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Henry Silva
Henry Silva (1926-1928 sources vary; died 14 September 2022), American character actor of 130+ credits, villain in The Manchurian Candidate, Ocean's Eleven, Rat Pack films, Italian crime cinema, retired 2001.
Henry Simmons
Henry Simmons (Henry Oswald Simmons, Jr., born 1970, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Detective Baldwin Jones on NYPD Blue and Mack on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., distinct from same-named crew members.
Henry Soesanto
Henry Soesanto, born in 1952, is an Indonesian-born chemical engineer who moved to the Philippines in 1981 and leads Monde Nissin, maker of Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes.
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455-1483), English magnate who helped Richard III take the throne in 1483, then led the abortive Buckingham's rebellion and was beheaded at Salisbury on 2 November 1483.
Henry Stallard
Henry Stallard (Hyla Bristow Stallard, 1901–1973) was a British middle-distance runner and eye surgeon: 1924 Olympic 1,500 m bronze in 3:55.6, fourth in the 800 m, and the only man to win the AAA mile, 880 y, and 440 y titles.
Henry Stephens Washington
Henry Stephens Washington (1867–1934) was an American petrologist and geochemist, a National Academy member known for the CIPW classification of igneous rocks and the CIPW norm.
Henry Stern (California politician)
Henry Stern (born 1982) is an American Democratic politician who has represented California's 27th State Senate district, from Los Angeles to Ventura County, since his 2016 election as the first millennial state senator.
Henry Stewart O'Hara
Henry Stewart O'Hara (1843–1923) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland who served nineteen years as Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, after earlier office in Belfast.
Henry Stommel
Henry Melson Stommel (1920–1992) was an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole who created modern dynamical oceanography and explained the Gulf Stream's westward intensification in 1948.
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement is a New York City nonprofit founded in 1893 by nurse Lillian Wald on the Lower East Side, headquartered at 265 Henry Street, known for public health nursing, the 1972 Urban Family Center shelter model, and the Abrons Arts Center.
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (Henry Stewart, 1545-1567), second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, proclaimed King of Scotland in 1565, father of James VI and I, murdered at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, in February 1567.
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Henry Sturgis Morgan, also known as Henry S. Morgan, was an American banker, son of J.P. Morgan Jr. and a founding partner of the investment bank Morgan Stanley in 1935.
Henry Suso
Henry Suso (Heinrich Seuse, c. 1295 to 1366) was a German Dominican friar and mystical writer whose Horologium Sapientiae was among the most copied devotional works of the late Middle Ages.
Henry Suter
Henry Suter, born Hans Heinrich Suter in Switzerland (1841–1918), was a New Zealand malacologist who named over 400 native mollusc species and wrote the influential Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca (1913).
Henry Sutton
Henry Cecil Sutton (1868–1936), English sailor and Royal Yacht Squadron member, won Olympic gold in the 8 metre class at London 1908 aboard Cobweb, the yacht of his brother-in-law Blair Cochrane.
Henry Sweetser Burrage
Henry Sweetser Burrage (1837–1926) was an American Baptist clergyman, hymnologist, and State Historian of Maine from 1907, and editor of Zion's Advocate for 32 years.
Henry Sy
Henry Sy (施至成), 1924–2019, was a Chinese-Filipino retail magnate who arrived in Manila in 1936 with 10 centavos and built a shoe store into the Philippines' largest conglomerate.
Henry Symeonis
Henry Symeonis (Henricus filius Henrici Simeonis), Oxford townsman fined £80 in 1242 for killing scholars; royal pardon of 1264 refused by the University, whose anti-Symeonis oath lasted until 1827.
Henry T. Lynch
Henry T. Lynch, also known as Henry Lynch, was an American cancer geneticist at Creighton University who established that common cancers can be inherited; Lynch syndrome is named after him.
Henry T. Wingate
Henry T. Wingate, born 1947, is a United States district judge in Mississippi since 1985, appointed by Ronald Reagan and the first African American on Mississippi's federal bench.
Henry Tandey
Henry Tandey (1891-1977), English Victoria Cross recipient of the Green Howards and Duke of Wellington's Regiment, was the most decorated surviving British private of World War I; his alleged 1918 sparing of Hitler at Marcoing was later debunked.
Henry Taub
Henry Taub (1927–2011) was an American accountant who founded the payroll service that became Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949, at age 21.
Henry Taube
Henry Taube (1915–2005) was a Canadian-born American inorganic chemist at Stanford University who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on electron transfer mechanisms in metal complexes.
Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor (1885-1951) was an English swimmer from Oldham who won three golds at the 1908 London Olympics and eight Olympic medals across four Games, a British record until Jason Kenny in 2021.
Henry Taylor (artist)
Henry Taylor (born 1958, Ventura, California) is a Los Angeles-based American painter of Black life, known for acrylic portraits, found-object sculpture, the MOCA/Whitney 'B Side' retrospective, and the 2026 Musée Picasso Paris show; distinct from the British painter Henry Taylor (c. 1883–1960).
Henry the Fowler
Henry the Fowler (Heinrich der Vogler, Henricus Auceps, c. 876–936), duke of Saxony from 912, first non-Frankish king of East Francia, elected 919 at Fritzlar; founder of the Ottonian dynasty, victor at Riade 933.
Henry the Lion
Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe), 1129–1195, Welf duke of Saxony and Bavaria, eastern colonizer, builder of Lübeck, and cousin-rival of Frederick Barbarossa, banned and deposed 1180, exiled in England, died at Brunswick.
Henry the Young King
Henry the Young King (1155–1183), eldest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was crowned junior king of England in 1170 but never given power; he rebelled in 1173 and died of dysentery in 1183 fighting his brother Richard.
Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas (Henry Jackson Thomas Jr.), American actor born 1971 in San Antonio, Texas; child star as Elliott in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), later a Mike Flanagan horror regular and musician with Farspeaker.
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke (हेनरी थॉमस कोलब्रुक) was an English Sanskrit scholar, jurist, and East India Company administrator who translated the Digest of Hindu Law and founded the Royal Asiatic Society.