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Henri (Mercurian crater)
Henri is a 163.80-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury near the north pole, centered at 79.68°, 207.02°, named after American painter Robert Henri and IAU-approved on April 24, 2012.
Henri Abraham
Henri Abraham (Henri Azariah Abraham, 1868–1943) was a French experimental physicist who directed the ENS physics laboratory, designed the T.M. triode tube, and developed the multivibrator.
Henri Anspach
Henri Anspach (Henri Lucien Ernest Eugène Anspach, 1882–1979), Belgian fencer and painter, cousin of Paul Anspach; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in men's team épée and exhibited paintings in Paris and Brussels.
Henri Armand Slezynger
Henri Armand Slezynger, born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1936, is a Brazilian chemical executive who founded Unigel in São Paulo in 1966 and built it into one of Brazil's largest chemical companies.
Henri Arnaud
Henri Arnaud (1641–1721) was a Waldensian Reformed pastor and colonel who led the 1689 Glorious Return into the Piedmontese valleys and later founded the Waldensian colony of Schönenberg in Germany.
Henri B. Kagan
Henri B. Kagan, born 1930 in France, is a French chemist who pioneered asymmetric catalysis and shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenso Soai for discovering nonlinear effects.
Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) was a French physicist who discovered natural radioactivity in 1896 and shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.
Henri Belolo
Henri Belolo, also known as Henri Bello, was a Moroccan-born French producer who co-created Village People and the Ritchie Family with Jacques Morali, ran Scorpio Music, and lost a 2015 jury ruling over YMCA songwriting credit.
Henri Bénard
Henri Bénard (1874–1939) was a French physicist who in 1900 gave the first quantitative description of cellular convection, the hexagonal pattern now known as Bénard cells.
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher of duration, intuition, memory, and creative evolution; author of Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution; Nobel Prize in Literature 1927; revived by Deleuze's 1966 Bergsonism.
Henri Bismuth
Henri Bismuth (born 1934) is a French hepatobiliary surgeon and pioneer of liver transplantation, the first in France to launch a hepatic transplantation program in the 1970s.
Henri Bonnet
Henri Bonnet was a French diplomat who directed UNESCO's predecessor institute from 1931 to 1940 and served as ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954.
Henri Bontenbal
Henri Bontenbal is a Dutch politician who has been leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal and chairs the CDA parliamentary group in the Tweede Kamer, the Dutch lower house.
Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was a French novelist whose Provençal novels include Malicroix and the school classic L'Enfant et la rivière; he won the 1945 Prix Renaudot.
Henri Bouasse
Henri Bouasse (1866–1953) was a French physicist and professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Toulouse, best known for the 45-volume Bibliothèque scientifique de l'ingénieur et du physicien.
Henri Bouckaert
Henri Bouckaert (Jules Henri Bouckaert, 1870-1912), French rower of Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; won gold in the men's coxed fours at Paris 1900 in 7:11.0, and drowned in the Texas shipwreck in the Gulf of İzmir.
Henri Bounameaux
Henri Bounameaux, born 1953 in Liège, Belgium, is a Swiss physician-scientist who built Geneva University Hospitals' angiology service into an international reference center for pulmonary embolism.
Henri Brocard
Henri Brocard (1845–1922) was a French army officer, meteorologist, and mathematician who co-founded the modern geometry of the triangle with Émile Lemoine and gave his name to the Brocard points, angle, and circle.
Henri Carré
Henri Carré (1870–1938) was a French veterinarian who showed in 1905 that the disease of young dogs is caused by a filterable virus, known in French as the maladie de Carré.
Henri Cartan
Henri Cartan (1904–2008) was a French mathematician, eldest son of geometer Élie Cartan and a founding member of Bourbaki, known for several complex variables, topology, and homological algebra.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer and Magnum co-founder, master of the 35mm Leica and the 'decisive moment', author of The Decisive Moment (1952).
Henri Chammartin
Henri Chammartin (1918–2011), Swiss dressage rider, won individual Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964 on Wörmann and five Olympic medals total across five Games from 1952 to 1968.
Henri Charrière
Henri Charrière, called Papillon (1906-1973), French convict and author of the 1969 bestseller Papillon about the French Guiana penal colony; archival research shows his famous Devil's Island escape was fictional.
Henri Christophe
Henri Christophe (October 6, 1767 – October 8, 1820) was a Haitian Revolutionary general, born in Grenada to an enslaved mother, who ruled northern Haiti as president from 1807 and as King Henri I from 1811 until his suicide, building the Citadelle and Sans-Souci palace.
Henri Coandă
Henri Coandă (1886–1972) was a Romanian inventor and aeronautical engineer best known for the propellerless Coandă-1910 aircraft, the Coandă effect, and more than 250 patents.
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (1620–1642), Louis XIII's last great favorite and grand equerry of France; beheaded at Lyon in 1642 for conspiring with Spain against Cardinal Richelieu, and hero of Vigny's 1826 historical novel.
Henri Coutard
Henri Coutard (1876–1950) was a French radiation therapist at the Curie Institute in Paris who pioneered fractionated radiotherapy, delivering small daily radiation doses over several weeks.
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) was a French zoologist who studied corals, molluscs, and ascidians, founded the Roscoff and Banyuls-sur-Mer marine laboratories, and is regarded as the founder of experimental zoology in France.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was a French painter, lithographer, and poster artist who depicted the nightlife of Montmartre, Paris, turning performers like La Goulue and Jane Avril into celebrities.
Henri Deglane
Henri Deglane (Jean Henri Deglane, 1902-1975), French Greco-Roman wrestler; won 1924 Paris Olympic heavyweight gold, first French Olympic wrestling champion, then AWA World Heavyweight pro champion in 1931.