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Henrique Dias
Henrique Dias was an Afro-Brazilian military commander who led the black regiments of Portuguese Brazil against the Dutch occupation of the northeast in the seventeenth century.
Henrique Dubugras
Henrique Dubugras is a Brazilian entrepreneur from São Paulo who co-founded the corporate-card fintech Brex in 2017, led it as co-CEO until 2024, and became chairman before its 2026 sale to Capital One.
Henrique Marques-Souza
Henrique Marques-Souza, full name Henrique Marques Barbosa de Souza, is a Brazilian insect developmental geneticist at UNICAMP known for Tribolium segmentation work and RNAi pest control.
Henrique of Kongo
Henrique of Kongo (D. Henrique), son of King Afonso I, became titular bishop of Utica in 1518, the first sub-Saharan African bishop in the Catholic Church.
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (1919–2006) was a Cape Verdean physician and novelist from the island of Fogo, one of the best-known writers of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Henrique Veiga-Fernandes
Henrique Veiga-Fernandes is a Portuguese immunologist who leads the Immunophysiology Laboratory at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, known for showing how nerves, diet, and microbes are sensed by immune cells.
Henrique von Gersdorff
Henrique von Gersdorff is a neurophysiologist and Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University who studies synaptic transmission in sensory systems.
Henrique Weaver
Henrique Weaver is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Pagaleve, founded in 2021, whose Pix installment payments reached US$100 million in annualized revenue by 2026.
Henriqueta Lisboa
Henriqueta Lisboa (1901–1985) was a Brazilian poet, essayist, and translator from Lambari, Minas Gerais, whose lyric, Symbolist work includes the children's classic O Menino Poeta.
Henry (bishop of Finland)
Henry, also known as Henry of Uppsala (Finnish: Piispa Henrik), is a legendary English-born bishop of Uppsala martyred in Finland in the 1150s and venerated as its patron saint.
Henry (given name)
Henry, English form of the Germanic name Heinrich (Heimirich, "home ruler"), introduced by the Normans as Henri; borne by eight English kings; pet forms Harry, Hal, Hank; #5 US boys' name in 2025.
Henry (Martian crater)
Henry crater, a roughly 170-km-diameter impact crater in Arabia Terra on Mars, named for a 19th century French astronomer, known for its thick layered floor deposit studied as possible aeolian sediment.
Henry (unit)
The henry (symbol H) is the SI derived unit of electrical inductance: one henry produces one volt when the current changes at one ampere per second. It is named for Joseph Henry.
Henry & June
Henry & June (1990) is Philip Kaufman's drama, starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, and Maria de Medeiros, about Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, and June Miller in 1931 Paris; the first film released with the MPAA's NC-17 rating.
Henry A. Bent
Henry A. Bent (1926–2015) was an American physical chemist, professor at Minnesota, North Carolina State, and Pittsburgh, best known for Bent's rule on hybridization and bond angles.
Henry A. Lardy
Henry A. Lardy (1917–2010) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose egg yolk–based semen preservative made artificial insemination practical; he also studied oxidative phosphorylation and metabolic regulation.
Henry A. Lester
Henry A. Lester, born 1945 in New York City, is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Biology at Caltech, known for studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Henry A. Schade
Henry A. Schade was an American naval architect and U.S. Navy officer who directed the Naval Research Laboratory and founded the naval architecture program at Berkeley.
Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace (1888–1965), American geneticist, Pioneer Hi-Bred founder, FDR's Secretary of Agriculture and 33rd vice president, replaced by Truman in 1944 and the 1948 Progressive Party presidential candidate.
Henry A. Wise
Henry Alexander Wise (1806–1876) was a Virginia congressman, minister to Brazil, governor during the John Brown raid and execution, and Confederate brigadier general who helped force Virginia's 1861 secession.
Henry Aaron
Henry J. Aaron is an American economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow emeritus who studied Social Security, Medicare, and health-care financing and served as Assistant Secretary at HEW.
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), American historian, grandson of John Quincy Adams; author of the nine-volume History of the United States (1889–91) and The Education of Henry Adams, Pulitzer Prize 1919.
Henry Adeney Redpath
Henry Adeney Redpath (1848–1908) was an Anglican clergyman and conservative biblical scholar who completed Edwin Hatch's Concordance to the Septuagint, the standard work for a century.
Henry Ainsworth
Henry Ainsworth (1571 or 1569 – 1622 or 1623) was an English separatist minister and Hebrew scholar at Amsterdam whose Psalter and Annotations became the Pilgrims' prayer book and hymnal.
Henry Alexander Miers
Henry Alexander Miers (1858–1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer who held the Waynflete Chair at Oxford, led the University of London and Manchester, and was knighted in 1912.
Henry Andrews Bumstead
Henry Andrews Bumstead (1870–1920) was an American physicist at Yale University known for research on electromagnetism, radioactivity, and the early American reception of Einstein's relativity.
Henry Ashton (actor)
Henry Ashton (born 1991, Bletchley, England) is an English actor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate, known for Stan Dudley in My Lady Jane, Max Hastings in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and Daeron Targaryen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Henry Augustus Rowland
Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) was an American experimental physicist, the first professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for the concave diffraction grating and his map of the solar spectrum.
Henry B. Eyring
Henry B. Eyring, born Henry Bennion Eyring in 1933, is an American religious leader serving as First Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church.
Henry B. Gardner
Henry B. Gardner (Henry Brayton Gardner) was an American economist at Brown University who founded its economics department and led the American Economic Association in 1919.