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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), English nobleman and Tudor courtier poet, son of the third Duke of Norfolk; introduced blank verse and the English sonnet form; executed for treason by Henry VIII; published posthumously in Tottel's Miscellany.
Henry Hozier
Sir Henry Montague Hozier (1838–1907), British colonel, Times war correspondent, military author (The Seven Weeks' War, The Russo-Turkish War), Secretary of Lloyd's 1874–1890, and father of Clementine Churchill.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson (c. 1565–disappeared 1611), English navigator, led four voyages (1607–1611) for the Muscovy Company, Dutch East India Company, and English backers seeking a passage to Asia; explored the Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay; set adrift by mutineers in June 1611 and never seen again.
Henry Hudson Parkway
The Henry Hudson Parkway is a limited-access urban parkway in New York City, running 11.2 miles along the Hudson River from West 72nd Street to Westchester County.
Henry Hugh Clutton
Henry Hugh Clutton (1850–1909) was an English surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital whose 1886 Lancet description of painless knee effusions in congenital syphilis gave medicine "Clutton's joints".
Henry I of England
Henry I of England (Beauclerc, c.1068/70–1135), youngest son of William the Conqueror, reigned 1100–1135 and was Duke of Normandy from 1106 after Tinchebray; known for the Charter of Liberties, Exchequer records, and the White Ship succession crisis.
Henry I of France
Henry I of France (Henri Ier, c. 1008–1060), Capetian king 1031–1060, son of Robert II; fought Blois and defeated by Norman duke William at Mortemer and Varaville; married Anne of Kiev; father of Philip I.
Henry I of Hesse
Henry I of Hesse (Heinrich das Kind, 1244-1308), first Landgrave of Hesse, son of Sophie of Brabant; won Hesse from the Ludowinger succession dispute with Meissen and Mainz, made Kassel his residence, and became an imperial prince in 1292.
Henry I the Bearded
Henry I the Bearded (Henryk I Brodaty, c. 1168–1238) was a Piast duke who ruled Silesia from 1201, later also Kraków and much of Greater Poland.
Henry Ian Cusick
Henry Ian Cusick (born 1967, Trujillo, Peru) is a Peruvian-Scottish actor and director, Emmy-nominated as Desmond Hume on Lost, later Marcus Kane on The 100, Stephen Finch on Scandal, and Russ Taylor on MacGyver.
Henry II of Cyprus
Henry II of Cyprus (1270–1324), Lusignan king of Cyprus 1285–1324 and titular king of Jerusalem after Acre fell in 1291; deposed 1306–1310 by brother Amaury, restored, succeeded by nephew Hugh IV.
Henry II of England
Henry II (1133–1189), first Plantagenet king of England, ruler of the Angevin Empire from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, founder of English common law, antagonist of Thomas Becket, father of Richard I and John.
Henry II of France
Henry II (Henri II, 1519-1559), king of France 1547-1559, second son of Francis I, husband of Catherine de' Medici; fought the Habsburgs, took Calais and Metz, signed the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, and died after a 1559 jousting wound from Montgomery.
Henry II the Pious
Henry II the Pious (Henryk II Pobożny) was a Piast duke who ruled Silesia, Kraków, and Greater Poland from 1238 until he was killed fighting the Mongols in 1241.
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II (died 1024), last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor and the only one canonized as a saint (1146), ruled Germany from 1002, took the imperial crown in Rome in 1014, founded the bishopric of Bamberg in 1007, and left the preserved Bamberg imperial library.
Henry III of England
Henry III of England (1207–1272) reigned 56 years from age nine in 1216, issued the definitive 1225 Magna Carta, rebuilt Westminster Abbey, lost Lewes to Simon de Montfort, and was restored after Evesham in 1265.
Henry III of France
Henry III (Henri III, 1551–1589), last Valois king of France and briefly elected king of Poland, faced the Catholic League, fled Paris after the Day of the Barricades, had the duc de Guise killed at Blois, and was assassinated by Jacques Clément in 1589.
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III (1017–1056), Salian German king and Holy Roman emperor, son of Conrad II; deposed three rival popes at Sutri in 1046, installed German reform popes, and was crowned emperor by Clement II on 25 December 1046.
Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (John Henry Brodribb, 1838-1905), English actor-manager, ran London's Lyceum Theatre from 1878 with Ellen Terry, starred in The Bells and Hamlet, and was the first actor knighted (1895).
Henry Isaac Rowntree
Henry Isaac Rowntree (1838–1883) was a York Quaker grocer's son who founded in 1862 the cocoa, chocolate, and chicory business that became Rowntree's, known for KitKat, Aero, and Smarties.
Henry IV of Castile
Henry IV of Castile (Enrique IV de Castilla, el Impotente), king 1454–1474, last Trastámara king of Castile; faced noble revolt, the Farce of Ávila, and a disputed succession between Juana la Beltraneja and Isabella I that triggered the 1475–1479 War of the Castilian Succession.
Henry IV of England
Henry IV of England (Henry Bolingbroke, 1367–1413), first Lancastrian king, reigned 1399–1413 after deposing Richard II; faced the Glyn Dŵr Welsh revolt and Percy rebellions, defeated at Shrewsbury 1403.
Henry IV of France
Henry IV of France (Henri IV, 1553-1610), first Bourbon king (1589-1610) and King of Navarre as Henri III, converted to Catholicism in 1593, issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598, and was assassinated by Ravaillac.
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry IV (1050–1106), German king from 1056 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1084, Salian son of Henry III; his investiture conflict with Gregory VII led to excommunication, Canossa, antipopes, and deposition by his son Henry V.
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare's 1596–97 history play (Henry IV, Part One), follows Prince Hal, Falstaff, and Hotspur to the battle of Shrewsbury; first printed 1598, seven quartos by 1622.
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry IV, Part 2 (Second Part of Henrie the Fourth) is Shakespeare's sequel history play to Henry IV, Part 1: rebellion crushed by deceit, King Henry's death, Hal's coronation as Henry V, and Falstaff's repudiation; first printed in quarto in 1600.
Henry J. Binder
Henry J. Binder (1936–2025) was an American gastroenterologist and intestinal transport physiologist at Yale whose laboratory explained colonic sodium absorption and co-designed a resistant-starch oral rehydration solution for cholera.
Henry J. Degenkolb
Henry J. Degenkolb (1913–1989) was an American structural engineer in San Francisco whose seismic design work, carried through the Applied Technology Council, shaped national building codes.
Henry J. Gruy
Henry J. Gruy (1915–2012) was an American petroleum engineer who founded the reserve-evaluation firm H.J. Gruy and Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Henry J. Hatch
Henry J. Hatch, known as Hank Hatch, is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and civil engineer who served as Chief of Engineers from 1988 to 1992.