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Hector Scarone
Héctor Pedro Scarone Beretta, El Mago, Uruguayan inside forward (1898-1967) of Nacional, Barcelona, Inter, and Palermo; won Olympic gold 1924 and 1928 and the 1930 World Cup, 31 goals in 51 caps for Uruguay.
Hector SLAM
Hector SLAM is an open-source 2D SLAM system that builds occupancy grid maps from laser scanner data without wheel odometry, developed at TU Darmstadt in 2011.
Héctor Tizón
Héctor Tizón (1929–2012) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, diplomat, and judge whose fiction, rooted in the Puna highlands of Jujuy, drew comparisons to Juan Rulfo.
Hector Vinent
Héctor Vinent (Héctor Vinent Cháron), Cuban amateur boxer born 1972 in Santiago de Cuba; back-to-back Olympic light-welterweight golds (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996), world champion 1993 and 1995; retired 2000 with a detached retina, later a trainer in Havana and Istanbul.
Hector-Louis Langevin
Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, also known as Hector Langevin, was a Canadian Conservative politician and Father of Confederation who helped draft the 1867 constitution and served as Minister of Public Works.
Hecuba
Hecuba (Ἑκάβη), Trojan queen, wife of Priam, mother of nineteen children including Hector, Paris, and Cassandra; after Troy's fall she avenged Polydorus by blinding Polymestor, and Euripides made her fate a tragedy.
Hecuba-gap asteroid
A Hecuba-gap asteroid is an asteroid in the 2:1 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter near 3.27 au, one of the largest Kirkwood gaps, home to a few hundred known asteroids.
Hecun
Hecun (和村) is a populated place in Handan, Hebei Province, China, recorded as early as 713 AD and now part of the Fengfeng Mining District.
Hed PE
Hed PE, also known as (hed) Planet Earth and stylized (həd) p.e., is an American G-punk/rapcore band formed in 1994 in Huntington Beach, California, by Jahred Gomes; known for fusing punk, hip-hop, and metal across albums Broke, Blackout, and beyond.
Hedda (2025 film)
Hedda (2025) is Nia DaCosta's drama adapting Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, set in 1950s England, starring Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, and Imogen Poots; premiered at TIFF, released by Amazon MGM October 22, 2025, then Prime Video October 29.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a four-act psychological drama by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1890, first staged in Munich on 31 January 1891, whose title character is Hedda Tesman.
Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry, 1885–1966), American actress turned gossip columnist, wrote "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" (1938–1966) for the Los Angeles Times, rivaling Louella Parsons and championing the Hollywood blacklist.
Hedda Wardemann
Hedda Wardemann is a German immunologist who heads the Division of B Cell Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for single-cell studies of human B cell tolerance and malaria antibodies.
Heddesdorf
Heddesdorf is a Roman cohort fort in Germany, built at the end of the first century on the Upper German-Raetian Limes for the Cohors II Hispanorum.
Hede
Hede (赫德), known in Western sources as Robert Hart, was a British administrator from Belfast who served the Qing dynasty and built its imperial maritime customs service.
Hedeby
Hedeby (Haithabu, Old Norse Heiðabýr) was a Viking Age Danish trading emporium on the Schleswig Isthmus, Germany, a North Sea-Baltic trade hub with the Danevirke; UNESCO World Heritage since 2018, abandoned around 1066 after 300 years.
Hedegård
Hedegård is an Early Iron Age archaeological complex in Mid-Jutland, Denmark, comprising one of Scandinavia's richest burial grounds and a large fortified settlement near the Skjern river.
Hedemünden (Germany)
Römerlager Hedemünden, Roman camp at Hann. Münden, Lower Saxony, Germany: Augustan-era multipartite military base on the Burgberg above the Werra, first Roman camp found in Lower Saxony, linked to Drusus's campaigns of 11–9 BC.
Heden
Heden is a Ramsar wetland site (no. 389) on Jameson Land, East Greenland, covering 252,390 hectares of tundra, designated for internationally important moulting Pink-footed and Barnacle geese and affected by a mining project of declared urgent national interest.
Hedera
Hedera (ivy), including English ivy Hedera helix, is a genus of evergreen root-climbing woody vines in Araliaceae, native from Europe to Iran, flowering September to November, valued for wildlife and ornament but invasive in parts of North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
Hedera Dx
Hedera Dx is a Swiss molecular-diagnostics company founded in 2021 near Lausanne that lets hospital labs run liquid-biopsy cancer testing in-house, deployed in 11 European countries by 2025.
Hedera Hashgraph (company)
Hedera Hashgraph, now doing business as Hedera Council, is a company formed in 2017 by Swirlds to develop and govern the Hedera distributed ledger network and its HBAR token.
Hedera helix
Hedera helix, English or common ivy, is an evergreen woody climber (Araliaceae) native to Europe and temperate Asia, with lobed juvenile and unlobed flowering adult growth phases; invasive in North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
Hédervári (lunar crater)
Hédervári (Hedervari) is a 74.14-km-wide impact crater on the Moon at 81.77° S, 85.60° E near the south pole, named for Hungarian geoscientist Peter Hédervári (1931–1984) in 1994.
Hedetet (crater on Ganymede)
Hedetet is a 106-km-wide impact crater on Ganymede at -32.91°, 251.01°W, named for an Egyptian scorpion goddess and adopted by the IAU in 2000.
Hedex
Hedex, real name Jack Hedges (born 1995), is a British jump-up drum and bass DJ and producer from Cambridge, active since the early 2010s.
Hedge
Hedge (hedgerow): a line of planted or remnant shrubs and trees forming living field or garden boundaries. Key facts: Enclosure Acts planting 1760–1820, Hooper dating formula, Devon's 33,000 miles, England's 2024 cutting-ban and 2 m buffer rules.
Hedge (finance)
A hedge is a position taken to offset the price risk of an existing or anticipated exposure, with losses on one leg compensated by gains on the other.
Hedge accounting
Hedge accounting is a set of financial reporting rules that formally links a derivative with the item it hedges, aligning their effects on earnings and reducing volatility.
Hedge fund
A hedge fund is a private investment pool for accredited investors that uses leverage, short selling, and derivatives, managing a record $5.15 trillion in 2025.