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Hide your strength, bide your time

Hide your strength, bide your time (taoguang yanghui, 韬光养晦) is Deng Xiaoping's 1989 Chinese foreign-policy guideline of keeping a low profile, later abandoned under Xi Jinping in favor of fenfa youwei, striving for achievement.

Hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek, a children's pursuit game also called Sardines in one variant, has a seeker count and then find hidden players. Traced to ancient Greek Apodidraskinda and Shakespeare's Hamlet; playable successfully by most 4-year-olds.

Oct 20, 2026

HIDEA syndrome

HIDEA syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive neurodevelopmental disorder caused by P4HTM gene variants, first described in 2014 in Finland; fewer than 50 patients worldwide show hypotonia, intellectual disability, and epilepsy.

Hideaki Anno (庵野秀明)

Hideaki Anno (庵野秀明), born 1960 in Ube, Japan, is the Evangelion creator, Khara president, and director of Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider.

Hideaki Kato

Hideaki Kato (加藤英明) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo's RCAST who determines structures of membrane proteins such as channelrhodopsins and GPCRs.

Sep 27, 2026

Hideaki Omura

Hideaki Omura is a Japanese independent politician serving as Governor of Aichi Prefecture and chairing the organizing committee for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and the Asian Para Games.

Hideaki Tomiyama

Hideaki Tomiyama (富山英明), born 1957, Japanese freestyle wrestler; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic bantamweight (57 kg) gold medalist, two-time world champion (1978, 1979), later Japan Wrestling Federation president and UWW Hall of Fame inductee (2008).

Hideaki Yanagida

Hideaki Yanagida (柳田英明), born 1947 in Akita, Japanese freestyle wrestler; 1972 Munich Olympic gold at bantamweight ≤57 kg, 1970 and 1971 world champion, 1970 Bangkok Asian Games gold; retired internationally after 1972.

Hideaway (Kiesza song)

"Hideaway" (Kiesza song): 2013 deep-house pop debut single by Canadian singer Kiesza, written with Rami Afuni in 90 minutes, UK number 1 in April 2014 on Lokal Legend, over 2 million sold, famous one-take Brooklyn video.

Hideglelőskereszt

Hideglelőskereszt (Hideglelős-kereszt), a cross above the Danube at Esztergom, Hungary, first raised in wood in 1784, and the surrounding archaeological site with a late Roman triangular fort, Iron Age settlement traces, and an Árpád-era castle.

Hidehiko Inagaki

Hidehiko Inagaki is a Japanese systems neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, studying how the brain times actions.

Hidehiko Saito

Hidehiko Saito (齋藤英彦) is a Japanese hematologist, professor emeritus of Nagoya University, known for identifying the Fletcher and Fitzgerald clotting factors and establishing the MEG-01 leukemia cell line.

Oct 10, 2026

Hidehiko Yamabe

Hidehiko Yamabe (山辺英彦, 1923–1960) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on Hilbert's fifth problem and Riemannian geometry; his 1960 claimed proof of the Yamabe problem contained an error, and it was fully solved in 1984.

Hidehiko Yoshida

Hidehiko Yoshida (吉田秀彦), Japanese judoka born 1969 in Obu, Aichi; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist at -78 kg, 1999 world champion at -90 kg, later a PRIDE mixed martial artist.

Hidekazu Tsukamoto

Hidekazu Tsukamoto is an American hepatologist, professor of Pathology and Medicine at USC, who directs the Southern California Research Center for Alcohol-Associated Liver and Pancreatic Diseases.

Hideki Kamiya (神谷英樹)

Hideki Kamiya (神谷英樹), Japanese game director of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, and The Wonderful 101; PlatinumGames co-founder who left in October 2023 and now leads CLOVERS, directing an Okami sequel with Capcom.

Hideki Kandori

Hideki Kandori (神取秀樹) is a Japanese biophysicist at Nagoya Institute of Technology known for microbial rhodopsins and optogenetics, including discovering the sodium-pump rhodopsin KR2.

Hideki Matsui (松井秀喜)

Hideki Matsui (松井秀喜), nicknamed Godzilla, Japanese outfielder born 1974; three-time Central League MVP with Yomiuri Giants, then Yankees 2003-09, 2009 World Series MVP, 507 combined NPB-MLB home runs, Japanese Hall of Fame 2018.

Hideki Matsuyama (松山英樹)

Hideki Matsuyama (松山英樹), born 1992 in Ehime, Japan, is a professional golfer, 2021 Masters champion and Japan's first male major winner, with 11 PGA Tour wins and 8 Japan Golf Tour titles.

Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹) was a Japanese polymer chemist at the University of Tsukuba who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering electrically conductive polymers.

Sep 19, 2026

Hideki Shoji

Hideki Shoji (庄司秀樹) is a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Toyo System in Iwaki, Fukushima, in 1989, a maker of TOSCAT battery test systems.

Hideki Taniguchi

Hideki Taniguchi (谷口英樹) is a Japanese physician-scientist who heads regenerative medicine at the University of Tokyo, known for creating vascularized human liver tissue from iPS cells in 2013.

Hideki Tojo (東條英機)

Hideki Tojo (東條英機), 1884–1948, Japanese general and prime minister October 1941–July 1944 who led Japan into the Pacific War; convicted as a Class A war criminal at the Tokyo Trial and hanged December 23, 1948.

Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa (湯川秀樹, 1907–1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Kyoto University who predicted the meson in 1934, winning the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Hideko Maehata

Hideko Maehata, later Hideko Hyodo (1914–1995), was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer who took 200 m breaststroke silver at the 1932 Olympics and gold at Berlin 1936, becoming Japan's first female Olympic champion.

Hidenori Ichijo

Hidenori Ichijo (一條秀憲), born in 1958, is a Japanese biochemist known for discovering ASK1 and the ASK family of stress-response enzymes, winning the 2021 Japan Academy Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Hidenori Takagi

Hidenori Takagi (高木英典, born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist known for cuprate superconductivity, spin-orbit Mott physics, and Kitaev quantum spin liquids.