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Henry Cejudo
Henry Cejudo (born 1987), American freestyle wrestler and MMA fighter; 2008 Beijing Olympic gold at 55 kg, youngest U.S. Olympic wrestling champion; former UFC flyweight and bantamweight champion, retired 2025.
Henry Chadwick (writer)
Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), English-born American sportswriter called the Father of Baseball; invented the box score and 'K' for strikeouts, edited Beadle's and Spalding's guides, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1938.
Henry Chapman (physicist)
Henry N. Chapman is a British-born physicist, founding director of the Coherent Imaging Division at CFEL, DESY, Hamburg, since 2007, known for pioneering serial femtosecond crystallography.
Henry Charlton Bastian
Henry Charlton Bastian (1837–1915) was a British physician and neurologist at University College London who lost the Victorian spontaneous generation debate but made lasting contributions to neurology.
Henry Chichele
Henry Chichele (c. 1362–1443) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1414 to 1443, an administrator-churchman who served Henry V as councillor, prosecuted Lollards, and founded All Souls College, Oxford, in 1438.
Henry Cisneros
Henry Cisneros (born 1947) is an American urban planner and politician, four-term mayor of San Antonio (1981-1989) and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1993-1997) under Clinton, known for HOPE VI and later infrastructure investing.
Henry Clapp Sherman
Henry Clapp Sherman (1875–1955) was an American food chemist and nutritionist who spent his career at Columbia University, quantifying dietary calcium and vitamin requirements and receiving the Franklin Medal in 1946.
Henry Clay
Henry Clay (1777-1852), Kentucky lawyer-statesman, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and Whig founder; the 'Great Compromiser' behind the Missouri Compromise, 1833 tariff, and Compromise of 1850, who ran for president three times and never won.
Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was an American coke and steel industrialist who built Pennsylvania's dominant coke enterprise, became Andrew Carnegie's partner, and left his art collection as The Frick Collection.
Henry Clay Trumbull
Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903) was an American Congregational clergyman, Connecticut Sunday-school missionary, Civil War army chaplain, and editor of the Sunday School Times who wrote more than thirty books.
Henry Clay Vedder
Henry Clay Vedder (1853–1935) was an American Baptist church historian and professor of church history at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1894 to 1926, known for tracing Baptist origins through the Anabaptists.
Henry Clay Work
Henry Clay Work, also known as Henry C. Work (1832–1884), was an American songwriter and self-taught composer, a printer by trade, best known for "Marching Through Georgia" and "Grandfather's Clock".
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908) was a Sheffield scientist who founded microscopical petrology, the study of rocks in thin section, and is the father of metallography.
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779–1854), Scottish advocate, Solicitor General for Scotland 1830–34, Court of Session judge, diarist of Memorials of his Time, and Edinburgh conservationist.
Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper (1934–2011), "Our 'Enry", English heavyweight boxer; British, Commonwealth and European champion; twice fought Muhammad Ali, knocking him down in 1963; lost final 1971 fight to Joe Bugner.
Henry Cow
Founded in 1968 by Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson, the English experimental rock band Henry Cow fused progressive rock, avant-garde composition, and free improvisation, founding the Rock in Opposition movement.
Henry Cowan
Henry Cowan (1844–1932) was a Church of Scotland minister and author who served parishes in Aberdeen and Edinburgh before becoming professor of church history at Aberdeen in 1889.
Henry Cowles
Henry Cowles (1803–1881) was an American biblical scholar, educator, and antislavery advocate who taught at Oberlin College, helped articulate the Oberlin Theology, and wrote a sixteen-volume Bible commentary.
Henry Crew
Henry Crew (1859–1953) was an American physicist and spectroscopist, Fayerweather Professor of Physics at Northwestern University from 1892 to 1930, known for atomic spectroscopy and his 1914 translation of Galileo's Two New Sciences.
Henry Cuellar
Henry Cuellar (Enrique Roberto Cuellar), Democratic U.S. Representative for Texas's 28th District since 2005, former Texas state representative and Secretary of State, Appropriations Homeland Security Ranking Member, indicted 2024 for bribery, pardoned by Trump in December 2025.
Henry Cummings
Henry Cumming (Henry Cummings), American sprinter born 7 September 1905 in Augusta, Georgia, died 10 July 1945 in Florence, Italy; ran the 200 m for the USA at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, winning his heat in 22.4h and placing eighth overall.
Henry Czerny
Henry Czerny (born 1959, Toronto) is a Canadian stage, film, and TV actor known for The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission: Impossible's Kittridge, Clear and Present Danger, and Revenge's Conrad Grayson.
Henry D. Janowitz
Henry D. Janowitz (1915–2008) was an American gastroenterologist who led Mount Sinai's Division of Gastroenterology from 1958 to 1983 and helped found the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.
Henry Danger
Henry Danger is an American Nickelodeon live-action superhero comedy (2014–2020, five seasons) created by Dan Schneider and Dana Olsen, starring Jace Norman as Henry Hart/Kid Danger, sidekick to Cooper Barnes's Captain Man in Swellview; it spawned Danger Force and a 2025 movie.
Henry Danger: The Movie
Henry Danger: The Movie (2025) is a Nickelodeon/Paramount+ TV film directed by Joe Menendez, starring Jace Norman as Henry Hart, whose superfan Missy Martin's reality-opening device traps him in a multiverse.
Henry Daniell
Henry Daniell is an American plant biotechnologist at the University of Pennsylvania who pioneered chloroplast genetic engineering and oral delivery of plant-made drugs, including lettuce-grown clotting factors for hemophilia.
Henry Darger
Henry Darger (1892–1973) was an American self-taught artist and Chicago hospital janitor known for In the Realms of the Unreal, a 15,000-page illustrated fantasy novel.
Henry Darrow
Henry Darrow (Enrique Tomás Delgado, 1933-2021), Puerto Rican-born American actor; Manolito Montoya on The High Chaparral; first Latino TV Zorro, 1981-83, and Zorro's father 1990-93; 1990 Daytime Emmy; SAG Ethnic Minority Committee co-founder.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher best known for Walden, an account of his two years living at Walden Pond, and "Civil Disobedience," which influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Henry de Bracton
Henry de Bracton (Henry of Bratton, d. 1268), English royal judge and clergyman associated with De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, the medieval treatise on English law composed by Pattishall, Raleigh, and Bratton, printed 1569.