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John Hannah (actor)
John Hannah (born 1962, East Kilbride, Scotland) is a Scottish actor known for Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral (BAFTA-nominated), James Hammerton in Sliding Doors, Jonathan Carnahan in The Mummy trilogy, and Batiatus in Spartacus.
John Hannah (American football)
John Hannah (born 1951), nicknamed Hog, was a New England Patriots guard 1973-1985, drafted fourth overall in 1973 from Alabama; 10-time All-Pro, 9 Pro Bowls, first Patriot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1991).
John Hannay
John Howard Hannay (born 1951) is a British theoretical physicist and University of Bristol professor, known for the Hannay angle, the classical counterpart of Berry's phase.
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke (1827–1864) was a British army officer and explorer who sighted Lake Victoria in 1858 and identified it as the source of the Nile.
John Hanson
As a delegate, John Hanson signed the Articles of Confederation and was elected president of the Congress of the Confederation in 1781, serving a one-year term.
John Happel
John Happel was a chemical engineer at Columbia University known for Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, written with Howard Brenner, and for isotope tracing methods in catalysis.
John Harabedian
John Harabedian is an American Democratic politician and attorney representing California's 41st Assembly district; a former Sierra Madre mayor and prosecutor, he focuses on wildfire recovery.
John Harada
John Harada is a Chicago futures trader who co-founded Allston Trading in 2002 with Bob Jordan and Elrick Williams; the algorithmic market maker was sold to DV Group in 2021.
John Harbaugh
John Harbaugh, NFL head coach; Baltimore Ravens 2008-25, Super Bowl XLVII winner over brother Jim's 49ers; 2019 AP Coach of the Year; named New York Giants head coach January 20, 2026.
John Hardy (neurogeneticist)
John Hardy, born 1954 in Lancashire, is a British neurogeneticist at University College London whose team identified the first Alzheimer's disease mutation in 1991 and was knighted in 2022.
John Hargis
John Lawson Hargis (born 1975), American butterfly and backstroke swimmer; 1996 Olympic gold in the 4x100 m medley relay (heats), 1998 Worlds silver, Auburn All-American, later Penn State and Pittsburgh head coach.
John Harington (writer)
Sir John Harington (1560-1612), Elizabeth I's godson, English courtier and writer; first English translator of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1591), author of The Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596) with a flush-toilet design, and manuscript-circulated epigrams published posthumously 1615-1618.
John Harkes
John Harkes (born 1967, Kearny, NJ) is an American soccer midfielder, first American in the Premier League (Sheffield Wednesday), 90-cap USMNT captain, co-MVP 1995 Copa America, and D.C. United MLS Cup winner.
John Harrington
John Michael "Bah" Harrington (born 1957, Virginia, Minnesota) is the American right wing who won 1980 Olympic ice hockey gold with the Miracle on Ice team, played at the 1984 Games, and has coached Saint John's University since 1993. Not the boxer Kellie, golfer Padraig, or other Harringtons.
John Harris (dermatologist)
John E. Harris is an American physician-scientist and dermatologist who showed that interferon-gamma drives vitiligo, enabling JAK inhibitor therapies, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
John Harrison
John Harrison (1693–1776) was a Yorkshire carpenter turned self-taught clockmaker whose marine timekeepers H1 through H4 solved the longitude problem, earning him over £23,000 from Parliament.
John Harrison's H4
John Harrison's H4 is the fourth marine timekeeper of English clockmaker John Harrison, a large pocket-watch-like instrument completed in 1759 that solved the longitude problem at sea.
John Harry Williams
John Harry Williams (1908–1966) was a Canadian-American experimental physicist who built the University of Minnesota's nuclear physics program and led accelerator work at Los Alamos.
John Hart (actor)
John Hart (John Lewis Hart, 1917–2009), American actor also credited as John Hilton, who replaced Clayton Moore as TV's Lone Ranger for 52 episodes from 1952 and starred in the Jack Armstrong serial and Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans.
John Hartford
John Hartford (John Cowan Harford, 1937-2001), American bluegrass and newgrass songwriter, banjoist, fiddler, and riverboat pilot; wrote "Gentle on My Mind," made Aereo-Plain and Mark Twang, won 4 Grammys.
John Hartson
John Hartson, born 1975, Welsh centre-forward for Arsenal, West Ham, Celtic, and Wales; 167 club goals plus 14 international; survived testicular cancer; later pundit and Wales assistant coach.
John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), American physician, surgeon, and eugenicist who directed the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invented Granola and corn flakes with brother W.K. Kellogg, and was disfellowshipped from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1907.
John Hasler (musician)
John Hasler (musician): British ska/punk drummer, original drummer, brief vocalist and manager of the North London Invaders, which became Madness in 1979; subject of Bed and Breakfast Man; later The Nips, Guns for Hire, and first drummer of The Pogues (1982-1983).
John Hauser (American football)
John Hauser is an American college football coach, 31st head coach of the Ohio Bobcats (named Dec. 26, 2025) after winning the 2025 Frisco Bowl as interim; former Wittenberg safety and Ohio defensive coordinator.
John Havlicek
John Havlicek (1940-2019), nicknamed Hondo, Boston Celtics forward-guard 1962-78, 8 NBA titles, 26,395 career points, 1974 Finals MVP, Hall of Fame Class of 1984, namesake of the NBA Sixth Man of the Year trophy.
John Hawkes (actor)
John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins, 1959) is an American character actor known for Deadwood's Sol Star, his Oscar-nominated Teardrop in Winter's Bone, The Sessions, and two 2024 Emmy nominations for True Detective: Night Country.
John Hawkins (naval commander)
Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), Elizabethan naval commander and merchant, was England's first slave trader, leading three 1560s slaving voyages backed by Elizabeth I, then reformed the Royal Navy as treasurer and fought the 1588 Armada.
John Hay
John Milton Hay (1838–1905), American Secretary of State 1898–1905 under McKinley and Roosevelt, Lincoln's private secretary, co-author of the 10-volume Lincoln history, author of the Open Door notes and the Panama Canal treaties.
John Hay Whitney
John Hay Whitney, known as Jock Whitney, was an American venture capitalist who founded J.H. Whitney & Company in 1946 and published the New York Herald Tribune.
John Hays Hammond Jr.
John Hays Hammond Jr. (1888–1965) was an American inventor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, called the Father of Radio Control; he held 437 US patents and developed jam-resistant radio control of ships.