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Henry Gunther

Henry Nicholas John Gunther was an American soldier of the 313th Infantry Regiment, the last American killed in action in World War I, one minute before the Armistice on November 11, 1918.

Henry H. Arnold

Henry H. Arnold, known as "Hap," was an American general who commanded the Army Air Forces through World War II and became the first General of the Air Force.

Henry H. Balfour

Henry H. Balfour is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School since 1970, known for acyclovir trials and an EBV vaccine.

Henry H. Barschall (1915–1997) was an American nuclear physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose fast-neutron measurements shaped the optical model of the nucleus and neutron cancer therapy.

Henry H. Goddard

Henry Herbert Goddard (1866–1957) was the American psychologist who brought the Binet-Simon test to the US, coined "moron," and wrote the discredited 1912 eugenic study The Kallikak Family.

Sep 27, 2026

Henry H. Kennedy, Jr.

Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., also known as Henry Harold Kennedy, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2011.

Henry H. Rachford Jr.

Henry H. Rachford Jr. (1925–2022) was an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician, a Rice University professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, known for the Douglas-Rachford algorithm.

Henry Haiquan Ji (吉海泉)

Henry Haiquan Ji (Ji Haiquan, 吉海泉) is a Chinese venture capitalist and Managing Director at Legend Capital, a Beijing-founded firm, focusing on TMT and consumer investing from its Shenzhen office.

Henry Hamilton (colonial administrator)

Henry Hamilton (c. 1734–1796), British army officer and colonial administrator, lieutenant governor at Detroit 1775–1779, nicknamed the Hair Buyer, captured by George Rogers Clark at Vincennes in 1779, later lieutenant governor of Quebec and governor of Bermuda.

Henry Handel Richardson

Henry Handel Richardson was the pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, an Australian novelist (1870–1946) known for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy and The Getting of Wisdom.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Hansen

Henry Hansen (Henry Peter Christian Hansen, 1902–1985), Danish road cyclist, 1928 Olympic champion in individual and team road race, 1931 amateur world road champion, 1932 Olympic team silver, later Danish Cycling Union chairman 1967–71.

Henry Harbaugh

Henry Harbaugh (1817–1867) was a Pennsylvania German clergyman, poet, and hymn writer of the German Reformed Church, best known for the hymn "Jesus, I live to Thee."

Sep 23, 2026

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, was a British army officer and politician who served as Governor-General of India from 1844 to 1848, leading in the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Henry Harpending

Henry Harpending (1944–2016) was an American anthropologist and population geneticist at the University of Utah who developed the mismatch-distribution method and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.

Henry Harris (cell biologist)

Henry Harris (1925–2014) was a British cell biologist at Oxford, born in Russia and raised in Australia, known for cell fusion work and showing malignancy can be recessive.

Oct 22, 2026

Henry Harvey

Sir Henry Harvey (1737–1810) was a Royal Navy admiral from Eastry, Kent, who commanded the Ramillies at the Glorious First of June and captured Trinidad in 1797.

Oct 20, 2026

Henry Haslam

Henry North Haslam (1879-1942), English amateur footballer, Worksop-born captain of Upton Park FC, which beat Club Français 4-0 at Paris 1900 to win the first Olympic football tournament, later recognized as gold; he was also twice imprisoned.

Sep 23, 2026

Henry Havelock

Henry Havelock (हेनरी हैवलॉक), 1795 to 1857, was a British soldier in India whose victories during the Rebellion of 1857 made him a national hero before he died at Lucknow.

Henry Head

Henry Head (1861–1940) was a British neurologist, physician to the London Hospital, and editor of Brain, known for Head's zones, dermatome maps, and studies of sensation and aphasia.

Henry Heimlich

Henry Heimlich, Cincinnati thoracic surgeon who invented the Heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrusts) for choking, published June 1974; later guidelines renamed it and added back blows first.

Henry Herbert Donaldson

Henry Herbert Donaldson (1857–1938) was an American neurologist who made the albino rat a standard laboratory animal through the Wistar Institute stock, used in research worldwide.

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1534–1601), Elizabethan peer, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, and President of Wales from 1586; husband of Mary Sidney and father of William, 3rd Earl.

Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon

Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon (1924–2001), Lord Porchester or "Porchie", was Queen Elizabeth II's racing manager from 1969 to 2001, created the European Pattern race system, chaired Newbury Racecourse, and was known for the 1988 Dick Hern sacking.

Henry Herman Hausner

Henry Herman Hausner, born Henry Heinz Hausner, was an Austrian-born engineer who pioneered powder metallurgy in the United States and also wrote a monograph on Süßmayr, who completed Mozart's Requiem.

Henry Heroki Mochizuki

Henry Heroki Mochizuki (望月ヘンリー海輝), born 2001, is a Japanese right-back for FC Machida Zelvia in J1; 5 Japan caps, 1 goal, 2025 J1 Outstanding Player Award.

Henry Hess

Henry Hess is a German-born nanobiotechnology researcher and professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, known for kinesin-powered molecular shuttles and a 2009 smart dust biosensor.

Henry Hill

Henry Hill (1943–2012), Lucchese crime family associate and FBI informant whose life inspired Wiseguy and Goodfellas; testified in about 50 mob convictions, later lived publicly.

Henry Hoffmann

Henry Hoffmann, often called Hank Hoffmann, is an American computer scientist at the University of Chicago known for research on self-aware and adaptive computing systems and for receiving a PECASE award.

Henry Houlden

Henry Houlden is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist, Professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for identifying genes for ataxia and parkinsonism.