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Horsetooth Reservoir
Horsetooth Reservoir is a reservoir in the foothills west of Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by four dams in 1949 and serving as a major storage point of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project.
Horsforth
Horsforth is a town and civil parish in north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, recorded in the Domesday Book, formerly a clothing village, amalgamated with Leeds in 1974, home to Leeds Trinity University and the Brownlee twins.
Horsham
Horsham: medieval market town in West Sussex, England, on the River Arun. Name unchanged since a 947 Saxon charter; market charter 1233; joint county town with Chichester from 1889; dormitory town for London.
Horsley Bridge
Horsley Bridge, legally Horsley Bridge Partners LLC, is a San Francisco fund-of-funds manager founded in 1983 that invests in venture capital and small buyout partnerships.
Horsley Bridge Venture
Horsley Bridge Venture is a San Francisco venture capital fund of funds managed by Horsley Bridge Partners, investing in outside venture funds rather than startups directly.
Horslips
Horslips were a Dublin-formed Irish band (1970–1980), pioneers of Celtic rock, blending Irish traditional jigs and mythology with hard and progressive rock. Twelve albums on their own Oats label, including The Táin and The Book of Invasions (UK No. 39); reunions in 2004–2006 and 2009–2019.
Horsøya
Horsøya (Horsøyna) is the name of several Norwegian islands: one in Øygarden, Vestland (seabird nature reserve, 1987), one in Hitra, Trøndelag (burial cairn, industrial expansion), one in Vega's Muddværet, and one in Frøya.
Horspath
Horspath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3½ miles east of Oxford, with finds linking it to the Romano-British pottery industry.
Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
The Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (War Blind Radio Play Prize) is a German award for radio drama, founded in 1950 and regarded as the most significant German distinction for radio plays.
Horst Buchholz
Horst Buchholz (1933–2003), German actor nicknamed 'Hotte' and 'the German James Dean'; star of Die Halbstarken, The Magnificent Seven (as Chico), and One, Two, Three; later Dr Lessing in Life is Beautiful; married Myriam Bru.
Horst Effertz
Horst Effertz (born 4 August 1938, Düsseldorf) is a German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Rome 1960 for the Unified Team of Germany (6:39.12), and sixth in the coxless fours at Tokyo 1964.
Horst Gunter Gregor
Horst-Günter Gregor (1938–1995), East German swimmer nicknamed Muskel, won three Olympic relay silvers (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968), two European relay titles, and 21 East German national swimming titles.
Horst Hock
Horst Hock (Horst Höck/Hoeck, 1904–1969), German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Los Angeles 1932 for the Berlin Rowing Club; his lost gold medal was found in 2015.
Horst Hornlein
Horst Hörnlein (born 1945, Möhrenbach) is an East German former luger, 1972 Sapporo Olympic doubles gold medalist with Reinhard Bredow in a historic tie, later a bobsleigh coach for GDR, Britain, and FIBT.
Horst Kessler
Horst Kessler is a German bioorganic chemist, professor at the Technical University of Munich from 1989 to 2008, known for cyclic peptide conformational analysis and RGD-based integrin ligands.
Horst L. Störmer
Horst L. Störmer, born 1949, is a German-born American physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Horst Meyer
Horst Meyer (1941-2020), German rower, stroked the Deutschland-Achter; Olympic gold 1968 and silver 1964 in the men's eight, world champion 1962 and 1966, later a consultant and Hamburg's 2012 Olympic bid director.
Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst, born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in Germany in 1906, was a German-American fashion and portrait photographer for Vogue, best known for his 1939 photograph Mainbocher Corset.
Horst Paulmann
Horst Paulmann Kemna (1935–2025) was a German-born Chilean retail magnate who founded Cencosud, beginning with a Temuco supermarket in 1962 and the first Jumbo hypermarket in 1976.
Horst Rudiger Schloske
Horst Rudiger Schloske (Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske, born Pfau, 1946) is a West German 400 m sprinter, fifth in the 1972 Munich Olympic final, European 4x400 relay champion 1971, and 1973 world 500 m record holder (1:00.6).
Horst Sachs
Horst Sachs (1927–2016) was a German mathematician and professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau, known for the 1964 Sachs subgraph theorem and the monograph Spectra of Graphs.
Horst W. Hahn
Horst W. Hahn is a German materials scientist, a University of Arizona professor elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Horst Weller
Horst Weller (born 1954) is a German physical chemist, professor at Universität Hamburg since 1994, known for synthesizing colloidal nanoparticles and arranging them into ordered superlattices.
Horst Wessel
Horst Wessel (Horst Ludwig Wessel) was an SA leader of the Nazi Party who was shot in Berlin in 1930 and made the party's most famous martyr.
Horst-Wessel-Lied
Horst-Wessel-Lied, or "Die Fahne hoch", was the NSDAP party anthem from 1930 and Nazi Germany's co-national anthem from 1933, written by SA leader Horst Wessel in 1929 and banned in Germany and Austria after 1945.
Horsvaer
Horsvaer (Horsvær) is a Ramsar Site (no. 2157, designated 2013) and nature reserve of 17,036 ha in Nordland, Norway: 360 islands and islets in Brønnøy, Sømna and Bindal, a major seabird breeding, moulting and wintering area monitored under SEAPOP.
Horta Inta-A Na Man
Horta Inta-A Na Man, also Horta N'Tam, is the Bissau-Guinean general serving as transitional president since the 27 November 2025 coup, heading the High Military Command for a one-year transition barred from future elections.
Horten Ho 229
The Horten Ho 229, also known as the Horten H.IX, was a German prototype jet-powered flying-wing fighter/bomber of World War II, designed by Reimar and Walter Horten.
Hortense de Beauharnais
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), daughter of Joséphine, wife of Louis Bonaparte, first queen of Holland 1806–1810, mother of Napoleon III, composer and memoirist.
Hortensia Herrero
Hortensia Herrero, born in Valencia in 1950, is a Spanish businesswoman who is vice-president of Mercadona and owns 27.7% of the company through her holding firm.