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Hubei Shennongjia

Hubei Shennongjia (湖北神农架) is a natural World Heritage site in Hubei Province, China, inscribed 2016 under criteria (ix) and (x). It protects Central China's largest primary forests, 3,767 vascular plant species, and the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey.

Hubei Sinophorus Electronic Materials

兴福电子, or Hubei Sinophorus Electronic Materials, is a Chinese wet electronic chemicals maker in Yichang, Hubei, founded in 2008 and controlled by Xingfa Group, listed on the STAR Market in 2025.

Hubei Xingchen Technology (星辰技术)

Hubei Xingchen Technology (星辰技术) is a Wuhan semiconductor advanced-packaging company founded in 2021, spun out of Hubei Jiangcheng Laboratory to offer 3D chip-integration pilot-line services.

Hubei Yicheng power station

Hubei Yicheng power station (湖北能源襄阳(宜城)电厂) is a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station in Yicheng, Hubei, China, owned by Hubei Energy Group and fully operational since December 2023.

Huber loss

The Huber loss is a loss function in robust regression that is quadratic for small residuals and linear for large ones, limiting the influence of outliers.

HuBERT

HuBERT (Hidden-Unit BERT) is a self-supervised speech representation model released by Meta AI in June 2021, which learns from unlabeled audio by predicting k-means pseudo-labels over masked regions.

Hubert Aiwanger

Hubert Aiwanger is a German politician who leads the Free Voters at federal and Bavarian level and has served as Deputy Minister President of Bavaria since 2018.

Hubert Amrein

Hubert Amrein is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist and professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine known for research on taste perception and nutrient sensing in fruit flies.

Hubert Anson Newton

Hubert Anson Newton (1830–1896) was an American mathematician and astronomer, professor at Yale from 1855, who founded meteoric astronomy through his studies of the November meteor showers.

Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.

Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., German-born Philadelphia typesetter (died 1997), held the longest recorded personal name: 26 given names and a several-hundred-letter compound surname.

Hubert Bradford Vickery

Hubert Bradford Vickery (1893–1978) was a Canadian-born American biochemist who spent his career at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station studying plant proteins, amino acids, and organic acids.

Hubert Caldwell

Hubert Augustus Caldwell (1907-1972), American rower from Oakland, California; seventh seat of the undefeated 1928 Cal/Berkeley eight that won the IRA Regatta, the Olympic Trials, and Amsterdam 1928 Olympic gold; later an engineer in Piedmont.

Hubert Davis

Hubert Davis, former UNC guard (1988-92) and 12-year NBA sharpshooter (.441 career 3P%, second behind Steve Kerr), was UNC's 20th and first Black men's basketball head coach (2021-26), reaching the 2022 title game before departing in March 2026.

Hubert de Givenchy

Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018), French couturier, founded the Givenchy house in Paris in 1952, created the Bettina blouse and sack silhouette with Balenciaga, and defined Audrey Hepburn's style from Sabrina to Breakfast at Tiffany's; sold to LVMH in 1988, retired 1995.

Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (1929–2017), Berkeley philosopher and Heidegger interpreter whose 1972 book What Computers Can't Do made him the leading philosophical critic of artificial intelligence.

Hubert Gardas

Hubert Gardas (born 1957, Lyon) is a French épée fencer, Olympic champion in men's team épée at Moscow 1980 with Boisse, Riboud, Picot, and Salesse; also 1979 Split Mediterranean Games bronze and 1979, 1981 World Championship team appearances.

Hubert Gough

General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963), British cavalry officer and Fifth Army commander in the First World War; central figure of the 1914 Curragh incident, led early Passchendaele, dismissed after the March 1918 German offensive.

Hubert H. G. Savenije

Hubert H. G. Savenije (born 1952) is a Dutch hydrologist and emeritus professor of hydrology at Delft University of Technology, known for his analytical theory of salt intrusion in estuaries.

Hubert H. Girault

Hubert H. Girault, born 1957, is a French electrochemist and emeritus professor at EPFL, known for electrochemistry at soft interfaces, off-gel electrophoresis, and redox flow batteries producing hydrogen.

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the Metrodome or ThunderDome, was Minneapolis's $55 million air-supported domed stadium (1982–2014) hosting the Twins, Vikings, and Gophers, two World Series, Super Bowl XXVI, and two Final Fours.

Hubert Hammerer

Hubert Hammerer (1925–2017), Austrian sports shooter from Egg, Vorarlberg; won 300 m free rifle three positions gold at Rome 1960 with 1,129 points, competed at Tokyo 1964, 1958 Armbrust European champion.

Hubert Hansen

Hubert Hansen was an American juice entrepreneur who founded the Hansen's juice company in Los Angeles in 1935; his brand later became the basis of Monster Beverage.

Hubert Harrison

Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a St. Croix–born, Harlem-based writer, orator, and activist called "the father of Harlem radicalism" who led socialist and New Negro movements.

Hubert Heffner

Hubert Heffner (1924–1975) was an American applied physicist at Stanford University who worked on microwave devices and quantum electronics, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Hubert Houben

Hubert Houben (1898-1956), German sprinter of the 1920s, among the world's fastest over 100 m; beat Paddock and Murchison in Berlin 1924, 100 yd world record 9.5 s, Olympic 4x100 m relay silver 1928.

Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., known as the Happy Warrior, was a Minnesota senator, the 38th US vice president from 1965 to 1969, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1968, losing to Richard Nixon.

Hubert Hurkacz

Hubert Hurkacz, Polish tennis player, career-high ATP No. 6 (Aug 2024), 2021 Wimbledon semifinalist who beat Federer, led tour in aces 2023, knee surgery ended 2025 season.

Hubert J. Wolfe

Hubert J. Wolfe is an American physician-scientist and pathologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, known for the 1973 discovery that C-cell hyperplasia precedes hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Hubert Kostka

Hubert Jerzy Kostka (born 27 May 1940, Markowice, Poland), Polish goalkeeper and coach; Olympic gold medalist Munich 1972, 32 caps, record 10 Polish titles with Górnik Zabrze (8 as player, 2 as coach), mining engineer.

Hubert Lamb

Hubert Horace Lamb (1913–1997) was a British climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, coined terms, and popularized the 'Little Ice Age.'