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Heinrich Keimig
Heinrich Keimig (1913–1966) was a German field handball goalkeeper who won the gold medal with the German national team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the only Olympic field handball tournament.
Heinrich Klaasen
Heinrich Klaasen is a South African cricketer, a right-handed wicketkeeper-batter known for power-hitting in the middle order, who retired from international cricket in June 2025.
Heinrich Klee
Heinrich Klee (1800–1840) was a German Catholic priest and dogmatic theologian who taught at Mainz, Bonn, and finally Munich, succeeding Johann Adam Möhler; his Katholische Dogmatik reached four editions by 1861.
Heinrich Klüver
Heinrich Klüver (1897–1979) was a German-born American biological psychologist at the University of Chicago, known for Klüver–Bucy syndrome, mescaline research and form constants, and the Klüver–Barrera stain.
Heinrich Kramer
Heinrich Kramer (Henricus Institoris), ca. 1430-1505, Dominican inquisitor from Schlettstadt, Alsace, author of the Malleus Maleficarum (1487), the witch-hunting manual; failed Innsbruck trial of 1485; Sprenger co-authorship largely rejected.
Heinrich Lammasch
Heinrich Lammasch was an Austrian criminal-law scholar and Hague arbitrator who served as the last prime minister of imperial Austria from 27 October to 11 November 1918.
Heinrich Landesmann
Heinrich Landesmann, known by the pen name Hieronymus Lorm, was an Austrian poet, novelist, and philosopher who became deaf and blind and devised the Lorm alphabet.
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube (1806–1884) was a German novelist, dramatist, journalist, and theater director, born in Silesia, banned with the 'Young German' authors in 1835, and head of Vienna's Burgtheater from 1849 to 1867.
Heinrich Leonhard Heubner
Heinrich Leonhard Heubner (1780–1853) was a German Lutheran theologian who spent his career at Wittenberg as professor of theology, town-church preacher, and director of the Predigerseminar.
Heinrich Leonhardt
Heinrich Leonhardt is a German molecular biologist and epigeneticist, professor at LMU Munich since 2002, known for showing how DNA methyltransferase targets replication sites and for chromobody nanobodies.
Heinrich Ludwig Julius Heppe
Heinrich Ludwig Julius Heppe (1820–1879) was a German Reformed theologian and church historian at Marburg, whose 1861 collection of Reformed doctrinal sources became a standard reference used by Karl Barth.
Heinrich Mache
Heinrich Mache (1876–1954) was an Austrian physicist who pioneered measuring radon in natural waters, introduced the first radon unit in 1904, and founded technical physics in Vienna.
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann, in full Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), was a German satirical novelist and essayist, brother of Thomas Mann, best known for Professor Unrat and Der Untertan.
Heinrich Mann Prize
The Heinrich Mann Prize (Heinrich-Mann-Preis) is a German literary prize for essayism, awarded each year in Berlin on Heinrich Mann's birthday and established in 1950.
Heinrich Martin Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913) was a German mathematician who, with Dedekind, put algebraic curves on a rigorous footing, proved the Kronecker–Weber theorem, and wrote the Lehrbuch der Algebra.
Heinrich Maschke
Heinrich Maschke (1853–1908) was a German mathematician best known for Maschke's theorem, the foundational result of finite-group representation theory, and for building the University of Chicago's mathematics department.
Heinrich Matthaei
Heinrich Matthaei is a German biochemist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in Marshall Nirenberg's NIH laboratory, performed the 1961 poly-U experiment that deciphered the first codon of the genetic code.
Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)
Heinrich Müller (1900, Munich; disappeared May 1945), called "Gestapo Müller," headed the Nazi Gestapo as RSHA Amt IV chief from 1939, oversaw Jewish deportation, attended Wannsee, and vanished in Berlin, his fate unresolved.
Heinrich Müller-Breslau
Heinrich Müller-Breslau (1851–1925) was a German civil engineer and professor of structural statics in Berlin, regarded as the creator of classical Baustatik, the German theory of structures.
Heinrich Netheler
Heinrich Netheler (1909–1999) was a German engineer who co-founded the Hamburg workshop that became Eppendorf SE in 1945, maker of the standard Eppendorf pipette and tubes.
Heinrich Peters
Heinrich Peters was a German sailor who won gold and silver medals in sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris as a crew member of the yacht Aschenbrödel.
Heinrich Quincke
Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842–1922) was a German internist who directed the Kiel Medical Clinic and introduced lumbar puncture in 1891; Quincke's edema and Quincke's pulse bear his name.
Heinrich R. Schelbert
Heinrich R. Schelbert is a nuclear medicine physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA, who developed cardiac PET for measuring myocardial blood flow and predicting recovery of dysfunctional heart muscle.
Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013) was a Swiss physicist at IBM's Zurich laboratory who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the scanning tunneling microscope.
Heinrich Rubens
Heinrich Rubens (1865–1922) was a German experimental physicist who pioneered the far-infrared region, whose 1900 black-body measurements helped drive Planck's quantum radiation law, and who invented the flame tube that makes standing sound waves visible.
Heinrich Schliemann
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), German merchant-turned-archaeologist, excavator of Troy (Hisarlik) and discoverer of 'Priam's Treasure' (1873) and the Mycenae shaft graves (1876); famed for Homeric searches, field-method innovations, and documented false claims.
Heinrich Schomburgk
Heinrich Georg Schomburgk (1885-1965), German tennis player and footballer with VfB Leipzig and Leipziger SC; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic mixed doubles gold with Dora Köring, beating Fick/Setterwall 6-4, 6-0, and was 1913 German singles champion.
Heinrich Seuse Denifle
Heinrich Seuse Denifle, religious name Heinrich Suso, was an Austrian Dominican paleographer and church historian who reshaped the study of German mysticism and the medieval University of Paris.
Heinrich Severloh
Heinrich 'Hein' Severloh (1923–2006), German Gefreiter of the 352nd Infantry Division who fired an MG 42 at WN 62 on Omaha Beach on D-Day and was called the 'Beast of Omaha'; his casualty claims are disputed by historians.
Heinrich Taegtmeyer
Heinrich Taegtmeyer (H. Taegtmeyer) is a cardiologist known for showing that metabolic changes drive remodeling of the failing and diabetic heart; he has taught at UTHealth Houston since 1982.