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Hosea (הוֹשֵׁעַ)

Hosea (הוֹשֵׁעַ, Hoshea), also called Osee, was an eighth-century BCE prophet whose book, first of the twelve Minor Prophets, warns the Northern Kingdom of Israel before its Assyrian conquest.

Hosea Ballou

Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) was an American Universalist preacher and self-taught theologian whose Treatise on Atonement (1805) reshaped Universalist doctrine; he led the movement from Boston until his death.

Hosea Kutako

Hosea Kutako (1870–1970) was a Herero chief and Namibian nationalist who survived the 1904–1908 genocide, led the Herero Chiefs' Council, and initiated UN petitioning against South African rule.

Hosea Williams

Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000), American civil rights leader, SCLC executive director and King aide; co-led Bloody Sunday in Selma with John Lewis, led the 1987 Forsyth County march, served in Georgia politics, founded Hosea Helps.

Hoseason Island

Hoseason Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; also Hoseason, Isla. Island 6-7 mi long, 3 mi wide, 20 mi west of Trinity Island, named for James Hoseason, first mate of the sealer Sprightly, charted 1824.

Hosen Pharmaceutical (豪森药业)

Hosen Pharmaceutical (豪森药业), formally Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese pharmaceutical company founded by Zhong Huijuan in 1995, listed in Hong Kong since 2019.

Hosh el-Kab fort

Hosh el-Kab is a fortified enclosure near Omdurman, Sudan, one of nine regularly planned forts along the Middle Nile, built in the late sixth century AD.

Hosh Ke Nakhun

Hosh Ke Nakhun (ہوش کے ناخن) is an Urdu idiom telling someone to come to their senses, and a 1934 Urdu book by Meer Hasan and Makhdoom Mohiuddin.

Hoshaiah (Judite soldier)

Hoshaiah (Hebrew Hoshayahu, also Hoshiyahu) was an officer in Judah's army stationed near Lachish, known only as the writer of several Lachish letters to his commander Yaush around 589 BC.

Hoshang Amini (هوشنگ امینی)

Hoshang Amini (هوشنگ امینی) was an Iranian serial killer who confessed to 67 murders near Varamin between 1954 and 1962, and was executed in 1963.

Hoshang Shah

Hoshang Shah, also written Hushang Shah (ہوشنگ شاہ), was a sultan of Malwa of the Ghuri dynasty who ruled from 1405 or 1406 until his death in 1435.

Hoshea

Hoshea, son of Elah, was the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning about 732–724 BC; he rebelled against Assyria, and Samaria fell, ending the kingdom.

Hoshi

Hoshi (星, Star Sudoku) is a Sudoku variant on a six-pointed star grid of triangular cells: six large triangles of nine cells each take digits 1-9, and every straight line, even across the central hole, must have no repeated digits. Distinct from the Hoshi Star Battle and Go apps.

Hoshi Sato

Hoshi Sato (佐藤星), fictional communications officer and exolinguist of Enterprise NX-01 in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), played by Linda Park; first human to speak Klingon and creator of the linguacode universal translation matrix.

Hoshi X Woozi

Hoshi X Woozi (HxW, 호시X우지) is a SEVENTEEN subunit of performance leader Hoshi and vocal leader-producer Woozi, both born 1996; debuted March 2025 with the single BEAM and title track Same Age.

Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur (ਹੁਸ਼ਿਆਰਪੁਰ), a district in north-eastern Punjab, India, in the Doaba region at the Shivalik foothills. Known for wood inlay craft, high literacy (84.6%), and a 2011 population of 1,586,625.

Hoshimi Miyabi

Hoshimi Miyabi (星見雅) is a Zenless Zone Zero S-Rank Ice Frost Anomaly Agent, chief of Section 6 and youngest Void Hunter, released in Version 1.4 with a CRIT-scaling Frostburn kit and Hailstorm Shrine signature W-Engine.

Hoshin Engi (封神演義)

Hoshin Engi (封神演義) is Ryu Fujisaki's Weekly Shonen Jump manga (1996-2000, 23 volumes, 204 chapters), a loose adaptation of Anno Tsutomu's translation of the Chinese classic Fengshen Yanyi, following Taikobo's Hoshin Project; over 22 million copies and two anime adaptations.

Hoshin V. Gupta

Hoshin V. Gupta, also published as Hoshin Gupta, is a hydrologist and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for the SCE-UA optimization method and the Kling-Gupta Efficiency.

Hoshina Masayuki

Hoshina Masayuki (保科正之, 1611–1672) was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, lord of Aizu Domain, half-brother of shogun Iemitsu, and guardian of the young shogun Ietsuna.

Hoshine Silicon Industry

Hoshine Silicon Industry is a Chinese producer of silicon metal and silicone materials headquartered in Zhejiang Province, described as the world's largest metallurgical-grade silicon producer and subject to US import restrictions since 2021.

Hoshino Gen

Hoshino Gen (星野源), also known as Gen Hoshino, is a Japanese musician, actor, and writer from Saitama whose 2016 single "Koi" topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 year-end chart.

Hoshizaki

Hoshizaki (ホシザキ, formerly Hoshizaki Electric) is a Japanese manufacturer of commercial food service equipment, best known for ice machines, founded in 1947 and headquartered in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture.

Hosi (易快报)

Hosi (易快报), until April 2023 known as YikuaiBao, is a Beijing-based expense-management and corporate-spend SaaS company founded in November 2014 by Ma Chunquan, Yu Deming, and Fang Zhaoxue, which has raised over RMB 1.5 billion.

Hoši od Bobří řeky

Hoši od Bobří řeky (The Boys from Beaver River) is a Czech adventure novel by Jaroslav Foglar, first published in 1937, about boys who earn beaver-tooth achievement badges.

Hosios Loukas

Hosios Loukas (Μονή Οσίου Λουκά) is a Greek Orthodox monastery in Boeotia, central Greece, a principal surviving monument of Middle Byzantine architecture and mosaic art.

Hosius of Corduba

Hosius of Corduba, also known as Ossius, was bishop of Córdoba in Spain for over sixty years and presided at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

Hosn Niha

Hosn Niha is an archaeological site in the Beqaa, Lebanon, known for Roman temples of the second to early third century AD and an associated village.

Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak (حسني مبارك) was the fourth president of Egypt, ruling from 1981 until his ouster in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising; he died in 2020.

Hosnie's Spring

Hosnie's Spring (Hosnies Spring), Ramsar site 512 on Christmas Island, Australia: a permanent freshwater spring wetland with a relict Bruguiera mangrove stand 37 m above sea level, listed 1990, expanded to 202 ha in 2010.