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His Dark Materials (TV series)

His Dark Materials is a BBC One and HBO fantasy series adapted by Jack Thorne from Philip Pullman's trilogy, produced by Bad Wolf, starring Dafne Keen as Lyra, across three seasons ending with The Amber Spyglass.

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday: 1940 Howard Hawks screwball comedy for Columbia, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell; a gender-flipped remake of the 1928 play The Front Page, famous for overlapping dialogue and US public-domain status since 1967.

His House

His House (2020) is Remi Weekes's debut British horror film about a South Sudanese refugee couple, Bol and Rial Majur, haunted in an English asylum house; Sundance premiere, Netflix release, BAFTA-winning debut.

His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery

His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (Собственная Его Императорского Величества канцелярия) was a supreme state institution of the Russian Empire, directly subordinate to the emperor, named in 1812 and abolished in 1917.

His Last Vow

The His Last Vow is the final episode of Sherlock's third series. Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran, it pits Sherlock Holmes against Magnussen.

His Majesty King Charles III (portrait)

His Majesty King Charles III is Jonathan Yeo's 2024 oil-on-canvas official portrait, unveiled May 14, 2024 at Buckingham Palace, showing the King in Welsh Guards red with a monarch butterfly; also covers Canadian, Australian, and Coronation State Portraits.

His Majesty's Armed Forces (Tonga)

His Majesty's Armed Forces (HMAF) is Tonga's military: about 590 personnel with land and naval components, established 1939, renamed from Tonga Defence Services in 2013, commanded by the King, deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Solomon Islands.

His Man (남의연애)

His Man (남의연애) is South Korea's first gay dating reality series, premiering July 15, 2022 on Wavve; eight gay men share a house and date to find love, across four seasons (2022–2026).

His Master's Voice

His Master's Voice (HMV) is a trademark showing a fox terrier named Nipper listening to a gramophone, adopted in 1899 and used by the Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA Victor.

Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर)

Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर) is a 2024 Hindi comedy thriller directed by Ashwni Dhir, starring R. Madhavan as a railway ticket checker exposing banker Micky Mehta's fraud; premiered at IFFI 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from 24 January 2025.

Hisakichi Toyoda

Hisakichi Toyoda (豊田久吉, later Minejima, 1912–1976), Japanese freestyle swimmer; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in the 4×200 m freestyle relay with a world record 8:58.4; distinct from inventor Sakichi Toyoda.

Hisamaru Hirai

Hisamaru Hirai (平井 久丸, 1952–2003) was a Japanese hematologist and oncologist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for work on the molecular genetics of leukemia and MDS.

Hisanori Shinohara

Hisanori Shinohara (篠原 久典) is a Japanese chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for pioneering endohedral metallofullerenes, including the 1992 scandium trimer report and the first nano-peapods.

Hisao Masai

Hisao Masai (正井 久雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on DNA replication and, since 2018, Director General of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.

Hisao Masukata

Hisao Masukata (升方 久夫) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Osaka University whose research established how DNA replication initiates in the ColE1 plasmid and fission yeast.

Hisao Ogawa

Hisao Ogawa (小川 久雄, born 1953) is a Japanese cardiologist who became the 14th president of Kumamoto University in 2021, after leading the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center.

Hisar (हिसार) (city)

Hisar (हिसार), the Steel City of Haryana, India, founded in 1354 by Firozshah Tughlaq as Hisar-e-Firoza; a district headquarters 164 km west of Delhi on NH-9, with Firoz Shah Palace Complex, Agroha site, Maharaja Agrasen Airport, and an agriculture university.

HIsarna

HIsarna is a smelting-reduction ironmaking process that converts iron ore fines and non-coking coal directly into liquid hot metal in a single reactor, piloted at IJmuiden since 2011.

Hisashi Arase

Hisashi Arase (荒瀬 尚) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at the University of Osaka known for work on autoimmunity, immune regulation, and host-pathogen interactions.

Hisashi Kimura

Hisashi Kimura (木村栄, 1870–1943) was a Japanese astronomer and first director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, best known for discovering the z-term, an annual component of apparent latitude variation independent of Earth's polar motion.

Hisashi Kuno

Hisashi Kuno (久野久) was a Japanese petrologist and volcanologist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for distinguishing the tholeiitic, high-alumina, and alkali basalt magma series.

Hisashi Mizutori

Hisashi Mizutori (水鳥寿思) is a Japanese artistic gymnast who won team gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics, then coached Japan's men to gold at Rio 2016 and Paris 2024.

Hisashi Umemori

Hisashi Umemori is a neuroscientist and physician, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying FGF22 as a target-derived signal that organizes synapse formation.

Hisashi Yamamoto

Hisashi Yamamoto (山本 尚), born 1943 in Kobe, is a Japanese organic chemist known for designer Lewis acid and Brønsted acid catalysts for asymmetric synthesis.

Hisataka Kobayashi

Hisataka Kobayashi (小林久隆) is a Japanese-born physician-scientist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for developing near-infrared photoimmunotherapy, approved in Japan in 2020.

Hisato Igarashi

Hisato Igarashi (五十嵐久人), born 1951 in Tochigi, Japan, is a former artistic gymnast who won gold in the men's team all-around at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where Japan beat the Soviet Union by 0.40 points.

Hisayoshi Yurimoto

Hisayoshi Yurimoto (圦本尚義, born 1958) is a Japanese cosmochemist and professor at Hokkaido University who built the first isotope microscope and led the initial analysis of Hayabusa2's Ryugu samples.

Hisayuki Fujii

Hisayuki Fujii (藤井比早之) is a Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician who became Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications in 2026, representing Hyogo's 4th district in the House of Representatives.

Hisba

Hisba (الحسبة) was the Islamic institution by which states appointed an official, the muhtasib, to enforce public morals and regulate markets, a system that died out in the nineteenth century.

Hisen Biopharmaceutical (海森生物医药有限公司)

Hisen Biopharmaceutical (海森生物医药有限公司) is a Hefei-based Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 by CBC Group and Hefei state investors, focused on chronic disease and critical care.