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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz (Louis-Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869), French Romantic composer, critic, and conductor of Symphonie fantastique, Roméo et Juliette, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens; Prix de Rome 1830, author of the 1843 orchestration treatise.
Héctor Bianciotti
Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012) was an Argentine-born, French-naturalized novelist, critic, and editor who abandoned Spanish for French in the early 1980s and was elected to the Académie française in 1996.
Héctor Camacho
Héctor "Macho" Camacho (Héctor Luís Camacho Matías), Puerto Rican southpaw boxer, 1962-2012; world champion at super featherweight, lightweight, and junior welterweight; 79-6-3, never knocked out; IBHOF 2016.
Héctor Cúper
Héctor Raúl Cúper, Argentine football manager and former defender (born 1955, Chabás). Led Valencia to the 2000 and 2001 Champions League finals and Egypt to AFCON 2017 final and the 2018 World Cup; briefly coached Peru's Universitario in 2026.
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña, also written Hector D. Abruna, is a Puerto Rico-born electrochemist and Émile M. Chamot Professor at Cornell University who received the 2024 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award.
Héctor de Mauleón
Héctor de Mauleón (Héctor de Mauleón Rodríguez, born 1963, Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist and chronicler, author of "En Tercera Persona" in El Universal, the La ciudad oculta series, and subject of a 2025 Tamaulipas censorship case.
Héctor Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American character actor, Emmy winner for Chicago Hope and star of Pretty Woman; not the UFO figure Luis Elizondo, a different person.
Hector F. DeLuca
Hector F. DeLuca is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose laboratory established how vitamin D is metabolized and turned it into drugs.
Hector family
The Hector family is a small collisional asteroid family of at least 12 known members within the Jupiter Trojans, named for its largest member, 624 Hektor.
Héctor García-Molina
Héctor García-Molina (1953–2019) was a Mexican-born computer scientist, a Stanford professor known for distributed databases, replicated data, and the Stanford Digital Libraries Project that produced Google.
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Héctor Germón Oesterheld (1919–disappeared 1977) was an Argentine comic-book scriptwriter who created El Eternauta, founded Editorial Frontera, and was disappeared by the military dictatorship in 1977.
Hector Gonzalez
Hector Gonzalez, born 1964 in Havana, Cuba, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2022.
Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard (1867–1942) was a French architect and designer, the leading figure of Art Nouveau in France, best known for the cast-iron entrances he designed for the Paris Métro stations.
Héctor H. García
Héctor H. García, also known as Hector H. Garcia, is a Peruvian physician-scientist who studies cysticercosis, a leading cause of epilepsy, and leads research in Lima.
Héctor Herrera
Héctor Herrera (Héctor Miguel Herrera López), Mexican central midfielder born 1990 in Tijuana; Pachuca, Porto, Atlético Madrid, Houston Dynamo, Toluca; 105 Mexico caps, Olympic gold 2012, Gold Cup 2015, La Liga 2020-21.
Hector Hyppolite
Hector Hyppolite (1894–1948) was a self-taught Haitian painter, a former shoemaker and house painter from Saint-Marc who became celebrated in four years for brightly colored images of Vodou spirits, birds, and flowers.
Héctor José Cámpora
Héctor José Cámpora (1909–1980) was an Argentine dentist and Peronist legislator who served as president of Argentina for 49 days in 1973, resigning to allow Juan Perón's return.
Héctor Lavoe
Héctor Lavoe (Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, 1946–1993), Puerto Rican salsa singer known as El Cantante de los Cantantes; lead voice of Willie Colón's band, Fania All-Stars member, famous for El Cantante, Mi gente, and Periódico de ayer.
Héctor Libertella
Héctor Libertella (1945–2006) was an Argentine writer, critic, editor, and anthologist born in Bahía Blanca, regarded by critics as the pioneer of the critical fiction genre that blurred fiction, essay, and theory.
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
Héctor Luis "El Güero" Palma Salazar, Mexican drug trafficker and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo Guzmán; arrested 1995, extradited 2007, released 2016, recaptured, acquitted 2021, still imprisoned at Altiplano.
Héctor Martínez (businessman)
Héctor Martínez is an engineer who co-founded the 3D bioprinting company CELLINK in Gothenburg in 2016, serving as Chief Technology Officer and later Deputy CEO of BICO.
Hector Milian
Héctor Milián (Héctor Milián Pérez), Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler born 1968 in Pinar del Río; Olympic heavyweight gold at Barcelona 1992, 1991 world champion, three-time Olympian, UWW Hall of Fame 2016.
Héctor Moreno
Héctor Moreno (Héctor Alfredo Moreno Herrera), Mexican left-footed centre-back born 1988 in Culiacán. Two-time Eredivisie winner (AZ 2009, PSV 2016), 131 Mexico caps, four World Cups, retired with Monterrey in 2025.
Hector Munro Macdonald
Hector Munro Macdonald (1865–1935) was a Scottish mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society, professor of mathematics at Aberdeen from 1904, known for Macdonald's theorem on zeros of analytic functions.
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar (1726-1805), Scottish general and MP who commanded the East India Company army at the Battle of Buxar in 1764, later led the Madras army, and spent about £120,000 improving the Novar estate in Ross-shire.
Hector P. Rodriguez
Hector P. Rodriguez is an American health services researcher and health economist, professor at UC Berkeley and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Hector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson (1963–1976), South African schoolboy, one of the first students killed by police in the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising; Sam Nzima's photo of him carried by Mbuyisa Makhubu became the uprising's icon, commemorated by the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum.
Hector Rodriguez
Hector Rodriguez (Héctor Rodríguez Torres), Cuban judoka born 1951 in Guanajay; won lightweight 63 kg gold at Montreal 1976, first Cuban Olympic judo champion and first non-Japanese winner of the lightest category; 1973 world bronze; IJF Hall of Fame 2013.
Héctor Rodríguez (outfielder)
Héctor Rodríguez (Héctor Junior Rodríguez), Dominican outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds; signed by the Mets in 2021, traded to Cincinnati in 2022, MLB debut August 4, 2026; former Reds top prospect, left-handed hitter.
Héctor Rojas Herazo
Héctor Rojas Herazo (1921–2002) was a Colombian poet, novelist, journalist, and painter whose novel En noviembre llega el arzobispo won the Premio Esso de Literatura.