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John Henton
John Henton (born 1960, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor and comedian, known as Overton Wakefield Jones on Living Single (1993-1998) and Milsap Morris on The Hughleys (1998-2002), after a stand-up career launched by a 1991 Johnny Carson appearance.
John Herbert Hollomon, Jr.
J. Herbert Hollomon (1919–1985) was an American metallurgist who led materials research at General Electric, became the first Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, and served as president of the University of Oklahoma.
John Herdman
John Herdman (born 1975, Consett, England) is a football coach who led New Zealand's and Canada's women's teams, took Canada's men to Qatar 2022, coached Toronto FC, and now manages Indonesia.
John Herschel
John Herschel (1792–1871) was an English astronomer, chemist, and philosopher of science, son of William Herschel, who completed his father's survey of the skies from Cape Town and helped found photography.
John Hersey
John Hersey (1914–1993) was an American journalist and novelist whose 1946 book Hiroshima is often called the first nonfiction novel; he won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano.
John Heuser
John Heuser is an American cell biologist and electron microscopist, Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for the quick-freeze, deep-etch method and discovering synaptic vesicle recycling.
John Heysham Gibbon
John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia who invented the heart-lung machine and performed the first successful open-heart operation in 1953.
John Heywood
John Heywood was a Tudor dramatist and court musician who served four monarchs. He was condemned for denying the Royal Supremacy in 1543 and died in exile.
John Hiatt
John Hiatt (born 1952, Indianapolis) is an American singer-songwriter of Americana, roots-rock, and blues; Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee whose "Thing Called Love," "Have a Little Faith in Me," and "Angel Eyes" became hits for others, with Bring the Family (1987) his breakthrough.
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper, Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado since 2021, former geologist, Wynkoop brewpub founder, Denver mayor 2003-2011, and Colorado governor 2011-2019; won his Senate seat in 2020 defeating Cory Gardner and seeks a final term in 2026 against Mark Baisley.
John Higgins
John Higgins, 'The Wizard of Wishaw', Scottish snooker player born 1975. Four-time World Champion (1998, 2007, 2009, 2011), 33 ranking titles, 9 Triple Crown titles, 13 maximum breaks.
John Hill (record producer)
John Hill, American record producer and songwriter from Houston, won the 2020 Grammy for Best Rock Album producing Cage the Elephant's Social Cues; credits include Shakira, Santigold, Florence + the Machine, and Fall Out Boy.
John Hillerman
John Hillerman (1932-2017), American character actor from Denison, Texas; Emmy-winning as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on Magnum, P.I. (1980-88), also in Chinatown and Blazing Saddles.
John Hinch (fluid dynamicist)
Edward John Hinch (born 1947) is a British fluid dynamicist, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Cambridge from 1998 to 2014, known for micro-hydrodynamics, suspension rheology, and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics.
John Hinckley Jr.
John Hinckley Jr., Oklahoma-born, attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, to impress Jodie Foster; found not guilty by reason of insanity, confined at St. Elizabeths, fully freed 2022.
John Hinde
John Hinde (John Wilfrid Hinde, 1916–1997) was an English photographer, a pioneer of color photography in Britain and founder of John Hinde Ltd, whose postcards of Ireland and British holiday resorts were widely circulated.
John Hlophe
John Hlophe is a South African politician and former judge who serves as the Leader of the Opposition and First Deputy President of the MK Party.
John Hodgman
John Hodgman (born 1971, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American humorist, author of the fake-facts trilogy starting with The Areas of My Expertise, the PC in Apple's Get a Mac ads, a Daily Show correspondent, and host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast.
John Hodiak
John Hodiak (Годяк; 1914–1955) was an American actor of Ukrainian and Polish descent who worked in radio, stage, and film, and starred in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
John Hoeven
John Hoeven is an American Republican politician who has served as a U.S. Senator from North Dakota since 2011, after serving ten years as the state's governor.
John Holdren
John Holdren is an American physicist and science policy scholar who served as President Obama's science advisor from 2009 to 2017, the longest-serving in that role.
John Hollingworth (actor)
John Hollingworth (born 1981, Keighley, England) is an English actor and playwright, distinct from conductor John Hollingsworth. Known for Poldark's Captain Henshawe, 1917, The Crown, Napoleon, and the Globe's Antony and Cleopatra.
John Holmes (actor)
John Holmes (John Curtis Estes, 1944–1988), also Johnny Wadd, American adult film star of the 1970s golden age; over 573 feature credits, acquitted in the Wonderland murders, died of AIDS in 1988.
John Homans
John Homans (1877–1954) was a Boston surgeon at Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a founder of vascular surgery and the eponym of Homans' sign.
John Hopcroft
John Hopcroft, full name John Edward Hopcroft, is an American computer scientist at Cornell University who shared the 1986 Turing Award for achievements in algorithms and data structures.
John Hopkins (actor)
John Hopkins is an English actor from Luton, Bedfordshire, a RADA graduate and Royal Shakespeare Company member known as DS Dan Scott in Midsomer Murders, Sir Francis Basset in Poldark, and Jeffrey Epstein in A Very Royal Scandal; distinct from the 1931–1998 writer of the same name.
John Hopkins (screenwriter)
John Richard Hopkins (1931–1998), British screenwriter and playwright, lead writer of BBC's Z Cars, author of Talking to a Stranger, and co-writer of Thunderball, Smiley's People, and Hiroshima; died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, in 1998.
John Horgan
John Horgan (1959-2024) was a Canadian politician, 36th Premier of British Columbia (July 2017 to November 2022) leading the BC NDP, later ambassador to Germany; died of cancer November 12, 2024, age 65.
John Horne
John Horne (1848–1928) was a Scottish geologist who, with collaborator Ben Peach, resolved the NW Highlands controversy by proving the Moine thrust, and rose to Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland.
John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway, also known as John Conway, was an English mathematician at Cambridge and Princeton known for the Game of Life and work in group theory.