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Henry Bailey
Henry Marvin Bailey (1893-1972), American sport shooter and US Marine; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in men's 25m rapid fire pistol after clearing a pistol jam in the seventh tie-breaker against Vilhelm Carlberg. Not the British wrestler Henry Baillie.
Henry Barclay Swete
Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1917) was a Church of England clergyman and biblical scholar who served as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1890 to 1915 and edited the Septuagint.
Henry Barker Hill
Henry Barker Hill was an American organic chemist who spent his career at Harvard, becoming professor in 1884 and known for research on uric acid and furfural derivatives that helped establish furan chemistry.
Henry Beachell
Henry Monroe Beachell (1906–2006) was an American rice breeder who developed nine USDA rice varieties and IR8, the miracle rice of the Green Revolution in Asia.
Henry Beard
Henry Beard (born 1945) is an American humorist, Harvard Lampoon alumnus, and co-founder of National Lampoon with Doug Kenney and Robert Hoffman; author of Bored of the Rings and over 30 humor books.
Henry Beets
Henry Beets (1869–1947) was a Dutch-born American minister of the Christian Reformed Church who served forty years as its first stated clerk and edited The Banner for twenty-five years.
Henry Benedict Medlicott
Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905) was an Irish geologist who led the Geological Survey of India and co-authored the Manual of the Geology of India, the standard reference for Indian geologists.
Henry Benedict Stuart
Henry Benedict Stuart, known as Cardinal York, was the second son of the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart, a cardinal for sixty years, and the last Stuart heir.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901) was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, serving from 1859, whose appeals to Lincoln helped spare most of 303 Dakota men sentenced to death in 1862.
Henry Bernet
Henry Bernet (born 2007, Basel) is a Swiss tennis player, 2025 Australian Open boys' singles champion and former ITF junior world No. 1, with an ATP career-high singles ranking of No. 371 (October 2026).
Henry Blofeld
Henry Blofeld (born 1939), nicknamed Blowers, English cricket journalist and BBC Test Match Special commentator 1972-2017, known for 'my dear old thing'; not the James Bond villain Blofeld, though Ian Fleming took the surname from his father's schoolmate.
Henry Bolton (British politician)
Henry Bolton (born Kenya, 1963), former Army captain, Thames Valley Police officer, and OSCE adviser, OBE 2013; UKIP leader September 2017 to February 2018, ousted 867-500 over the Jo Marney scandal; later Independent candidate and SDP member.
Henry Box Brown
Henry Box Brown (1815/1816–1897), American abolitionist and performer who escaped slavery in 1849 by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia; later a panorama exhibitor, hypnotist, and magician in Britain, the US, and Canada.
Henry Brandon (actor)
Henry Brandon (Heinrich von Kleinbach, 1912–1990), German-born American character actor, villain specialist of over 100 films; Silas Barnaby in Babes in Toyland, Scar in The Searchers, not the casting director Brandon Henry Rodriguez.
Henry Bryant Bigelow
Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967) was an American oceanographer who surveyed the Gulf of Maine and served as the first director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Hēnry Buchwald
Henry Buchwald, born in Vienna, is an American surgeon-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota known for metabolic surgery and the first implantable infusion pump.
Henry Bucknall
Henry Cresswell "Togo" Bucknall (1885–1962), British rower; stroked Oxford's Boat Race crews 1905–06 and won gold in the men's eights for Leander Club at the 1908 London Olympics.
Henry Burger (endocrinologist)
Henry George Burger (1933–2024) was an Australian endocrinologist who directed Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne and was known for isolating inhibin and developing pulsatile GnRH ovulation treatment.
Henry Burkhardt III
Henry Burkhardt III is an American computer designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Data General in 1968, designed the Nova's instruction set, and later founded Encore Computer and Kendall Square Research.
Henry C. Adams
Henry C. Adams, also known as Henry Carter Adams, was an American economist who co-founded the American Economic Association and built the ICC's uniform railroad accounting system.
Henry C. Pitot
Henry C. Pitot (1930–2021) was an American physician-scientist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for multistage liver carcinogenesis and the Min mouse model of intestinal cancer.
Henry C. Wente
Henry C. Wente (1936–2020) was an American differential geometer at the University of Toledo who in 1984 found the first compact constant mean curvature surface besides the sphere, the Wente torus.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Massachusetts Republican senator 1893-1924, Foreign Relations chairman and de facto majority leader, led the reservations campaign that defeated the Treaty of Versailles and kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985), Massachusetts Republican senator 1937-44 and 1947-53, defeated by JFK in 1952; UN ambassador, Nixon's 1960 running mate, twice ambassador to South Vietnam, and Vatican envoy.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Liberal Prime Minister December 1905 to April 1908, first formally designated 'Prime Minister', led the Liberals to the 1906 landslide of about 400 seats, and is the only Prime Minister to die at 10 Downing Street.
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (c.1524/1526–1596), English courtier, soldier, and Lord Chamberlain to Elizabeth I; her first cousin through Mary Boleyn, possibly her half-brother, Governor of Berwick, victor over Leonard Dacre, and patron of Shakespeare's company.
Henry Carlsson
Henry "Garvis" Carlsson (Nils Gustav Henry Carlsson, 1917–1999), Swedish forward; 1948 Olympic football gold with Sweden, AIK 192/97, Atlético Madrid 1949–53, La Liga titles 1950 and 1951.
Henry Carr
Henry William Carr (1942-2015), American sprinter, double 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist: 200 m in Olympic record 20.3 and 4x400 m relay in world record 3:00.7; later NFL defensive back with the New York Giants.
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) was a British natural philosopher best known for his work on hydrogen, proving water is a compound, and measuring the Earth's mean density in the Cavendish experiment.
Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill (born 1983, Jersey) is a British actor known as Superman in Man of Steel and Geralt in The Witcher; he left both roles in 2022 and now leads Amazon's Warhammer 40,000 series.