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Haminoea
Haminoea is a genus of herbivorous bubble snails (Cephalaspidea, Haminoeidae) from Atlantic and Eastern Pacific coasts; 15 accepted species, formerly treated worldwide, now split from Haloa and relatives.
Hamir Singh of Nabha
Hamir Singh (ਹਮੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ) was the founder-ruler of Nabha State, a Phulkian Sikh principality in the Punjab, who reigned from 1754 to 1783 and founded the city of Nabha.
Hamish Blake
Hamish Blake (born 1981, Melbourne) is an Australian comedian and presenter, half of Hamish and Andy with Andy Lee, host of LEGO Masters Australia, two-time Gold Logie winner, OAM recipient, and LiSTNR podcaster.
Hamish Bond
Hamish Bond (born 1986, Dunedin), New Zealand rower and cyclist; three straight Olympic rowing golds (coxless pair 2012 and 2016 with Eric Murray, eight 2020), 69-race unbeaten streak, eight world titles, 2018 Commonwealth cycling bronze.
Hamish Carter
Hamish Carter (born 1971, Auckland), New Zealand triathlete, ONZM; won men's Olympic triathlon gold at Athens 2004 in 1:51:07.73, beating Bevan Docherty; 26th at Sydney 2000; 12 World Cup wins; retired 2007. Not the Scottish gymnast of the same name.
Hamish Falconer
Hamish Falconer, Labour MP for Lincoln since July 2024 and former UK diplomat, is Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations (FCDO and Cabinet Office, 2026), previously FCDO Middle East minister.
Hamish Harding
Hamish Harding (1964–2023) was a British businessman, jet pilot, and explorer who founded Dubai's Action Aviation, held three Guinness World Records, and died in the 2023 Titan submersible implosion.
Hamish Kerr
Hamish Kerr, New Zealand high jumper born 1996 in Dunedin; Olympic champion Paris 2024, world outdoor champion Tokyo 2025, world indoor champion 2024, Commonwealth champion 2022; NZ and Oceania record holder at 2.36m.
Hamish Linklater
Hamish Linklater (born 1976, Great Barrington, Massachusetts) is an American actor, playwright, and director. Son of Kristin Linklater, known for Old Christine, Midnight Mass's Father Paul, Legion, voicing Batman in Caped Crusader, Gen V's Cipher, and plays The Vandal and The Whirligig.
Hamish Macbeth (TV series)
Hamish Macbeth: BBC Scotland comedy-drama (1995-1997, BBC One, 20 episodes, 3 series) starring Robert Carlyle as a Highland village constable in fictional Lochdubh, loosely adapted from M.C. Beaton's novels and filmed in Plockton.
Hamish N. Munro
Hamish N. Munro (H.N. Munro) was a Scottish-born nutritional biochemist who studied protein metabolism at MIT and Tufts, founding the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.
Hamish Robertson
R. G. Hamish Robertson (born 1943) is a Canadian-born nuclear and neutrino physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, known for the Los Alamos tritium experiments, SNO, and KATRIN.
Hamit Altıntop
Hamit Altıntop, born 1982 in Gelsenkirchen, Turkish midfielder, twin of Halil Altıntop; played for Schalke, Bayern, Real Madrid, Galatasaray, Darmstadt; 82 Turkey caps, EURO 2008 Team of the Tournament, 2010 FIFA Puskás Award winner.
Hamit Kaplan
Hamit Kaplan was a Turkish freestyle wrestler, born in 1934 and died in 1976, who earned the distinction of winning three consecutive Olympic medals.
Hamites
Hamites were a supposed people of the Bible's Table of Nations, defined by 19th-century European scholars as a distinct African race and basis of the discredited Hamitic hypothesis.
Hamiyata
Hamiyata was a king of Masuwari, the Luwian name for Til Barsip on the Euphrates in Syria, ruling in the late 10th or early 9th century BC.
Hamka
Hamka was the pen name of Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–1981), an Indonesian Islamic modernist scholar and novelist from Minangkabau, West Sumatra, known for Tafsir Al-Azhar and Tasauf Moderen.
Hamlet
Hamlet (The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) is Shakespeare's revenge tragedy of a Danish prince avenging his father's murder by Claudius. Survives in three early texts: Q1 1603, Q2 1604, First Folio 1623.
Hamlet (1948 film)
Hamlet (1948) is Laurence Olivier's British black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which he directed, produced, and starred in; it won four Oscars including Best Picture, the first non-American film to do so.
Hamlet (1990 film)
Hamlet (1990) is Franco Zeffirelli's 135-minute film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, and Helena Bonham Carter, cut by nearly three hours, filmed at Dover Castle, and released 19 December 1990 by Warner Bros.
Hamlet (1996 film)
Hamlet (1996) is Kenneth Branagh's four-hour, 70 mm film of Shakespeare's play, the first unabridged screen version, set in the 19th century at Blenheim Palace, starring Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, and Kate Winslet.
Hamlet (crater)
Hamlet is a large impact crater on Oberon, the outermost moon of Uranus, and at 206 km across it is the largest of the moon's nine named craters.
Hamlet (place)
Hamlet (place): a small rural settlement smaller than a village, from Old French hamel; typically a few houses or farms, under about 100 people, with few or no services and often no church.
Hamlet 2
Hamlet 2 is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Andrew Fleming, starring Steve Coogan as a high school drama teacher who stages a musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Hamleys
Hamleys is a British toy retailer and licensing brand, best known for its seven-floor Regent Street flagship in London, owned by India's Reliance Industries since 2019.
Hamline University
Hamline University is a private university in Saint Paul, Minnesota, founded in 1854, making it the first university in Minnesota. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery
The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery is a research center at Imperial College London founded in 2008 with £10m support from the Helen Hamlyn Trust, developing imaging, sensing, and robotics for surgery.
Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
Hamm (Westfalen) is a district-free city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded 1226 by Count Adolf von der Mark; about 179,000 inhabitants, railway and wire-industry hub of the northeastern Ruhr with collieries de Wendel, Maximilian, Radbod, and Sachsen.
Hamm's Brewery
Hamm's Brewery (Theodore Hamm Brewing Company), founded 1865 in St. Paul, Minnesota, by German immigrant Theodore Hamm; grew to the fifth-largest U.S. brewery by the 1950s behind the Hamm's Bear and "land of sky-blue waters" ads; Saint Paul plant closed 1997, brand now under Molson Coors.
Hammad al-Rawiya
Hammad al-Rawiya (حماد الراوية) was a Kufan transmitter of ancient Arabic poetry who collected the seven Mu'allaqat and served the Umayyad caliphs Yazid II and al-Walid II.