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Henry Muller (writer)
Henry Muller (1902–1980) was a French literary journalist, translator, and publishing executive who spent his career at Éditions Grasset, becoming secretary-general, and wrote the memoir Trois pas en arrière.
Henry Munyaradzi
Henry Munyaradzi, also known as Henry Mudzengerere, was a self-taught Zimbabwean stone sculptor (1931–1998) who joined the Tengenenge community in 1967 and became a leading Shona sculpture figure.
Henry Murray
Henry Alexander Murray (1893–1988), American psychologist and director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, founder of personology, co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test, author of Explorations in Personality (1938), OSS assessor and Hitler-profile author, and supervisor of the Harvard stress study that included Ted Kaczynski.
Henry N. Claman
Henry N. Claman was an American physician-immunologist and allergist who headed allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Colorado for 25 years and discovered thymus–marrow synergism in 1966.
Henry N. Ginsberg
Henry N. Ginsberg is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University known for research on apoB lipoproteins, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis, and for leading the ACCORD Lipid trial.
Henry Nathaniel Andrews
Henry Nathaniel Andrews Jr. (1910–2002) was an American paleobotanist and pioneer of North American paleobotany, known for coal-ball studies of Carboniferous floras and Devonian fossil plants.
Henry Nicholas
Henry Nicholas is an American businessman and electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and led it as president and CEO until 2003.
Henry Noris
Henry Noris (Enrico Noris, 1631–1704) was an Italian Augustinian hermit, church historian, and cardinal whose Historia Pelagiana drew Jansenism accusations before his vindication and elevation to cardinal in 1695.
Henry Norris Russell
Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957) was an American astronomer at Princeton University, remembered as a founder of modern theoretical astrophysics and for the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram relating stellar brightness to spectral type.
Henry O. Pollak
Henry O. Pollak (1927–2026) was an American mathematician who spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories and served as the first nonacademic president of the Mathematical Association of America.
Henry of Blois
Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, was a Norman-English churchman and abbot of Glastonbury. He was a key figure in the civil war of King Stephen's reign.
Henry of Bohemia
Henry of Bohemia (Jindřich Korutanský), also Henry of Carinthia, Meinhardiner count of Tyrol elected King of Bohemia in 1306 and reigning 1307–1310 between the Přemyslid extinction and John of Luxembourg; later Duke of Carinthia, died 1335.
Henry of Ghent
Henry of Ghent (Henricus de Gandavo, died 1293) was a Scholastic philosopher and theologian, the leading master in the theology faculty at the University of Paris after Thomas Aquinas.
Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster
Henry of Grosmont (c. 1310–1361), Henry of Lancaster, first Duke of Lancaster: English soldier, diplomat, and wealthiest magnate; earl of Derby 1337, duke 1351 with palatinate powers; father-in-law of John of Gaunt.
Henry Onyekuru
Henry Chukwuemeka Onyekuru (born 1997, Onitsha) is a Nigerian left winger, Aspire Academy graduate, 2016-17 Belgian joint top scorer with KAS Eupen, Everton and Monaco player, Süper Lig winner on loan at Galatasaray, later Olympiacos, Adana Demirspor, Al-Fayha, Gençlerbirliği; 15 Nigeria caps, 1 goal.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American painter who settled in Paris in 1891 and won international acclaim for his religious paintings, including The Banjo Lesson.
Henry P. Close
Henry P. Close was an American pulmonary physician who served as Chief of the Medical Service at the Philadelphia VA Hospital and taught clinical medicine at Temple University.
Henry Padovani
Henry Padovani, also called The Corsican, is a French musician born 1952 in Bastia, first guitarist and founder member of The Police (1977), later of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs and The Flying Padovanis, IRS Records vice president, Zucchero's manager, memoirist, and 2007 Stade de France reunion guest.
Henry Parry Liddon
Henry Parry Liddon (1829–1890) was an Anglican theologian, canon of St Paul's Cathedral and Oxford professor, remembered as a great preacher and biographer of Edward Bouverie Pusey.
Henry Paulson
Henry Paulson, known as Hank Paulson, is an American financier and 74th US Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009 who led the response to the 2008 financial crisis.
Henry Paynter
Henry Paynter (1923–2002) was an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor known as the inventor of bond graphs, a graphical language for modeling energetic systems across many domains.
Henry Peach Robinson
Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) was a British photographer, trained as a painter, who championed photography as a fine art and was best known for the combination print Fading Away (1858).
Henry Pellatt
Sir Henry Mill Pellatt (1859–1939) was a Toronto financier and militia major-general who built his fortune on electric-power monopolies, constructed the 98-room Casa Loma castle, and died nearly penniless.
Henry Percy (Hotspur)
Henry Percy, called Hotspur (1364–1403), English soldier, eldest son of the first earl of Northumberland; famed border captain, victor at Homildon Hill, killed in rebellion against Henry IV at Shrewsbury.
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Algernon Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (1502?–1537), English Tudor magnate, Wolsey ward, early suitor of Anne Boleyn, and northern border warden whose childless death returned the earldom to the Crown.
Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland (1846–1918), styled Lord Warkworth then Earl Percy, was a British Conservative MP for North Northumberland 1868–1885, Treasurer of the Household, KG, and Duke from 1899.
Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (1942–2023) was an American civil engineer and historian of engineering, a Duke professor best known for To Engineer Is Human (1985) and his argument that form follows failure.
Henry Pickering Bowditch
Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840–1911) was an American physiologist who taught at Harvard for 35 years and discovered the all-or-none law of cardiac muscle in 1871.
Henry Pollock (rugby union)
Henry Pollock (born 2005, Banbury) is an English rugby union back row for Northampton Saints and England; 2024 U20 World champion, two-try England debut vs Wales 2025, youngest 2025 British & Irish Lions tourist.
Henry Prentiss Armsby
Henry Prentiss Armsby (1853–1921) was an American agricultural chemist and animal nutrition scientist who built the world's first respiration calorimeter for cattle at Pennsylvania State College.