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Howard League for Penal Reform

The Howard League for Penal Reform, founded in 1866 as the Howard Association and formed by the 1921 merger with the Penal Reform League, is the world's oldest penal reform charity, an independent UK membership organisation campaigning for fewer people in prison.

Howard Lederer

Howard Lederer, "The Professor" (born 1963, Concord, New Hampshire), American retired poker pro with two WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles; Full Tilt Poker founder who settled a DOJ Black Friday civil complaint in 2012, forfeiting assets with no admission of wrongdoing; brother of Annie Duke.

Howard Leventhal

Howard Leventhal is an American health psychologist, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, and National Academy of Medicine member best known for the Common-Sense Model of illness self-regulation.

Howard Li

Howard Li is a Chinese American businessman who founded and solely owns the Waitex Group, a New York conglomerate in supply-chain logistics, apparel, and real estate, started in 1981.

Howard Lutnick

Howard W. Lutnick, born 1961, is the 41st U.S. Secretary of Commerce and former Cantor Fitzgerald chairman and CEO who rebuilt the firm after losing 658 employees on 9/11, later co-chairing Trump's transition and leading tariff policy.

Howard M. Goodman

Howard M. Goodman (Howard Michael Goodman) is a molecular biologist, professor of genetics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who founded and chaired Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Molecular Biology.

Howard M. Grey

Howard M. Grey (1932–2019) was an American immunologist who showed that MHC molecules bind and present peptide fragments for recognition by T cells, work honored with the 1989 William B. Coley Award.

Howard M. Heller

Howard M. Heller is an American infectious disease physician and assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for HIV/AIDS and tick-borne disease work.

Howard M. Sandler

Howard M. Sandler is an American radiation oncologist specializing in prostate cancer who became Chair of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in 2026.

Howard M. Spiro

Howard M. Spiro (1924–2012) was an American gastroenterologist who founded and led Yale's gastroenterology section from 1955 to 1982, wrote Clinical Gastroenterology, and championed the doctor–patient relationship.

Howard M. Temin

Howard M. Temin was an American virologist who discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase, proposed the provirus hypothesis, and won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Howard M. Wiseman

Howard M. Wiseman, also known as Howard Wiseman, is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, known for work on quantum measurement, EPR steering, and quantum foundations.

Howard Markel

Howard Markel is an American physician and medical historian at the University of Michigan known for studies of US cities' responses to the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Howard Marklein

Howard Marklein is an American Republican politician and retired CPA who has represented Wisconsin's 17th Senate district since 2015, co-chairing the budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance after serving in the State Assembly.

Howard Marks

Howard Marks (1945-2016), alias Mr Nice, Welsh Oxford-educated cannabis smuggler, later author and legalization campaigner; 43 aliases, 30-ton shipments, seven years in a US prison, bestselling autobiography.

Howard Marks (investor)

Howard Marks is an American investor who co-founded Oaktree Capital Management in 1995, built it into a leading distressed-debt investor, and became widely known for his client memos.

Howard McNear

Howard Terbell McNear (1905–1969), American character actor, played Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show (1961–1967) and originated Doc Charles Adams on radio's Gunsmoke (1952–1961).

Howard Metzenbaum

Howard Metzenbaum (1917–2008), Ohio Democratic senator 1974 and 1976–1995, APCOA co-founder, liberal champion of the WARN Act and Brady bill nicknamed "Senator No" for his filibusters.

Howard Morgan (venture capitalist)

Howard L. Morgan is an American venture capitalist who co-founded the seed-stage firm First Round Capital in 2004 and is Co-Founder, Chair, and General Partner of B Capital.

Howard Morris

Howard Morris (1919-2005), American comic actor, director, and voice artist; Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows ensemble member, Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show, voice of Atom Ant and Jughead.

Howard Morrison

Howard Morrison (1935–2009), New Zealand Te Arawa singer and entertainer, led the Howard Morrison Quartet from 1956 and had solo hits including Whakaaria Mai; knighted 1990. Distinguished from the British ICC judge and the American toy inventor of the same name.

Howard Mowll

Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (1890–1958) was an English Anglican bishop, missionary bishop in West China, and Archbishop of Sydney from 1934 to 1958 and Primate of Australia.

Howard N. Hodis

Howard N. Hodis is a physician-scientist at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine who directs its Atherosclerosis Research Unit and studies atherosclerosis prevention.

Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov (1920–1991) was an American poet who served as US poet laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his Collected Poems.

Howard Ochman

Howard Ochman (born 1954) is an American evolutionary geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on pathogenicity islands and lateral gene transfer in bacteria.

Howard P. Robertson

Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961) was an American mathematical physicist at Caltech and Princeton known for the Robertson–Walker metric and for postwar defense science advising.

Howard Pearlman

Howard Pearlman is an American combustion scientist who earned a 1992 Ph.D. at Northwestern University and studied flame balls, cool flames, and low-temperature autoignition in reduced gravity.

Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle (1853–1911) was an American illustrator, author, and teacher, called the Father of American Illustration, best known for The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883).

Howard R. Baum

Howard R. Baum (1936–2025) was an American mechanical engineer and NIST Fellow whose 1978 low Mach number formulation with Ronald Rehm underlies the Fire Dynamics Simulator used by fire safety engineers worldwide.

Howard R. Hart Jr.

Howard R. Hart Jr. (1929–2025) was an American physicist-engineer who spent his entire career at the GE Research Laboratory in New York, working on superconductivity, Apollo experiments, and MRI.