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Hyolithes

Hyolithes: namesake genus of hyoliths, extinct conical-shelled lophotrochozoans with an operculum and, in hyolithids, helens; Cambrian to end-Permian, phylogenetic position debated.

Hyolyn (효린)

Hyolyn (효린), born Kim Hyo-jung in 1991, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, former Sistar leader and main vocalist, Sistar19 member, founder of Brid3, and soloist behind Dally, Layin' Low, and the 2026 EP OriginaLyn.

Hyomin

Hyomin (효민), real name Park Sun-young (박선영), born 1989 in Busan, is a South Korean singer and actress, T-ara and T-ara N4 member on rap and vocals, solo EPs Make Up, Sketch, Allure, and MINITT founder.

Hyon K. Choi

Hyon K. Choi, also published as Hyon-Kyoo Choi, is a Korean-born rheumatologist and epidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for research on gout.

Hyongbum Henry Kim

Hyongbum Henry Kim (김형범) is a South Korean pharmacologist and genome-editing researcher, professor of pharmacology at Yonsei University College of Medicine, known for CRISPR delivery and prime-editing research.

Hyongsok Tom Soh

Hyongsok Tom Soh, known professionally as H. Tom Soh, is an electrical engineer and bioengineer, a Stanford professor since 2015 known for continuous in-vivo biosensors and directed evolution of aptamers.

Hyoscine butylbromide

Hyoscine butylbromide, also called butylscopolamine and best known as Buscopan, is an antispasmodic drug used since 1951 to relieve abdominal cramps, irritable bowel syndrome, and spasms of the urinary tract.

Hyoscyamine

Hyoscyamine, a tropane alkaloid from Atropa belladonna and the L-isomer of atropine, is an antimuscarinic antispasmodic used for GI spasm and IBS, with weak efficacy evidence and anticholinergic side effects.

Hyoscyamus

Hyoscyamus (henbane) is a Solanaceae genus of about 23 herb species native from Macaronesia and Africa to temperate Eurasia, source of tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine, scopolamine, and tropine; sister genus Anisodus, type species H. niger.

Hyoscyamus niger

Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane, stinking nightshade, tian xian zi) is a poisonous Solanaceae herb native from the Mediterranean to Iran, containing the tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used since antiquity as a sedative and analgesic.

Hyosung (motorcycle manufacturer)

Hyosung is a South Korean motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1978 and based in Changwon, known for GT-series sportbikes and GV-series cruisers powered by its own 647 cc V-twin.

Hyotcherl Ihee

Hyotcherl Ihee (이효철) is a South Korean chemist, a KAIST professor since 2003 and founding director of the IBS Center for Advanced Reaction Dynamics, known for time-resolved X-ray liquidography.

HYOU1

HYOU1 (GRP170, ORP150) is a 999-amino-acid ER chaperone of the HSP70 superfamily on chromosome 11q23.3, induced by hypoxia and glucose starvation, acting as chaperone and BiP nucleotide exchange factor, upregulated in many cancers.

Hyouka (氷菓)

Hyouka (氷菓) is Honobu Yonezawa's 2001 debut novel, first of the Classic Literature Club series, a Japanese everyday-mystery in which energy-saving Houtarou Oreki and curious Eru Chitanda investigate a 33-year-old incident behind a Classics Club anthology, adapted into a 2012 Kyoto Animation anime.

Hyoyoung Lee

Hyoyoung Lee is a South Korean materials chemist, professor at Sungkyunkwan University and Associate Director of the IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, known for graphene materials and single-atom electrocatalysis.

Hypacanthoplites

Hypacanthoplites is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopods in the family Parahoplitidae, established in 1923 and known from late Aptian to early Albian rocks of the Early Cretaceous.

Hypaepa

Hypaepa, also spelled Hypaipa, was an ancient city of Lydia near Mount Tmolus in western Anatolia, known for its Persian sanctuary of Anahita worshipped as Artemis Anaitis.

Hypanis Valles

Hypanis Valles is a valley system on Mars, near the Chryse escarpment, whose terminal fan has been interpreted as an ancient delta from a former sea.

Hyparrhenia

Hyparrhenia (thatching grass) is an African-centered genus of about 58 accepted C4 grasses in tribe Andropogoneae, family Poaceae, valued for thatch and young forage, with H. rufa, H. hirta, and H. filipendula the best-known species.

Hypata

Hypata (Ὑπάτη, modern Ypati, medieval Neopatras) was an ancient Greek city in the Spercheius valley at Mt. Oeta, capital of the Aenianes, later Aetolian League seat and setting of Apuleius's ass-transformation tale.

Hypatia

Hypatia of Alexandria, daughter of the mathematician Theon, was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, the first woman in the history of mathematics, murdered by a mob in 415.

Hypatian Chronicle

The Hypatian Chronicle (Ипатьевская летопись) is a South Russian chronicle compilation joining three Old Rus' chronicles, the most valuable narrative source for south-western Rus' through the 1200s.

HYPE (hydrological model)

HYPE (HYdrological Predictions for the Environment) is a semi-distributed catchment model simulating water flow and nutrients, developed at SMHI in Sweden and applied operationally there since 2008.

Hype man

Hype man (hypeman): a hip-hop performer providing backup rapping, call-and-response chants, and crowd excitement beside a lead MC, exemplified by Flavor Flav of Public Enemy; the role originated in 1970s block parties and influenced recorded ad libs.

Hype Williams

Hype Williams (Harold Williams, born 1970, Queens, New York) is the American music video and film director behind Belly (1998) and landmark 1990s hip-hop videos, known for fisheye lenses and saturated color; distinct from the London band named after him.

Hyper (2016 film)

Hyper (హైపర్) is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Santosh Srinivas, starring Ram Pothineni, Raashi Khanna, and Sathyaraj, released on 30 September 2016.

Hyper Beast Inc.

Hyper Beast Inc. is a Los Angeles crowdsourcing and network-marketing company, organized in California in 2021, that pays gig workers in sweat equity to promote startups' products and services.

Hyper Knife

Hyper Knife (하이퍼나이프) is a 2025 South Korean Disney+ medical crime thriller, 8 episodes, starring Park Eun-bin as disgraced neurosurgeon Jung Se-ok and Sul Kyung-gu as her mentor Choi Deok-hee; Emmy-nominated, directed by Kim Jung-hyun.

Hyper Light Drifter

Hyper Light Drifter: 2016 top-down 2D action RPG by Heart Machine, created by Alx Preston, Kickstarter-funded ($645,158), wordless storytelling, dash-based combat, Metacritic 84, IGF visual art winner.

Hyper Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy

Hyper Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy is a nonlinear optical technique that measures incoherent second-harmonic light from molecules in solution to determine their first hyperpolarizability, introduced by Clays and Persoons in 1991.