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Henry F. McFarland
Henry F. McFarland (1940–2024) was an American neuroimmunologist who spent his career at NINDS, co-founded its Neuroimmunology Branch in 1975, and pioneered MRI for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis.
Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer III is an American theoretical and computational chemist, Graham Perdue Professor at the University of Georgia, known for ab initio quantum chemistry and the 1970 methylene prediction.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) was an American vertebrate paleontologist, professor of zoology at Columbia University, and president of the American Museum of Natural History, best known for describing Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905.
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist and magistrate, author of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones (1749), and Amelia; pioneer of the modern comic novel and founder of the Bow Street Runners.
Henry Fielding Dickens
Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933), English barrister and judge, eighth child of Charles Dickens; Trinity Hall Cambridge, KC 1892, Common Serjeant of London 1917-32, defender of Kitty Byron, author of Memories of My Father.
Henry Fiol
Henry Fiol is an American salsa singer, composer, and painter of Puerto Rican and Italian descent, born in Manhattan in 1947, known for an old-school Cuban conjunto style.
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel
Henry Miles Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel (born 1987), British aristocrat, businessman, and former racing driver also known as Henry Arundel; heir apparent to the 18th Duke of Norfolk, 2006 Formula BMW UK Rookie Cup winner with Fortec Motorsport.
Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset
Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519–1536), only acknowledged illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount; created duke 1525, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, married Mary Howard, died of tuberculosis at 17.
Henry Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler was an American industrialist who co-founded Standard Oil, then invested his fortune in Florida railroads, hotels, and land from 1885 until his death in 1913.
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda (1905–1982), American stage and film actor born in Grand Island, Nebraska; star of The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; won the 1982 Best Actor Oscar and the 1978 AFI Life Achievement Award.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, pioneered the moving assembly line and the $5 day, and built the Model T.
Henry Ford Hospital
Henry Ford Hospital, also titled The Flying Bed, is a 1932 oil painting on sheet metal by Frida Kahlo, depicting her naked on a hospital bed after her miscarriage in Detroit in July 1932.
Henry Ford II
Henry Ford II, known as Hank the Deuce, was an American businessman who led Ford Motor Company from 1945, rescuing it from near-collapse after World War II.
Henry Foy
Henry Foy (1900–1991) was a haematologist and nutrition researcher who spent his career studying tropical anemias, running a research laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948.
Henry Francis Lyte
Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847) was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer, Perpetual Curate of Lower Brixham, Devon, best known for "Abide with me" and "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven".
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (Henry Frederick Stuart) was the eldest son of James I and heir to his thrones until his death in 1612.
Henry Friesen
Henry George Friesen (1934–2025) was a Canadian endocrinologist from Morden, Manitoba, who first isolated human prolactin and, as MRC president, laid the foundation for the CIHR.
Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741–1825), Swiss-born Romantic painter, draughtsman, and writer active in London; ordained pastor turned painter of The Nightmare, Royal Academy Professor of Painting, and Milton Gallery creator.
Henry G. Booker
Henry G. Booker (1910–1988) was an English-born physicist and electrical engineer who studied radio-wave propagation in the ionosphere, taught at Cornell and UC San Diego, and created the Booker quartic.
Henry G. Kunkel
Henry G. Kunkel (1916–1983) was an American immunologist who spent his career at Rockefeller University in New York and is known as the father of immunopathology.
Henry G. Schwartz Jr.
Henry G. Schwartz Jr., known as H. Gerard Schwartz Jr., is an American civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for wastewater treatment systems.
Henry Garnet
Henry Garnet (1555–1606), Jesuit superior of the English mission, executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot after learning of it in confession; author of the Treatise of Equivocation, alluded to in Macbeth.
Henry George
Henry George was an American economist who argued in Progress and Poverty (1879) that poverty stems from private land rent and proposed a single tax on land values.
Henry Gibson
Henry Gibson (born James Bateman, 1935–2009), American character actor and comedian, Laugh-In's flower-holding poet; Altman's Nashville, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal.
Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman (1893–1986) was an American organic chemist at Iowa State University who systematized organometallic chemistry and created the Gilman reagent, publishing 1020 papers, more than half after losing his sight in 1947.
Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux (born 1943) is an American-Canadian critical pedagogy theorist, Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University, known for public pedagogy, neoliberalism critique, and Teachers as Intellectuals.
Henry Golding
Henry Golding, full name Henry Ewan Golding, is a British-Malaysian actor and former television presenter who became a star with his debut in 2018's Crazy Rich Asians.
Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman (born 1950, Whitechapel, London) is a British stage and screen actor, RADA-trained, a two-time Olivier Award winner for Assassins (1993) and Shylock in Trevor Nunn's Merchant of Venice (2000), known for The Producers sacking and Marvel's Dr. List.
Henry Gordon Rice
Henry Gordon Rice was a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1951 and proved Rice's theorem in 1953, a foundational limit on program analysis.
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517–1554), third Marquis of Dorset, English Tudor magnate, father of Lady Jane Grey; married Frances Brandon, was made Duke of Suffolk in 1551, joined Wyatt's rebellion, and was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1554.