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John Hotchin
John Hotchin (1921–2014) was an English-born virologist who headed the virus laboratory at the New York State Department of Health in Albany and defined persistent tolerant infection.
John Houbolt
John Houbolt (1919–2014) was an American aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center who championed lunar orbit rendezvous, the mission mode adopted for the Apollo Moon landings in 1962.
John Houghton (Welsh atmospheric physicist)
Sir John Theodore Houghton was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who pioneered satellite measurement of the atmosphere, directed the UK Met Office, and co-chaired IPCC assessments.
John Houseman
John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann, 1902–1988), Romanian-born American producer, director, actor: Mercury Theatre co-founder with Orson Welles, Juilliard Drama Division founder, Oscar winner for The Paper Chase.
John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939), Australia's 25th Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader, served 1996–2007, won four consecutive elections, delivered the GST, gun law reform, and Telstra sale, backed the Iraq war, and lost Bennelong in 2007.
John Howard (Australian actor)
John Howard (Australian actor), born 1952 in Corowa, NSW, is an Australian stage and screen actor; NIDA graduate (1978) known for Bob Jelly in SeaChange, Dr Frank Campion in All Saints, The Club, and The People Eater in Mad Max: Fury Road; distinct from the former Prime Minister of the same name.
John Howard Dellinger
John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) was an American telecommunication engineer who led the National Bureau of Standards radio laboratory and discovered the sudden ionospheric disturbance, the Dellinger effect.
John Howard Mueller
John Howard Mueller (1891–1954) was an American microbiologist and Harvard professor who isolated methionine in 1923 and developed Mueller-Hinton agar, the standard for antibiotic testing.
John Howland
John Howland (c. 1592-1672/3), Mayflower passenger and servant of John Carver, survived falling overboard in 1620, became a Plymouth Colony Assistant and Deputy, married Elizabeth Tilley, and left about two million descendants including three US presidents.
John Hoyt
John Hoyt (born John McArthur Hoysradt) was an American character actor, a charter member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre who played Dr. Phillip Boyce in Star Trek's first pilot.
John Hubbard (physicist)
John Hubbard (1931–1980) was a British theoretical solid-state physicist at AERE Harwell whose 1963–1965 series of papers on electron correlations introduced the Hubbard model, central to strongly correlated electron physics.
John Huchra
John Huchra (1948–2010) was an American observational astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics whose redshift surveys revealed the Great Wall and helped fix the Hubble constant.
John Huettner
John R. Huettner (1906–1970), American sailor, California Yacht Club; won 8 metre class gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Angelita; later a Los Angeles attorney and uncredited film extra.
John Hughes (filmmaker)
John Hughes, born John Wilden Hughes Jr. (1950–2009), was an American filmmaker who defined the 1980s teen film with The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, then wrote Home Alone.
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) was an English neurologist known as the father of English neurology, who defined epilepsy as a local discharge of gray matter.
John Hume
John Hume (1937–2020), Derry-born SDLP co-founder and leader 1979–2001, MEP 1979–2004, architect of the Northern Ireland peace process, Hume–Adams dialogue initiator, and 1998 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate with David Trimble.
John Humphrey Noyes
John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886), Vermont-born Perfectionist minister, founded the Putney and Oneida Communities; his Bible Communist utopia practiced complex marriage, male continence, and stirpiculture before becoming Oneida Ltd. silverware.
John Humphrys
John Humphrys (Desmond John Humphrys, born 1943) is a Welsh broadcaster, BBC Radio 4 Today presenter 1987-2019, former Nine O'Clock News anchor, Mastermind host 2003-2021, and Classic FM presenter.
John Hunt (sports commentator)
John Hunt (born 1965) is the British lead horse racing commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live since 2004, a former Metropolitan Police officer, Racing Broadcaster of the Year 2015; distinct from the Australian race-caller John Hunt.
John Hunt Morgan Memorial
The John Hunt Morgan Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan in Lexington, Kentucky, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1911.
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
John Hunt, Baron Hunt (Henry Cecil John Hunt, 1910–1998), British Army officer and mountaineer who led the 1953 British Everest expedition; first DofE Award director; life peer 1966.
John Hunter
John Hunter (John Andrew Hunter), born 1943 in Christchurch, New Zealand rower with Wellington Rowing Club; won gold in the men's eight at Munich 1972 (6:08.94) after placing fourth at Mexico City 1968. Not the surgeon or admiral of the same name.
John Hunyadi
John Hunyadi, also known as János Hunyadi, was a Hungarian military commander and statesman who led the defense of Hungary against the Ottoman Empire in the mid-15th century.
John Hurt
Sir John Hurt (1940–2017), English actor, John Vincent Hurt, born Shirebrook, Derbyshire; famed for Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, The Elephant Man, Alien, and 1984; two Oscar nominations, four BAFTAs, knighted 2015.
John Huston
John Huston (1906–1987), American film director and screenwriter; directed 41 features from The Maltese Falcon (1941) to The Dead (1987), won directing and screenplay Oscars for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and acted as Noah Cross in Chinatown.
John Huston filmography
John Huston was an American director and actor who created 104 titles across his career. He is most famous for The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson (1674–1737) was an English theological writer and natural philosopher whose system, Hutchinsonianism, read the unpointed Hebrew Bible as a Trinitarian cosmology and rejected Newton's gravitation.
John Hyrcanus (יוחנן הורקנוס)
John Hyrcanus I (Yohanan Hyrcanus), Hasmonean high priest and ethnarch of Judaea 135–104 BCE, son of Simon Maccabeus; secured independence from the Seleucids, conquered Idumaea and Samaria, and broke with the Pharisees.
John I
John I was pope from 523 to 526 and the first pope to visit Constantinople. Sent on an embassy by Theodoric the Great, he died in prison at Ravenna.
John I Albert
John I Albert (Jan I Olbracht) was King of Poland from 1492 to 1501, a son of Casimir IV Jagiellon remembered for the failed 1497 Moldavian expedition.