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Huddersfield

Huddersfield, a West Yorkshire market town, grew under the Ramsden family (manor bought 1599) into a woollen textile powerhouse, with its 1766 Cloth Hall, canals, Grade I listed station, Luddite and Oastler history, and ongoing regeneration.

Huddersfield Town A.F.C.

Huddersfield Town A.F.C. (the Terriers), English football club founded 1908 in Huddersfield; Football League member since 1910; first club to win three consecutive English league titles (1924-1926); now in League One under owner Kevin Nagle.

Huddinge

Huddinge is a municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, south of Stockholm City, second-largest in the metropolitan area with 115,046 inhabitants (Q2 2026), a AAA-rated commuter suburb with Campus Flemingsberg.

Hudha ibn Khalifa al-Thaqafi

Hudha ibn Khalifa al-Thaqafi (هوذة بن خليفة الثقفي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of the tribe of Thaqif, known as the musnid of Baghdad, who died in 216 AH (831 CE).

Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman

Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman (حذيفة بن اليمان) was a Companion of Muhammad known as the keeper of his secret about the hypocrites, and a commander who conquered Hamadan and governed al-Mada'in.

Hudhud hi Aliguyon

Hudhud hi Aliguyon (The Harvest Song of Aliguyon) is an Ifugao chant of northern Luzon, Philippines, recounting the hero Aliguyon, best known through Daguio's 1952 English translation.

Hudibras

Hudibras is a satirical mock-heroic poem in three parts by Samuel Butler, published in 1663, 1664, and 1678, ridiculing Puritans and other factions of the English Civil War.

Hudjefa I

Hudjefa I is the conventional designation for a nameless pharaoh of Egypt's Second Dynasty, around 2711 BC, known only from later king lists; "hudjefa" means "erased", a scribe's note marking an illegible name.

Hudl

Hudl is an American sports technology company, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, that provides video capture, analysis, and data tools for teams from youth programs to professional leagues.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (沪东中华造船) is a state-owned shipyard in Shanghai, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation best known as China's leading builder of large LNG carriers, including the 271,000 cubic meter QC-Max class for QatarEnergy.

Hudson & Rex

Hudson & Rex (also Hudson and Rex) is a Canadian Citytv police procedural filmed in St. John's, Newfoundland, the first English-language adaptation of Kommissar Rex, starring John Reardon as Detective Charlie Hudson with German Shepherd Rex, produced by Shaftesbury and Pope Productions.

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay: large shallow seasonally ice-covered inland sea in central Canada, ~1.2 million km², receiving ~900 km³/yr river runoff; declining sea ice, isostatic rebound, Hudson's Bay Company history, polar bears, and Port of Churchill shipping.

Hudson Bay Capital Management

Hudson Bay Capital Management is a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm founded by Sander Gerber in 2005, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, managing about $20.3 billion.

Hudson County, New Jersey

Hudson County, New Jersey: smallest county by area, formed February 22, 1840 from southern Bergen County; seat Jersey City; 724,854 residents (2020), density 15,691.5 per square mile, twelve municipalities.

Hudson H. Freeze

Hudson H. Freeze is an American glycobiologist who directs the Sanford Children's Health Research Center and studies congenital disorders of glycosylation, rare inherited sugar-chain diseases.

Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk (1991) is a Michael Lehmann action comedy starring Bruce Willis as cat burglar Eddie Hawkins, blackmailed into stealing da Vinci works; a box-office bomb that later gained a cult following.

Hudson Hornet

Hudson Hornet, the "Fabulous Hudson Hornet," an American car built 1951–1957; Step-Down 1951–54 with 308 cu in six and Twin H-Power dominated NASCAR, then AMC-badged Nash-based cars to 1957.

Hudson Institute

Hudson Institute is a conservative-leaning American think tank founded in 1961 by Herman Kahn, Max Singer, and Oscar Ruebhausen in Croton-on-Hudson, New York; now headquartered at 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., led by John P. Walters with Joel Scanlon named CEO from 2027.

Hudson K. Reeve

Hudson Kern Reeve is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Animal Behavior at Cornell University, known for work on reproductive skew, kin selection, and naked mole-rats.

Hudson Line (Metro-North)

The Hudson Line is a Metro-North commuter rail line running 74 miles from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan to Poughkeepsie along the east bank of the Hudson River.

Hudson Matlock

Hudson Matlock (Lee Hudson Matlock Jr., 1919–2015) was an American civil engineer and professor at UT Austin whose p-y design method, adopted by API, underlies offshore pile design worldwide.

Hudson Meek

Hudson Joseph Meek (2008–2024), American child actor from Vestavia Hills, Alabama, known as young Baby in Baby Driver (2017); credits include 90 Minutes in Heaven, MacGyver, Legacies, Found, The School Duel; died at 16 after falling from a moving vehicle.

Hudson Mohawke

Hudson Mohawke, real name Ross Birchard (born 1986, Glasgow), is a Scottish electronic producer and DJ, LuckyMe co-founder, Warp artist (Butter, Lantern, Cry Sugar), TNGHT member with Lunice, and Kanye West G.O.O.D. Music producer.

Hudson Motor Car Company

The Hudson Motor Car Company was an American automaker founded in Detroit in 1909, known for the Hudson Hornet and merged into American Motors in 1954.

Hudson River

The Hudson River is a 315-mile New York river rising in the Adirondacks, tidal from New York Harbor to Troy, discovered by Henry Hudson in 1609, and the site of a major EPA PCB Superfund cleanup from GE plants at Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

Hudson River Day Line

The Hudson River Day Line was an American steamboat company running passenger service between New York City and Albany on the Hudson from 1863 to 1948.

Hudson River School

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American landscape painting movement, the first distinctly American art movement, founded by Thomas Cole and based in New York City.

Hudson River Trading

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a multi-asset quantitative trading firm founded in 2002, with estimated net trading revenue of $12.3 billion in 2025 and roughly 20% of US cash equities volumes.

Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft (ハドソンソフト), Japanese game developer and publisher founded 1973, creator of Bomberman and co-developer of the PC Engine with NEC; first Famicom third-party, absorbed by Konami and merged into Konami Digital Entertainment on March 1, 2012.

Hudson Strait

Hudson Strait is a long channel in northern Canada, between Baffin Island and Quebec, linking Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin to the Labrador Sea; first recorded in 1578.