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Hugh Stowell
Hugh Stowell (1799–1865) was an Anglican evangelical clergyman who served Christ Church, Salford, for thirty-four years and wrote the hymn "From every stormy wind that blows".
Hugh Sutherland
Hugh Robert Sutherland (1907-1990), Canadian ice hockey defenseman with the Winnipeg Hockey Club's Winnipegs; 1931 Allan Cup winner and 1932 Lake Placid Olympic gold medalist, distinct from other athletes named Hugh Sutherland.
Hugh the Great
Hugh the Great (Hugues le Grand), c. 898 to 956, was a West Frankish magnate, count of Paris and duke of the Franks, and father of Hugh Capet.
Hugh Thompson Jr.
Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. (1943–2006), American Army warrant officer and OH-23 helicopter pilot of the 123rd Aviation Battalion who halted the My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, saved civilians, reported the killings, and received the Soldier's Medal in 1998.
Hugh W. Hillhouse
Hugh W. Hillhouse is an American chemical engineer and Rehnberg Chair Professor at the University of Washington, known for molecular-ink perovskite and CZTS solar cell research.
Hugh Wallace (architect)
Hugh Wallace (1956–2025) was an Irish architect, interior designer, and television presenter who judged RTÉ's Home of the Year from 2015 and co-founded Douglas Wallace Architects in Dublin.
Hugh Walpole
Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist who published a novel almost yearly for three decades and is best remembered for his Herries Chronicle.
Hugh Watkins (British physician-scientist)
Hugh Watkins is a British physician-scientist at the University of Oxford who established that mutations in the heart's motor proteins cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and who leads CureHeart.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Hughes Aircraft Company, also called Hughes Aircraft, was an American aerospace and defense electronics company founded by Howard Hughes in 1932, sold to General Motors in 1985.
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay, also Bahía Hughes, is a bay between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray on the Danco Coast, west Antarctic Peninsula, named for sealer Edward Hughes (1824-25) and site of the first recorded Antarctic mainland landing by John Davis, 7 February 1821.
Hughes brothers
Hughes brothers: Allen and Albert Hughes, Detroit-born fraternal twin directors (born 1972) of Menace II Society (1993), Dead Presidents, American Pimp, From Hell, and The Book of Eli; they split professionally after 2010.
Hughes Court
The Hughes Court (1930-1941) is the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, marked by New Deal battles with the Four Horsemen, the 1937 court-packing crisis, and the constitutional pivot of West Coast Hotel and Jones & Laughlin.
Hughes H-1 Racer
The Hughes H-1 Racer, also known as the Hughes 1B, was a racing plane Howard Hughes flew to a 352 mph world landplane speed record in 1935.
Hughes H-4 Hercules
The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, was the largest wooden aircraft ever built, a wooden flying boat that flew once in Long Beach Harbor in 1947.
Hughes Helicopters
Hughes Helicopters was an American helicopter manufacturer at Culver City, California, maker of the OH-6A Cayuse and the AH-64 Apache, acquired by McDonnell Douglas in 1984.
Hughes OH-6 Cayuse
The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse is a single-engine light observation helicopter developed by Hughes for the US Army and flown extensively as a scout in the Vietnam War.
Hughes TH-55 Osage
The Hughes TH-55 Osage, designated TH-55A, is a two-seat piston-powered training helicopter that served as the United States Army's primary helicopter trainer from 1964 to 1988, training over 60,000 pilots.
Hughes XF-11
The Hughes XF-11 was a prototype American reconnaissance aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft, whose first prototype crashed on its 1946 maiden flight, nearly killing Howard Hughes.
Hughes–Drever experiment
The Hughes–Drever experiment was a pair of 1959–60 nuclear magnetic resonance tests by Hughes at Yale and Drever at Glasgow that found no anisotropy of inertial mass, among the most accurate null results in physics.
HughesNet
HughesNet is a satellite internet service operated by Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, launched in 1996 as one-way DirecPC and now running on the JUPITER Ka-band satellite fleet.
Hughie Campbell
Hughie Campbell, or Wee Hughie, is the main protagonist of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys (2006), a Scottish everyman drawn to resemble Simon Pegg; Jack Quaid plays the Americanized version in the Amazon series.
Hughie Fury
Hughie Fury, full name Hughie Lewis Fury, is a British heavyweight boxer from Manchester and a cousin of Tyson Fury who lost a 2017 WBO title fight to Joseph Parker.
Hughie Green
Hughie Green (1920-1997), English-born Canadian citizen, was a British radio and TV presenter who created and hosted Double Your Money and Opportunity Knocks, coined catchphrases like 'I mean that most sincerely, folks', lost the landmark format copyright case, and was revealed posthumously as Paula Yates' father.
Hugin
Hugin (hug, CG6371) is a Drosophila neuropeptide gene homologous to mammalian neuromedin U and to insect pban; its ~20 subesophageal neurons regulate feeding initiation, locomotion, ecdysis, glucose sensing, and larval sleep via PK2-R1.
Huginn and Muninn
Huginn and Muninn (Huginn ok Muninn), Thought and Memory, are Odin's two ravens in Norse mythology, attested in Grímnismál 20 and Gylfaginning 38; they fly out daily over the world and whisper tidings to Odin, who fears more for Muninn's return.
Hugli
Hugli (Hooghly) district, West Bengal, India: headquarters Chinsurah on the Hooghly River; 5,519,145 people (Census 2011), 38.6% urban, 81.8% literate, former Portuguese, Dutch, French, and Danish trading towns.
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, played by Jorge Garcia, is a fictional character on ABC's Lost (2004–2010), a Flight 815 survivor tied to the cursed numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, a $156 million lottery win, and his finale role as the Island's protector.
Hugo (film)
Hugo is a 2011 American adventure drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret and set in 1930s Paris.
Hugo (Mercurian crater)
Hugo is a 206-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 39.61°N, 48.49°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885); also listed as 198 km in a second coordinate system.
Hugo & Guilherme
Hugo & Guilherme is a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 2016 in Goiânia, best known for "Mal Feito" with Marília Mendonça, Brazil's most-played song of 2022.