All articles starting with H

Henry Tillman

Henry Durand Tillman (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American boxer, 1984 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist who beat Mike Tyson twice as an amateur, later a pro cruiserweight contender who lost to Holyfield and Tyson.

Henry Tizard

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885–1959) was a British physical chemist and science administrator who, as chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence from 1934, set in motion the development of radar.

Henry Townley Heald

Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was an American civil engineer and academic administrator, first president of Illinois Institute of Technology and president of the Ford Foundation.

Henry Travers

Henry Travers (1874–1965) was an English stage and film character actor best known as Clarence the angel in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Henry Tufnell (Labour politician)

Henry Tufnell (born 1992) is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Mid and South Pembrokeshire, elected 4 July 2024 with a 1,878 majority over Stephen Crabb; former barrister and CAIWU union organiser from a Gloucestershire farming family.

Henry Tutwiler Wright

Henry Tutwiler Wright (born 1943) is an American archaeologist at the University of Michigan whose research concerns the first emergence of states and urban societies in Mesopotamia and southwestern Iran.

Oct 3, 2026

Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V (1944) is Laurence Olivier's Technicolor adaptation of Shakespeare's play, which he directed, produced, and starred in. Made as wartime propaganda with Ministry of Information backing, it won Olivier a special Oscar and became the top-grossing English film of its time.

Henry V (1989 film)

Henry V (1989) is Kenneth Branagh's debut feature, a gritty adaptation of Shakespeare's play produced by Renaissance Films, starring Branagh with Derek Jacobi and Emma Thompson, Oscar-nominated and credited with reviving Shakespeare on film.

Henry V (play)

Henry V is Shakespeare's 1599 history play on the king's French campaign and Agincourt, closing the Henriad tetralogy; sourced chiefly from Holinshed, first printed as a 1600 bad quarto, with a contested authorship question.

Henry V of England

Henry V of England (1387–1422), also Enrique V, king from 1413, victor of Agincourt in 1415, conqueror of Normandy, and heir to the French crown by the Treaty of Troyes; Shakespeare's plays built his heroic myth.

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry V, the last Salian ruler, was German king from 1105 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1111. He ended the Investiture Controversy with the Concordat of Worms.

Oct 22, 2026

Henry van de Velde

Henry van de Velde (Henry Clemens van de Velde, 1863–1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, and designer, a founder of Belgian Art Nouveau whose Weimar school preceded the Bauhaus.

Henry Van Peters Wilson

Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863–1939) was an American zoologist at the University of North Carolina known for showing in 1907 that dissociated sponge cells reassemble into complete animals.

Oct 22, 2026

Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, translator, and physician who called himself the Silurist, best known for the religious collection Silex Scintillans, first published in 1650.

Henry VI of England

Henry VI of England was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, the last Lancastrian monarch, deposed and killed during the Wars of the Roses.

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry VI (1165-1197), Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperor from 1191 and German king from 1169, son of Frederick Barbarossa; through marriage to Constance of Sicily he conquered the Norman kingdom in 1194 and nearly made the imperial crown hereditary.

Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 1 is Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio history play, likely co-written with Thomas Nashe, dramatizing England's loss of France, Joan of Arc, and the seeds of the Wars of the Roses.

Henry VII Chapel

Henry VII Chapel, the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, is a Perpendicular Gothic royal burial chapel begun 1503, consecrated 1516, famed for its fan vault with pendants and Torrigiano's gilt bronze tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Henry VII of England

Henry VII (1457–1509), first Tudor king of England (r. 1485–1509), won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, married Elizabeth of York, raised royal income from £52,000 to £142,000, and left a full treasury.

Henry VIII

Henry VIII (1491–1547), Tudor king of England from 1509, broke with Rome via the 1534 Act of Supremacy, dissolved the monasteries, built the Royal Navy, and is known for his six marriages and succession crisis.

Sep 19, 2026

Henry W. Bloch

Henry W. Bloch (1922–2019) was an American businessman who co-founded H&R Block, the Kansas City tax-preparation company, with his brother Richard in 1955 and led it for decades.

Henry W. Farnam

Henry Walcott Farnam (1853–1933) was an American economist at Yale University, Professor of Political Economy, president of the American Economic Association in 1911, and a founder of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

Henry W. Foster Jr

Henry W. Foster Jr. (1933–2022) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and medical educator at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, known for reducing infant mortality and his contested 1995 Surgeon General nomination.

Henry W. Gould

Henry W. Gould (Henry Wadsworth Gould), born 1928 in Portsmouth, Virginia, is an American mathematician at West Virginia University known for combinatorial identities and Fibonacci numbers.

Henry W. Kendall

Henry W. Kendall, born Henry Way Kendall, was an American MIT particle physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments revealing quarks inside protons and neutrons.

Henry Wade

Henry Menasco Wade (1914-2001), Dallas County district attorney 1950-1986, prosecuted Jack Ruby in 1964 and was the named defendant in Roe v. Wade (1973).

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet and Harvard professor, the most popular poet of 19th-century America, known for Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha.

Henry Walpole

Henry Walpole (1558–1595) was an English Jesuit priest and poet converted by Edmund Campion's 1581 execution; captured on his 1593 return to England, he was executed at York.