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Howard Hewett

Howard Hewett (born 1955, Akron, Ohio) is an American R&B and gospel singer, lead vocalist of Shalamar from 1979 and an Elektra solo artist whose hits include "I'm for Real," "Stay," "Say Amen," and "Show Me," with a Grammy for the Beverly Hills Cop score.

Howard Holtzer

Howard Holtzer (1922–2014) was an American cell and developmental biologist who spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania studying how embryonic cells commit to lineages.

Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905–1976) was an American aviator, film producer, and billionaire businessman who set aviation speed records in the 1930s, built Hughes Aircraft, and controlled Trans World Airlines.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), founded 1953 by Howard Hughes, is a major US biomedical research philanthropy funding people, not projects, through seven-year Investigator appointments and the Janelia Research Campus.

Howard I. Scher

Howard I. Scher is an American medical oncologist specializing in advanced prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who led the phase 3 enzalutamide trial AFFIRM.

Howard J. Bruschi

Howard J. Bruschi is an American nuclear engineer who led development of Westinghouse's passively safe AP600 and AP1000 reactors, retiring as senior vice president and chief technology officer.

Howard J. Cooke

Howard J. Cooke is a molecular geneticist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh who identified Y chromosome-specific repeated DNA in 1976 and studied sex chromosome telomeres.

Howard J. Weinstein

Howard J. Weinstein (Howard Jeffrey Weinstein) is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Harvard professor known for childhood leukemia research, including the Pediatric Oncology Group AML trials.

Howard Johnson

Howard Johnson (Howard R. Johnson, 1919-2015), American freestyle swimmer for Yale, three-time NCAA champion (220-yard freestyle 1940, 1941; 100-yard freestyle 1942), captain of Yale's first NCAA championship team, 400-yard freestyle relay world record holder; not the Motown singer or baseball player.

Howard Johnson Lucas

Howard Johnson Lucas (1885–1963) was an American organic chemist at Caltech who discovered the Lucas reagent for classifying alcohols and gave the first proof of halonium ions.

Howard Johnson's

Howard Johnson's, the American roadside restaurant and motor lodge chain founded in 1925 in Quincy, Massachusetts by Howard Deering Johnson, famous for orange roofs and 28 ice cream flavors; last restaurant closed in Lake George, New York in 2022, hotels now a Wyndham brand.

Howard Jones (American singer)

Howard Sion Jones (born 1970, Columbus, Ohio) is an American metalcore vocalist, ex-Killswitch Engage and Blood Has Been Shed singer, now fronting Light the Torch (formerly Devil You Know) and SION with Jared Dines.

Howard Jones (British musician)

Howard Jones (John Howard Jones, b. 1955, Southampton), English synth-pop singer-songwriter of 'New Song', 'What Is Love?' and 'No One Is to Blame'; Human's Lib and Dream Into Action; still touring and recording.

Howard K. Koh

Howard K. Koh (Howard Kyongju Koh) is an American physician and Harvard public health professor who served as US Assistant Secretary for Health from 2009 to 2014.

Howard K. Smith

Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), American broadcast journalist, CBS Berlin correspondent and one of Murrow's Boys, moderator of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate, later ABC Evening News co-anchor and commentator.

Howard K. Stern

Howard K. Stern, also known as Howard Kevin Stern, is an American attorney in California known for representing Anna Nicole Smith as her lawyer and manager.

Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan (born 1947, New York) is an American singer, lead vocalist of the Turtles ("Happy Together," No. 1, 1967) and, with Mark Volman, the duo Flo & Eddie, who also sang with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and as session vocalists.

Howard Keel

Howard Keel (Harold Clifford Keel, 1919-2004), American baritone actor-singer, MGM musical star of Annie Get Your Gun, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides; later Clayton Farlow on Dallas, 1981-1991.

Howard Kendall

Howard Kendall (1946–2015), English midfielder and manager; Everton's most successful manager, winning the 1985 and 1987 titles, 1984 FA Cup and 1985 Cup-Winners' Cup; never capped by England.

Howard Kent Birnbaum

Howard Kent Birnbaum (1932–2005) was an American materials scientist and metallurgist at the University of Illinois, known for the hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement.

Howard Kingsbury

Howard Kingsbury (Howard Thayer Kingsbury Jr., 1904–1991), American rower; won gold in the men's eights for the United States at the 1924 Paris Olympics as the six-oar of the Yale crew; father of 1948 bronze medalist Fred Kingsbury.

Howard Krein

Howard Krein is an American otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon, Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, director of the Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics, chief medical officer of StartUp Health, and son-in-law of Joe Biden through his marriage to Ashley Biden.

Howard Kunreuther

Howard Kunreuther (1938–2023) was an American decision scientist at the Wharton School and National Academy of Sciences member, known for research on decisions about low-probability, high-consequence events like earthquakes and hurricanes.

Howard L. Bailit

Howard L. Bailit is an American dental public health researcher and professor at the University of Connecticut, known for studies of dental access and asthma care.

Howard L. Bleich

Howard L. Bleich was an American physician and founder of medical informatics who built PaperChase, the first program letting clinicians search MEDLINE, and won the Morris F. Collen Award.

Howard L. Fields

Howard L. Fields, also known as Howard Fields, was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCSF who showed how endogenous opioids suppress pain and mediate placebo analgesia.

Howard L. Hartman

Howard L. Hartman (1924–2002) was an American mining engineer who held an endowed chair at the University of Alabama and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Howard L. Judd

Howard L. Judd, also known as H L Judd, was an American reproductive endocrinologist and UCLA professor internationally recognized for research on menopause, endometriosis, and polycystic ovarian disease.

Howard L. Sanders

Howard L. Sanders (1921–2001) was an American marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who showed the deep sea is among Earth's most species-rich environments.

Howard L. Weiner

Howard L. Weiner is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for developing oral tolerance immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis.