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Hirayama (lunar crater)
Hirayama is an IAU-approved lunar impact crater (Gazetteer Feature ID 2520), 145.21 km in diameter, centered at -6.01° latitude, about 93.6° E longitude, with the approved satellite crater name Hirayama C.
Hirayama Ikuo
Hirayama Ikuo (平山郁夫, 1930–2009) was a Japanese nihonga painter known for large Buddhist-themed works and Silk Road paintings, and a heritage activist who received the Order of Culture in 1998.
Hirbemerdon Tepe
Hirbemerdon Tepe is an archaeological mound on the upper Tigris river in Diyarbakır province, southeastern Turkey, a small regional center mainly occupied in the early second millennium BC.
Hire purchase
Hire purchase is a form of consumer credit in which goods are paid for in installments, with ownership passing to the hirer only after the final payment.
HiredScore
HiredScore is an AI talent-orchestration software company founded in 2012 by Athena Karp and Gal Tal-Hochberg that grades and prioritizes job candidates inside employer applicant tracking systems; Workday acquired it in 2024.
Hiren Bhattacharyya
Hiren Bhattacharyya (হীৰেন ভট্টাচাৰ্য; 1932–2012) was an Indian Assamese poet known as the Poet of Love and Sunshine, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992.
Hiren Gohain
Hiren Gohain (হীৰেন গোহাঁই; born 1939 in Golaghat, Assam) is an Assamese literary critic, professor of English, and public intellectual who won the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award.
HiRes
HiRes (High Resolution Fly's Eye) was a cosmic ray observatory at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, that operated from 1997 to 2006 and first observed the GZK suppression.
HireVue
HireVue is an American hiring technology company founded in 2004 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah, providing video interviewing, AI-scored candidate assessments, and conversational recruiting software to enterprise employers.
Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, formerly Police Motu, is a Motu-based pidgin and one of Papua New Guinea's three official languages. Spread by the colonial police force from 1890, renamed in the 1970s, it has about 95,000 speakers and is declining in favor of Tok Pisin.
Hiri trade
The hiri trade was the traditional Motu trade of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in which sailing canoes carried clay pots to the Gulf of Papua for sago.
HiRISE
HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) is a camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that images the Martian surface at the highest resolution available from orbit.
Hirji S. Adenwalla
Hirji Sorab Adenwalla (1930-2020), Indian cleft surgeon and medical missionary; founded the Charles Pinto Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate at Jubilee Mission Hospital, Thrissur, Kerala; 16,000+ surgeries; Smile Train partner; McCarthy Award.
HIRLAM
HIRLAM, the High Resolution Limited Area Model, is a numerical weather prediction system run by the meteorological services of ten European countries, first operational in 1990.
Hiro (photographer)
Hiro, born Yasuhiro Wakabayashi (1930–2021), was a Japanese-American commercial photographer known for bold, surreal fashion and still-life images, working for Harper's Bazaar from the late 1950s.
Hiro Furukawa
Hiro Furukawa is a structural neuroscientist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, known for mapping how NMDA receptors open and bind drugs.
Hiro Kanagawa
Hiro Kanagawa (金川 弘敦, Hironobu Kanagawa), born 1963 in Sapporo, is a Vancouver-based Japanese Canadian actor and playwright; winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for Indian Arm and known for Altered Carbon and Smallville.
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ)
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ, Mashima Hiro), born 1977 in Nagano, is a Japanese manga artist behind RAVE, FAIRY TAIL, and EDENS ZERO in Weekly Shonen Magazine, a 2009 Kodansha Manga Award winner known for fast, hiatus-free serialization.
Hiro Matsuda
Hiro Matsuda (ヒロ・マツダ), ring name of Yasuhiro Kojima (1937–1999), Japanese pro wrestler and trainer; first Japanese NWA singles champion (Junior Heavyweight, 1964), trained Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger, and Ron Simmons; WWE Hall of Fame 2018.
Hiro Murai
Hiro Murai (ヒロ・ムライ, born 1983) is a Tokyo-born, Los Angeles-raised director of music videos and TV, known for Atlanta, "This Is America," and Widow's Bay, for which he won 2026 comedy directing and series Emmys.
Hiro Nakamura (中村広)
Hiro Nakamura (中村広) is a fictional Japanese office worker on NBC's Heroes, played by Masi Oka, whose space-time manipulation power covers teleportation, time travel, and time-stopping. Distinct from Big Hero 6's Hiro and from Heroes Reborn's Tommy Clark.
Hiro Shimono (下野 紘)
Hiro Shimono (下野 紘, Shimono Hiro), born 1980 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actor and singer with I'm Enterprise. Known for Zenitsu in Demon Slayer, Connie in Attack on Titan, Dabi, and RahXephon's Ayato; MVS Seiyu Award winner and solo artist since 2016.
Hiro Tamura
Hiro Tamura (Hiroyuki Tamura) is a London-based Japanese technology investor, a former Managing Partner at Atomico best known as the Series A investor in MessageBird.
Hiro Yamamoto
Hiro Yamamoto (born 1961) is the founding bassist of Soundgarden (1984–1989), later of Truly and Stereo Donkey, a physical chemist, and a 2022 Asian Hall of Fame and 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Hiroaki Hemmi
Hiroaki Hemmi (邊見 弘明) is a Japanese immunologist known for the 2000 Nature paper identifying TLR9 as the receptor for bacterial DNA, and later TLR7 and TLR8 work.
Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki Kitano is a Japanese researcher who helped pioneer systems biology, is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, and led the AI agent that beat champion Gran Turismo drivers.
Hiroaki Matsunami
Hiroaki Matsunami (松波宏明) is a Japanese-born neuroscientist at Duke University who studies the molecular basis of smell, known for identifying the V2R pheromone receptor family and cryo-EM structures of human odorant receptors.
Hiroaki Misawa
Hiroaki Misawa (三澤 弘明) is a Japanese photochemist and laser engineer, professor at Hokkaido University's Research Institute for Electronic Science, known for femtosecond laser processing and plasmonic water splitting.
Hiroaki Mitsuya
Hiroaki Mitsuya (満屋裕明) is a Japanese physician-scientist who identified AZT's anti-HIV activity, developed didanosine, zalcitabine, and darunavir, and won the 2015 Japan Academy Prize.
Hiroaki Shimokawa
Hiroaki Shimokawa (下川 宏明) is a Japanese cardiologist who created the first animal model of coronary artery spasm and identified Rho-kinase as its molecular switch.