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Hugh McElroy
Hugh Walter McElroy (1874-1912), Liverpool-born Chief Purser of RMS Titanic; former Allan Line and White Star purser, Boer War Transport Medal holder; died in the sinking, recovered as Body 157, buried at sea 22 April 1912.
Hugh Montgomery (British physician)
Hugh Montgomery is a British physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for a 1998 Nature paper linking the ACE gene to fitness.
Hugh Muirhead
Hugh Muirhead (1925–2007) was a British nuclear physicist who, as a young Bristol graduate, co-discovered the pion in 1947 and later wrote particle physics textbooks.
Hugh Mundell
Hugh Mundell (1962–1983) was a Jamaican roots reggae singer who recorded Africa Must Be Free By 1983 as a teenager with producer Augustus Pablo, and was shot dead aged 21.
Hugh Nibley
Hugh Winder Nibley (1910–2005) was an American scholar who taught at Brigham Young University and became the foremost Latter-day Saint apologist of the twentieth century.
Hugh O. McDevitt
Hugh O'Neill McDevitt (1930–2022) was an American immunologist who spent over fifty years at Stanford, discovering immune response genes and linking MHC variation to autoimmune diseases like diabetes.
Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian (Hugh Charles Krampe, 1925–2016), American actor who starred as Wyatt Earp in ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–61) and founded the HOBY youth leadership organization in 1958.
Hugh O'Connor
Hugh O'Connor (born Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor, 1962, Rome; died March 28, 1995) was an American actor, adopted son of Carroll O'Connor, who played Lonnie Jamison in 146 episodes of In the Heat of the Night (1988-1995) and died by suicide after cocaine addiction.
Hugh O'Flaherty
Hugh O'Flaherty (1898–1963) was an Irish Catholic priest who organized the Rome Escape Line in occupied Rome, credited with saving roughly 6,500 Allied prisoners and Jews.
Hugh O'Leary
Hugh O'Leary (born 1974) is a British chartered accountant and finance director at Affinity Global Real Estate, husband of former UK prime minister Liz Truss. LSE graduate, married Truss in 2000, lost a 2002 Greenwich council race with 447 votes.
Hugh of St. Victor
Hugh of St. Victor (died 1141) was a canon regular and leading master at the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris, called a second Augustine in his lifetime.
Hugh P. Taylor Jr.
Hugh P. Taylor Jr. was an American geochemist at the California Institute of Technology known for applying oxygen-isotope measurements to rocks, tektites, and Apollo lunar samples.
Hugh Padgham
Hugh Padgham (born 1955, Amersham, England) is a British producer/engineer who discovered gated reverb on Peter Gabriel III and produced Face Value, Synchronicity, No Jacket Required, and Invisible Touch.
Hugh Plaxton
Hugh John Plaxton (1904-1982), Canadian ice hockey left winger; won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with Canada (12 goals in 3 games), later Liberal MP for Toronto Trinity 1935-1940 and lawyer.
Hugh Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham is an Australian mathematical ecologist at the University of Queensland who applies decision science and economics to conservation, co-developing the Marxan planning software.
Hugh Quarshie
Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 1954, Accra) is a Ghanaian-born British actor, RSC Associate Artist since 2005, best known as Ric Griffin in Holby City (2001-2020), Captain Panaka in Star Wars Episode I, and Neville Lawrence in The Murder of Stephen Lawrence and Stephen.
Hugh R. Taylor
Hugh R. Taylor is an Australian ophthalmologist and University of Melbourne professor who established the link between ultraviolet radiation and cataract and led Australia's trachoma elimination.
Hugh R. Woodland
Hugh R. Woodland is a retired developmental biologist at the University of Warwick known for identifying the Xsox17 genes that mediate endoderm formation in frog embryos.
Hugh R.B. Pelham
Hugh R.B. Pelham, also known as Hugh Pelham, is a British cell biologist who identified the KDEL signal retaining proteins in the ER and directed the LMB from 2006 to 2018.
Hugh Raffles
Hugh Raffles is a British anthropologist and writer at The New School in New York, known for the books In Amazonia, Insectopedia, and The Book of Unconformities.
Hugh Rodham (born 1911)
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (born 2 April 1911), father of Hillary Clinton, was a Scranton-born Penn State graduate, Navy WWII drill instructor, and Chicago drapery businessman who retired in 1970 and died in 1993. Not to be confused with his son Hugh Rodham Jr.
Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn
Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (1801–1885), was a British field marshal and diplomat who led the Central India Field Force in 1857–58, storming Jhansi and defeating Tantia Topi, and later served as Commander-in-Chief in India.
Hugh Rudnick
Hugh Rudnick is a Chilean electrical engineer and emeritus professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for work on electricity market deregulation and regulation across Latin America.
Hugh S. Knowles
Hugh S. Knowles (1904–1988) was an American acoustical engineer who founded Knowles Electronics in 1946, held over 50 patents, and pioneered the miniaturization of hearing-aid microphones and receivers.
Hugh S. Markus
Hugh S. Markus is a British neurologist, Professor of Stroke Medicine at Cambridge since 2013, known for research on stroke genetics and cerebral small vessel disease.
Hugh S. Taylor
Hugh S. Taylor is an American physician-scientist who chairs Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine and is known for endometriosis research.
Hugh Scott
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (1900-1994), Pennsylvania Republican congressman and senator, Senate Republican minority leader 1969-1977 during Watergate, RNC chairman 1948-1949, civil rights supporter.
Hugh Scott Taylor
Hugh Scott Taylor, also known as Sir Hugh Stott Taylor, was a British-born American physical chemist at Princeton University who proposed the theory of active centers in heterogeneous catalysis.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a two-part sequence of poems by Ezra Pound, published in 1920 as a farewell to London and a portrait of its literary culture.
Hugh Shearer
Hugh Lawson Shearer (1923–2004), Jamaican trade unionist and JLP politician, third Prime Minister of Jamaica 1967–1972; BITU president, doubled secondary school enrollment, won UN Human Rights Year 1968, later Deputy Prime Minister 1980–1989.