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Howard Deering Johnson
Howard Deering Johnson (1897–1972) was an American entrepreneur who founded Howard Johnson's, building it from a 1925 soda fountain in Wollaston, Massachusetts into a coast-to-coast restaurant and motor lodge chain through franchising.
Howard Deutch
Howard Deutch (born 1950, New York City) is an American film and TV director, son of Murray Deutch, known for Pretty in Pink (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), and Grumpier Old Men, and married to Lea Thompson.
Howard Donald
Howard Donald (Howard Paul Donald), English singer, dancer, drummer and DJ, founding member of Take That from 1990; lead vocalist on "Never Forget", DJ during the 1996–2005 split, now one third of the current trio.
Howard Drew
Howard Porter Drew (1890-1957), American sprinter, first great Black sprinter; 1912 Olympian and world record holder at 100 and 220 yards; later a Connecticut attorney and judge.
Howard Duff
Howard Green Duff (1913–1990), American actor; radio's original Sam Spade (1946–1950), film noir lead in Brute Force and The Naked City, Ida Lupino's husband in Mr. Adams and Eve, later Flamingo Road and Knots Landing.
Howard Dully
Howard Dully, American bus driver and author, lobotomized at age 12 in 1960 by Dr. Walter Freeman; told his story in the 2005 NPR documentary and 2007 memoir My Lobotomy.
Howard E. Freeman
Howard E. Freeman (1929–1992) was an American medical sociologist and health services researcher at UCLA who helped create evaluation research and documented inequities in access to medical care among insured and uninsured Americans.
Howard E. Gendelman
Howard E. Gendelman is a physician-scientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center whose group reported the first elimination of HIV from live animals in 2019 and co-developed LASER ART.
Howard E. Morgan
Howard E. Morgan (1927–2009) was an American cardiac physiologist who studied heart metabolism and workload-driven growth, chaired Physiology at Penn State, and led the American Heart Association.
Howard E. Skipper
Howard Earle Skipper was an American cancer researcher at the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, who developed the quantitative basis of modern cancer chemotherapy.
Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum (1947–2017) was an American cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, where he directed the Center for Memory and Brain, showed the hippocampus supports memory in animals, and discovered "time cells."
Howard Elton McKenzie
Howard Elton McKenzie is an aerospace engineer and Boeing's chief engineer since March 2023, leading over 60,000 engineers, who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Howard Ensign Evans
Howard Ensign Evans (1919–2002) was an American entomologist who chiefly studied wasps, taught at Harvard and Colorado State, and pioneered the use of behavioral data in classification.
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. (1929–1997) was an American physical organic chemist at DuPont whose diiodomethane-zinc work produced the Simmons–Smith reaction, the first general cyclopropane synthesis.
Howard F. Polley
Howard F. Polley was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who co-authored the April 1949 report announcing cortisone's dramatic effects on rheumatoid arthritis.
Howard F. Root
Howard F. Root (1890–1967) was an American physician and diabetes researcher at Harvard and the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston who gave New England's first insulin injection in 1922.
Howard F. Sachs
Howard F. Sachs, born Howard Frederic Sachs in 1925, is an American retired federal judge who served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Howard Finkel
Howard Finkel (June 7, 1950 – April 16, 2020), "The Fink," was WWE's first full-time employee and its legendary ring announcer from 1977, famous for "and NEEWWW World Champion!" and coining the name WrestleMania; 2009 Hall of Famer.
Howard Frumkin
Howard Frumkin is an American physician-epidemiologist, dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health from 2010 to 2016 and CDC environmental health director, known for planetary health research.
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner (born 1943), Harvard developmental psychologist, proposed the theory of multiple intelligences in Frames of Mind (1983), seven then eight independent intelligences; celebrated in education, rejected by psychometric researchers as unsupported.
Howard Georgi
Howard Georgi is an American theoretical particle physicist and Harvard professor, best known as a founder of grand unified theories and inventor of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory.
Howard Gest
Howard Gest (1921–2012) was an American microbiologist and biochemist who discovered light-dependent hydrogen production by photosynthetic bacteria in 1949 and described Heliobacterium chlorum in 1983, spending most of his career at Indiana University.
Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett, known as Howard G. Buffett, is an American farmer, photographer, and philanthropist who chairs the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and is the son of Warren Buffett.
Howard Green (cell biologist)
Howard Green (1925–2015) was a Canadian-born American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School who developed cultured skin grafts for burn patients, a foundation of regenerative medicine.
Howard H. Goldman
Howard H. Goldman is an American psychiatrist and mental health policy researcher, a University of Maryland professor since 1985 who edited the 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health.
Howard H. Kehrl
Howard H. Kehrl, born Howard Harmon Kehrl, was an American automotive engineer and General Motors executive who rose from research engineer in 1948 to vice chairman.
Howard Hamlin
Howard Hamlin, played by Patrick Fabian, is the managing partner of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill in Better Call Saul (2015-2023). Set up as villain, revealed decent, he is framed by Jimmy and Kim and shot by Lalo Salamanca in 'Plan and Execution'.
Howard Hartenbaum
Howard Hartenbaum is a venture capitalist and General Partner at August Capital, a Silicon Valley firm he joined in 2008, and was the founding investor in Skype.
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks (Howard Winchester Hawks, 1896–1977), American director of Scarface, His Girl Friday, Red River, and Rio Bravo; genre-spanning independent producer-director elevated to auteur status by Cahiers du cinéma.
Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (1940–2022), American actor, was Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS, 1978–1982) and Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. Founding member of improv troupe The Committee; two Emmy nominations.