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Henri Troyat (Лев Асланович Тарасов)
Henri Troyat (Lev Aslanovich Tarasov), French novelist and biographer born in Moscow in 1911 to an Armenian family; Goncourt 1938, Académie française 1959, author of Tolstoy, Pushkin, and tsar biographies.
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) was a French chemist and physicist whose precise measurements of the thermal properties of gases fixed the data used by early thermodynamicists.
Henri Winkelman
Henri Gerard Winkelman (1876–1952), Dutch general, commander-in-chief of land and sea forces during the German invasion of May 1940; signed the capitulation at Rijsoord on 15 May 1940, held governmental authority from 13 May, and was a POW at Oflag IV-B Königstein until 1945.
Henri Young
Henri Young (Henri Theodore Young), Alcatraz inmate 244-AZ, a bank robber convicted in 1941 of involuntary manslaughter for stabbing fellow inmate Rufus McCain after a failed 1939 escape; basis for the largely fictional film Murder in the First.
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853–1948) was a French astrophysicist who established the empirical laws of molecular band spectra and invented the spectroheliograph in 1892, independently of George Hale, later directing the Meudon Observatory.
Henri, Count of Chambord
Henri, Count of Chambord (Henri V, duc de Bordeaux), 1820-1883, legitimist pretender to the French throne, grandson of Charles X, owner of the Château de Chambord who lost the 1873 restoration over his insistence on the white Bourbon flag.
Henri, Duc de Joyeuse
Henri, Duc de Joyeuse (Henri de Joyeuse, in religion Père Ange de Joyeuse) was a French nobleman, favorite of Henri III, and Capuchin friar who died in 1608.
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri (born 1955, Betzdorf Castle) reigned as Grand Duke of Luxembourg and head of state from 7 October 2000 until his abdication on 3 October 2025 in favor of his son Guillaume, after refusing to sanction a 2008 euthanasia law.
Henri, le Chat Noir
Henri, le Chat Noir is an internet-famous tuxedo cat, actually Henry, a Seattle shelter cat, starring in William Braden's French-narrated film noir YouTube videos; winner of the 2012 Golden Kitty Award.
Henriad
Henriad is the scholarly name for Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, Richard II through Henry IV Parts 1-2 to Henry V (written 1595-1599), an epic of Lancastrian kingship featuring Prince Hal and Falstaff, distinct from the first tetralogy of Henry VI and Richard III.
Henric Horn af Aminne
Henric Horn af Åminne (Henric Arvid Bengt Christer Horn af Åminne, 1880–1947), Swedish count and cavalry officer; won team eventing gold on horse Omen at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, placing 10th individually.
Henrician Articles
The Henrician Articles (Artykuły henrykowskie) are a constitutional act adopted near Warsaw in 1573, obliging every elected Polish–Lithuanian king to confirm limits on royal power.
Henrico County, Virginia
Henrico County, Virginia: county of 342,775 (2025 est.) surrounding Richmond on three sides; chartered 1634 as an original shire, county manager government since 1934, $1.4 billion FY2026 general fund budget.
Henricus Weve
Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888–1962) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and professor at Utrecht University, ranked among Europe's leading retinal surgeons for improving Gonin's retinal detachment operation and pioneering diathermy.
Henrietta Ebert
Henrietta Ebert, born Henrietta Dobler (1954, Kirchmöser), East German rower with SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic gold in the women's eight at Montréal 1976 (3:33.32), world eights gold 1974 and coxed fours gold 1975.
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951), African American woman whose cervical cancer cells, taken without consent at Johns Hopkins in 1951, became the HeLa immortal cell line, foundational to the polio, HPV, and COVID-19 vaccines and to research ethics reform.
Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria (Henriette Marie de France, 1609–1669), French-born Catholic queen consort of Charles I of England, mother of Charles II and James II; royalist organizer in the English Civil War, exiled 1644, died at Colombes.
Henrietta of England
Henrietta of England, also Henrietta Anne or Minette (1644–1670), youngest daughter of Charles I, married Philippe d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIV, and negotiated the secret Treaty of Dover before dying at Saint-Cloud.
Henrietta Onodi
Henrietta Onodi (Ónodi Henrietta), Hungarian gymnast born 1974 in Békéscsaba; 1992 Olympic vault gold (tied with Milosovici) and floor silver, 1992 world vault champion, the Onodi beam skill is named after her.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) was an American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory who discovered the Cepheid period–luminosity relation, the Leavitt Law, which enabled measuring distances to galaxies and underpinned Hubble's 1929 expanding-universe result.
Henrietta Szold
Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) was an American Jewish editor, translator, and Zionist organizer who founded Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, and directed the Youth Aliyah rescue program.
Henriette Charasson
Henriette Charasson (1884-1972) was a French poet, playwright, and literary critic who wrote for L'Action française under the pseudonym Orion and won eleven Académie française prizes.
Henriette Mikkelsen
Henriette Mikkelsen (Henriette Rønde Mikkelsen, also Henriette Møller Mikkelsen), Danish handball left wing born 1980 in Nykøbing Mors; Olympic gold at Athens 2004, 81 caps and 346 goals for Denmark, long Viborg HK career, later a nurse.
Henriette Roland Holst
Henriette Roland Holst, born Henriëtte van der Schalk (1869–1952), was a Dutch poet and socialist politician who helped found Dutch communism, translated De Internationale, and joined the resistance.
Henrik Ager-Hanssen
Henrik Ager-Hanssen (1930–2004) was a Norwegian nuclear physicist and energy leader who worked in reactor physics at Halden, led Scandpower, and became a senior Statoil executive.
Henrik Blakskjær
Henrik Blakskjær (born 1971) is a Danish sailor, crew member with Jesper Bank and Thomas Jacobsen in the Soling that won Olympic gold 4-3 over Germany at Sydney 2000; distinct from Henryk Blaszka and Rasmus Blakskjær.
Henrik Clausen
Henrik Clausen (born 1957 in Denmark) is a Danish glycobiologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, and director of the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, which he founded in 2008.
Henrik Dam
Henrik Carl Peter Dam (1895–1976) was a Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K, needed for blood coagulation, winning the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Henrik Dohlman
Henrik Dohlman is a Swedish-American biochemist and chair of pharmacology at UNC Chapel Hill who studies G protein signaling and identified the first RGS protein in 1995.
Henrik Falchener
Henrik Falchener (Henrik Sælebakke Falchener, born 2003, Tønsberg) is a Norwegian centre-back, 1.94 m, for Viking FK in the Eliteserien; 2025 league champion, 2 Norway caps, 2026 World Cup squad member.