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Hengan International

Hengan International (恒安国际) is a Chinese manufacturer of personal hygiene products and tissue paper, founded in 1985 in Jinjiang, Fujian, and listed in Hong Kong since 1998.

Hengkun New Materials

Hengkun New Materials (恒坤新材) is a Chinese semiconductor-materials maker founded in Xiamen in 2004 that produces photoresists and precursor materials, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market since November 2025.

Hengli Group

Hengli Group (恒力集团) is a privately held Chinese conglomerate in oil refining, petrochemicals, and textiles, founded in 1994 by the married couple Chen Jianhua and Fan Hongwei.

Hengli Petrochemical

Hengli Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (恒力石化) is a Chinese integrated petrochemical company on Changxing Island near Dalian, the world's largest PTA producer, controlled by Chen Jianhua and Fan Hongwei.

Hengsheng Royal

Hengsheng Royal (恒升皇家) is a casino in Myawaddy, Kayin State, Myanmar, in the border zone facing Mae Sot, Thailand; its name links the Macau Heng Sheng Group and Vietnam's Royal International Corporation.

Hengxin Dongfang

Hengxin Dongfang (恒信东方), also known as Hengxin Shambala, is a Beijing-based Chinese digital-culture company, founded in 2001 and listed in Shenzhen, that works in VR and CG content.

Hengyi Petrochemical

Hengyi Petrochemical (恒逸石化股份有限公司) is a Chinese petrochemical company, listed in Shenzhen, that produces PTA, polyester fibers, and refined fuels from a Brunei refinery joint venture and bases across China.

Henkel

Henkel, formally Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, is a German consumer and industrial goods company with adhesive technologies and consumer brands like Persil, controlled by founder Fritz Henkel's family.

Henkel family

The Henkel family are the descendants of Fritz Henkel, who founded the detergent and consumer-goods group Henkel in 1876, and still hold most of its voting rights.

Henlius

Henlius (复宏汉霖), formally Shanghai Henlius Biotech, is a Shanghai biopharmaceutical company founded in 2010 with Fosun Pharma, known for biosimilars and serplulimab, the first anti-PD-1 approved for first-line small cell lung cancer.

Henlius Biopharmaceuticals

Henlius Biopharmaceuticals, also known as Shanghai Henlius Biotech, is a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2010 by Fosun Pharma, developing antibodies and biosimilars for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Hennessy

Hennessy, also known as Hennessy Cognac, is a French cognac house founded in Cognac in 1765 by the Irish officer Richard Hennessy and today the largest cognac producer.

Henning Holck-Larsen

Henning Holck-Larsen (1907–2003) was a Danish chemical engineer who co-founded Larsen & Toubro in Mumbai in 1938 with Soren Kristian Toubro, building it into India's largest engineering company.

henQ

henQ is an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in European B2B software startups, known for backing companies in markets other investors consider boring.

Henri Armand Slezynger

Henri Armand Slezynger, born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1936, is a Brazilian chemical executive who founded Unigel in São Paulo in 1966 and built it into one of Brazil's largest chemical companies.

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer and executive who restored the Commentry-Fourchambault-Decazeville mining combine to solvency and formulated a general theory of management, published in 1916.

Henri Termeer

Henri Termeer (1946–2017) was a Dutch-born business executive who led Genzyme from 1983 to 2011, pioneered ultra-rare-disease drug pricing, and sold the company to Sanofi for about $20 billion.

Henrik Landgren

Henrik Landgren is a Swedish technology executive who co-founded the Stockholm AI lending firm Gilion in 2021, after serving as Spotify's first VP of analytics.

Henrique Braun

Henrique Braun is an American business executive elected CEO of The Coca-Cola Company in December 2025, succeeding James Quincey after serving as chief operating officer.

Henrique Dubugras

Henrique Dubugras is a Brazilian entrepreneur from São Paulo who co-founded the corporate-card fintech Brex in 2017, led it as co-CEO until 2024, and became chairman before its 2026 sale to Capital One.

Henrique Weaver

Henrique Weaver is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Pagaleve, founded in 2021, whose Pix installment payments reached US$100 million in annualized revenue by 2026.

Henry Burkhardt III

Henry Burkhardt III is an American computer designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Data General in 1968, designed the Nova's instruction set, and later founded Encore Computer and Kendall Square Research.

Henry Clay Frick

Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was an American coke and steel industrialist who built Pennsylvania's dominant coke enterprise, became Andrew Carnegie's partner, and left his art collection as The Frick Collection.

Henry Flagler

Henry Morrison Flagler was an American industrialist who co-founded Standard Oil, then invested his fortune in Florida railroads, hotels, and land from 1885 until his death in 1913.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, pioneered the moving assembly line and the $5 day, and built the Model T.

Henry George

Henry George was an American economist who argued in Progress and Poverty (1879) that poverty stems from private land rent and proposed a single tax on land values.

Henry Haiquan Ji (吉海泉)

Henry Haiquan Ji (Ji Haiquan, 吉海泉) is a Chinese venture capitalist and Managing Director at Legend Capital, a Beijing-founded firm, focusing on TMT and consumer investing from its Shenzhen office.

Henry Isaac Rowntree

Henry Isaac Rowntree (1838–1883) was a York Quaker grocer's son who founded in 1862 the cocoa, chocolate, and chicory business that became Rowntree's, known for KitKat, Aero, and Smarties.

Henry J. Heinz

Henry J. Heinz, born Henry John Heinz, was an American food manufacturer who founded the H.J. Heinz Company near Pittsburgh in 1869 and created the "57 Varieties" slogan.

Henry J. Kaiser

Henry J. Kaiser (Henry John Kaiser, 1882–1967) was an American industrialist whose shipyards built 1,490 World War II ships and whose prepaid health plan became Kaiser Permanente.