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Henry Ashton (actor)

Henry Ashton (born 1991, Bletchley, England) is an English actor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate, known for Stan Dudley in My Lady Jane, Max Hastings in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and Daeron Targaryen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Henry Augustus Rowland

Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) was an American experimental physicist, the first professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for the concave diffraction grating and his map of the solar spectrum.

Henry B. Eyring

Henry B. Eyring, born Henry Bennion Eyring in 1933, is an American religious leader serving as First Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church.

Henry B. Gardner

Henry B. Gardner (Henry Brayton Gardner) was an American economist at Brown University who founded its economics department and led the American Economic Association in 1919.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Bailey

Henry Marvin Bailey (1893-1972), American sport shooter and US Marine; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in men's 25m rapid fire pistol after clearing a pistol jam in the seventh tie-breaker against Vilhelm Carlberg. Not the British wrestler Henry Baillie.

Henry Barclay Swete

Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1917) was a Church of England clergyman and biblical scholar who served as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1890 to 1915 and edited the Septuagint.

Henry Barker Hill

Henry Barker Hill was an American organic chemist who spent his career at Harvard, becoming professor in 1884 and known for research on uric acid and furfural derivatives that helped establish furan chemistry.

Henry Beachell

Henry Monroe Beachell (1906–2006) was an American rice breeder who developed nine USDA rice varieties and IR8, the miracle rice of the Green Revolution in Asia.

Henry Beard

Henry Beard (born 1945) is an American humorist, Harvard Lampoon alumnus, and co-founder of National Lampoon with Doug Kenney and Robert Hoffman; author of Bored of the Rings and over 30 humor books.

Henry Beets

Henry Beets (1869–1947) was a Dutch-born American minister of the Christian Reformed Church who served forty years as its first stated clerk and edited The Banner for twenty-five years.

Henry Benedict Medlicott

Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905) was an Irish geologist who led the Geological Survey of India and co-authored the Manual of the Geology of India, the standard reference for Indian geologists.

Henry Benedict Stuart

Henry Benedict Stuart, known as Cardinal York, was the second son of the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart, a cardinal for sixty years, and the last Stuart heir.

Henry Benjamin Whipple

Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901) was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, serving from 1859, whose appeals to Lincoln helped spare most of 303 Dakota men sentenced to death in 1862.

Henry Bernet

Henry Bernet (born 2007, Basel) is a Swiss tennis player, 2025 Australian Open boys' singles champion and former ITF junior world No. 1, with an ATP career-high singles ranking of No. 371 (October 2026).

Henry Blofeld

Henry Blofeld (born 1939), nicknamed Blowers, English cricket journalist and BBC Test Match Special commentator 1972-2017, known for 'my dear old thing'; not the James Bond villain Blofeld, though Ian Fleming took the surname from his father's schoolmate.

Henry Bolton (British politician)

Henry Bolton (born Kenya, 1963), former Army captain, Thames Valley Police officer, and OSCE adviser, OBE 2013; UKIP leader September 2017 to February 2018, ousted 867-500 over the Jo Marney scandal; later Independent candidate and SDP member.

Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown (1815/1816–1897), American abolitionist and performer who escaped slavery in 1849 by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia; later a panorama exhibitor, hypnotist, and magician in Britain, the US, and Canada.

Henry Brandon (actor)

Henry Brandon (Heinrich von Kleinbach, 1912–1990), German-born American character actor, villain specialist of over 100 films; Silas Barnaby in Babes in Toyland, Scar in The Searchers, not the casting director Brandon Henry Rodriguez.

Henry Bryant Bigelow

Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967) was an American oceanographer who surveyed the Gulf of Maine and served as the first director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Hēnry Buchwald

Henry Buchwald, born in Vienna, is an American surgeon-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota known for metabolic surgery and the first implantable infusion pump.

Oct 21, 2026

Henry Bucknall

Henry Cresswell "Togo" Bucknall (1885–1962), British rower; stroked Oxford's Boat Race crews 1905–06 and won gold in the men's eights for Leander Club at the 1908 London Olympics.

Henry Burger (endocrinologist)

Henry George Burger (1933–2024) was an Australian endocrinologist who directed Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne and was known for isolating inhibin and developing pulsatile GnRH ovulation treatment.

Sep 19, 2026

Henry Burkhardt III

Henry Burkhardt III is an American computer designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Data General in 1968, designed the Nova's instruction set, and later founded Encore Computer and Kendall Square Research.

Henry C. Adams

Henry C. Adams, also known as Henry Carter Adams, was an American economist who co-founded the American Economic Association and built the ICC's uniform railroad accounting system.

Henry C. Pitot

Henry C. Pitot (1930–2021) was an American physician-scientist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for multistage liver carcinogenesis and the Min mouse model of intestinal cancer.

Henry C. Wente

Henry C. Wente (1936–2020) was an American differential geometer at the University of Toledo who in 1984 found the first compact constant mean curvature surface besides the sphere, the Wente torus.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Massachusetts Republican senator 1893-1924, Foreign Relations chairman and de facto majority leader, led the reservations campaign that defeated the Treaty of Versailles and kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985), Massachusetts Republican senator 1937-44 and 1947-53, defeated by JFK in 1952; UN ambassador, Nixon's 1960 running mate, twice ambassador to South Vietnam, and Vatican envoy.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Liberal Prime Minister December 1905 to April 1908, first formally designated 'Prime Minister', led the Liberals to the 1906 landslide of about 400 seats, and is the only Prime Minister to die at 10 Downing Street.