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Hedwigiales
Hedwigiales (synonym Helicophyllales) is an order of acrocarpous mosses in Bryidae containing Hedwigiaceae, Rhacocarpaceae, and Helicophyllaceae, placed sister to Bartramiales at the base of the Bryidae.
Hedy Fry
Hedy Fry (born 1941, San Fernando, Trinidad) is a Trinidadian-Canadian physician and Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre since 1993, when she defeated Prime Minister Kim Campbell; Canada's longest-serving female MP, former Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women, and OSCE PA Special Representative on Gender Issues.
Hedy L. Kindler
Hedy L. Kindler, also known as Hedy Lee Kindler, is an American medical oncologist at the University of Chicago known for mesothelioma research and the POLO pancreatic cancer trial.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler, 1914-2000), Austrian-born Hollywood star of Samson and Delilah, who with George Antheil patented 1942 frequency-hopping torpedo guidance, forerunner of spread-spectrum Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth.
Hedy Schlunegger
Hedy Schlunegger (Hedy Schlunegger-Kaufmann, 1923–2003), Swiss alpine skier of Skiclub Wengen; won the first Olympic women's downhill, St. Moritz 1948, in 2:28.3, and seven Swiss national titles.
Hedychium
Hedychium (garland-lily, ginger-lily) is a genus of 86 accepted rhizomatous Zingiberaceae species native to Madagascar and tropical and subtropical Asia; best-known species include white ginger (H. coronarium) and Kahili ginger (H. gardnerianum).
Hedylus
Hedylus, also Hedylos of Samos, was a Hellenistic Greek epigrammatist of the third century BC who wrote at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria under Ptolemy II; 12 poems survive.
Hedyotis
Hedyotis L. is a Rubiaceae (coffee family) genus of herbs and subshrubs, published by Linnaeus in 1753, native to tropical and subtropical Asia to the NW Pacific, with type species H. fruticosa and a long-debated Hedyotis-Oldenlandia complex now split into many genera.
Hedysarum
Hedysarum (sulla, sweetvetch) is a genus of about 227 legume species in Fabaceae, tribe Hedysareae, with lomented pods, native to temperate Eurasia, North Africa, and western North America, divided into sections Hedysarum, Multicaulia, and Stracheya.
Hee Cheul Choi
Hee Cheul Choi (최희철) is a South Korean materials chemist who holds a chaired professorship at POSTECH, known for carbon nanotube etching of silicon oxide and vapor-grown nanostructures.
Hee Haw
Hee Haw, an American country music and comedy variety show created by John Aylesworth and Frank Peppiatt, premiered on CBS June 15, 1969, hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark, canceled in the 1971 rural purge, then ran in syndication until 1992 with 585 Nashville-taped episodes.
Hee‐Sup Shin
Hee-Sup Shin (신희섭) is a South Korean neuroscientist known for pioneering a mouse model of empathy and for applying molecular genetics to the thalamus and social behaviors.
Hee‐Tae Jung
Hee-Tae Jung (정희태) is a South Korean materials chemist and KAIST Chair Professor known for liquid-crystal lithography, graphene imaging, and active-learning catalyst design for water splitting.
Hee‐Tak Kim
Hee-Tak Kim (김희탁) is a South Korean electrochemical energy researcher and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at KAIST, working on fuel cells, water electrolysis, and lithium and aqueous batteries.
Heeb
Heeb, subtitled the New Jew Review, was an American satirical quarterly magazine for young Jews, print 2002-2010, founded by Jennifer Bleyer with Joshua Venture funding, relaunched in 2025 as the nonprofit Heeb Media.
Heegaard Floer homology
Heegaard Floer homology is a collection of invariants of oriented 3-manifolds and of knots and links, introduced by Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó in the early 2000s.
Heegaard splitting
A Heegaard splitting decomposes a closed 3-manifold into two handlebodies glued along a common Heegaard surface, and every closed orientable 3-manifold admits one; diagrams from splittings underlie Heegaard Floer homology.
Heegner number
A Heegner number is a squarefree positive integer for which the imaginary quadratic field Q(√−n) has class number one; there are exactly nine: 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 43, 67, and 163.
Heejin (전희진)
Heejin (전희진, Jeon Hee-jin), born 2000 in Daejeon, is the first-revealed member of LOONA and now a member of ARTMS under Modhaus; solo debut mini album K with "Algorithm" released October 31, 2023.
Heejun Yang
Heejun Yang (양희준) is a South Korean condensed matter physicist, professor at KAIST since 2024, known for the graphene barristor in Science in 2012 and MoTe2 homojunction contacts.
Heel (professional wrestling)
A heel, also known as a wrestling heel, is the villainous character in professional wrestling, the antagonist fans boo against the heroic face, or babyface.
Heels (TV series)
Heels (Starz, 2021-2023) is a wrestling drama created by Michael Waldron starring Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig as brothers Jack and Ace Spade of the Duffy Wrestling League in Duffy, Georgia; two seasons, later on Netflix, no season 3.
Heemin Kang
Heemin Kang (강희민) is a South Korean biomedical and biomaterials engineer and associate professor at Korea University in Seoul, known for dynamic ligand nanoassembly that regulates stem cell and macrophage behavior.
Heems
Heems, born Himanshu Kumar Suri, is an American rapper from Queens, New York, known for the groups Das Racist and Swet Shop Boys and his own Greedhead label.
Heemskerck Rupes
Heemskerck Rupes is a 320 km lobate scarp (rupes) on Mercury at 25.9N, 125.3W, IAU-approved in 1976 and named after Abel Tasman's Dutch exploration ship Heemskerck of 1642-43.
Heer Express (हीर एक्सप्रेस)
Heer Express (हीर एक्सप्रेस) is a 2025 Hindi family drama directed by Umesh Shukla, marking Divita Juneja's debut as Heer Walia, a Punjabi cook who moves to London to run an Indian restaurant, released 12 September 2025 and streaming on JioHotstar.
Heer Ranjha (ہیر رانجھا)
Heer Ranjha (ہیر رانجھا), the classic Punjabi tragic romance of Heer of the Sial family of Jhang and the herdsman Ranjha, first versified by Damodar Gulati and made immortal by Waris Shah's 1766 epic Heer.
Heer Sara
Heer Sara (originally Heer Sara Aur Pondicherry) is a 2026 Hindi road-trip comedy-drama directed by Kartik Chaudhry, starring Patralekhaa Paul and Maanvi Gagroo as two Indore women riding to Pondicherry; released 12 June 2026, CBFC A certificate, later on Prime Video.
Heera Mandi (ہیرا منڈی)
Heera Mandi (ہیرا منڈی), the Diamond Market, is Lahore's historic walled-city bazaar, once a Mughal courtesan and mujra center, later a red-light district, now largely emptied by online trade.
Heera Rajagopal
Heera Rajagopal (ஹீரா ராசகோபால்), also credited as Heera, is a former Indian actress active from 1991 to 1999 who debuted in the Tamil film Idhayam.