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Hector Milian

Héctor Milián (Héctor Milián Pérez), Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler born 1968 in Pinar del Río; Olympic heavyweight gold at Barcelona 1992, 1991 world champion, three-time Olympian, UWW Hall of Fame 2016.

Hector Rodriguez

Hector Rodriguez (Héctor Rodríguez Torres), Cuban judoka born 1951 in Guanajay; won lightweight 63 kg gold at Montreal 1976, first Cuban Olympic judo champion and first non-Japanese winner of the lightest category; 1973 world bronze; IJF Hall of Fame 2013.

Hector Vinent

Héctor Vinent (Héctor Vinent Cháron), Cuban amateur boxer born 1972 in Santiago de Cuba; back-to-back Olympic light-welterweight golds (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996), world champion 1993 and 1995; retired 2000 with a detached retina, later a trainer in Havana and Istanbul.

Heel (professional wrestling)

A heel, also known as a wrestling heel, is the villainous character in professional wrestling, the antagonist fans boo against the heroic face, or babyface.

Heels (TV series)

Heels (Starz, 2021-2023) is a wrestling drama created by Michael Waldron starring Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig as brothers Jack and Ace Spade of the Duffy Wrestling League in Duffy, Georgia; two seasons, later on Netflix, no season 3.

Heidi Schmid

Heidi Schmid (Adelheid Schmid-Grundmann), German foil fencer born 1938 in Klagenfurt; Olympic gold 1960 Rome individual foil, 1964 team bronze, 1961 world champion, seven-time German champion.

Helen Maroulis

Helen Maroulis (born 1991, Rockville, Maryland) is an American freestyle wrestler, first U.S. woman to win Olympic wrestling gold (Rio 2016, 53 kg, beating Saori Yoshida), with Tokyo and Paris bronzes and four world titles.

Helena Crevar

Helena Crevar (born 2007) is an American submission grappler and BJJ black belt under John Danaher at Kingsway; youngest ADCC champion ever (2026, +65 kg) and 2024 silver medalist.

Helene Mayer

Helene Mayer (1910–1953), German foil fencer; 1928 Olympic gold, 1936 silver as Nazi Germany's only Jewish-ancestry athlete; world champion 1929, 1931, 1937; eight US titles.

Hélio Gracie

Hélio Gracie (1913–2009), Brazilian jiu-jitsu master and fighter of the Gracie family, brother of Carlos Gracie; famous for the 1951 Kimura match, the Gracie academies in Rio, and fathering the sons who created the UFC.

Hell in a Cell

Hell in a Cell is a WWE roofed-steel-cage match type, debuted October 5, 1997 (Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker, Badd Blood), inspired by the 1983 Last Battle of Atlanta; no escape, no disqualifications.

Hell in a Cell (2014)

Hell in a Cell (2014): WWE pay-per-view, October 26, 2014, American Airlines Center, Dallas; sixth edition, attendance 15,303. Seth Rollins beat Dean Ambrose in the main-event Cell after Bray Wyatt's interference; John Cena beat Randy Orton in the other Cell match.

Hell in a Cell (2015)

Hell in a Cell (2015), WWE pay-per-view, October 25, 2015, Staples Center, Los Angeles; Lesnar beat The Undertaker and Reigns beat Wyatt in Cell matches; Del Rio returned to win the U.S. Title from Cena.

Hell in a Cell (2016)

Hell in a Cell (2016), WWE pay-per-view, October 30, 2016, TD Garden, Boston; triple Cell main event; Charlotte Flair beat Sasha Banks in the first women's Hell in a Cell match and first women's WWE pay-per-view main event.

Hell in a Cell (2017)

Hell in a Cell (2017) was WWE's October 8, 2017 SmackDown-exclusive pay-per-view at Little Caesars Arena, Detroit. Kevin Owens beat Shane McMahon in a Falls Count Anywhere Cell main event after Sami Zayn's heel turn; The Usos and Baron Corbin won titles.

Hell in a Cell (2018)

Hell in a Cell (2018), also called WWE Hell in a Cell 2018, was a WWE pay-per-view held September 16, 2018 in San Antonio, Texas; its Reigns-Strowman Universal title Cell match ended in a no contest after Brock Lesnar's return.

Hell in a Cell (2019)

Hell in a Cell (2019) was WWE's eleventh annual Hell in a Cell pay-per-view, held October 6, 2019 at Golden 1 Center, Sacramento. Seth Rollins retained the Universal Championship against The Fiend Bray Wyatt via a controversial referee stoppage.

Hell in a Cell (2020)

WWE Hell in a Cell 2020, a WWE pay-per-view held October 25, 2020 on WWE Network, featured three Cell title matches: Orton beat McIntyre for the WWE Championship, Reigns made Jey Uso quit, and Banks ended Bayley's 380-day SmackDown Women's Title reign.

Hell in a Cell (2021)

Hell in a Cell (2021) was a WWE pay-per-view held at the ThunderDome on June 20, 2021, headlined by Bobby Lashley retaining the WWE Championship against Drew McIntyre.

Hell in a Cell (2022)

Hell in a Cell (2022), WWE pay-per-view held June 5, 2022 at Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois; 14th and final standalone edition; Cody Rhodes beat Seth Rollins in the Cell main event with a torn pectoral.

Henri Anspach

Henri Anspach (Henri Lucien Ernest Eugène Anspach, 1882–1979), Belgian fencer and painter, cousin of Paul Anspach; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in men's team épée and exhibited paintings in Paris and Brussels.

Henri Deglane

Henri Deglane (Jean Henri Deglane, 1902-1975), French Greco-Roman wrestler; won 1924 Paris Olympic heavyweight gold, first French Olympic wrestling champion, then AWA World Heavyweight pro champion in 1931.

Henri Lepage

Henri Lepage (Henri Louis Lucien Lepage, 1908-1996), French épée fencer from Épinal; Olympic team épée gold and sixth in individual at London 1948, 1947 Lisbon world team gold, French champion 1942 and 1946.

Henry Cejudo

Henry Cejudo (born 1987), American freestyle wrestler and MMA fighter; 2008 Beijing Olympic gold at 55 kg, youngest U.S. Olympic wrestling champion; former UFC flyweight and bantamweight champion, retired 2025.

Henry Cooper

Sir Henry Cooper (1934–2011), "Our 'Enry", English heavyweight boxer; British, Commonwealth and European champion; twice fought Muhammad Ali, knocking him down in 1963; lost final 1971 fight to Joe Bugner.

Henry Maske

Henry Maske, German boxer born 1964, 1988 Olympic middleweight champion for East Germany, 1989 amateur world champion, and IBF light heavyweight professional world champion 1993-1996, nicknamed the Gentleman, with 30 wins in 31 pro fights.

Henry Tillman

Henry Durand Tillman (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American boxer, 1984 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist who beat Mike Tyson twice as an amateur, later a pro cruiserweight contender who lost to Holyfield and Tyson.

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.

Herb Dean

Herb Dean (Herbert Dean) is an American mixed martial arts referee and certified trainer who has officiated more than 1,250 UFC fights across three decades in the sport.

Herbert Runge

Herbert Runge (1913-1986), German heavyweight boxer, Elberfelder Boxclub; won 1936 Berlin Olympic heavyweight gold on points over Guillermo Lovell, first German Olympic heavyweight champion; eight-time German amateur champion 1935-1943.