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Hubert Lefebvre

Hubert Lefèbvre (Hubert Jean Daniel Lefèbvre, 1878-1937) was a French rugby union forward who won gold with France at the 1900 Paris Olympics and captained Racing Club de France to the 1902 French title.

Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.

Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. (1926–1991) was an American sociologist at the University of Washington, known for Social Statistics and causal inference, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow (1884–1958) was a Guyanese labor organizer who founded the British Guiana Labour Union in 1919, the first trade union in the colony.

Hubert Ogunde

Hubert Adedeji Ogunde (1916-1990), Nigerian dramatist, actor, composer and theatre manager, founded the African Music Research Party in 1945, Nigeria's first professional theatrical company, and is called the father of modern Nigerian theatre; his play Yoruba Ronu was banned in 1964.

Hubert Parot

Hubert Parot was a French equestrian who won team show jumping gold at the 1976 Montréal Olympics riding Rivage, part of France's only Olympic team jumping gold.

Hubert Robert

Hubert Robert (1733–1808), French landscape painter and etcher called "Robert des Ruines"; trained in Rome with Panini and Piranesi, court artist and royal garden designer, Louvre curator after imprisonment in the Revolution.

Hubert Rochereau's preserved room

Hubert Rochereau's preserved room, known locally as the Soldier's Room, is the unchanged bedroom of a French officer killed in 1918, kept in his family house in Bélâbre.

Hubert Rüsch

Hubert Rüsch (1903–1979) was an Austrian-born civil engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Technological University of Munich, honored as the elder statesman of prestressed concrete.

Hubert Schmidbaur

Hubert Schmidbaur, born 1934 in Bavaria, is a German inorganic chemist who held the Chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 1973 to 2003.

Hubert Selby Jr.

Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004) was an American writer whose cult classic Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) sold over 750,000 copies and was tried for obscenity in England and Italy.

Hubert Stevens

Hubert Stevens (John Hubert Stevens, 1890-1950), American bobsled driver from Lake Placid; won the first-ever Olympic two-man bobsleigh gold at the 1932 Lake Placid Games with brother Curtis, fourth in four-man in 1936.

Hubert Strolz

Hubert Strolz, Austrian alpine skier born 1962 in Warth, Vorarlberg; 1988 Calgary Olympic gold in combined and silver in giant slalom; later farmer, ski school director; father of Olympic champion Johannes Strolz.

Hubert Van Innis

Hubert Van Innis (1866-1961), Belgian archer, won six gold and four silver Olympic medals at Paris 1900 and Antwerp 1920, the all-time archery best, plus 1933 world team gold at age 67.

Hubert Vo

Hubert Vo is an American politician, a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 149 in southwest Harris County, serving for more than two decades.

Hubert von Goisern

Hubert von Goisern, born Hubert Achleitner in 1952 in Bad Goisern, Austria, is an alpine-rock songwriter whose band the Alpinkatzen topped the Austrian charts in 1993 with "Koa Hiatamadl".

Hubert Walter

Hubert Walter was an English churchman and royal administrator who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1193 to 1205, justiciar under Richard I, and chancellor under King John.

Hubertus Fischer

Hubertus Fischer is a Swiss-based climate physicist, professor at the University of Bern since 2008, known for reconstructing past greenhouse gases from polar ice cores and winning the 2018 Hans Oeschger Medal.

Hubertus Knabe

Hubertus Knabe is a German historian specializing in the Stasi and the SED dictatorship, best known as founding director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, the former Stasi prison, from 2000 to 2018.

Hubertus Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha

Hubertus Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (born 1975, Hamburg), German lawyer and head of the former ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha since Prince Andreas's 2025 death; foundation chief, forester, DSB Protektor.

Hubertus Schmidt

Hubertus Schmidt (born 1959, Haaren, Germany) is a German dressage rider, Fleyenhof master, and 2004 Athens Olympic team gold medalist on Wansuela Suerte, also world and European team champion, retired from riding in 2023.

Hubertus van Mook

Hubertus Johannes van Mook (1894–1965), Dutch Minister of Colonies and Lieutenant Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies 1942–1948; led the Brisbane exile government, Linggadjati and Renville negotiations, and a failed federal Union plan.

Hubie Brown

Hubie Brown (Hubert Jude Brown, born 1933) is an American Hall of Fame basketball coach and broadcaster: 1975 ABA champion with Kentucky, two-time NBA Coach of the Year (1978, 2004), and 35-season national TV and radio analyst who retired in February 2025.

Hubie Halloween

Hubie Halloween is a 2020 Netflix comedy directed by Steven Brill, written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler, starring Sandler as mocked Salem volunteer Hubie Dubois; released October 7, 2020, PG-13, 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Hubilo

Hubilo is a virtual and hybrid events software company founded in 2015 in India and later headquartered in San Francisco, known for its 2020 pivot to virtual events and its $125 million Series B.

Hubli

Hubli, officially Hubballi (Kannada: ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ), is a commercial city in Dharwad district, Karnataka, twin to Dharwad under the Hubli Dharwad Municipal Corporation since 1962, a South Western Railway zonal headquarters and cotton-trade center.

Hublo

Hublo is a French healthtech company, created in 2016 and formed by the 2020 merger of Whoog and medGo, whose platform serves 6,000 establishments with 1.2 million daily care-worker users.

Hublot

Hublot is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer founded in 1980 by Carlo Crocco in Nyon, part of LVMH since 2008 and known for its Big Bang watches.

Hubner von Holst

Johan Hübner von Holst (1881–1945), Swedish sport shooter and Svea Life Guards officer; six medals at the 1906, 1908, and 1912 Games, including two team golds at Stockholm 1912.

HUBO

HUBO (휴보) is a family of bipedal humanoid robots developed at KAIST in South Korea. The series started with KHR-3 in 2004, and its DRC-HUBO+ variant won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge.

Huboo

Huboo is a Bristol-based e-commerce fulfillment company founded in 2017 by Martin Bysh and Paul Dodd, which stores, packs, and ships online sellers' stock through micro-hub warehouses.