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John Healey
John Healey is a British Labour politician who has been Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2026 and served as Secretary of State for Defence from 2024 to 2026.
John Healy
John Healy (1841–1918) was an Irish Catholic priest, historian, and Archbishop of Tuam from 1903, known for his books on early Irish Christianity and for denouncing the Plan of Campaign.
John Heard (actor)
John Matthew Heard (1945 or 1946 - 2017), American character actor; played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Detective Vin Makazian in The Sopranos; Emmy-nominated 1999; Obie and Theatre World Award stage actor.
John Heartfield
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891–1968) was a German artist and pioneer of political photomontage, best known for anti-fascist images in the AIZ weekly during the Weimar Republic and Nazi era.
John Hedley‐Whyte
John Hedley-Whyte (1933–2026) was a British-born anesthesiologist who built the academic discipline of anesthesia and respiratory intensive care at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
John Heilemann
John Heilemann, American political journalist, co-author with Mark Halperin of Game Change and Double Down on the 2008 and 2012 elections; former New York magazine national affairs editor, Bloomberg Politics and The Circus host, now Puck chief political columnist.
John Heinz
John Heinz, formally Henry John Heinz III, was a Republican US Senator from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1991 and an heir to the Heinz food fortune.
John Heisman
John Heisman (1869–1936), American college football coach and namesake of the Heisman Trophy; coached at Oberlin, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech (1904–1919), Penn, and Rice, with a 186-70-18 record.
John Heitinga
John Heitinga (born 1983, Alphen aan den Rijn), Dutch defender and coach; Ajax player and two-time head coach, assistant at West Ham, Liverpool, Tottenham; sacked by Ajax November 2025.
John Hencken
John Hencken, an American competition swimmer, competed for Santa Clara Swim Club and Stanford University. He won multiple Olympic medals and set 13 world records.
John Hendrickson
John Hendrickson (John Henry Hendrickson, 1872-1925), American trapshooter and court stenographer from Long Island, New York; won team trap gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and placed 44th in individual trap.
John Hennegan
John Michael Hennegan is a founding partner of Shore Capital Partners, a Chicago private equity firm, and co-heads its Healthcare Advantage Fund for companies with $10-50 million of EBITDA.
John Henry (folklore)
John Henry, the Steel Driving Man: American folk hero and ballad of a steel driver who beat a steam drill and died; historical candidates, 1924 first recording, Talcott heritage.
John Henry Alexander
John Henry Alexander (1812–1867) was an American scientist and civil engineer from Annapolis, Maryland, who directed Maryland's first topographical and geological survey from the 1830s.
John Henry Carpenter
John Henry Carpenter, American video-equipment salesman, friend of Bob Crane, tried and acquitted in 1994 for Crane's 1978 Scottsdale murder; case remains unsolved; died 1998.
John Henry Daley
John Henry Daley, Michigan Wolverines defensive end #90 from Alpine, Utah; previously BYU and Utah; 2025 Walter Camp first-team All-American with 11.5 sacks; Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week 2026.
John Henry Dearle
John Henry Dearle (1859–1932), also J.H. Dearle, was a British Arts and Crafts designer at Morris & Co., chief designer from 1890 and Art Director after Morris's 1896 death, creator of Golden Lily, Compton, and Blackthorn, long misattributed to William Morris.
John Henry Holland
John Henry Holland (1929–2015) was an American scientist and University of Michigan professor who invented genetic algorithms, pioneered complex adaptive systems, and helped found the Santa Fe Institute.
John Henry Jowett
John Henry Jowett (1863–1923) was an English Congregational minister whose pastorates in Birmingham, New York, and London made him perhaps the greatest English-speaking preacher of his era.
John Henry Livingston
John Henry Livingston (1746–1825) was an American Dutch Reformed minister, called the father of the Reformed Dutch Church in America, who reunited its factions and founded its first theological seminary.
John Henry Michell
John Henry Michell (1863–1940) was an Australian mathematician who spent his career at the University of Melbourne; his 1898 thin-ship formula for wave-making resistance has never been improved upon.
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was an English theologian who led the Oxford Movement, converted to Catholicism in 1845, became a cardinal in 1879, and was canonized in 2019.
John Henry Overton
John Henry Overton (1835–1903) was an English Anglican priest and church historian who served as canon of Peterborough and wrote, with Charles Abbey, The English Church in the Eighteenth Century.
John Henry Patterson (author)
John Henry Patterson (1867–1947), Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author, and Zionist, wrote The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) about the lions he killed in 1898, and commanded the Zion Mule Corps and Jewish Legion.
John Henry Poynting
John Henry Poynting (1852–1914) was a British physicist who introduced the Poynting vector for electromagnetic energy flow and, known as the man who weighed the Earth, measured its mean density.
John Henry Schwarz
John Henry Schwarz, born in 1941, is an American theoretical physicist and co-founder of superstring theory who spent his career at Caltech and shared the 2014 Breakthrough Prize.
John Henry Wigmore
John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American legal scholar whose Treatise on Evidence, first published 1904–05, is regarded as one of the world's great books on law.
John Henry, Margrave of Moravia
John Henry of Luxembourg (Czech: Jan Jindřich Lucemburský, 1322–1375) was the younger brother of Emperor Charles IV, count of Tyrol from 1335, and margrave of Moravia from 1349 to 1375.
John Henson (basketball)
John Henson (born 1990, Greensboro, NC) is a retired American NBA center/power forward, UNC two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year, drafted 14th overall by Milwaukee in 2012; career 7.6 points, 5.3 rebounds over 445 games; retired September 2024.
John Henson (comedian)
John Morris Henson (born 1967, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American comedian and TV host, distinct from Jim Henson's puppeteer son; he hosted E!'s Talk Soup 1995-1999, ABC's Wipeout, and Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship.