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Hugo Strauß
Hugo Strauß (Max Hugo Strauß), German rower (1907–1941), 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist in men's coxless pairs with Willi Eichhorn; Mannheimer RC member, founding president of Adler Mannheim's predecessor MERC, SS member killed on the Eastern Front.
Hugo Tejeda
Hugo Tejeda is a circuit neuroscientist who leads the Unit on Neuromodulation and Synaptic Integration at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland, and received the PECASE award in January 2025.
Hugo Ten Cate
Hugo ten Cate is a Dutch internist and physician-scientist, professor emeritus at Maastricht University, known for linking blood coagulation with inflammation and for advancing thrombin generation testing.
Hugo Theorell
Hugo Theorell, born Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell, was a Swedish biochemist at the Karolinska Institutet who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for work on oxidation enzymes.
Hugo van der Goes
Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440–1482) was a Flemish painter, probably born in Ghent, who combined the styles of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick, Baron Hugo van Lawick (1937-2002), Dutch wildlife photographer and filmmaker; sent by National Geographic to Gombe in 1962, he filmed Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research, married her 1964-1974, and spent three decades filming the Serengeti.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) was an Austrian writer who co-founded the Salzburg Festival and wrote the libretti for six Richard Strauss operas, from Elektra to Arabella.
Hugo von Seeliger
Hugo von Seeliger, also known as Hugo Hans Seeliger, was a German astronomer who held the Munich chair of astronomy and directed the Bogenhausen observatory from 1882.
Hugo von Zeipel
Hugo von Zeipel, full name Edvard Hugo von Zeipel, was a Swedish astronomer (1873 to 1959) whose 1924 analysis of rotating stars produced the von Zeipel theorem and gravity-darkening law.
Hugo Wast
Hugo Wast, pen name of Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría (1883–1962), was an Argentine novelist and politician whose Catholic, nationalist fiction made him a best-selling but criticized writer.
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving (Hugo Wallace Weaving, born 1960) is an Australian stage and film actor, NIDA graduate and Order of Australia recipient, known for Agent Smith in The Matrix, Elrond in The Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, Megatron's voice, and Slow Horses.
Hugo Wilhelm Knipping
Hugo Wilhelm Knipping (1895–1984) was a German physician and internist who founded clinical spiroergometry, combining a gas-metabolism apparatus with a crank ergometer in 1929 and heading the University of Cologne's medical clinic from 1939 to 1963.
Hugo Zeberg
Hugo Zeberg is a Swedish physician and geneticist at Karolinska Institutet known for showing, with Svante Pääbo, that a Neanderthal-inherited gene segment raises the risk of severe COVID-19.
Hugo's House of Horrors
Hugo's House of Horrors (Hugo 1, Hugo's Horrific Adventure) is a 1990 shareware DOS graphic adventure by David P. Gray of Gray Design Associates, in which Hugo rescues Penelope from a haunted-house mad scientist using arrow keys and a text parser.
Hugoniot
A Hugoniot is the curve of pressure-volume states a material can reach behind a shock wave, the primary experimental product of shock-compression physics and a foundation for equation-of-state models.
Hugs and kisses
Hugs and kisses, written XOXO, is an affectionate sign-off in letters and texts where X means kiss and O means hug; X dates to the 1700s, O to the 1960s, with XX common in the UK.
Huguenot Tunnel
The Huguenot Tunnel is a 3.9 km toll road tunnel on the N1 in South Africa's Western Cape, opened in 1988 and the longest road tunnel in the country.
Huguenots
The Huguenots, French Huguenots, were French Calvinist Protestants of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, tolerated by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 and persecuted after Louis XIV revoked it in 1685.
Hugues de Payens
Hugues de Payens (Hugo de Paganis, died 24 May 1136), Champagne knight and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar, founded the order in Jerusalem around 1118-1119 with Geoffroi de Saint-Omer and won church recognition at the 1129 Council of Troyes.
Hugues de Riedmatten
Hugues de Riedmatten is an experimental physicist and ICREA Research Professor at ICFO in Barcelona who works on quantum memories and quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication.
Hugues de The
Hugues de The (Hugues de Thé), born 1959, is a French physician-scientist at the Collège de France who explained how retinoic acid and arsenic cure acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Huh-7
Huh-7 (HuH-7, JTC-39, CVCL_0336) is a human hepatoma cell line established in 1982 from a 57-year-old Japanese man's hepatocellular carcinoma; with derivatives Huh7.5 and Huh7.5.1 it is the standard host for hepatitis C virus culture and a model for liver metabolism and cancer.
Huhanye Chanyu
Huhanye Chanyu (呼韩邪单于), personal name Jihoushan, was a chanyu of the Xiongnu who rose in a civil war, submitted to Han as a vassal, and ended their state of war.
Huhanye Chanyu's Homage to the Han Court
Huhanye Chanyu's Homage to the Han Court (匈奴呼韩邪来朝) was the first formal submission of a Xiongnu chanyu, Huhanye, to Emperor Xuan of Han in 51 BC.
Huhanye Chanyu's submission to Han
Huhanye Chanyu's submission to Han (呼韓邪單于降漢) was the Xiongnu ruler Huhanye Chanyu's offer of allegiance to the Han dynasty, presenting himself at the Wuyuan frontier passes in 52 BC.
Hui Aloha ʻĀina
Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League) was a Native Hawaiian organization founded after the 1893 overthrow to oppose U.S. annexation; its 1897 petition carried 21,269 signatures and helped defeat the annexation treaty in the Senate.
Hui Cao
Hui Cao is a physicist and the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, known for random lasers, wave-chaotic microcavity lasers, and a compact chip-scale spectrometer.
Hui Gumm Yaadein Ek Doctor, Do Zindagiyaan
Hui Gumm Yaadein Ek Doctor, Do Zindagiyaan (हुई गुम...यादें) is an Indian Hindi medical drama series, adapted from the Italian series DOC – Nelle tue mani, airing on Sony SAB since 2026.
Hui Kālaiʻāina
Hui Kālaiʻāina, translated as the Hawaiian Political Association or National Party, was a Native Hawaiian political organization founded in 1888 to oppose the 1887 Bayonet Constitution.
Hui Li
Hui Li (李慧), Chinese swimmer from Shanghai; set the women's 50 m backstroke short-course world record of 26.83 s on 2 December 2001 at the FINA World Cup in Shanghai, aged 16. Distinct from Singapore's Li Hui Genevieve Lye and Canada's Hau-Li Fan.