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Robert Hadfield
Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield (1858–1940) was an English metallurgist who headed Hadfields Ltd in Sheffield, discovered manganese steel in 1882, and patented silicon steel in 1886.
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown (1916–2002) was an astronomer and physicist, born in India, who pioneered radar development and invented intensity interferometry, measuring the angular diameters of 32 hot stars with the Narrabri interferometer.
Robert Hansen
Robert Hansen (Robert Christian Hansen, the "Butcher Baker") was an Alaskan serial killer, not FBI spy Robert Hanssen, who murdered at least 17 women near Anchorage 1980-1983 and was sentenced in 1984 to life plus 461 years.
Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (1944–2023), FBI special agent and Russian spy known as "Ramon," spied from 1979 to 2001 for $1.4 million; arrested 2001, sentenced to life without parole.
Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy (1925–2017), English actor known as Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, Cornelius Fudge in four Harry Potter films, and BAFTA-winning portrayer of Winston Churchill.
Robert Harker
Robert Harker (Bob Harker), American hurdler of the early 1930s; ran a hand-timed 14.4 in the 110 m hurdles at El Monte, California, on 4 June 1932, entering the IAAF world record progression.
Robert Harrington Kent
Robert Harrington Kent (1886–1961) was an American ballistician and ordnance engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground from 1922 to 1956, credited with about 200 publications and the Kent battery.
Robert Harris (novelist)
Robert Harris (born 1957, Nottingham) is a British novelist and former BBC and Observer political journalist, author of Fatherland, the Cicero trilogy, Conclave, and Agrippa; his thrillers have sold millions and been translated into forty languages.
Robert Harting
Robert Harting (born 1984, Cottbus) is a retired German discus thrower, Olympic champion London 2012 (68.27 m) and three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2013), with a personal best of 70.66 m, who retired at ISTAF Berlin in 2018.
Robert Hartmann (semiconductor engineer)
Robert (Bob) Hartmann is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Engineering until 1994, and is known as the father of programmable logic.
Robert Haselkorn
Robert Haselkorn (1934–2025) was an American molecular biologist who spent his career at the University of Chicago, known for work on RNA synthesis and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria.
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden (Asa Bundy Sheffey, 1913–1980), American poet and first African American Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress; wrote "Middle Passage" and "Frederick Douglass"; won the 1966 Dakar grand prize for A Ballad of Remembrance.
Robert Hays
Robert Hays (born 1947, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American actor known as Ted Striker in Airplane! (1980) and its 1982 sequel, star of TV's Starman and Angie, and voice of Iron Man in the 1990s animated series.
Robert Headen
Robert "Bob" Headen, Washington D.C. high school football and girls' basketball coach at H.D. Woodson, 284-89 football record, eight DCIAA titles, 637-98 girls' basketball record, NFL mentor.
Robert Hegyes
Robert Hegyes (1951-2012), American actor and teacher who played Juan Epstein on ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-79), later Detective Manny Esposito on Cagney & Lacey; not the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Robert Heimann
Robert Heimann is a private equity investor and Managing Partner of RC Capital, a Cincinnati, Ohio growth equity firm, where he leads the healthcare services practice and joined in 2004.
Robert Heizer
Robert Fleming Heizer (1915–1979) was an American archaeologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for California and Great Basin prehistory and pioneering archaeological science.
Robert Helenius
Robert Helenius, "The Nordic Nightmare" (born 1984), Finnish heavyweight boxer, twice EBU European champion, 32-5 with 21 KOs; notable wins over Chisora and Kownacki, losses to Wilder and Joshua.
Robert Helliwell
Robert Helliwell (1920–2011) was an American radio scientist and electrical engineer at Stanford University who pioneered the study of whistlers and very low frequency radio propagation in the magnetosphere.
Robert Hellwarth
Robert Hellwarth (1930–2021) was an American physicist and electrical engineer who invented Q-switching, which raises a laser's peak power a millionfold, and developed optical phase conjugation.
Robert Helpmann
Sir Robert Helpmann (1909–1986), born Robert Murray Helpman in Mount Gambier, Australia, was a ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor: Sadler's Wells premier danseur with Margot Fonteyn, choreographer of The Red Shoes, the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and director of The Australian Ballet 1965–1976.
Robert Hendy-Freegard
Robert Hendy-Freegard, aka David Hendy, British con man born 1971 who posed as an MI5 agent, convicted of kidnapping, theft and deception in 2005, freed on appeal in 2009, later jailed in France in 2025.
Robert Henke
Robert Henke, who records and performs as Monolake, is a German electronic musician born in 1969 in Munich, best known for founding Monolake and co-creating Ableton Live.
Robert Hennet
Robert Hennet (Robert Joseph Charles Hennet, 1886-1957), Belgian fencer of Salle Dupont, Brussels; won gold in men's team épée at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, fourth in sabre team at 1920 Antwerp; later a Belgian major general.
Robert Henri
Robert Henri, born Robert Henry Cozad, was an American painter and teacher who led the Ashcan School and organized the independent 1908 exhibition of The Eight.
Robert Henry Jr.
Robert Henry Jr. (born 2001) is an NFL running back, Seattle Seahawks #34, signed off Washington's practice squad October 6, 2026; UTSA record 5.7 yards per carry, inaugural Walter Jones Trophy winner. Not Derrick Henry.
Robert Herjavec
Robert Herjavec is a Croatian-born Canadian technology entrepreneur who founded and sold BRAK Systems, built the Herjavec Group, and has been a Shark Tank investor since 2009.
Robert Herman
Robert Herman (1914–1997) was an American physicist who, with Ralph Alpher, predicted the cosmic background radiation in 1948 and later founded traffic science at General Motors.
Robert Hernandez
Robert Hernandez is an American electrical and computer engineer who worked on heavyweight torpedoes at NUWC Division Newport and won a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English poet and Anglican cleric, vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire, whose collection Hesperides (1648) includes "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".