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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison, nicknamed Old Tippecanoe, was the ninth US president. He died in April 1841, one month after his inauguration, in the shortest presidential term in American history.
William Henry Holmes
William Henry Holmes (1846–1933) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, and geologist whose sixty-year Smithsonian career spanned American archaeology's shift from amateur pursuit to professional discipline.
William Henry Howell
William Henry Howell (1860–1945) was an American physiologist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on blood coagulation, for naming heparin, and for a widely used physiology textbook.
William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson (1843–1942) was an American painter and photographer who took the first photographs of Yellowstone, helping persuade Congress to create the world's first national park in 1872.
William Henry Lang
William Henry Lang (1874–1960) was a British botanist and palaeobotanist who, with Robert Kidston, described the Rhynie chert fossil plants and later revealed the earliest land vegetation in his 1937 Downtonian monograph.
William Henry Lowe
William Henry Lowe (1848–1917) was a Church of England clergyman and Hebrew scholar who spent seventeen years as Hebrew lecturer at Christ's College, Cambridge, and published a commentary on Zechariah and an edition of the Mishnah.
William Henry Moody
William Henry Moody, also known as William H. Moody, was an American lawyer from Massachusetts who served as a congressman, Secretary of the Navy, Attorney General, and Supreme Court justice.
William Henry Perkin
William Henry Perkin was an English chemist who discovered mauveine, the first commercial synthetic dye, in 1856 as a student and founded the coal-tar color industry.
William Henry Perkin Jr.
William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860–1929) was an English organic chemist, eldest son of the discoverer of the coal-tar colors, and a leading British chemist of his generation.
William Henry Preece
Sir William Henry Preece (1834 to 1913) was a Welsh electrical engineer who ran the British Post Office's telegraph system, invented railway signaling, and supported Marconi's wireless work.
William Henry Roberts
William Henry Roberts (1844–1920) was a Welsh-born American Presbyterian pastor who served 36 years as Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and was its Moderator in 1907.
William Henry Silcox
William Henry Silcox (1922–2015) was an American offshore drilling engineer who led Chevron's offshore technology development and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
William Henry Sleeman
Sir William Henry Sleeman (1788-1856) was a British East India Company officer and administrator, best known as general superintendent of the suppression of Thuggee and later Resident at Lucknow.
William Henry Steele Demarest
William Henry Steele Demarest (1863–1956) was an American Reformed Church minister, professor of ecclesiastical history at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and president of Rutgers College from 1906 to 1924.
William Henry Vanderbilt
William Henry Vanderbilt is an American railroad magnate and philanthropist who inherited $100 million in 1877 and nearly doubled it by his death in 1885.
William Henry Welch
William Henry Welch was an American pathologist who discovered the gas gangrene bacterium and became the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
William Henry Young
William Henry Young (1863–1942) was an English mathematician who worked on sets of points, integration, and Fourier series, independently reaching an integral equivalent to Lebesgue's and proving Young's inequality.
William Herrick Macaulay
William Herrick Macaulay (1853–1936) was an English mathematician who spent his career as a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, serving as Bursar, Tutor, and Vice-Provost.
William Herschel
William Herschel, born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822), was a German-born British astronomer and musician who discovered Uranus in 1781 and built the largest telescopes of his age.
William Herschel Telescope
The William Herschel Telescope is a 4.2-meter optical and near-infrared telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands, opened in 1987 and carrying the WEAVE spectrograph since 2023.
William Hersh
William Hersh is an American physician and biomedical informatician at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025 for his informatics education leadership.
William Heseltine
Sir William Heseltine (1930–2026), Australian courtier and public servant, the only Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1986–1990); instigated the 1969 Royal Family documentary and royal walkabouts.
William Hickey (actor)
William Hickey, also known as William Edward Hickey, was an American character actor and acting teacher, Oscar-nominated as the Mafia don in Prizzi's Honor (1985).
William Hill (bookmaker)
William Hill, British bookmaker founded 1934, now a brand of evoke plc (formerly 888 Holdings) with 1,000+ UK shops; record £19.2m Gambling Commission penalty in 2023; 2026 takeover by Bally's Intralot.
William Hodges
William Hodges (1744–1797) was an English landscape painter, the first professional British landscape artist to visit India, where he worked from 1780 to 1783 under Warren Hastings's patronage.
William Hodson
William Hodson (विलियम हॉडसन) was a British East India Company cavalry officer best known for raising Hodson's Horse and capturing the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II at Delhi in 1857.
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (1697–1764), London-born painter and engraver, pioneer of British satirical print series such as A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode, and namesake of the 1735 Engravers' Act.
William Holden
William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr., 1918–1981), American actor; Oscar winner for Stalag 17, star of Sunset Boulevard, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, and Network; also a Kenya wildlife conservationist.
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), English painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Rossetti; known for The Light of the World, The Scapegoat, and Holy Land travels.
William Holms Chambers Bartlett
William Holms Chambers Bartlett (1804–1893) was an American physicist and astronomer, professor at West Point from 1836 to 1871 and an incorporator of the National Academy of Sciences.