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Horses (video game)
Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure game by Santa Ragione, was released in 2025 and became a controversy after being banned by Steam and Epic Games Store.
Horst Effertz
Horst Effertz (born 4 August 1938, Düsseldorf) is a German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Rome 1960 for the Unified Team of Germany (6:39.12), and sixth in the coxless fours at Tokyo 1964.
Horst Gunter Gregor
Horst-Günter Gregor (1938–1995), East German swimmer nicknamed Muskel, won three Olympic relay silvers (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968), two European relay titles, and 21 East German national swimming titles.
Horst Hock
Horst Hock (Horst Höck/Hoeck, 1904–1969), German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Los Angeles 1932 for the Berlin Rowing Club; his lost gold medal was found in 2015.
Horst Hornlein
Horst Hörnlein (born 1945, Möhrenbach) is an East German former luger, 1972 Sapporo Olympic doubles gold medalist with Reinhard Bredow in a historic tie, later a bobsleigh coach for GDR, Britain, and FIBT.
Horst Meyer
Horst Meyer (1941-2020), German rower, stroked the Deutschland-Achter; Olympic gold 1968 and silver 1964 in the men's eight, world champion 1962 and 1966, later a consultant and Hamburg's 2012 Olympic bid director.
Horst Rudiger Schloske
Horst Rudiger Schloske (Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske, born Pfau, 1946) is a West German 400 m sprinter, fifth in the 1972 Munich Olympic final, European 4x400 relay champion 1971, and 1973 world 500 m record holder (1:00.6).
Hoshi
Hoshi (星, Star Sudoku) is a Sudoku variant on a six-pointed star grid of triangular cells: six large triangles of nine cells each take digits 1-9, and every straight line, even across the central hole, must have no repeated digits. Distinct from the Hoshi Star Battle and Go apps.
Hoshimi Miyabi
Hoshimi Miyabi (星見雅) is a Zenless Zone Zero S-Rank Ice Frost Anomaly Agent, chief of Section 6 and youngest Void Hunter, released in Version 1.4 with a CRIT-scaling Frostburn kit and Hailstorm Shrine signature W-Engine.
Hossein Rezazadeh (حسین رضازاده)
Hossein Reza Zadeh (حسين رضازاده), born 1978 in Ardabil, Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter; two Olympic golds (2000, 2004), four world titles, clean & jerk world record 263.5 kg.
Hossein Tavakoli
Hossein Tavakoli (حسين توکلی), Iranian weightlifter born 1978, gold medalist in the men's 105 kg class at the Sydney 2000 Olympics with a 425 kg total; later an Asian Games bronze medalist and coach of Iran and Oman teams.
Host city selection for the Olympic Games
Host city selection for the Olympic Games is the process by which the International Olympic Committee elects the host by secret ballot of its members.
Host nation performance at the Olympic Games
Host nation performance at the Olympic Games is the tendency of countries to win more medals when hosting, typically about 2 percentage points of medal share.
Host nation performance at the Paralympic Games
Host nation performance at the Paralympic Games is the measurable boost in a country's medal share when hosting, with Winter hosts averaging 17.79% at home versus 8.78% away.
Hostert
US Hostert (Football Club Union Sportive Hostert) is a Luxembourg football club founded 1946 in Hostert, Niederanven; a lower-league club until 2011, now in the National Division, 2018 cup finalist.
Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels is an American brand of die-cast toy cars and track sets produced by Mattel and first sold in 1968, known for speed, stunts, and orange plastic track.
Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami: 2012 top-down one-hit-kill action game by Swedish duo Dennaton Games (Söderström, Wedin), published by Devolver Digital; alternate-1989 Miami setting, answering-machine missions, synthwave soundtrack; sold over 1.5 million by 2015.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015), Dennaton Games' top-down shooter sequel published by Devolver Digital, concludes the Hotline Miami saga; refused classification in Australia in 2015 over an implied sexual violence scene and never released there.
Hotmer
Hotmer: French network of five surf shops (Lille, Almanarre, Côte d'Opale, Rennes, Dinard) plus hotmer.com, run by SAS B.A.W (SIREN 799314216, founded 2013), selling wing foil, windsurf, kitesurf and urban glide gear; Almanarre shop sits on the Hyères spot.
Hou Yifan (侯逸凡)
Hou Yifan (侯逸凡), born 1994, is a Chinese chess grandmaster and four-time Women's World Chess Champion who became the youngest female grandmaster at 14 and the youngest women's world champion at 16.
Hou Yuzhu
Hou Yuzhu (侯玉珠), Chinese volleyball outside hitter born 1963 in Yongtai, Fujian; Fujian club player and national team member 1983–1988 who won 1984 Olympic gold and 1988 Olympic bronze.
Hou Zhihui
Hou Zhihui (侯志慧), Chinese weightlifter born 1997, two-time Olympic champion in women's 49 kg (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), 2018 world champion, and holder of world records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and total.
Hounds and jackals
Hounds and jackals, or the game of 58 holes, is an ancient Egyptian peg-racing board game of the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 BC), played with five hound-headed and five jackal-headed pegs, found from Egypt to Iran.
Hour record
Hour record: longest distance cycled in one hour from a standing start in a velodrome. Men's record 56.792 km (Filippo Ganna, 2022); women's 50.455 km (Vittoria Bussi, 2025); UCI standard pursuit-bike rules since 2014.
House of cards
House of cards: a structure built by balancing playing cards on edge without fasteners, also an idiom for any fragile plan. Recorded from 1606; record tower 7.86 m by Bryan Berg (2007).
House of the Dead (film)
House of the Dead is a 2003 American-German-Canadian zombie action horror film directed by Uwe Boll, starring Jonathan Cherry and Jürgen Prochnow, based on the Sega arcade game.
House of Torture
House of Torture (ハウス・オブ・トーチャー) is a heel stable in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, formed September 4, 2021 by EVIL, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, and Dick Togo as a Bullet Club sub-group, known for interference-based cheating and expelled from Bullet Club in May 2025.
Housemarque
Housemarque (Housemarque Oy), Helsinki studio founded 1995 from Bloodhouse and Terramarque, maker of Super Stardust HD, Resogun, Nex Machina, Returnal, and Saros; Sony-owned since 2021, known for arcade-spirit shooters.
Houssem Aouar
Houssem Aouar (Houssem-Eddine Chaabane Aouar), born 1998 in Lyon, is an Algerian attacking midfielder from the Lyon academy who played for AS Roma and stars for Al-Ittihad, winning the 2024-25 Saudi Pro League title, and represents Algeria after one France friendly cap.
Houston Astros
Houston Astros, MLB American League West team founded 1962 as the Colt .45s, renamed Astros in 1964. Play at Daikin Park (formerly Minute Maid Park) since 2025; World Series champions 2017 and 2022.