All articles starting with H

Henry de Montherlant

Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972), French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Académie française 1960; author of Les Jeunes Filles, La Reine morte, and Port-Royal, sanctioned after the Occupation for collaborationist journalism.

Henry Deane

Henry Deane was an English churchman who rose from prior of Llanthony to become Archbishop of Canterbury (1501–1503) and keeper of the great seal under Henry VII.

Henry Dodwell

Henry Dodwell (1641–1711) was an English theologian and classical scholar who lost his Oxford post for refusing oaths to William and Mary and argued the soul is naturally mortal.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Downes

Henry Downes (John Henry Downes, 1870–1943), Scottish sailor and electrical engineer; mate on Hera, gold medalist in the 12-metre class at the 1908 London Olympics, brother of Arthur Downes.

Henry Draper

Henry Draper (1837–1882) was an American physician and astronomer at the University of the City of New York who pioneered astrophotography, taking the first photograph of a star's spectrum, of Vega, in 1872.

Henry Draper Catalogue

The Henry Draper Catalogue, or HD Catalogue, is a Harvard star catalog of stellar spectral types, published in nine volumes between 1918 and 1924 by Annie Jump Cannon and Edward Pickering.

Oct 22, 2026

Henry Dreyfuss

Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972) was an American industrial designer who led a major design consultancy from 1929, designed the Bell System's desk telephones, and pioneered anthropometrics, the systematic use of human body measurements in product design.

Henry Drummond

Henry Drummond (1786–1860) was a British banker, member of Parliament, and writer who hosted the Albury prophetic conferences and became an apostle of the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Henry Drysdale Dakin

Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880–1952) was a British-born chemist who worked in the United States, known for the Dakin oxidation, the synthesis of adrenaline, and Dakin's solution antiseptic.

Henry Dube

Henry Dube is a German organic chemist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is known for light-driven molecular motors and photoswitches.

Henry Dunant

Henry Dunant (Jean-Henri Dunant, 1828-1910), Swiss businessman and founder of the ICRC; witnessed Solferino 1859, wrote A Memory of Solferino (1862), initiated the first Geneva Convention (1864), won the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901).

Henry Dunster

Henry Dunster (1609–1659) was an English-born Puritan clergyman who served as first president of Harvard College from 1640 to 1654, resigning after rejecting infant baptism.

Sep 27, 2026

Henry E. Autrey

Henry Edward Autrey, born 1952 in Mobile, Alabama, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2002.

Sep 27, 2026

Henry E. Hudson

Henry E. Hudson, born 1947, is an American jurist serving as a senior US district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2018, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.

Henry E. Sigerist

Henry Ernest Sigerist (1891–1957) was a Swiss medical historian, widely seen as the world's leading historian of medicine, and an advocate for national health insurance.

Henry E. Singleton

Henry E. Singleton, also known as Henry Earl Singleton, was an American electrical engineer who pioneered aircraft inertial navigation and co-founded the Teledyne conglomerate in 1960.

Henry Earl Singleton

Henry Earl Singleton (1916–1999) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered the lightweight inertial navigation system used in military and commercial aircraft and co-founded Teledyne, Inc., leading it for three decades.

Henry Earle Vaughan

Henry Earle Vaughan was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who directed the design of No. 1 ESS, the first major electronic telephone switching system.

Henry Edward Shortt

Henry Edward Shortt (1887–1987) was a British protozoologist and Indian Medical Service colonel who proved in 1948, with Cyril Garnham, that malaria parasites develop first in the liver.

Sep 20, 2026

Henry Elderfield

Henry Elderfield (1943–2016), known as Harry, was a British marine geochemist at Cambridge who established modern oceanic trace metal chemistry and the foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometer.

Henry Enfield Roscoe

Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833–1915) was an English chemist who, with Robert Bunsen, founded quantitative photochemistry, first prepared pure metallic vanadium, and built Owens College Manchester into Britain's leading chemistry school.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Eriksson

Henry Eriksson (Knut Henry Eriksson, 1920–2000), Swedish 1500 m runner for Gefle IF; won gold at London 1948 in 3:49.8, the only Swede with an Olympic 1500 m title, and 1946 European silver medallist.

Henry Eugene Hodges

Henry Eugene Hodges (born 1966) is a Tennessee death row inmate convicted of the 1990 strangling of Ronald Bassett in Nashville; his case is known for death-row self-harm, a civil rights lawsuit, and the severe mental illness execution debate.

Henry Evelyn Derek Scovil

Henry Evelyn Derek Scovil (1923–2010) was a Canadian-born physicist who spent his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he built the first solid-state maser in 1957 and developed magnetic bubble memory.

Henry Every

Henry Every (Henry Avery, born 1653), English pirate who mutinied the Charles II in 1694, captured the Mughal treasure ship Ganj-i-Sawai in 1695, then vanished despite a £500 bounty and 1696 trials of his crew.

Henry Eyring (theoretical chemist)

Henry Eyring (1901–1981) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist who formulated the theory of absolute reaction rates and the Eyring equation, central to chemical kinetics.