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Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村博之)
Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村博之, ひろゆき), born 1976, Japanese entrepreneur who founded the anonymous board 2channel in 1999, helped launch Niconico, and has run 4chan from Paris since 2015; now a top Japanese news influencer and political-group founder.
Hiroyuki Noake
Hiroyuki Noake (野明 弘幸), Japanese speed skater born 1974 in Suwa, Nagano; set the 1500 m world record 1:50.61 in Calgary in 1996 and placed seventh in the 1500 m at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Hiroyuki Noji
Hiroyuki Noji (野地 博行) is a Japanese molecular biophysicist at the University of Tokyo known for directly observing a single F1-ATPase molecule rotating in 1997.
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata (緒方裕之, born 1968) is a Japanese bioinformatician and microbial ecologist, professor at Kyoto University, known for co-creating KEGG and for giant virus research.
Hiroyuki Sakaki
Hiroyuki Sakaki (榊裕之), born 1944, is a Japanese semiconductor physicist who conceived the quantum wire and quantum dot and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.
Hiroyuki Sanada (真田 広之)
Hiroyuki Sanada (真田広之, born 1960, Tokyo; real name Shimozawa Hiroyuki) is a Japanese actor trained in Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club, star of The Twilight Samurai and The Last Samurai, and Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning lead and producer of Shōgun (2024).
Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野弘之)
Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野弘之), born 1980 in Tokyo, is a Japanese composer for anime, drama, film, and games (Attack on Titan, Gundam UC, Xenoblade X) and creator of the vocal project SawanoHiroyuki[nZk], known for the "Sawano Drop".
Hiroyuki Tomita
Hiroyuki Tomita (冨田 洋之, born 1980, Osaka) is a Japanese artistic gymnast, 2004 Olympic team gold medalist and 2005 world all-around champion, who also took parallel bars silver at Athens and team silver at Beijing 2008.
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (吉川弘之) is a Japanese engineer who developed general design theory, led the University of Tokyo as president from 1993 to 1997, and won the 1997 Japan Prize.
Hirschlanden
Hirschlanden, an early Iron Age burial site near Ditzingen, Baden-Württemberg, home of the Warrior of Hirschlanden (Krieger von Hirschlanden), the oldest life-size human sculpture in Central Europe, a late Hallstatt sandstone stele of about 500 BCE.
Hirschsprung's disease
Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionic megacolon, HSCR): congenital absence of enteric nerve cells in the distal bowel, about 1 in 5,000 newborns, 80% short-segment, treated by pull-through surgery; main complication is enterocolitis.
Hirshabelle
Hirshabelle is a federal member state of Somalia, formed in 2016 by the merger of Hiran and Middle Shabelle under the provisional constitution, with its capital at Jowhar.
Hirshfeld surface analysis
Hirshfeld surface analysis is a crystallographic method that partitions space in a molecular crystal around each molecule and quantifies intermolecular contacts through color-mapped surfaces and fingerprint plots.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian's national modern and contemporary art museum in Washington, DC. Founded 1966 via Congress for Joseph H. Hirshhorn's ~6,000-work gift; opened October 4, 1974 in Gordon Bunshaft's elevated cylinder, free to the public.
Hirsi Magan Isse
Hirsi Magan Isse (1935–2008) was a Somali scholar, linguist, and politician who led the Somali Salvation Democratic Front and was the father of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Hirsutism
Hirsutism, also called male-pattern hair growth in women, is excessive terminal hair in androgen-dependent areas, affecting 5-10% of women; usually caused by PCOS, scored by Ferriman-Gallwey, treated with oral contraceptives, antiandrogens, and hair removal.
Hirtle Callaghan Private Equity
Hirtle Callaghan Private Equity is the fund-of-funds program of Hirtle Callaghan & Co., a Pennsylvania OCIO firm, investing in buyout, growth, and venture capital funds.
Hirtle Callaghan Venture Capital
Hirtle Callaghan Venture Capital is the venture capital fund program of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with funds including the $119 million Fund 2024.
Hirudin
Hirudin, a 65-amino-acid peptide from Hirudo medicinalis leech saliva, is the most potent natural thrombin inhibitor; discovered 1884, purified by Markwardt 1957, recombinant 1986, basis of lepirudin, desirudin, and bivalirudin.
Hirudin Therapy
Hirudin therapy: anticoagulant treatment using hirudins, direct thrombin inhibitors from medicinal leech saliva (lepirudin, desirudin, bivalirudin), used mainly for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and PCI, distinct from heparin by clot-bound thrombin inhibition.
Hirudo medicinalis
Hirudo medicinalis, the European medicinal leech, is a freshwater bloodsucking annelid described by Linnaeus in 1758, source of hirudin, CITES Appendix II, and now distinguished from the commercially supplied Hirudo verbana.
Hirudo verbana
Hirudo verbana (southern or Hungarian medicinal leech, Carena 1820) is a European freshwater blood-feeding leech from Switzerland and Italy to Turkey and Uzbekistan; the most commercially supplied medicinal leech, long mislabeled as H. medicinalis, CITES Appendix II listed, Vulnerable in Romania.
Hirudotherapy
Hirudotherapy is the controlled medicinal use of leeches, chiefly to relieve venous congestion after reconstructive surgery; in the United States, medicinal leeches are FDA-cleared medical devices.
Hiruko Patera
Hiruko Patera is an 89.54-km-wide patera, a volcanic depression, on Jupiter's moon Io at latitude −65.09°, longitude 328.83°. Named for a Japanese sun god in 1979, its yellow/orange floor indicates long inactivity and sulfurous deposits.
Hirundo
Hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758) is the barn swallow genus of the swallow family Hirundinidae, order Passeriformes; type species Hirundo rustica, about 14-16 cosmopolitan species, mud-nesting aerial insectivores with four well-supported phylogenetic clades.
Hirut Bekele
Hirut Bekele (ሂሩት በቀለ) was an Ethiopian singer, active from 1958 to 1994, who recorded more than 200 songs and spent 35 years with the Police Orchestra in Addis Ababa.
Hirving Lozano
Hirving "Chucky" Lozano, born 1995 in Mexico City, is a Mexican winger who scored the winner against Germany at the 2018 World Cup and played for Pachuca, PSV Eindhoven, Napoli, San Diego FC, and LA Galaxy.
His & Hers (2026 TV series)
His & Hers is a 2026 Netflix six-episode limited series adapting Alice Feeney's 2020 novel, starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal as estranged spouses investigating a Georgia murder; created by William Oldroyd, it hit 98.2 million views.
His bundle tachycardia
His bundle tachycardia, or junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET), is a rare arrhythmia of increased AV node and His bundle excitability in newborns, showing AV dissociation, narrow QRS, and sinus capture beats (ORPHA:3283).
His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is an epic fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman, consisting of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).