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Harold Hibbert
Harold Hibbert (1877–1945) was an English-born chemist, E. B. Eddy Professor at McGill from 1925 to 1943, whose ethanolysis work yielded the Hibbert Bausteine, lignin building units still named for him.
Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt (1908–1967), Australia's 17th prime minister (Liberal, January 1966–December 1967), passed the 1967 Aboriginal referendum, eased the White Australia policy, deepened Vietnam involvement, and vanished swimming at Cheviot Beach on 17 December 1967, his body never found.
Harold Hopkins (physicist)
Harold Horace Hopkins (1918–1994) was a British physicist and professor of applied optics at Reading whose fibrescope, announced in 1954, and rod-lens endoscope transformed minimally invasive surgery.
Harold Hotelling
Harold Hotelling (1895–1973) was an American mathematical statistician and economic theorist at Stanford, Columbia, and North Carolina, known for Hotelling's T-squared test, principal component analysis, and the Hotelling rule.
Harold Hunter
Harold Hunter (1974-2006), New York City professional skateboarder and actor, star of the 1995 film Kids, rode for Shut and Zoo York, and inspired the Harold Hunter Foundation founded in 2007 by his brother Ron.
Harold I. Feldman
Harold I. Feldman is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies kidney disease, led national NIH-funded kidney research networks, and edits the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Harold J. Burstein
Harold J. Burstein is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and a Dana-Farber clinician known for NEJM reviews and treatment guidelines.
Harold J. Evans
Harold J. Evans (1921–2007) was an American plant physiologist at Oregon State University who pioneered the study of mineral nutrition in plants and biological nitrogen fixation.
Harold J. Fallon
Harold J. Fallon (1931–2018) was an American hepatologist who chaired medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and led the landmark corticosteroid trial for alcoholic hepatitis.
Harold J. Kushner
Harold J. Kushner is an American control theorist and applied mathematician at Brown University who developed nonlinear filtering, the Kushner–Stratonovich equation, and numerical methods for stochastic control.
Harold J. Wanebo
Harold J. Wanebo was an American surgical oncologist at Roger Williams Medical Center in Rhode Island, known for linking blood tests and tumor depth to cancer prognosis.
Harold James Nicholson
Harold James Nicholson, born 1950, former CIA case officer and highest-ranking CIA officer convicted of spying; sold secrets to Russia's SVR from 1994, sentenced 1997, spied again from prison with son Nathaniel.
Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) was a British geophysicist and Bayesian statistician at Cambridge who demonstrated the Earth's liquid core and wrote Theory of Probability (1939).
Harold Johnson (astronomer)
Harold Lester Johnson (1921–1980) was an American observational astronomer who introduced the UBV photometric system with W. W. Morgan, the international standard for measuring stellar brightness, and extended it into the infrared.
Harold K. Forsen
Harold K. Forsen (1932–2012) was an American plasma physicist who worked on fusion at General Atomics, built the University of Wisconsin–Madison's fusion program, and later served as an executive at Exxon Nuclear and Bechtel.
Harold Kelley
Harold Kelley (1921–2003) was an American social psychologist at UCLA, best known for his covariation model of causal attribution and the interdependence theory he developed with John Thibaut.
Harold Kelly (hedge fund executive)
Harold Kelly is an American hedge fund executive who was Head of Global Convertible and Derivative Arbitrage and Risk Management at Och-Ziff Capital Management, which he joined in 1995.
Harold Kushner
Harold S. Kushner (1935–2023), American Conservative rabbi of Temple Israel, Natick, Massachusetts, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981), written after his son Aaron died of progeria; the bestseller advanced a theology of a loving but not all-powerful God.
Harold L. Ickes
Harold L. Ickes, also known as Harold LeClair Ickes, was an American politician who served as the 32nd Secretary of the Interior from 1933 to 1946.
Harold L. Moses
Harold L. Moses is an American cancer biologist who discovered that TGF-β inhibits cell proliferation and founded and directed the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center from 1993 to 2005.
Harold Laski
Harold Joseph Laski (1893–1950), British political scientist and Labour chairman 1945–46; LSE professor, early pluralist critic of state sovereignty, later Marxist-influenced socialist and supporter of Indian independence.
Harold Lasswell
Harold Lasswell (1902–1978) was an American political scientist and founder of behavioral political science and communications research, known for propaganda analysis, content analysis, and the policy sciences.
Harold Leeming Sheehan
Harold Leeming Sheehan (1900–1988) was a British pathologist who, working from autopsies in Glasgow, showed in 1937 that postpartum hemorrhage and shock can destroy the anterior pituitary, the condition now called Sheehan's syndrome.
Harold Liebowitz
Harold Liebowitz (1924–2004) was an American aerospace engineer and fracture mechanics specialist who led George Washington University's engineering school and edited the seven-volume Fracture: An Advanced Treatise.
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), American silent-film comedian, the "glasses character" beside Chaplin and Keaton; star of Safety Last!'s clock stunt, survivor of a 1919 bomb blast, maker of more than 200 comedies, Honorary Oscar 1953.
Harold Lloyd James
Harold Lloyd James was an American economic geologist whose 1954 facies model reshaped the study of iron-formation, and who served as chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Harold Lowe
Harold Godfrey Lowe (1882–1944) was a Welsh merchant navy officer who served as Fifth Officer of RMS Titanic and commanded Lifeboat 14, the only officer to return for survivors.
Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), Conservative British Prime Minister 1957–1963, nicknamed Supermac: repaired US ties after Suez, gave the 1960 Wind of Change speech, was vetoed on EEC entry by de Gaulle, negotiated the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and resigned in October 1963.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, a Philadelphia vocal group formed in 1954, scored 1970s Philly soul hits like "If You Don't Know Me by Now" and "The Love I Lost" with lead singer Teddy Pendergrass on Philadelphia International Records.
Harold Mirels
Harold Mirels (1924–2023) was an American aerospace researcher at NACA and The Aerospace Corporation known for shock-tube boundary-layer theory and the Mirels test-time correlation, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.