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Henry J. Heinz
Henry J. Heinz, born Henry John Heinz, was an American food manufacturer who founded the H.J. Heinz Company near Pittsburgh in 1869 and created the "57 Varieties" slogan.
Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser (Henry John Kaiser, 1882–1967) was an American industrialist whose shipyards built 1,490 World War II ships and whose prepaid health plan became Kaiser Permanente.
Henry J. Mankin
Henry J. Mankin was an American orthopedic surgeon who chaired orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital for 24 years and created the Mankin grading system for osteoarthritic cartilage.
Henry J. Ongerth
Henry J. Ongerth (1913-2011) was an American sanitary engineer and chief engineer of the California Department of Health Services, known for work on water reuse.
Henry J. Ramey Jr.
Henry Jackson Ramey Jr. (1925–1993) was an American petroleum engineer who led Stanford's geothermal program and pioneered pressure transient well-test analysis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.
Henry J. Snaith
Henry J. Snaith is a physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of perovskite solar cells, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
Henry J.M. Barnett
Henry J.M. Barnett (1922–2016) was a Canadian neurologist who directed the trials establishing modern stroke prevention, including the first randomized aspirin trial and NASCET, and co-founded the Robarts Research Institute.
Henry Jackman
Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1974, Hillingdon, London) is an English film composer, also known as Henry Jackman, trained at Eton and Oxford. Known for Wreck-It Ralph, X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War, and Uncharted 4; BAFTA-nominated for Captain Phillips.
Henry Jackson Society
Henry Jackson Society (HJS), British foreign-policy think tank founded in Cambridge in 2005, named for Senator Scoop Jackson; London-based, charity 1140489, merged with Centre for Social Cohesion 2011, criticized as neoconservative.
Henry Jackson Van Dyke
Henry Jackson Van Dyke (1852–1933) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, Princeton professor of English literature, and author of the Christmas story The Story of the Other Wise Man.
Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916), American-born British novelist and realist, author of The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl; master of the international theme, limited point of view, and the New York Edition prefaces.
Henry James Clark
Henry James Clark (1826–1873) was an American biologist and microscopist, the foremost American histologist of his generation and first professor of Natural History at Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Henry James Sr.
Henry James Sr. (1811–1882) was an American philosophical theologian and Swedenborgian thinker who never held a formal job, and the father of William, Henry, and Alice James.
Henry Jenner
Henry Jenner (1848–1934), British Celtic scholar and British Museum librarian, wrote A Handbook of the Cornish Language (1904), sparked the Cornish revival, and founded Gorsedh Kernow as its first Grand Bard.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), British statesman, Foreign Secretary 1830-41 and 1846-51 and twice Prime Minister (1855-58, 1859-65), known for gunboat diplomacy, Belgian independence, and dying in office.
Henry Johnson (film)
Henry Johnson is a 2025 American psychological drama written and directed by David Mamet, adapted from his stage play, starring Evan Jonigkeit, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Bauer, and Dominic Hoffman; released May 9, 2025.
Henry Johnson (World War I soldier)
Henry Johnson (William Henry Johnson), Albany porter turned U.S. Army sergeant with the 369th Infantry "Harlem Hellfighters", repelled a German raid in France on May 15, 1918 despite 21 wounds, won the French Croix de Guerre avec Palme, and received the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2015.
Henry Jones (actor)
Henry Jones (Henry Burk Jones, 1912–1999), American character actor; Tony winner for Sunrise at Campobello; known for The Bad Seed and the coroner in Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Henry Jonsson
Henry Kalarne Bror denotes Henry Kälarne, born John Henry Jonsson (1912-2001), Swedish runner; Olympic 5,000 m bronze 1936, European silver 1938, world records at 2,000 m and 3,000 m.
Henry Kapteyn
Henry C. Kapteyn is a physicist and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for ultrafast laser technology and tabletop coherent X-ray sources built by high-harmonic generation.
Henry Kelly
Henry Kelly (Patrick Henry Kelly, 1946-2025), Irish journalist and broadcaster, Irish Times northern editor during the Troubles, author of How Stormont Fell, presenter of Game for a Laugh, Going for Gold, and Classic FM.
Henry Kendall
Henry Kendall, born Thomas Henry Kendall, was an Australian poet of the bush whose nature lyrics made him, for a time, the country's most celebrated poet.
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger (Heinz Alfred Kissinger, 1923–2023), German-born American diplomat, 56th U.S. Secretary of State (1973–1977) and National Security Adviser (1969–1975); architect of the China opening, détente, SALT, and Middle East shuttle diplomacy; 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (1750–1806), Boston bookseller turned Continental Army chief of artillery, hauled 60 tons of cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to break the Siege of Boston, and served as the first U.S. secretary of war, 1789–1794.
Henry Krakauer
Henry Krakauer was an American health services researcher affiliated with the Uniformed Services University and Medicare's HCFA, known for influential New England Journal of Medicine papers on outcomes and transplantation.
Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis, also known as Henry R. Kravis, is an American financier who co-founded the private equity firm KKR in 1976 and led the record $25 billion RJR Nabisco buyout in 1988.
Henry Kressel
Henry Kressel is an engineer who pioneered the semiconductor heterojunction laser at RCA Laboratories, work that underlies fiber-optic communications, then spent three decades in venture capital at Warburg Pincus.
Henry Krum
Henry Krum (1958–2015) was an Australian clinical pharmacologist at Monash University and The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, known for establishing β-blockers as standard therapy in heart failure.
Henry L. Adams, Jr.
Henry Lee Adams, Jr., born 1945 in Jacksonville, Florida, is a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1993.
Henry L. Higginson
Henry L. Higginson (1834–1919) was an American banker, a partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., who helped create General Electric and founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra.