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H. R. Haldeman

H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff from January 1969 to his April 30, 1973 resignation, former J. Walter Thompson advertising executive, architect of the voice-activated White House taping system, imprisoned for the Watergate cover-up, author of The Haldeman Diaries.

H. R. McMaster

H.R. McMaster (Herbert Raymond McMaster), retired US Army lieutenant general and military historian; Gulf War Battle of 73 Easting Silver Star recipient, Tal Afar counterinsurgency commander, author of Dereliction of Duty, and Trump's national security adviser 2017–2018.

H. Raja

H. Raja (எச். ராஜா; Hariharan Raja Sharma, born 1957) is a Tamil Nadu BJP leader, chartered accountant, Karaikudi MLA 2001-2006, BJP national secretary 2014-2020; convicted December 2024 over Periyar remarks, acquitted by Madras High Court in September 2026.

H. Rap Brown

H. Rap Brown, also known as Hubert Gerold Brown, was an American civil rights and Black Power activist. He served as the fifth SNCC chairman and later converted to Islam.

H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), English novelist of imperial adventure fiction, author of King Solomon's Mines, She, and the Allan Quatermain series; also colonial administrator, agricultural reformer, and friend of Andrew Lang and Kipling.

H. Robert Horvitz

H. Robert Horvitz, born 1947, is an American biologist at MIT who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for discovering genes that control programmed cell death.

H. Robson MacDonald

Hugh Robson MacDonald (1946–2023) was a Canadian-born immunologist who spent his career at the Ludwig Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is known for work on T cell development and the discovery of iNKT cells.

H. Ronald Kaback

Howard Ronald Kaback (1936–2019) was an American biochemist who prepared the first sealed bacterial membrane vesicles and devoted his career to the lactose permease LacY of E. coli.

H. Russel Holland

H. Russel Holland, born Hezekiah Russel Holland in 1936, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Alaska since 2001.

H. Russell Bernard

H. Russell Bernard is an American cultural anthropologist at the University of Florida and Arizona State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.

H. Shaw Warren

H. Shaw Warren is an American physician and pediatric infectious-disease researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for NEJM analyses of sepsis treatments.

H. T. Kung

H. T. Kung (孔祥重), full name Hsiang-Tsung Kung, is a computer scientist, the William H. Gates Professor at Harvard, known for systolic arrays and concurrency control.

H. T. Parekh

H. T. Parekh, born Hasmukh Thakordas Parekh, was an Indian banker who founded the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in Mumbai in 1977 and chaired it until his death in 1994.

H. Thomas Aretz

H. Thomas Aretz (born 1948) is a German-born pathologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor, first author of the 1987 Dallas criteria defining myocarditis histologically.

H. V. Evatt

H. V. Evatt (1894–1965), Australian judge, politician, and diplomat; High Court justice 1930–40, Attorney-General and External Affairs minister 1941–49, UN General Assembly president 1948–49, ALP opposition leader 1951–60, NSW Chief Justice 1960–62.

H. Van Swygenhoven

Helena Van Swygenhoven, born 1955, is a Belgian materials scientist who studies how nanocrystalline metals deform, leading a research group at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.

H. Vasanthakumar

H. Vasanthakumar, also known as Harikrishnan Vasanthakumar, was an Indian retail entrepreneur who founded Vasanth & Co, Tamil Nadu's largest consumer durables chain, and later entered Congress politics.

H. Vincent Poor

H. Vincent Poor, born Harold Vincent Poor, is an American electrical engineer and Princeton professor known for work in signal processing, information theory, and wireless networks.

H. Vinoth

H. Vinoth (ஹச் வினோத்), Tamil film director and screenwriter born 1981 in Vellore; debut Sathuranga Vettai (2014), Theeran Adhigaram Ondru (2017), three Ajith Kumar films, and Vijay's Jana Nayagan (2026).

H. William Menard Jr.

H. William Menard Jr. (Henry William Menard Jr., 1920–1986) was an American marine geologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography whose Pacific seafloor mapping underpinned plate tectonics.

H. William Strausś

H. William Strausś is a nuclear medicine physician who pioneered cardiovascular nuclear imaging, establishing thallium-201 myocardial imaging and MUGA, and won the 2016 Benedict Cassen Prize.

H.‐S. Philip Wong

H.-S. Philip Wong is a Stanford electrical engineering professor who works on nanoscale semiconductor devices, solid-state memory, and carbon nanotube electronics, after 16 years at IBM.

H.263

H.263 is an ITU-T video coding standard titled Video coding for low bit rate communication, completed in 1995 as a successor to H.261 for videoconferencing and mobile video.

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard developed jointly by ITU-T and ISO/IEC, first completed in May 2003 and widely used in digital television.

H.323

H.323 is an ITU-T standard, first approved in 1996, for real-time audio, video, and data over packet-based networks; it was the main IP telephony and videoconferencing protocol before SIP.

H.A.T.E. (professional wrestling)

H.A.T.E. (Harass, Abuse, Terrorize, Eradicate) is a heel women's wrestling stable in Japan's STARDOM, formed July 28, 2024 from dissolved Oedo Tai, led by Natsuko Tora with ace Saya Kamitani, the Phenex Queen.

H.C. Birnboim

H.C. Birnboim, also published as H. Chaim Birnboim, is a molecular biologist known for the 1979 alkaline lysis plasmid DNA method and for work on DNA strand breaks.

H.C. Stansel

Horace C. Stansel was a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine from the 1960s until his death in 1994.

H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni

Mohammed Al Zarooni is an Emirati economic-zone executive who has led Dubai's Integrated Economic Zones Authority since 2022, overseeing the Dubai Airport Freezone, Dubai Silicon Oasis, and Dubai CommerCity.

H.E.R.

H.E.R., born Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, is an American R&B singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Vallejo, California, formerly an anonymous RCA artist, with five Grammys, an Oscar for "Fight For You," and albums H.E.R. and Back of My Mind.