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Horace M. Albright
Horace Marden Albright (1890–1987), American conservation administrator, co-created the National Park Service, acted as its director 1917–1919, superintended Yellowstone 1919–1929, and as second NPS director (1929–1933) added 57 historic units in the 1933 reorganization.
Horace M. Gezon
Horace M. Gezon was an American epidemiologist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh who traced newborn nursery infection outbreaks and ran controlled hexachlorophene bathing trials in infants.
Horace Mann
Horace Mann (1796-1859), American educator and Whig politician, first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education (1837-1848), leader of the common school movement, founder of normal schools, later U.S. representative and president of Antioch College.
Horace Mann School
Horace Mann School is a coeducational independent day school in New York (Nursery–Grade 12), founded in 1887 by Nicholas Murray Butler at Teachers College. Over 1,800 students, 2026–27 tuition $68,700, need-blind admission, Ingenio Non Censio full-aid program from 2027–28.
Horace R. Byers
Horace R. Byers was an American meteorologist who directed the Thunderstorm Project, the first large-scale US thunderstorm study, and built the University of Chicago's meteorology department.
Horace Richard Crane
Horace Richard Crane was an American experimental physicist at the University of Michigan, the first to measure the magnetic moment of free electrons, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1986.
Horace S. Beattie
Horace S. "Bud" Beattie (Horace Smart Beattie, 1909–1993) was an American engineer and inventor who spent forty years at IBM, where his laboratory directed the development of the Selectric typewriter introduced in 1961.
Horace Silver
Horace Silver (Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, 1928-2014), American jazz pianist and composer, co-founder with Art Blakey of the Jazz Messengers and pioneer of hard bop on Blue Note; composer of Song for My Father, Señor Blues, The Preacher; NEA Jazz Master 1995.
Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown (1848–1925) was a British chemist who spent 1866 to 1895 in the Burton-on-Trent brewing industry, published on fermentation chemistry, and won the Royal and Copley Medals.
Horace W. Babcock
Horace W. Babcock was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar who made the first detection of a magnetic field on a star other than the sun.
Horace W. Davenport
Horace W. Davenport, also known as Horace Willard Davenport, was an American gastrointestinal physiologist who defined the gastric mucosal barrier and chaired physiology at the University of Michigan from 1956.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), youngest son of Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, wrote The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic novel, built Strawberry Hill, founded the Strawberry Hill Press, and coined 'serendipity'.
Horace Wells
Horace Wells (1815–1848), American dentist of Hartford, Connecticut, discoverer of anesthesia; first used nitrous oxide for tooth extraction on 11 December 1844, failed in Boston 1845, died by suicide, recognized by ADA 1864 and AMA 1870.
Horace Winchell Magoun
Horace Winchell Magoun (1907–1991) was an American neuroscientist who established the brain stem reticular formation as an arousal system, wrote The Waking Brain (1958), and helped found UCLA's Brain Research Institute.
Horace Woodring
Horace Lynn "Woody" Woodring (1926-2003) was the U.S. Army private first class who drove General Patton's 1938 Cadillac limousine in the December 9, 1945 Mannheim truck collision that led to Patton's death; he was cleared of responsibility.
Horacio Carochi
Horacio Carochi, in Italian Orazio Carocci, was a Florentine Jesuit in New Spain whose 1645 grammar of Classical Nahuatl is considered the colonial era's most accurate.
Horacio Casini
Horacio Casini is an Argentine theoretical physicist at CONICET and Centro Atómico Bariloche known for rigorous results on entanglement entropy in quantum field theory, including the c-theorem and F-theorem.
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya is a Salvadoran writer and journalist born in 1957 whose novels examine violence, exile, and Central America's failed revolutionary left; he is identified with the 'second boom.'
Horacio D. Espinosa
Horacio D. Espinosa is an American mechanical engineer, the Walter P. Murphy Professor at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for bridging nanoscale experimentation and atomistic simulations.
Horacio Esteves
Horacio Esteves (Horacio E. Esteves Orihuela), Venezuelan sprinter born 1941 in Yaritagua, died 1996; three-time Olympian who ran a hand-timed 10.0 for 100 m in 1964, then a shared world record, and won Pan American and Central American and Caribbean relay medals.
Horacio J. Adrogué
Horacio J. Adrogué, also published as H. J. Adrogue, is an Argentine-American nephrologist at Baylor College of Medicine known for his sodium-correction formulas for treating sodium disorders.
Horacio Pagani (auto executive)
Horacio Pagani is an Italian-Argentine automotive entrepreneur, founder and Chief Designer of Pagani Automobili in Modena, Italy, known for the hand-built carbon fiber Zonda, Huayra, and Utopia hypercars with Mercedes-AMG V12 engines.
Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) was a Uruguayan short story writer, often called the father of the Latin American short story, best known for his jungle tales of Misiones.
Horacio Vásquez
Horacio Vásquez (Felipe Horacio Vásquez Lajara) was a Dominican leader who served as president of the Dominican Republic in 1899, 1902 to 1903, and 1924 to 1930.
Horae (ραι)
Horae (Ὧραι, Horai), Greek goddesses of the seasons and natural order, daughters of Zeus and Themis in Hesiod (Eunomia, Dike, Eirene), guardians of Olympus's gates, distinct from the twelve hour-goddesses of Helios.
Horath
Horath, village in the Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Bernkastel-Wittlich), with Iron Age barrow cemeteries, the Kaisergarten La Tène cemetery, and Roman tumuli; also a townland in County Meath, Ireland.
Horatian ode
The Horatian ode is a lyric poem in a single repeated stanza pattern, named for the Roman poet Horace, and more tranquil than the Pindaric ode.
Horatii and Curiatii
Horatii and Curiatii: legendary Roman and Alban triplet brothers whose combat under Tullus Hostilius decided the Rome-Alba Longa war; surviving Horatius killed his sister, then won appeal to the people.
Horatio
Horatio is an English masculine given name from the Latin Horatius, used by Shakespeare for Hamlet's loyal friend and carried to fame by Admiral Nelson, killed at Trafalgar in 1805.
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was an American author of about 100 juvenile novels, best known for "rags-to-riches" stories in which poor but honest boys rise through hard work and luck.