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Howard Allan Zebker
Howard Allan Zebker is an American electrical engineer and geophysicist at Stanford University, a pioneer of interferometric synthetic aperture radar elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Howard Allen Schneiderman
Howard Allen Schneiderman (1927–1990) was an American entomologist and developmental biologist known for co-discovering insect juvenile hormone II and building Monsanto's plant biotechnology program; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Howard Ashman
Howard Elliott Ashman (1950-1991), Baltimore-born lyricist, playwright, and director; with Alan Menken wrote Little Shop of Horrors and Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin; two Oscars, four Grammys; Disney Legend 2001.
Howard Ault
Howard Steven Ault (born 1966) is a Florida death row inmate sentenced three times for the 1996 rape and murders of sisters Deanne Mu'min, 11, and Alicia Jones, 7; distinct from ex-Helotes police chief Morton Howard Ault.
Howard Austen
Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; 1929–2003), American advertising copywriter and Broadway stage manager, Gore Vidal's companion of 53 years; credited on Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955–56).
Howard B. Sprague
Howard B. Sprague (1895–1970) was an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School teacher, known for applying phonocardiography to the study of auscultation.
Howard Bachrach
Howard Bachrach (1920–2008) was an American virologist and biochemist who spent his USDA career at Plum Island, purifying poliovirus and producing the first genetically engineered vaccine, against foot-and-mouth disease.
Howard Baker
Howard Baker (Howard Henry Baker Jr., 1925-2014), Tennessee Republican senator 1967-1985, Watergate Committee vice chairman who asked "What did the President know?", Senate majority leader 1981-1985, Reagan's chief of staff, and U.S. ambassador to Japan; distinct from his father Howard Baker Sr.
Howard Beach
Howard Beach, Queens, is a waterfront neighborhood in southwestern Queens, New York City, built on reclaimed marshland along Jamaica Bay and named for William J. Howard.
Howard Beaty
Howard M. Beaty Jr. is a Republican politician from Crossett, Arkansas, who has served in the state House since 2019 and became Majority Leader in 2025.
Howard Bishop Lewis
Howard Bishop Lewis (1887–1954) was an American biochemist who headed biological chemistry at the University of Michigan and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.
Howard Brenner
Howard Brenner (1929–2014) was an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist, Willard Henry Dow Professor at MIT from 1981 to 2005, who coauthored Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics, one of the most cited books in fluid mechanics.
Howard Buffett
Howard Buffett is an American farmer, photographer, and philanthropist, son of Warren Buffett, who became nonexecutive Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in 2026 and runs the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Howard C. Berg
Howard C. Berg (Howard Curtis Berg, 1934–2021) was an American biophysicist at Harvard and the Rowland Institute who worked out how E. coli swims and steers toward food.
Howard C. Herrmann
Howard C. Herrmann is an American interventional cardiologist and John W. Bryfogle Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading investigator in transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Howard C. Nielson, Jr.
Howard Curtis Nielson, Jr. (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Utah since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Howard C. Stevenson
Howard C. Stevenson is an American clinical psychologist, the Constance Clayton Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the RECAST theory of racial stress and family-based racial literacy interventions.
Howard C. Thomas
Howard C. Thomas, or Howard Christopher Thomas, is a British hepatologist born in 1945 who defined the phases of chronic hepatitis B and led the first European interferon trials.
Howard Carter
Howard Carter (1874-1939), British archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered Tutankhamun's tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings on 4 November 1922, financed by Lord Carnarvon, and spent ten years clearing its 5,398 objects.
Howard Cary
Howard Cary, born Henry Howard Cary (1908–1991), was an American engineer who led the Beckman DU spectrophotometer's development and founded Applied Physics Corporation, maker of Cary recording spectrophotometers.
Howard Cedar
Howard Cedar, born Haim Cedar, is an Israeli-American biochemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1973 whose work on DNA methylation helped establish epigenetics.
Howard Chandler Christy
Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952), American illustrator and portrait painter from Morgan County, Ohio, creator of the 'Christy Girl,' Spanish-American War correspondent-artist, WWI poster artist, and painter of The Signing of the Constitution in the U.S. Capitol.
Howard Charles Goodman
Howard Charles Goodman (1920–1998) was an American immunologist who directed clinical immunology research at the NIH, led WHO's immunology department and tropical disease program, and ended his career at Johns Hopkins.
Howard Clayton Knotts
Howard Clayton Knotts (1895-1942), Springfield, Illinois aviation lawyer and World War I flying ace with six victories; Illinois Commerce Commission aviation supervisor and Journal of Air Law and Commerce author.
Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell, born Howard William Cohen, was an American sports broadcaster best known as an original commentator on ABC's Monday Night Football from 1970 to 1983.
Howard County, Maryland
Howard County, Maryland: central Maryland county founded 1851 from Anne Arundel's Howard District, named for John Eager Howard; seat Ellicott City; home of planned city Columbia; no incorporated towns; population 332,317 (2020).
Howard Cox (British politician)
Howard Cox is a British campaigner and politician, founder of FairFuelUK, Reform UK's 2024 London mayoral candidate and Dover and Deal candidate, who left Reform in 2025 and later joined Advance UK and Restore Britain.
Howard D. Kolodny
Howard D. Kolodny is an American endocrinologist in Great Neck, New York, who trained at NYU and Mount Sinai and published 1971 studies of chlorpromazine as a growth hormone suppressor.
Howard D. McKibben
Howard D. McKibben (born 1940) is a senior United States district judge of the District of Nevada, appointed by President Reagan in 1984 and chief judge from 1997 to 2002.
Howard Dean
Howard Dean, born Howard Brush Dean III, is an American physician and politician who served as governor of Vermont and chaired the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009.