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Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (1906-1963), British Labour economist and politician, MP for Leeds South, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51, and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-63, known for the 1951 NHS charges, Suez opposition, and the 1962 'thousand years of history' EEC speech.
Hugh Gibb
Hugh Gibb (Hugh Leslie Gibb, 1916-1992), English drummer and bandleader of the Hughie Gibb Orchestra on the Mecca circuit; father of Bee Gees members Barry, Robin, Maurice, and solo singer Andy Gibb; managed the young Bee Gees in Australia.
Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass (c. 1775–1833) was an American fur trapper of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, mauled by a grizzly in 1823, left for dead by John Fitzgerald and possibly Jim Bridger, who crawled about 200 miles to Fort Kiowa; killed by the Arikara in 1833.
Hugh Gough
Hugh Gough (ह्यू गफ़), first Viscount Gough, was a British field-marshal, born in County Limerick in 1779, who commanded in India from 1843 to 1849, winning both Anglo-Sikh Wars.
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant (Hugh John Mungo Grant) is a British actor, born in 1960, whose breakthrough in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) made him a romantic-comedy leading man.
Hugh Griffith
Hugh Griffith (Hugh Emrys Griffith, 1912–1980), Welsh character actor from Anglesey; RADA gold medalist, Royal Welsh Fusiliers veteran, Oscar winner as Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur (1959), Tony-nominated for Look Homeward, Angel.
Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster
Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, is a British billionaire investor who chairs the trustees of the Grosvenor Estate and its Westminster Foundation, succeeding his father in 2016.
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (1926–2017), American publisher who founded Playboy magazine in December 1953, built the Playboy Clubs and licensing empire, championed free speech and gay rights, and died at 91 at the Playboy Mansion.
Hugh Herr
Hugh Herr is an American bioengineer and double amputee who leads bionic leg prosthesis research at MIT, having lost both legs to frostbite while climbing in 1982.
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt, American conservative radio host of The Hugh Hewitt Show on Salem Radio Network, Fox News contributor, Chapman University law professor, Reagan administration lawyer, and Republican debate moderator.
Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper (1945–2008), British bassist and composer, Soft Machine member 1968–1973 (Volume Two through Six), solo album 1984 (1973), later Hughscore and Soft Machine Legacy; a central Canterbury scene figure.
Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey (born 1975), American science fiction author of the self-published Wool series and Silo trilogy (Wool, Shift, Dust), adapted as Apple TV+'s Silo; advocate of indie publishing and Author Earnings.
Hugh Huxley
Hugh Huxley (1924–2013) was an English molecular biologist who established the sliding filament theory and swinging cross-bridge model of muscle contraction, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Brandeis University.
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman (b. 1968, Sydney) is an Australian actor and musical theatre performer; the Wolverine of the X-Men films, Tony winner for The Boy from Oz, Emmy-winning Tony host, and Golden Globe winner for Les Misérables.
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Hugh Keays-Byrne (1947–2020) was a British-Australian actor and director, a former Royal Shakespeare Company member who played Toecutter in Mad Max (1979) and Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer was an English Reformation preacher and Bishop of Worcester, burned at Oxford with Nicholas Ridley in 1555, ranked among the greatest English-speaking preachers of the sixteenth century.
Hugh Latimer Dryden
Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898–1965) was an American physicist and aerodynamicist who directed the NACA from 1947 and served as NASA's first deputy administrator until his death in 1965.
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie (born 1959, Oxford) is a British actor, comedian, writer, and musician; star of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, and Dr. Gregory House in House (2004–2012), a two-time Golden Globe winner, six-time Emmy nominee, and New Orleans blues recording artist.
Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), British-born engineer turned author, created Doctor Dolittle in 1920 from letters written to his children from World War I trenches; his Voyages of Doctor Dolittle won a Newbery Medal.
Hugh Longbourne Callendar
Hugh Longbourne Callendar (1863–1930) was a British physicist who developed the practical platinum resistance thermometer, the continuous-flow calorimeter, and the steam tables adopted by British engineers.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978), was a Scottish poet who founded the Scottish Literary Renaissance and wrote A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
Hugh MacLennan
Hugh MacLennan, born John Hugh MacLennan, was a Canadian novelist and essayist whose Two Solitudes (1945) named Canada's French-English divide; he won five Governor-General's Awards.
Hugh Macmillan
Hugh Macmillan (1833–1903) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister of the Free Church of Scotland and religious writer best known for Bible Teachings in Nature (1867).
Hugh Marlowe
Hugh Marlowe (born Hugh Herbert Hipple, 1911–1982) was an American film, stage, radio, and TV actor, known for All About Eve, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, and as Jim Matthews on Another World.
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela (1939–2018), South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, singer, and anti-apartheid activist; Jazz Epistles founder, 1968 US number one "Grazing in the Grass", 30-year exile, "Stimela", Order of Ikhamanga in Gold.
Hugh McDonald (American musician)
Hugh McDonald (born 1950) is an American bassist, Bon Jovi's bass player since 1994 and the band's uncredited studio bassist before that, including "Livin' on a Prayer".
Hugh McElroy
Hugh Walter McElroy (1874-1912), Liverpool-born Chief Purser of RMS Titanic; former Allan Line and White Star purser, Boer War Transport Medal holder; died in the sinking, recovered as Body 157, buried at sea 22 April 1912.
Hugh Montgomery (British physician)
Hugh Montgomery is a British physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for a 1998 Nature paper linking the ACE gene to fitness.
Hugh Muirhead
Hugh Muirhead (1925–2007) was a British nuclear physicist who, as a young Bristol graduate, co-discovered the pion in 1947 and later wrote particle physics textbooks.
Hugh Mundell
Hugh Mundell (1962–1983) was a Jamaican roots reggae singer who recorded Africa Must Be Free By 1983 as a teenager with producer Augustus Pablo, and was shot dead aged 21.