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Hugo Herrnhof
Hugo Herrnhof (born 1964, Bolzano, Italy), Italian short-track speed skater; Olympic gold in the men's 5,000 m relay at Lillehammer 1994 with Carnino, Fagone, and Vuillermin; later ISU Speed Skating Sports director.
Hugo Island
Hugo Island, also called Victor Hugo Island (Russian) or Isla Víctor Hugo (Spanish, Chilean), is an ice-covered Antarctic island 1 mi long at 64°57'S, 65°45'W off the west Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot for Victor Hugo.
Hugo J. Bellen
Hugo J. Bellen is a Drosophila geneticist and neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for building genome-wide fly genetic tools and finding human neurological disease genes.
Hugo Johansson
Hugo Johansson names two Swedish Olympians: Carl Hugo Johansson (1887–1977), Stockholm shooter with 2 gold and 3 bronze medals 1912–1924, and Anders Sigfrid Hugo Johansson (1888–1969), Malmö Greco-Roman featherweight wrestler at Stockholm 1912.
Hugo Johnstone-Burt
Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Scottish-Australian actor (born 1987 or 1988), known for Constable Hugh Collins in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet, and Ben in San Andreas (2015).
Hugo Junkers
Hugo Junkers was a German engineer and industrialist who built the first practical all-metal aircraft and founded a major aircraft manufacturer in Dessau, active from 1915.
Hugo K. Dooner
Hugo K. Dooner is a maize geneticist and Rutgers University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 for research on transposable elements.
Hugo Kant
Hugo Kant is the alias of Quentin Le Roux, a French multi-instrumentalist making trip-hop and downtempo from acoustic recordings and samples, based in Marseille since 2011.
Hugo Karlen
Hugo Karlén, also spelled Hugo Karlen, a Swedish middle-distance runner born 1911 of Brandkårens IK Stockholm, member of the 1941 4x1500 m relay quartet that ran 15:42.0 and the 4x1 mile 17:02.8; distinct from athletes Hugo Carlin and Hugo Carlén.
Hugo Knümann
Hugo Knümann was a German merchant who founded the company that became Phoenix Contact in Essen in 1923 and patented the terminal block on a DIN rail.
Hugo Kołłątaj
Hugo Kołłątaj (1750–1812) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, political writer, and statesman who co-authored the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and led the reform circle "Kołłątaj's Forge."
Hugo Kronecker
Hugo Kronecker (1839–1914) was a German physiologist, professor of physiology at the University of Bern from 1884, known for cardiac research identifying Kronecker's point and the refractory period.
Hugo Laemmer
Hugo Laemmer (1835–1918) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and canonist who converted from Lutheranism in 1858 and taught for over fifty years at the University of Breslau.
Hugo Lloris
Hugo Lloris, born 1986 in Nice, French goalkeeper for LAFC; World Cup-winning captain of France 2018 with record 145 caps; ex-Nice, Lyon, and Tottenham captain 2015-2023.
Hugo Loetscher
Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009) was a Swiss writer, journalist, and literary critic from Zürich known for an ironic, critical examination of Swiss identity and for the novel Der Immune.
Hugo Motta
Hugo Motta (Hugo Motta Wanderley da Nóbrega) is a Brazilian physician and Republicanos federal deputy for Paraíba since 2011, president of the Chamber of Deputies since February 2025.
Hugo Mujica
Hugo Mujica (born 1942) is an Argentine poet and Catholic priest who spent seven years as a silent Trappist monk and won the 2025 Premio Loewe.
Hugo Münsterberg
Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) was a German-American psychologist recruited by William James to Harvard in 1892, often credited with founding applied psychology in industry, law, and medicine.
Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz
Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz (1853–1932) was a German pharmacologist, professor of pharmacology at the University of Greifswald from 1883, credited with the Arndt–Schulz law and regarded as the discoverer of hormesis.
Hugo RAS
Hugo RAS is Medtronic's modular multi-port soft-tissue surgical robot, used in Europe since 2021 and cleared by the FDA in December 2025 for adult urologic procedures.
Hugo Riemann
Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) was a German musicologist, generally seen as the most important of his age, whose function theory and Musik-Lexikon shaped modern music theory.
Hugo Rodallega
Hugo Rodallega Martínez (born 1985, El Carmelo, Colombia), nicknamed Rodagol, Colombian centre-forward and Santa Fe captain; 2005 U-20 Sudamericano top scorer, ex-Wigan and Fulham, 100 Liga BetPlay goals.
Hugo Sánchez
Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 1958, Mexico City), Mexican forward, greatest Mexican footballer; Real Madrid 1985–1992, 208 goals, five straight La Liga titles, four Pichichis, 38-goal one-touch season, IFFHS 20th-century best of North/Central America.
Hugo Sellheim
Hugo Sellheim (1871–1936) was a German physician and gynecologist whose experimental work produced the birth-mechanics law of least constraint; he held chairs at Düsseldorf, Tübingen, Halle, and Leipzig.
Hugo Shong (熊晓鸽) (Xiong Xiaoge)
Hugo Shong, also known as Xiong Xiaoge, is a Chinese venture capitalist who founded IDG Capital in 1993, with early stakes in Tencent and Baidu.
Hugo Speer
Hugo Speer is an English actor born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, known for playing Guy in The Full Monty (1997) and TV roles in The Musketeers, Britannia, London Kills, and Shadow and Bone; dismissed from the 2023 Full Monty series.
Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle (Wilhelm Hugo Sperrle, 1885–1953) was a German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall, first Condor Legion commander and Luftflotte 3 chief through France and Britain; acquitted at Nuremberg's High Command case in 1948.
Hugo Steinhaus
Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972) was a Polish mathematician, a student of David Hilbert, who co-founded the Lwów School of Mathematics and proved the Banach–Steinhaus theorem of 1927.
Hugo Stinnes
Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924) was a German industrialist who built the largest conglomerate in Germany from a Ruhr coal-trading firm, becoming the emblem of the 1919–1923 inflation.
Hugo Strange
Hugo Strange, also Professor or Dr. Hugo Strange, is a DC Comics Batman supervillain created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, debuting in Detective Comics #36 (February 1940) before the Joker. Known for the Monster Men, deducing Batman's identity, and Arkham City.