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Hassan al-Banna (حسن البنا)
Hassan al-Banna (حسن البنا, 1906–1949), Egyptian schoolteacher and Islamist thinker, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailia in 1928; first Supreme Guide, advocate of Islam as a complete political and social system, assassinated 1949.
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916–2006) was an Issa Somali politician, first president of Djibouti from 1977 to 1999, LPAI leader who negotiated independence from France, ruled one-party, and retired in favor of his nephew Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.
Hassan II of Morocco
Hassan II (Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad; 1929–1999), Alawite King of Morocco 1961–1999, eldest son of Mohammed V; survived the 1971–1973 coup attempts, led the 1975 Green March of 350,000 into Western Sahara, and ended his 38-year reign with slow liberalization.
Hassan Rouhani (حسن روحانی)
Hassan Rouhani (حسن روحانی), Iranian cleric and moderate president 2013–2021; led nuclear diplomacy, signed the 2015 JCPOA, saw first-term recovery then second-term economic collapse after US sanctions.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (حسن شيخ محمود), Somali president since May 2022 and previously 2012–2017, SIMAD University co-founder, UPD leader, known for the Al-Shabaab offensive and 2026 constitutional crisis.
Hassan Yousef (حسن يوسف) (Hamas leader)
Hassan Yousef (حسن يوسف), born 1955, Hamas co-founder and West Bank leader; repeatedly arrested by Israel, held in administrative detention from October 2023 to June 2026; father of defector Mosab, the 'Green Prince.'
Hassanal Bolkiah
Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, 29th Sultan of Brunei since 1967 and its prime minister, finance, defense, and foreign affairs minister; Asia's only absolute monarch, ruling under emergency powers since 1962.
Hastings Banda
Hastings Kamuzu Banda (c. 1898-1997), also styled Ngwazi, was Malawi's first president, Life President from 1971 to 1994, a doctor trained in the United States and Scotland who ruled autocratically, allied with apartheid South Africa, and lost the 1994 multiparty elections.
Hatay dispute
Hatay dispute (Sanjak of Alexandretta issue, Hatay Sorunu): Franco-Turkish controversy over the sanjak of French-mandate Syria, 1936–1939. Turkish minority, League of Nations ruling of 1937, short-lived State of Hatay, transfer to Turkey on 23 July 1939.
Hatay State
Hatay State (Hatay Devleti, État du Hatay, دولة هاتاي), also called Republic of Hatay, was an independent state in the Sanjak of Alexandretta from 2 September 1938 to 29 June 1939, capital Antakya, president Tayfur Sökmen; it joined Turkey on 23 July 1939.
Hatice Sultan (خدیجه سلطان) (daughter of Selim I)
Hatice Sultan (خدیجه سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and sister of Süleyman the Magnificent, long said to have married Grand Vizier İbrahim Pasha, a claim modern research rejects.
Hawaiian League
The Hawaiian League was a secret political society formed in Honolulu in 1887 by white businessmen and lawyers, which forced King Kalākaua to accept the Bayonet Constitution.
Hawaiian sovereignty movement
The Hawaiian sovereignty movement, also called the Hawaiian Independence Movement, is a Native Hawaiian political movement seeking restored self-governance, ranging from federal recognition to full Hawaiian independence.
Hay–Herrán Treaty
The Hay–Herrán Treaty was a 1903 agreement giving the United States the right to build a canal across Panama, then a Colombian province; Colombia rejected it.
Hay–Quesada Treaty
The Hay–Quesada Treaty (Tratado Hay–Quesada) was the agreement by which the United States relinquished its claim to the Isle of Pines in favor of Cuba, first signed in 1903.
Haybatullah Akhundzada
Haybatullah Akhundzada is an Afghan cleric and politician who has led the Taliban since 2016 and been Supreme Leader of Afghanistan since August 2021, holding the title Amir al-Mu'minin.
Hayek's Bastards
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books/Allen Lane, 2025) is Quinn Slobodian's intellectual history arguing that the alt-right and figures like Rothbard, Hoppe, Brimelow, and Milei emerged from neoliberalism, not against it, via a 'new fusionism' of hardwired nature, hard borders, and hard money.
Hayley Harrison
Hayley D. Harrison is an American political aide, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady Melania Trump since January 2025, earning $195,200; a long-time Trump aide identified as Trump Employee 1 in the classified documents case.
Haymarket affair
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre, was an 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally followed by the hanging of four anarchists.
Haz Al-Din
Haz Al-Din (born 1996), pseudonym of Adam Tahir, is an American Marxist-Leninist streamer, founder of MAGA communism, leader of the Infrared Collective, and inaugural chairman of the American Communist Party since 2024.
Hazel McCallion
Hazel McCallion (1921–2023), nicknamed Hurricane Hazel, was mayor of Mississauga, Ontario for 36 years and 12 terms (1978–2014), led the 1979 Mississauga Miracle evacuation, kept the city debt-free, and was later found in a 2011 conflict of interest inquiry.
He Jin (何进)
He Jin (何進, Suigao, 135–189) was a Grand General and regent of the late Eastern Han, half-brother of Empress He. He plotted to exterminate the palace eunuchs, was assassinated by them, and his death opened Luoyang to Dong Zhuo.
He Zizhen (贺子珍)
He Zizhen (贺子珍), Chinese Communist revolutionary, Long March participant, and third wife of Mao Zedong; married him in Jiangxi in 1928, divorced in Yan'an in 1937, treated in Moscow, elected to the CPPCC in 1979.
Head of government
Head of government: the official who directs a state's executive, called prime minister, president, or chancellor depending on system. Distinguished from head of state in parliamentary and semi-presidential systems; combined in presidential ones such as the United States.
Head of state
Head of state: the official leader representing a country, separate from or combined with the head of government; ceremonial monarchs and presidents, selection methods, and reserve powers.
Head of the Commonwealth
Head of the Commonwealth: ceremonial head of the 56-nation Commonwealth of Nations, created by the 1949 London Declaration, held by George VI, Elizabeth II, and since 2022 King Charles III; not hereditary, chosen by member leaders.
Headquarters of the United Nations
United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ), the UN's main seat in Midtown Manhattan on an 18-acre East River site donated by John D. Rockefeller, designed 1947 by a team led by Wallace Harrison, built 1949-1952, international territory, renovated under the $2.31 billion Capital Master Plan.
Health Education Nature Sustainability Party
SENS (Partidul Sănătate, Educație, Natură, Sustenabilitate) is a Romanian progressive green party founded in 2023, pro-EU and member of the European Greens family; it won about 3% and no seats in the 2024 parliamentary election and backs Nicușor Dan.
Hearcel Craig
Hearcel F. Craig is an American Democratic politician serving his second term in the Ohio Senate for the 15th district, after serving on Columbus City Council from 2007 to 2014.
Heath Flora
Heath Flora is an American Republican politician, a California State Assembly member for the 9th district who served as Assembly Republican Leader from 2025 to 2026.