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Howard R. Hughes Sr.
Howard Robard Hughes Sr. (1869–1924) was an American oilman and inventor who patented the two-cone roller drill bit in 1909 and built the Hughes Tool Company on it.
Howard R. Knapp
Howard R. Knapp is a physician-researcher in clinical pharmacology, trained at Vanderbilt, known for 1989 and 1990 New England Journal of Medicine studies of fish oil and leukotrienes.
Howard Raiffa
Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) was an American Harvard professor who founded decision analysis and negotiation analysis, co-founded Harvard's Kennedy School, was IIASA's first director, and helped invent decision trees.
Howard Rasmussen
Howard K. Rasmussen (1925–2005) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and calcium metabolism who argued that calcium ion acts as an intracellular messenger alongside cyclic AMP.
Howard Redfern Morris
Howard Redfern Morris is a British biochemist who pioneered biomolecular mass spectrometry, developed the first peptide sequencing strategy, identified enkephalin, conceived the Q-TOF mass spectrometer, and founded M-Scan and BioPharmaSpec.
Howard Reiss
Howard Reiss (1922–2015) was an American physical chemist at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, known for statistical-mechanical nucleation theory and scaled particle theory.
Howard Riezman
Howard Riezman (born 1953) is an American-born, later Swiss, cell biochemist and professor at the University of Geneva known for establishing yeast endocytosis and ubiquitin's role as an endocytosis signal.
Howard Rollins
Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (1950–1996), American actor from Baltimore; Oscar-nominated as Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime (1981), starred as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night, and played Captain Davenport in A Soldier's Story.
Howard Rooney
Howard Rooney, University of Kansas sprinter of the mid-1920s, ran third leg on the 4x110-yard relay that set a 42.0 world record at the 1925 Kansas Relays, captained the track team, and placed sixth in the 220 yards at the 1925 NCAA meet.
Howard S. Ellis
Howard Sylvester Ellis was an American monetary economist and Flood Professor at UC Berkeley who led the American Economic Association in 1949 and championed the Marshall Plan.
Howard S. Frazier
Howard S. Frazier was a Harvard physician-investigator and leading figure in medical technology assessment, who co-edited Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations in 1995.
Howard S. Jacobs
Howard S. Jacobs is a physician-scientist in reproductive endocrinology at the Middlesex Hospital and University College London, known for pulsatile GnRH therapy for puberty and ovulation induction.
Howard S. Jones Jr.
Howard St. Claire Jones Jr. (1921–2005) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who held 31 patents, including conformal antennas used in U.S. missiles and the Voyager spacecraft.
Howard S. Tager
Howard S. Tager was an American biochemist at the University of Chicago who reported the first diabetes caused by a structurally abnormal insulin, insulin Chicago.
Howard Schachman
Howard Schachman (1918–2016) was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley whose ultracentrifuge methods helped establish the existence of ribosomes, and who led national advocacy for research ethics.
Howard Schnellenberger
Howard Leslie Schnellenberger (1934-2021), American football coach; Baltimore Colts head coach 1973-74, Miami's 1983 national champion coach, later Louisville, Oklahoma, and Florida Atlantic founder-coach, 158-151-3, 6-0 in bowls.
Howard Schulman
Howard Schulman is a molecular biologist known for four decades of work on CaMKII, an enzyme implicated in memory storage, and a Stanford professor of pharmacology and neurobiology.
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz is an American businessman who built Starbucks from 17 stores into a global chain of more than 28,000 stores across three stints as CEO.
Howard Shore
Howard Shore (born 1946, Toronto) is a Canadian film composer, Berklee graduate, and original Saturday Night Live music director (1975–1980). Known for 15 David Cronenberg scores and the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings and Hobbit music.
Howard Stark
Howard Stark (Howard Anthony Walter Stark) is the Marvel Comics and MCU inventor, Stark Industries founder, and father of Tony Stark; first comics appearance Iron Man #28 (1968), portrayed by Gerard Sanders and Dominic Cooper.
Howard Stern
Howard Stern (born 1954), American radio host and self-styled King of All Media, host of The Howard Stern Show on WXRK and since 2006 SiriusXM, fined over $1 million by the FCC, renewed for three years in 2025.
Howard Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is an American educator, investor, and author who co-founded the Baupost Group in 1982, served as its first president, and built Harvard Business School's entrepreneurship program.
Howard Stone (fluid dynamicist)
Howard A. Stone is an American fluid dynamicist and Princeton professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who studies complex fluids, microfluidics, and flows involving bacteria and biofilms.
Howard T. Jacobs
Howard T. Jacobs, known as Howy Jacobs, is a London-born molecular biologist who studies mitochondrial DNA replication and disease, and is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University in Finland.
Howard T. Odum
Howard T. Odum (Howard Thomas Odum, 1924–2002) was an American ecologist who measured whole-ecosystem energy budgets at Silver Springs, proposed the maximum power principle, and developed emergy accounting.
Howard Taylor
Howard Taylor, full name John Howard Taylor, was a British stockbroker and sailor who won gold in the 3-10 ton class at the 1900 Paris Olympics aboard Bona Fide.
Howard Taylor Ricketts
Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago who proved wood ticks transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever; the genus Rickettsia is named for him.
Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck: Marvel's satirical anthropomorphic duck created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik, first appearing in Adventure into Fear #19 (1973) and starring in his own 1976 series, famous for the tagline 'trapped in a world he never made', a 1976 presidential run, the 1980 Gerber ownership lawsuit, and the 1986 Lucasfilm film.
Howard the Duck (film)
Howard the Duck (1986) is a Lucasfilm-Universal comic sci-fi comedy directed by Willard Huyck, executive produced by George Lucas, starring Lea Thompson; the first Marvel film, a $20 million flop with four Razzies.
Howard Thurman
Howard Washington Thurman (1899–1981) was an African American Baptist minister, mystic, and theologian whose book Jesus and the Disinherited became a touchstone for the civil rights movement.