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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet and Harvard professor, the most popular poet of 19th-century America, known for Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha.
Henry Walpole
Henry Walpole (1558–1595) was an English Jesuit priest and poet converted by Edmund Campion's 1581 execution; captured on his 1593 return to England, he was executed at York.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregational minister whose Brooklyn church made him the nation's most celebrated preacher, and whose 1875 adultery trial captivated the country.
Henry Ward Johns
Henry Ward Johns was an American businessman who founded in 1858 the New York company that, after merging with Manville in 1901, became the Johns-Manville Corporation.
Henry Wells
Henry Bensley Wells (1891-1967), British rowing coxswain; coxed Leander Club's gold-medal eight at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and Oxford's Boat Race crews 1911-1914; later a County Court judge and MBE recipient.
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton (1785–1848), American jurist and diplomat: third and first official Supreme Court Reporter (1816–1827), twelve volumes of Reports, lost Wheaton v. Peters (1834), Minister to Prussia, author of Elements of International Law (1836).
Henry Wieghorst Nissen
Henry Wieghorst Nissen (1901–1958) was an American psychobiologist at the Yale and Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, director from 1955, known for his 1931 chimpanzee field study.
Henry William Menard
Henry William Menard (1920–1986) was an American marine geologist who discovered the Pacific fracture zones, aiding plate tectonics, and led the USGS from 1978 to 1981.
Henry William Watson
Henry William Watson (1827–1903) was a British mathematician and Church of England clergyman who co-authored, with Francis Galton, the branching process now called the Galton–Watson process.
Henry Willson
Henry Willson (Henry Leroy Willson, 1911-1978) was a Hollywood talent agent, creator of the "Adonis factory" of beefcake stars, best known as Rock Hudson's agent; died penniless in 1978.
Henry Wilson
Henry Threlfall Wilson (1825–1869) was a Liverpool shipbroker and shipowner who co-founded the White Star Line in 1845 and sold its flag to Thomas Henry Ismay in 1868.
Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler (born 1945) is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Best known as Fonzie on Happy Days (1974-1984) and Emmy-winning Gene Cousineau on Barry (2018); dyslexia advocate and author of Hank Zipzer and Being Henry.
Henry Wirz
Henry Wirz (1823-1865), Swiss-born Confederate captain, commanded the interior of Andersonville prison, where nearly 13,000 Union prisoners died; convicted of war crimes by military tribunal in 1865 and hanged November 10, 1865, in Washington, DC.
Henry Wittenberg
Henry Wittenberg (1918–2010) was an American freestyle wrestler who won light-heavyweight gold at the 1948 London Olympics, silver at Helsinki in 1952, and once won more than 300 consecutive matches.
Henry Wolfe
Henry Wolfe (Henry Wolfe Gummer, born 1979) is an American singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, son of Meryl Streep and Don Gummer; albums Linda Vista (2011) and Asilomar (2015), 1970s pop influences.
Henry Woods (palaeontologist)
Henry Woods (1868–1952) was a British palaeontologist who spent his career at Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, and is best remembered for his monograph of the Cretaceous Lamellibranchia of England.
Henry Woodward (geologist)
Henry Woodward (1832–1921) was an English geologist and paleontologist who served as Keeper of Geology at the British Museum and edited Geological Magazine for over 50 years.
Henry Worsley (explorer)
Henry Worsley (1960–2016), British Army lieutenant colonel and polar explorer, distantly related to Frank Worsley; died of peritonitis 30 miles short of completing the first solo, unsupported, unassisted crossing of Antarctica.
Henry X
Henry X, also known as DJ Henry X, is a Ghanaian-rooted producer and DJ based in the Netherlands, known for the 2016 track "Like This" with Wizkid.
Henry Z. Kister
Henry Z. Kister is an American chemical engineer, a Fluor Corporation senior fellow credited with turning distillation troubleshooting from an art into a science, and author of four distillation textbooks.
Henry Zebrowski
Henry Zebrowski (Henry Thomas Zebrowski Jr., born 1984, Florida) is an American actor and comedian, Sea Otter in The Wolf of Wall Street, Quentin in Heroes Reborn, Gary on Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, and co-host of Last Podcast on the Left with Marcus Parks since 2011.
Henry, Come On
Henry, Come On (stylized Henry, come on) is a 2025 country-tinged ballad by Lana Del Rey, co-written with Luke Laird, produced with Drew Erickson, released April 11, 2025 as lead single for The Right Person Will Stay and later placed on Stove (2026).
Henry, Count of Portugal
Henry, Count of Portugal (Henrique de Borgonha, c. 1057–1112), Burgundian count granted the County of Portucale by Alfonso VI in 1096; husband of Teresa, father of Afonso Henriques, first King of Portugal; distinct from Henry the Navigator.
Henry, Duke of Cornwall
Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1 January 1511 – 22 February 1511) was the firstborn son and heir apparent of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, born at Richmond, christened 5 January, celebrated by the Westminster Tournament, and dead at 52 days.
Henry, King of Portugal
Henry, also known as Cardinal Henry or Henrique I, was a Portuguese cardinal and Grand Inquisitor who reigned as the last Aviz king from 1578 to 1580.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is John McNaughton's 1986 low-budget American horror film loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas, starring Michael Rooker. Blocked by an MPAA X rating for years, it released unrated in 1990 and helped spur the NC-17 rating.
Henry's Dream
Henry's Dream (1992) is the seventh studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, produced by David Briggs. First album with Martyn Casey and Conway Savage; Cave disliked the production and remixed it; it seeded Murder Ballads.
Henry's law
Henry's law is a law of physical chemistry stating that a gas's solubility in a liquid is proportional to its partial pressure, formulated by William Henry in 1803.
Henryk Dembiński
Henryk Dembiński (1791–1864) was a Polish general and engineer who commanded cavalry in the November Uprising and held senior commands in the Hungarian revolution of 1848–1849.
Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Iwaniec (born 1947) is a Polish-born American analytic number theorist at Rutgers University, known for proving infinitely many primes of the form a² + b⁴.