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Harsh Dev Singh

Harsh Dev Singh is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir, president of the J&K National Panthers Party (India) and a former education minister who later joined and left the Aam Aadmi Party.

Harsh Mahajan

Harsh Mahajan is an Indian politician and BJP member of the Rajya Sabha from Himachal Pradesh, elected in 2024 after leaving the Congress in 2022.

Harsh Malhotra

Harsh Malhotra (born 1964) is an Indian BJP politician, East Delhi MP since 2024, Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Road Transport & Highways, former East Delhi mayor, and Delhi BJP president from May 2026.

Harsh Sanghavi

Harsh Sanghavi is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat since 2025 and a three-time MLA from Majura, Surat, previously home minister.

Harsh Vardhan (हर्ष वर्धन) (Delhi politician)

Harsh Vardhan (हर्ष वर्धन), born 1954, is a retired Indian ENT surgeon and BJP politician, five-term Delhi MLA, Chandni Chowk MP 2014–2024, Union health and science minister, and founder of India's Pulse Polio campaign.

Harsh Vardhan Shringla

Harsh Vardhan Shringla is an Indian politician of the BJP and a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, previously Foreign Secretary of India from 2020 to 2022.

Harshali Thawil-Chaudhary

Harshali Thawil-Chaudhary is an Indian Shiv Sena politician and lawyer, a second-term corporator elected unopposed as Mayor of Kalyan-Dombivli in February 2026, ending six years of administrative rule.

Harshwardhan Chauhan

Harshwardhan Chauhan is an Indian National Congress politician from Himachal Pradesh who has represented Shillai six times since 1993 and holds Industries, Parliamentary Affairs, and Labour & Employment portfolios.

Harshwardhan Vasantrao Sapkal

Harshwardhan Vasantrao Sapkal is an Indian National Congress politician from Buldhana, Maharashtra, a former MLA who was appointed state Congress president by Mallikarjun Kharge in February 2025.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal (ਹਰਸਿਮਰਤ ਕੌਰ ਬਾਦਲ)

Harsimrat Kaur Badal (ਹਰਸਿਮਰਤ ਕੌਰ ਬਾਦਲ), Shiromani Akali Dal politician, four-time MP from Bathinda, Punjab (2009, 2014, 2019, 2024), and Union Food Processing Minister until her September 2020 resignation over the farm bills.

Hartford Convention

The Hartford Convention was a secret meeting of 26 New England Federalist delegates in Hartford, Connecticut, from December 1814 to January 1815, protesting the War of 1812 and proposing constitutional amendments.

Hartley Shawcross

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, was a British Labour barrister and politician who served as Attorney General from 1945 to 1951 and was Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial.

Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School, also called the Kennedy School of Government, is the public policy graduate school of Harvard University, founded in the 1930s in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk (1930–1978), American politician and gay rights activist, first openly gay elected official in California, won San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5 in 1977; assassinated with Mayor Moscone by Dan White in 1978.

Harvey Peeler

Harvey Peeler is an American Republican politician and cattle farmer from Gaffney, South Carolina, who served as President of the South Carolina Senate from 2019 to 2021.

Harvinder Kalyan

Harvinder Kalyan is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member who is the Speaker of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, elected from Gharaunda since 2014 and named Speaker in 2024.

Hasan Akhund (محمد حسن آخوند)

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund (محمد حسن آخوند), Taliban acting prime minister of Afghanistan since September 2021, head of the Rehbari Shura, former foreign minister and Kandahar governor (1996–2001), UN-sanctioned as TAi.002.

Hasan bey Aghayev

Hasan bey Aghayev (Həsən bəy Ağayev) was an Azerbaijani physician, journalist, and statesman who served as first deputy chairman of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Hasan I of Tabaristan

Hasan I of Tabaristan, known as al-Hasan b. Zayd, was a Hasanid Sayyid from Medina who founded an Alid dynasty in Tabaristan, ruling 864 to 884.

Hasan Mushrif

Hasan Mushrif is an Indian Nationalist Congress Party politician and six-time MLA from Kagal, Kolhapur, who serves as Maharashtra's Cabinet Minister for Medical Education, appointed in December 2024.

Hasan Prishtina

Hasan Prishtina (1873–1933), born Hasan Berisha, was a Kosovo Albanian politician who led the 1912 anti-Ottoman uprising and was Albania's prime minister for five days in 1921.

Hasanwayh

Hasanwayh (حَسَنويه) was a Kurdish chieftain of the Barzikani tribe who founded the Hasanwayhid dynasty, ruling the Jibal region from 961 to 979 from his fortress of Sarmaj, where he died in 979.

Haseeb Fatmi

Haseeb Fatmi is an American Democratic politician and attorney who serves in the North Carolina State Senate from District 18, appointed in 2026 after serving as a Wake Forest Town Commissioner.

Hasekura Tsunenaga (支倉六右衛門常長)

Hasekura Tsunenaga (支倉六右衛門常長, 1571–1622), also Felipe Francisco Faxicura, was a Sendai samurai who led the Keichō Embassy (1613–1620) to Mexico, Spain, and Rome for Date Masamune, meeting Philip III and Pope Paul V.

Hashemites (الهاشميون)

Hashemites (الهاشميون), Arabian dynasty descended from Hashim of Quraysh and the Prophet Muhammad; sharifs of Mecca from the 10th century, leaders of the 1916 Arab Revolt, kings of Syria, Iraq, and the Hijaz, and today the ruling royal family of Jordan under King Abdullah II.

Hashim al-Atassi (هاشم الأتاسي)

Hashim al-Atassi (هاشم الأتاسي), called Abu al-Dustur, 1873–1960, Homs-born Syrian nationalist statesman: president of the Syrian Congress, drafter of the first constitution, National Bloc founder, and three-term head of state, 1936–1955.

Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin

Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin was the 25th Sultan of Brunei, reigning from 1885 to 1906, who signed the 1888 protectorate treaty and the 1905–1906 agreement introducing the British Resident.

Hashim Thaçi

Hashim Thaçi (born 1968), Kosovar politician and KLA leader, first prime minister and president 2016–2020; convicted 16 September 2026 by Kosovo Specialist Chambers of war crimes (arbitrary detention, torture, murder) and sentenced to 25 years.

Hasmukh Patel (Gujarat politician)

Hasmukh Patel, also known as Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Ahmedabad East in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Hasnat Abdullah

Hasnat Abdullah (হাসনাত আব্দুল্লাহ), Bangladeshi student activist and coordinator of Students Against Discrimination in the July 2024 uprising; now National Citizen Party Southern Region chief organiser and Cumilla-4 Member of Parliament.