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Hugo A. Katus

Hugo A. Katus, born 1951, is a German cardiologist who invented the cardiac troponin T blood test and led cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital from 2002 to 2020.

Hugo Aerts

Hugo Aerts is a Dutch scientist in radiomics and medical imaging AI, a professor at Harvard and Dana-Farber who directs the AIM Program at Mass General Brigham in Boston.

Hugo Aguilar Ortiz

Hugo Aguilar Ortiz (born 1973) is a Mixtec lawyer from Oaxaca and Minister President of Mexico's Supreme Court (SCJN) from 1 September 2025. He won the June 2025 judicial election as top vote-getter, becoming the first Indigenous justice in nearly 170 years.

Hugo Alfaro

Hugo Alfaro (Hugo Renán Alfaro Pérez, 1917–1996) was a Uruguayan journalist and writer of the Generación del 45 who worked at the weekly Marcha and founded Brecha.

Hugo Award

Hugo Award, originally the Science Fiction Achievement Award, honors excellence in science fiction and fantasy. Voted by Worldcon/WSFS members since 1953, annual since 1955, using instant-runoff final voting and E Pluribus Hugo nominations.

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Hugo Award for Best Novel: annual science fiction and fantasy novel prize voted by Worldcon members, first awarded 1953, skipped 1954 and 1957, trophy not money, with ties in 1966, 1993, and 2010.

Hugo Banzer

Hugo Banzer Suárez was a Bolivian general and politician who ruled Bolivia as dictator from 1971 to 1978 after a coup, then returned as elected president from 1997 to 2001.

Hugo Benioff

Hugo Benioff (1899–1968) was an American seismologist at Caltech known for charting the inclined deep-earthquake planes called Benioff zones and for designing the variable-reluctance seismograph.

Hugo Black

Hugo LaFayette Black (1886-1971), Alabama senator and FDR's first Supreme Court appointee (1937), ex-Klansman, total-incorporation advocate, First Amendment absolutist, author of Korematsu, Everson, Engel, Gideon, and Wesberry opinions.

Hugo Boss

HUGO BOSS: German premium fashion company founded 1924 in Metzingen by Hugo Ferdinand Boss; brands BOSS and HUGO; EUR 4.3 billion fiscal 2025 sales; Frasers Group holds 48 percent and bid EUR 38 per share.

Hugo Boss (businessman)

Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948) was a German clothing manufacturer who founded the Metzingen factory that grew into HUGO BOSS, building its wartime success on Nazi uniform contracts produced with forced labor.

Hugo Boucheron

Hugo Boucheron (born 1993) is a French rower, Olympic champion in the men's double sculls at Tokyo 2020 with Matthieu Androdias, and world champion in 2018 and 2022; since 2025 he races the men's four.

Hugo Boumous

Hugo Adnan Boumous (هوغو عدنان بوموس), born 1995 in Rennes, is a French-Moroccan attacking midfielder at Selangor FC; ISL star with Goa, Mumbai City, Mohun Bagan, Odisha, winning multiple ISL titles.

Hugo Camberos

Hugo Camberos Figueroa (born 2007, Autlán de Navarro) is a Mexican winger and wing-back for Chivas Guadalajara, number 14; 2026 CONCACAF U-20 champion, top scorer (5 goals) and best player; senior Mexico debutant vs Peru.

Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez (Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, 1954–2013) was Venezuela's president from 1999 to 2013 and founder of Chavismo; led a failed 1992 coup, won the 1998 election, replaced the constitution in 1999, and concentrated executive power.

Hugo Chulachak (musician)

Hugo Chulachak (ฮิวโก้ จุลจักร), born Chulachak Chakrabongse in England in 1981, is a Thai singer-songwriter, a descendant of King Chulalongkorn, who fronted Siplor and signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation.

Hugo Claus

Hugo Claus, full name Hugo Maurice Julien Claus, was a leading Belgian novelist, poet, and playwright in Dutch, whose 1983 novel The Sorrow of Belgium became a classic of Flemish literature.

Hugo de Jonge

Hugo de Jonge, Dutch CDA politician (born 1977, Bruinisse): teacher turned Rotterdam alderman, Health Minister and deputy PM during COVID-19, Housing and Interior Minister 2022-2024, and Commissaris van de Koning in Zeeland since 2024.

Hugo de Vries

Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) was a Dutch botanist and founder of genetics, first to publish the rediscovered Mendel's laws in 1900 and known for his mutation theory.

Hugo Diego Garcia

Hugo Diego Garcia (Hugo Diego García) is a French-Spanish actor, director and writer born 1993 in Nantua, France, known for The Substance (Diego), John Woo's The Killer (Coco), Hulu's Death and Other Details (Jules Toussaint), and starring as Sebastián Moore in Drawn Together (2026).

Hugo Dingler

Hugo Dingler (1881–1954) was a German philosopher of science who founded methodical philosophy, grounding exact science in willed operations, and led Deutsche Physik against Einstein's relativity.

Hugo Duminil-Copin

Hugo Duminil-Copin, born in 1985, is a professor at the University of Geneva and IHES who won the 2022 Fields Medal for solving longstanding problems on phase transitions in lattice models such as Ising and percolation.

Hugo Ekitike

Hugo Ekitiké (born 2002, Reims) is a French centre-forward for Liverpool and France, formerly of Reims, PSG and Eintracht Frankfurt; joined Liverpool in 2025, suffered an Achilles injury in April 2026.

Hugo F. Sonnenschein

Hugo F. Sonnenschein (1940–2021) was an American economist known for the Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem on aggregate demand and for serving as the 11th president of the University of Chicago.

Hugo Gernsback

Hugo Gernsback (Hugo Gernsbacher, 1884–1967), Luxembourg-born American publisher who founded Amazing Stories in 1926, coined "scientifiction" and "science fiction," birthed sf fandom, and gave his name to the Hugo Awards.

Hugo González (basketball)

Hugo González Peña (born 2006, Madrid) is a Spanish NBA guard-forward, Real Madrid academy product, drafted 28th overall in 2025 by the Boston Celtics; U17 and U18 silver medalist with Spain.

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot, 1583–1645), Dutch jurist and natural law theorist, author of Mare Liberum and De iure belli ac pacis (1625); exiled Dutch politician, Swedish ambassador, and traditional father of international law.

Hugo Gyldén

Hugo Gyldén, born Johan August Hugo Gyldén, was a Finland-Swedish astronomer and celestial mechanician who headed the Stockholm Observatory from 1871 until his death in 1896, reforming perturbation theory.

Hugo Hadwiger

Hugo Hadwiger was a Swiss mathematician who took his doctorate at Bern in 1936 and is known for Hadwiger's conjecture in graph theory and his covering conjecture in convex geometry.

Hugo Helsten

Hugo Helsten (Hugo Alexander Helsten), Danish gymnast (1894-1978) from Hermod, Esbjerg, who won gold in the men's team free system event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, Denmark scoring 51.35 to Norway's 48.55.