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Henri Lepage
Henri Lepage (Henri Louis Lucien Lepage, 1908-1996), French épée fencer from Épinal; Olympic team épée gold and sixth in individual at London 1948, 1947 Lisbon world team gold, French champion 1942 and 1946.
Henri Lopès
Henri Lopès (1937–2023) was a Congolese novelist and diplomat who served as prime minister of the People's Republic of Congo and later as ambassador to France.
Henri Martin (Connecticut politician)
Henri Martin is an American Republican politician, a Connecticut senator for the 31st district and Senate Republican Leader Pro Tempore, first a Bristol councilman and acting mayor.
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869–1954), French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, leader of Fauvism and Picasso's great rival. Known for Woman with a Hat, Dance, the Nice odalisques, and the late gouache cut-outs including Jazz and the Vence chapel.
Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian-born French poet and painter, author of Plume, Un barbare en Asie, and the mescaline books Misérable Miracle and L'Infini turbulent, known for calligraphy-inspired ink drawings.
Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) was a French zoologist specializing in invertebrates who held chairs at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and wrote the Histoire naturelle des Crustacés.
Henri Moissan
Henri Moissan (1852–1907) was a French chemist who isolated fluorine in 1886, developed the electric-arc furnace in 1892, and won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Henri Namphy
Henri Namphy (1932–2018) was a Haitian army officer and politician who twice served as head of state after Duvalier's fall, ruling from 1986 until his 1988 overthrow.
Henri Nestlé
Henri Nestlé (Heinrich Nestle, 1814–1890), German-born Swiss pharmacist and entrepreneur in Vevey, founded Nestlé; his 1867 Farine Lactée infant cereal, gold-medaled in Paris, sold 1.1 million packages by 1875 before he sold the firm.
Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen (Henri J. M. Nouwen) was a Dutch Catholic priest and psychologist, one of the most widely read spiritual writers of his time, known for The Wounded Healer.
Henri Oreiller
Henri Oreiller (1925–1962), French alpine skier of CS Val d'Isère; double Olympic champion (downhill, combined) and bronze slalom at St. Moritz 1948, France's first Olympic ski champion; died racing a Ferrari at Linas-Montlhéry.
Henri Padé
Henri Eugène Padé (1863–1953) was a French mathematician and academic administrator who introduced the Padé approximants in his 1892 thesis under Charles Hermite, winning the 1906 Grand Prix.
Henri Piéron
Henri Piéron (1881–1964) was a French psychologist and psychophysiologist who led experimental psychology in France and formulated Piéron's law relating reaction time to stimulus intensity.
Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science (1854–1912) who founded algebraic topology, transformed celestial mechanics into chaos theory, and posed the Poincaré conjecture.
Henri Queffélec
Henri Queffélec (1910–1992) was a French novelist and screenwriter, considered the great French-language maritime novelist of the 20th century, known for Un recteur de l'île de Sein.
Henri R. Manasse Jr.
Henri R. Manasse Jr. is an American pharmacy leader and medication-safety advocate, former chief executive officer of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and dean emeritus of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy.
Henri Richard
Henri Richard, the Pocket Rocket (1936-2020), Canadian NHL center for the Montreal Canadiens; won a record 11 Stanley Cups, played 1,258 games, scored 1,046 points, captain, Hall of Famer.
Henri Rolin
Henri Rolin (1891–1973) was a Belgian jurist, socialist senator, and professor of international law who served as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), called Le Douanier, French self-taught painter and Paris octroi toll collector; exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1886; famed for about 20 jungle paintings like The Sleeping Gypsy, painted from Parisian sources without ever leaving France.
Henri Saint Cyr
Henri Saint Cyr (1902–1979), Swedish cavalry officer and dressage rider; first to win two individual Olympic dressage golds (Helsinki 1952 on Master Rufus, Stockholm 1956 on Juli), four golds total, famed for carrying paralyzed Lis Hartel to the 1952 podium.
Henri Skoda
Henri Skoda, born 1945, is a French mathematician specializing in several complex variables, known for his L2 estimates, division theorem, and work on positive currents.
Henri Spondanus
Henri Spondanus (Henri de Sponde, 1568–1643) was a French Catholic canonist and annalist who continued Baronius's Annales Ecclesiastici and was Bishop of Pamiers from 1626 to 1639.
Henri Sterdyniak
Henri Sterdyniak is a French economist trained at the École polytechnique, long associated with the OFCE at Sciences Po, who works on monetary economics, taxation, pensions, and family policy.
Henri ter Meulen
Henri ter Meulen (1871–1942) was a Dutch chemist and professor of analytical chemistry at Delft from 1905 to 1936 who developed a catalytic hydrogenation method for organic elemental analysis.
Henri Termeer
Henri Termeer (1946–2017) was a Dutch-born business executive who led Genzyme from 1983 to 2011, pioneered ultra-rare-disease drug pricing, and sold the company to Sanofi for about $20 billion.
Henri Theil
Henri Theil (1924–2000) was a Dutch econometrician who devised two-stage least squares and the Theil index, founded Rotterdam's Econometric Institute, and taught at Chicago and Florida.
Henri Troyat (Лев Асланович Тарасов)
Henri Troyat (Lev Aslanovich Tarasov), French novelist and biographer born in Moscow in 1911 to an Armenian family; Goncourt 1938, Académie française 1959, author of Tolstoy, Pushkin, and tsar biographies.
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) was a French chemist and physicist whose precise measurements of the thermal properties of gases fixed the data used by early thermodynamicists.
Henri Winkelman
Henri Gerard Winkelman (1876–1952), Dutch general, commander-in-chief of land and sea forces during the German invasion of May 1940; signed the capitulation at Rijsoord on 15 May 1940, held governmental authority from 13 May, and was a POW at Oflag IV-B Königstein until 1945.
Henri Young
Henri Young (Henri Theodore Young), Alcatraz inmate 244-AZ, a bank robber convicted in 1941 of involuntary manslaughter for stabbing fellow inmate Rufus McCain after a failed 1939 escape; basis for the largely fictional film Murder in the First.