachi power station, also called Haramachi Thermal Power Station, is a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station in Fukushima, Japan, rebuilt after severe tsunami damage in 2011.
Harambe
Harambe (May 27, 1999 – May 28, 2016) was a western lowland silverback gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, shot after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure; his death became a defining internet meme.
Haramosh
Haramosh, also known as Haramosh Peak or Peak 58, is a 7,397-meter Karakoram mountain in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, east of Gilgit, first climbed in 1958 by an Austrian team.
Harapala
Harapala (हरपालदेव), also written Harapaladeva, was the last ruler of the Yadava dynasty of Devagiri, son-in-law of Ramachandra, defeated and killed by Delhi in 1318.
Harappa (ہڑپہ)
Harappa (ہڑپہ) is a major Indus Valley civilization archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, type site of the Harappan culture. Excavated from 1921 by Daya Ram Sahni; 150-hectare mound complex occupied c. 3300–1300 BC.
Harappan architecture
Harappan architecture, also known as Indus Valley Civilization architecture, is the Bronze Age building tradition of cities like Mohenjo-daro, with standardized bricks, cardinal-oriented streets, private wells, and covered drains.