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Henri Coutard

Henri Coutard (1876–1950) was a French radiation therapist at the Curie Institute in Paris who pioneered fractionated radiotherapy, delivering small daily radiation doses over several weeks.

Sep 21, 2026

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) was a French zoologist who studied corals, molluscs, and ascidians, founded the Roscoff and Banyuls-sur-Mer marine laboratories, and is regarded as the founder of experimental zoology in France.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was a French painter, lithographer, and poster artist who depicted the nightlife of Montmartre, Paris, turning performers like La Goulue and Jane Avril into celebrities.

Oct 20, 2026

Henri Deglane

Henri Deglane (Jean Henri Deglane, 1902-1975), French Greco-Roman wrestler; won 1924 Paris Olympic heavyweight gold, first French Olympic wrestling champion, then AWA World Heavyweight pro champion in 1931.

Henri Delannoy

Henri-Auguste Delannoy (1833–1915) was a French army officer, trained at the École Polytechnique, who became an amateur mathematician and is remembered for the Delannoy numbers.

Henri Demont

Henri Demont (1877–1959) was a French lawyer and peace campaigner who founded the Union universelle against war and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Henri Désiré Landru

Henri Désiré Landru, the Bluebeard of Gambais (1869–1922), French fraudster and multiple murderer who killed ten women and a boy met through matrimonial ads; convicted 1921, guillotined 1922, bodies never found.

Henri Didon

Henri Didon (1840–1900) was a French Dominican friar, preacher, and writer who coined the Olympic motto Citius, altius, fortius, adopted by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894.

Henri Dominique Lacordaire

Henri Dominique Lacordaire was a French Dominican friar, preacher, and theologian who restored the Order of Preachers in France and was elected to the Académie française.

Henri Duret

Henri Duret (1849–1921) was a French surgeon and neurologist who first mapped the arterial territories of the brainstem and cerebral cortex; brainstem microbleeds called Duret haemorrhages bear his name.

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (1916–2013) was a French composer of orchestral, concertante, and chamber music whose small, meticulously revised catalog made him one of the most performed French composers.

Henri Farman

Henri Farman (1874–1958) was a Paris-born pioneer pilot, aircraft designer, and manufacturer who won the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize in 1908 for the first officially observed one-kilometer closed-circuit flight.

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer and executive who restored the Commentry-Fourchambault-Decazeville mining combine to solvency and formulated a general theory of management, published in 1916.

Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron

Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron (1670 or 1671 – 1755) was the French Catholic bishop of Marseille famed for his heroism during the plague of 1720.

Sep 21, 2026

Henri G. Busignies

Henri G. Busignies (1905–1981) was a French-born American electronics engineer who spent his career at ITT, inventing the Huff-Duff direction finder that helped defeat German submarines and originating TACAN air navigation.

Henri G. Hers

Henri-Géry Hers (1923–2008) was a Belgian biochemist at the Université Catholique de Louvain who classified glycogen storage diseases, conceived the concept of inborn lysosomal disease, and discovered fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, winning the 1988 Wolf Prize.

Henri Gance

Henri Gance (1888–1953), French weightlifter of Cercle Athlétique Parisien; Olympic gold in middleweight (≤75 kg) at Antwerp 1920 with a 245.0 kg total, an Olympic record, 10 kg clear; 1920 French champion.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), born Henri Gaudier, French sculptor and Vorticist in London, pioneer of direct carving, killed at Neuville-Saint-Vaast aged 23; influenced Moore and Hepworth.

Henri Giffard

Henri Giffard (1825–1882) was a French engineer who flew the first powered, steerable airship from Paris in 1852 and invented the steam injector adopted on railways worldwide.

Henri Gilardoni

Henri Gilardoni (Henri Joseph Marcel Gilardoni, 1876–1937), French sailor; won gold in the 3-10 Tons class, Race #1, at the 1900 Paris Olympics helming the yacht Fémur at Meulan.

Sep 23, 2026

Henri Gouraud

Henri Gouraud (1867–1946) was a French general and first High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon, 1919 to 1923, installing the French mandate after the battle of Khan Meyssaloun.

Henri Hazebrouck

Henri Hazebrouck (Henri Alphonse Hazebrouck, 1877–1948), French rower from Roubaix, Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix; won gold in men's coxed fours at the 1900 Paris Olympics in 7:11.0 with Bouckaert, Cau, Delchambre, and coxswain Charlot.

Henri Hérouin

Henri Hérouin (1876-1926), French archer of the Compagnie de Couilly, won two gold medals at the Paris 1900 Olympics: Au Cordon Doré 50 metres and the Championnat du Monde, beating Hubert Van Innis both times.

Henri Huchard

Henri Huchard (1844–1910) was a French physician at the Hôpitaux Bichat and Necker, a foremost Paris teacher remembered for "maladie de Huchard", continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis.

Henri II, Prince of Condé

Henri II de Bourbon was a French prince of the blood and the third prince de Condé. He amassed a colossal fortune and was the father of the Grand Condé.

Henri Jobier

Henri Jobier (Louis Pierre Henri Jobier, 1879–1930), French foil fencer; competed in individual foil at the 1900 Paris Olympics and won team foil gold for France at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

Henri Jules, Prince of Condé

Henri Jules de Bourbon (1643-1709), fifth prince de Condé, only son of the Grand Condé; lieutenant general who fought at Seneffe, Premier Prince du Sang 1701-1709, later delusional, believing himself a hare, a plant, and dead.

Henri Junghanel

Henri Junghänel (born 1988, Leipzig) is a German rifle shooter, 2016 Rio Olympic gold medalist in 50 m prone with an Olympic-record 209.5, holder of the 211.2 world record, 2013 World Shooter of the Year, and a Kentucky NCAA champion.

Sep 21, 2026

Henri Korn

Henri Korn (1934–2023) was a French physician and cellular neurobiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur and former student of John Carew Eccles, known for quantal analysis of synaptic transmission.