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H. H. Asquith

H. H. Asquith (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister 1908-1916; led Britain into World War I, passed old age pensions, the National Insurance Act 1911 and the Parliament Act 1911, and was replaced by Lloyd George in December 1916.

H. H. Holmes

H. H. Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett (1861–1896), was an American con artist and murderer convicted of killing Benjamin Pitezel; his Chicago "Murder Castle" legend vastly exceeds the roughly nine substantiated victims.

H. Hugh Fudenberg

H. Hugh Fudenberg, also known as H. H. Fudenberg, was an American clinical immunologist known for work on immunoglobulins, T-cell deficiencies, and transfer factor therapy, and called the founder of clinical immunology.

H. Hunter Handsfield

H. Hunter Handsfield is an American physician and STD researcher who directed Seattle's STD Control Program from 1978 to 2005 and won the 2010 Thomas Parran Award.

H. I. E. Dhlomo

H. I. E. Dhlomo (Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo, 1903–1956) was a South African playwright, poet, and journalist, described as the first major black playwright in South Africa.

H. J. C. Grierson

Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, known as H. J. C. Grierson, was a Scottish literary scholar and editor whose 1912 edition of Donne reshaped modernist criticism.

H. J. Round

H. J. Round (Henry Joseph Round) was a British radio engineer at Marconi who in 1907 first reported electroluminescence, the effect behind the LED, and held 117 patents.

H. J. W. de Baar

H. J. W. de Baar, also known as Hein J.W. de Baar, is a Dutch chemical oceanographer known for rare-earth measurements in seawater and iron limitation of the Southern Ocean.

H. Jay Melosh

H. Jay Melosh (1947–2020) was an American planetary scientist known for impact cratering physics and acoustic fluidization, a Purdue professor and author of the 1989 monograph Impact Cratering.

H. Jay Zwally

H. Jay Zwally is an American glaciologist at NASA Goddard who pioneered satellite altimetry of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and served as ICESat Project Scientist.

H. Jeff Kimble

H. Jeff Kimble, full name Harry Jeffrey Kimble (1949–2024), was an American experimental physicist at Caltech who pioneered cavity quantum electrodynamics and helped found quantum information science.

H. Jerry Qi

H. Jerry Qi (Hang Qi) is a Woodruff Professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, known for 4D printing, shape-memory polymers, and 3D printing of soft active materials.

H. Joachim Deeg

H. Joachim Deeg is a German-trained hematologist and Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, known for work on graft-versus-host disease and marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndromes.

H. Jon Benjamin

H. Jon Benjamin (Harry Jon Benjamin, born 1966, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American voice actor and comedian, the voice of Sterling Archer in Archer and Bob Belcher in Bob's Burgers, formerly Ben in Dr. Katz.

H. Joseph Yost

H. Joseph Yost is an American developmental biologist known for research on vertebrate left-right asymmetry, which places organs like the heart on the correct side, and for zebrafish models of congenital heart disease.

H. Kent Bowen

H. Kent Bowen, born Harvey Kent Bowen, was an American ceramics scientist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 who taught at MIT and Harvard Business School.

H. L. A. Hart

H. L. A. Hart, born Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart, was a British legal philosopher and Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence, widely regarded as the twentieth century's most important English-speaking legal philosopher.

H. L. Hunley

The H. L. Hunley was a hand-powered Confederate submarine of the Civil War, built in 1863 and the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, USS Housatonic, in 1864.

H. L. Hunt

H. L. Hunt (Haroldson Lafayette Hunt) was an American oil tycoon who bought the East Texas field's discovery leases in 1930, becoming the country's richest man.

H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken, 1880–1956), the Sage of Baltimore, American journalist, satirist, and scholar of American English; Sun papers columnist, Smart Set and American Mercury editor, author of The American Language (1919).

H. Lee Sweeney

H. Lee Sweeney is an American molecular biologist who studies how myosin motors generate force and develops therapies for muscular dystrophy at the University of Florida.

H. M. Twombly

H. M. Twombly, born Hamilton McKay Twombly, was an American financier and J. P. Morgan associate credited with engineering the 1892 merger that created General Electric.

H. Michael Shepard

H. Michael Shepard is an American cancer biologist who led the Genentech team that developed trastuzumab (Herceptin) for HER2-positive breast cancer, winning the 2019 Lasker Award.

H. O. S. Tjokroaminoto

H. O. S. Tjokroaminoto (Haji Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto) was an Indonesian nationalist leader who headed Sarekat Islam from 1912 until his death in 1934, building it into the Dutch East Indies' largest mass political organization.

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890–1937), Providence, Rhode Island writer of weird fiction and cosmic horror, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and At the Mountains of Madness.

H. P. Lovecraft bibliography

H. P. Lovecraft bibliography: the catalog of Lovecraft's fiction, poetry, essays, revisions, and letters, from Brennan's 1945 bibliography to S. T. Joshi's 2009 Comprehensive Bibliography and modern variorum editions.

H. Phillip Koeffler

H. Phillip Koeffler is an American hematologist-oncologist and cancer researcher known for leukemia differentiation therapy and cancer genomics, holding professorships at UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, and in Singapore from 2009.

H. Polat Gülkan

H. Polat Gülkan, full name Hakkı Polat Gülkan, is a Turkish earthquake engineer, professor at Başkent University elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

H. pylori eradication therapy

H. pylori eradication therapy combines antibiotics, usually with bismuth and an acid-suppressing drug, taken for about two weeks to cure H. pylori infection and peptic ulcers.

H. R. Giger

Hans Ruedi Giger (1940-2014), Swiss fantastic-realist painter, sculptor, and set designer, creator of the biomechanical style, Oscar winner for Alien (1980), Necronomicon author, and founder of the Museum HR Giger in Gruyeres.