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Henry L. Nadler
Henry L. Nadler was an American pediatrician and medical geneticist who established prenatal diagnosis of hereditary disorders by amniocentesis at Northwestern, then served as dean of Wayne State University's medical school.
Henry L. Stimson
Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950), American statesman and lawyer, served in four presidential cabinets as Secretary of War under Taft, Roosevelt, and Truman and Secretary of State under Hoover; Stimson Doctrine namesake and Manhattan Project overseer.
Henry Laporte
Henry Laporte, aka Salt Hank (@salt_hank), American food creator and self-taught chef; NYT bestselling cookbook author; founder of Salt Hank's West Village French dip shop, acquired by Wonder in 2026.
Henry Larcom Abbot
Henry Larcom Abbot was an American Army engineer, born in 1831 and died in 1927, who co-led a Pacific Railroad survey and developed the U.S. system of submarine mine defense.
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), British soldier and landowner, husband of Mary, Princess Royal; married 1922, inherited Clanricarde fortune, lived at Harewood House from 1930.
Henry Lau (刘宪华)
Henry Lau (刘宪华, mononym Henry), Chinese-Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, and producer born 1989 in Toronto; debuted 2008 in Super Junior-M, went solo with Trap (2013), left SM in 2018 for his own Monster Entertainment, and tours with ENJOY THE SHOW.
Henry Laufer
Henry S. Laufer is a mathematician and former Stony Brook professor who was chief scientist at Renaissance Technologies, formulating the trading algorithms behind the Medallion Fund's record returns.
Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens (1724–1792) was a wealthy South Carolina merchant and slave trader who led the Continental Congress and, imprisoned in the Tower of London, later signed the preliminary Treaty of Paris in 1782.
Henry Lawrence
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806–1857) was a British East India Company officer and administrator who helped consolidate British rule in the Punjab and founded the Lawrence Asylum.
Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson, born Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (1867 to 1922), was an Australian poet and short-story writer whose bush-life stories made him a leading nationalist figure in Australian writing.
Henry Lee (李昌钰) (forensic scientist)
Henry C. Lee (李昌鈺, 1938–2026), Chinese-American forensic scientist, Connecticut chief criminalist 1978–2000, founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute; famous for the wood-chipper case, O.J. Simpson trial, and the 2023 fabrication ruling and settlement.
Henry Lee III
Henry Lee III (1756–1818), "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, Continental Army cavalry commander of Lee's Legion, ninth Governor of Virginia, congressman, eulogist of Washington, and father of Robert E. Lee.
Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas (1936-2001), the "Confession Killer," was an American murderer who falsely confessed to about 600 murders in the 1980s; only three victims are confirmed, and a 1986 Texas attorney general report called his 360-plus confessions a fraud.
Henry Lee Moore
Henry Lee Moore: American suspected serial killer (1911–1912), convicted in Missouri in 1913 of ax-murdering his mother and grandmother; investigated for the 1912 Villisca axe murders and a series of linked Midwestern ax killings.
Henry Lehman
Henry Lehman, born Hayum Lehmann, was a Bavarian-born immigrant who opened a Montgomery, Alabama, dry-goods store in 1846 that became the investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Henry Lin (theoretical physicist)
Henry WanJune Lin (born 1995) is an American theoretical physicist, a Princeton assistant professor since 2026, first known as a teenager for galaxy-cluster astrophysics research.
Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Henry Lloyd-Hughes (born 1985, London) is a British actor known for Mark Donovan in The Inbetweeners, Ralph Whelan in Indian Summers, Aaron Peel in Killing Eve, Genek Kurc in We Were the Lucky Ones, and Bogdan in The Thursday Murder Club; he also runs the sportswear label N.E. Blake & Co.
Henry Longueville Mansel
Henry Longueville Mansel (1820–1871) was a British philosopher and Anglican theologian whose 1858 Bampton Lectures, The Limits of Religious Thought, provoked a famous controversy and shaped Victorian agnosticism.
Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy
The Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy: the July 16, 2009 disorderly conduct arrest of the Harvard scholar at his Cambridge home by Sgt. James Crowley, Obama's "acted stupidly" remark, the beer summit, and the Cambridge Review Committee report.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Hutchins Center director, is a literary scholar and Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker, host of PBS's Finding Your Roots, and author of The Black Box (2024).
Henry Louis Le Chatelier
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936) was a French chemist and mining engineer who formulated the principle of chemical equilibrium displacement, founded industrial high-temperature measurement, and stated the conditions for ammonia synthesis.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), Calcutta Eurasian poet, teacher, and journalist, first Indian poet in English, author of The Fakeer of Jungheera and 'The Harp of India,' and inspirer of the Young Bengal movement at Hindu College.
Henry Louis Wallace
Henry Louis Wallace, the Taco Bell Strangler, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered 11 Black women in Charlotte, NC and Barnwell, SC, 1990-1994; convicted 1997, nine death sentences, on death row in Raleigh.
Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (1898–1967), American magazine publisher born in Penglai, China; co-founded Time with Briton Hadden in 1923, then built Fortune, Life, and Sports Illustrated, and wrote the 1941 'American Century' editorial.
Henry Ludwig Michel
Henry Ludwig Michel (1924–2001) was an American civil engineer who chaired Parsons Brinckerhoff from 1975 and founded the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, ASCE's research arm.
Henry M. Foley
Henry Michael Foley (1917–1982) was an American experimental physicist and Columbia University professor whose 1947 measurements of the electron's magnetic moment with Polykarp Kusch helped confirm quantum electrodynamics.
Henry M. Herlong, Jr.
Henry M. Herlong, Jr., also known as Henry Michael Herlong, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in South Carolina.
Henry M. Hoenigswald
Henry M. Hoenigswald, born Heinrich Max Franz Hönigswald, was a German-born American historical linguist at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (1912–1983), Democratic senator from Washington (1953–1983), author of NEPA and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, chaired Interior and Energy committees, ran for president in 1972 and 1976.
Henry M. Krause
Henry M. Krause is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre, known for genome-scale studies showing most Drosophila mRNAs are localized before translation.