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Henry M. Kronenberg

Henry M. Kronenberg is an American physician-scientist who leads the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for cloning parathyroid hormone DNA and its receptor.

Henry M. Lemon

Henry M. Lemon (1915–1997) was an American physician-scientist who studied estrogen metabolism and breast cancer risk, and was the first director of the Eppley Institute in Nebraska.

Henry M. Sheffer

Henry M. Sheffer (1882–1964) was an American logician at Harvard who showed in 1913 that all of propositional logic can be built from a single connective, the Sheffer stroke.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Macintosh (Henry Maitland Macintosh, 1892-1918), Scottish sprinter from Kelso and Cambridge athlete, won 4x100m relay gold for Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, equalled the British 100 yards record of 9.8 seconds in 1913, and was killed in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918.

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini, 1924–1994) was an American composer, conductor, and arranger of film and television music: Moon River, The Pink Panther, Peter Gunn; four Oscars, 20 Grammys, Blake Edwards collaborator.

Henry Mannox

Henry Mannox (also Mannock, Manox), a Tudor music master who with Mr. Barnes taught Katherine Howard the virginals from 1536 in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk's household; a 1541 witness who denied carnal knowledge of her and was spared while Dereham and Culpeper were executed.

Henry Marion Howe

Henry Marion Howe (1848–1922) was an American metallurgist, professor of metallurgy at Columbia University from 1897 to 1913, and author of The Metallurgy of Steel (1891).

Henry Markram

Henry Markram is a neuroscientist and Full Professor at EPFL in Switzerland, known for discovering spike timing dependent plasticity and founding the Blue Brain Project.

Henry Martyn

Henry Martyn (1781–1812) was an Anglican priest and East India Company chaplain in Bengal, remembered as a pioneer Protestant missionary to Muslims, who translated the New Testament into Urdu, Persian, and Arabic.

Henry Martyn Taylor

Henry Martyn Taylor (1842–1927) was an English mathematician and Trinity College, Cambridge tutor who, after going blind at 52, devised a braille mathematical notation adopted as a standard.

Oct 22, 2026

Henry Masauko Chipembere

Henry Masauko Chipembere (1930–1975) was a Malawian nationalist politician who organized Nyasaland's independence movement, persuaded Hastings Banda to lead it, and later rebelled against his autocratic rule.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Maske

Henry Maske, German boxer born 1964, 1988 Olympic middleweight champion for East Germany, 1989 amateur world champion, and IBF light heavyweight professional world champion 1993-1996, nicknamed the Gentleman, with 30 wins in 31 pro fights.

Henry Masur

Henry Masur is an American infectious disease physician who wrote one of the first papers describing AIDS and leads critical care medicine at the NIH Clinical Center.

Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), English journalist, playwright, and Punch co-founder, wrote London Labour and the London Poor, the pioneering interview-based survey of Victorian London's street-folk and working poor.

Henry McCullough

Henry McCullough (1943–2016), Northern Irish guitarist from Portstewart, played with Wings 1971–1973, Joe Cocker's Grease Band at Woodstock 1969, Spooky Tooth, and recorded the one-take solo on My Love.

Henry McDonald (aeronautical engineer)

Henry "Harry" McDonald (1937–2021) was a Scottish-born aeronautical engineer known for pioneering computational fluid dynamics and for serving as the eighth director of NASA's Ames Research Center.

Henry McKean

Henry McKean (1930–2024) was an American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, which he directed in the 1980s, known for McKean–Vlasov equations and winning the 2007 Steele Prize.

Henry McMaster

Henry McMaster (born 1947, Columbia, South Carolina) is the 117th governor of South Carolina, a Republican; former U.S. attorney, state GOP chair, attorney general, and lieutenant governor; in office since January 2017.

Henry Meige

Henry Meige (1866–1940) was a French neurologist of the Charcot school at the Salpêtrière, eponymist of Meige syndrome and co-author of the first book on movement disorders.

Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916) was an English theologian, historian, and conchologist, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge from 1891, known for Studies of Arianism.

Henry Metzger

Henry Metzger (1932–2018) was a German-born American immunologist at NIH who showed how IgE receptor aggregation triggers mast cell activation in allergy, and led NIAMS research.

Henry Miller

Henry Miller (1891–1980), American writer of Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn; Paris-based autobiographical novelist banned for obscenity for decades, later Big Sur resident.

Henry Mitchell (hydrographer)

Henry Mitchell (1830–1902) was an American hydrographer and civil engineer of the United States Coast Survey, known for tidal surveys of New York Harbor and Boston Harbor.

Henry Molaison

Henry Gustav Molaison (H.M., 1926–2008), American epilepsy patient whose 1953 bilateral medial temporal lobe resection caused profound amnesia; decades of study by Brenda Milner revealed distinct memory systems and the hippocampus's role.

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986), British sculptor famous for monumental bronze reclining figures and mother-and-child themes, Shelter Drawings, 1948 Venice Biennale prize, and the Henry Moore Foundation founded 1977.

Henry More

Henry More (1614–1687) was an English philosopher and theologian, the most prolific of the Cambridge Platonists, who defended Christian doctrine rationally in polemics against Hobbes, Descartes, and Spinoza.

Henry Morgan

Henry Morgan (c. 1635–1688), Welsh buccaneer and privateer of Port Royal, Jamaica; sacked Porto Bello 1668 and Panama 1671, then knighted and made deputy-governor of Jamaica in 1674.

Henry Morton (American chemist)

Henry Morton (1836–1902) was an American chemist and physicist, the first president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, known for research on fluorescence and uranium-salt spectra.

Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands, 1841–1904), Welsh-born American journalist and explorer; found Livingstone at Ujiji in 1871, crossed Africa 1874–1877, and built Leopold II's Congo Free State.