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Howard Taylor Ricketts
Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago who proved wood ticks transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever; the genus Rickettsia is named for him.
Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck: Marvel's satirical anthropomorphic duck created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik, first appearing in Adventure into Fear #19 (1973) and starring in his own 1976 series, famous for the tagline 'trapped in a world he never made', a 1976 presidential run, the 1980 Gerber ownership lawsuit, and the 1986 Lucasfilm film.
Howard the Duck (film)
Howard the Duck (1986) is a Lucasfilm-Universal comic sci-fi comedy directed by Willard Huyck, executive produced by George Lucas, starring Lea Thompson; the first Marvel film, a $20 million flop with four Razzies.
Howard Thurman
Howard Washington Thurman (1899–1981) was an African American Baptist minister, mystic, and theologian whose book Jesus and the Disinherited became a touchstone for the civil rights movement.
Howard Triest
Howard H. Triest (Hans Heinz Triest, 1923-2016), German-born Jewish American soldier, Nuremberg trials interpreter for psychiatrists Kelley and Goldensohn; parents murdered at Auschwitz; subject of Journey to Justice and Helen Fry's book.
Howard Ulfelder
Howard Ulfelder (died 1990) was an American gynecologist and cancer specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who helped establish vaginal-smear cytology and in 1971 linked vaginal cancer in young women to the drug DES.
Howard University
Howard University, founded March 2, 1867 in Washington, D.C. and named for Freedmen's Bureau commissioner Oliver O. Howard, is a private historically Black R1 research university with 14 schools and colleges, anchored by its 1868 medical department and 1869 law school.
Howard University Hospital
Howard University Hospital (HUH), 2041 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC, is Howard University's 400-bed academic teaching hospital, opened 1975 to replace Freedmen's Hospital (1862); a new $650 million, 225-bed replacement is targeted for 2028.
Howard Unruh
Howard Barton Unruh (1921–2009) was an American World War II veteran who shot thirteen people dead in twelve minutes in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949.
Howard Valentine
Howard Van Nostrand Valentine (1881-1932), American middle-distance runner for the New York Athletic Club; won 1904 Olympic gold in the 4-mile team race and silver in the 800 m, and competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games.
Howard Warren Buffett
Howard Warren Buffett (born 1983), son of Howard G. Buffett and grandson of Warren Buffett, is a Columbia SIPA adjunct professor, co-author of Social Value Investing and 40 Chances, and former executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Howard Webb
Howard Webb, English former referee and ex-policeman; refereed the 2010 Champions League and World Cup finals; now PGMOL Chief Refereeing Officer leading VAR transparency.
Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson (born 1943, Sheffield) is an English football manager who led Leeds United to the 1991-92 First Division title, the last won by an English manager; later FA technical director and England caretaker coach.
Howard Wilson Emmons
Howard Wilson Emmons (1912–1998) was an American mechanical engineer at Harvard, called "Mr. Fire Research," who chaired the study behind the Fire Research and Safety Act of 1968.
Howard Wolowitz
Howard Wolowitz is the fictional aerospace engineer played by Simon Helberg in The Big Bang Theory; an MIT-trained Caltech engineer, season 6 ISS astronaut, husband of Bernadette, father of Halley and Neil Michael.
Howard Y. Chang
Howard Y. Chang (Howard Yuan-Hao Chang), born 1972, is a Taiwanese-born American physician-scientist at Stanford known for gene regulation, long noncoding RNAs, and the ATAC-seq method, now chief scientific officer of Amgen.
Howard Yates
Howard Yates refers to several athletes: an Australian Victorian sprinter, 1934 British Empire Games team member and 1936 Australian 440-yard champion, and a University of Illinois Big Ten indoor miler of 1919-1920.
Howard Zimmerman
Howard Zimmerman (1926–2012) was an American organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a founder of mechanistic organic photochemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American historian and activist, author of A People's History of the United States (1980), Spelman and Boston University professor, SNCC adviser, antiwar campaigner, playwright.
Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell (born 1943) is an American painter known for abstract works made from hole-punched paper dots and for documenting racism in the art world.
Howards End
Howards End is E. M. Forster's 1910 novel of three Edwardian families, the Wilcoxes, Schlegels, and Basts, and the inheritance of a Hertfordshire country house, built around the epigraph "Only connect".
Howards End (film)
Howards End (1992) is James Ivory and Ismail Merchant's adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Helena Bonham Carter; it won three Oscars from nine nominations and the Cannes 45th Anniversary Prize.
Howards' Way
Howards' Way: BBC One Sunday drama serial (1985–1990), created by Gerard Glaister and Allan Prior, set in fictional Tarrant on the Hamble; 78 episodes, six series, about redundant designer Tom Howard's boatyard and 1980s aspirational drama.
Howdy (streaming service)
Howdy is a subscription streaming service owned by Roku, launched in the United States in 2025, offering an ad-free catalog of licensed movies and shows for $2.99 per month.
Howdy Doody
Howdy Doody: freckle-faced cowboy marionette and title character of NBC's pioneering children's TV show The Howdy Doody Show (1947-1960), hosted and voiced by Buffalo Bob Smith, featuring Clarabell the Clown, the Peanut Gallery, and the finale line "Good-bye, kids."
Howe Caverns
Howe Caverns, in Howes Cave, Schoharie County, New York, is a commercial show cave discovered by Lester Howe, formed about six million years ago in Coeymans and Manlius limestone, with a 156-foot elevator descent, River Styx boat ride, and Signature Rock tour.
Howe Military Academy
Howe Military Academy, also Howe Military School, was a private Episcopal-affiliated military boarding school in Howe, Indiana, founded 1884, coeducational from 1988, closed 2019 after 135 years; campus sold in 2020 to World Olivet Assembly.
Howe Sound Mill power station
Howe Sound Mill power station is a biomass-fired cogeneration power station at the Howe Sound Pulp and Paper mill in Port Mellon, British Columbia, Canada.
Howe truss
The Howe truss is a bridge truss patented by William Howe in 1840, combining timber diagonals in compression with wrought iron vertical rods in tension.
Howel Williams
Howel Williams (1898–1980) was a British-born American volcanologist and geologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on calderas and the Cascade volcanoes.