| Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch publicist and statesman |
| Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy (1766–1847), Marshal of France |
| Sir George Grove (1820–1900), English writer on music |
| Sir William Robert Grove (1811–1896), English judge and man of science |
| Johann Gottfried Gruber (1774–1851), German critic and literary historian |
| Wilhelm von Grumbach (1503–1567), German adventurer |
| Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (Anastasius Grün) (1806–1876), Austrian poet |
| Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish poet, statesman and divine |
| Felix Grundy (1775–1840), American statesman |
| Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), English dramatist |
| Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717–1778), author of the first connected attempt to describe in detail the snowy mountains of Switzerland |
| Mathias Grünewald (Sixteenth Century), German painter |
| Jan Gruter (1560–1627), critic and scholar |
| Johann Jakob Grynaeus (1540–1617), Swiss Protestant divine |
| Simon Grynaeus (1493–1541), German scholar and theologian of the Reformation |
| Andreas Gryphius (1616–1664), German lyric poet and dramatist |
| Marguerite-Élie Guadet (1758–1794), French Revolutionist |
| Cardinal Gualo (fl. 1216), papal legate |
| Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), Venetian painter |
| Guariento (fl. 1365), first Paduan painter who distinguished himself |
| Battista Guarini (1538–1612), Italian poet |
| Guarino Guarini (1624–1683), Italian monk, writer and architect |
| Guarino Veronese (1374–1460), one of the Italian restorers of classical learning |
| Guarnieri, celebrated family of violin-makers of Cremona |
| Aleksandr Ivanovich Guchkov (1862–1936), Russian politician |
| Marquard Gude (1635–1689), German archæologist and classical scholar |
| Alfred Gudeman (1862–1942), American classical scholar |
| Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant (1602–1643), Marshal of France |
| Guercino (1591–1666), Italian historical painter |
| Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke (1803–1878), German theologian |
| Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), German experimental philosopher |
| Eugénie (1805–1848) and Maurice (1810–1839) de Guérin, French poets |
| Paulin-Jean-Baptiste Guérin (1783–1855), French painter |
| Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774–1833), French painter |
| Guernieri (Fourteenth Century), celebrated mercenary captain |
| Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (1804–1873), Italian publicist |
| Olindo Guerrini (1845–1916), Italian poet |
| Jules Guesde (1845–1922), French socialist |
| Lady Charlotte Guest (1812–1895), Welsh scholar and connoisseur of china |
| Edwin Guest (1800–1880), English antiquary |
| Jean Étienne Guettard (1715–1786), French naturalist and mineralogist |
| Antonio de Guevara (c. 1490–1545?), Spanish chronicler and moralist |
| Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728–1804), Italian composer |
| Guillaume Guiart (d. c. 1316), French chronicler and poet |
| Guibert (c. 1025–1100), Antipope under the title of Clement III. |
| Guibert of Nogent (1053–c. 1124), historian and theologian |
| Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (1743–1790), French general and military writer |
| Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), celebrated Italian historian and statesman |
| Karl Gottlieb Guichard (1724–1775), soldier and military writer |
| Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, Comte de Guichen (1712–1790), French admiral |
| Alessandro Guidi (1650–1712), Italian lyric poet |
| Giovanni Guidiccioni (1500–1541), Italian poet |
| Guido of Arezzo (Eleventh Century), musician |
| Guido of Siena (Thirteenth Century), Italian painter |
| Joseph de Guignes (1721–1800), French orientalist |
| Yvette Guilbert (1865–1944), French diseuse |
| Nicholas of Guildford (fl. 1250), English poet |
| Barons and Earls of Guilford |
| Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat (1863–1940), French general |
| Eugène Guillaume (1822–1905), French sculptor |
| Guillaume de Lorris (fl. 1230), author of the earlier section of the Roman de la rose |
| Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377), French poet and musician |
| Marie-Nicolas-Silvestre Guillon (1760–1847), French ecclesiastic |
| Marie Madeleine Guimard (1743–1816), French dancer |
| Jean-Baptiste Guimet (1795–1871), French industrial chemist |
| Guido Guinicelli (c. 1230–1276?), Italian lyric poet |
| Guinness, name of a family of Irish brewers |
| Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892), French composer |
| House of Guise, French family |
| Charles Jules Guiteau (1841–1882), assassin of President Garfield |
| Lucien Germain Guitry (1860–1925), French actor |
| Fra Guittone d’Arezzo (c. 1235–1294), Italian poet |
| François Guizot (1787–1874), historian, orator and statesman |
| Sir William Withey Gull (1816–1890), English physician |
| John Gully (1783–1863), English sportsman and politician |
| Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898), German geologist |
| Ivan Gundulić (1588–1638), Servian poet |
| Josef Gung’l (1810–1889), Hungarian composer and conductor |
| Peter Gunning (1614–1684), English divine |
| Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847–1907), American novelist |
| Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), English mathematician |
| Johann Christian Günther (1695–1723), German poet |
| Günther of Schwarzburg (1304–1349), German King |
| Guntram (d. 592), King of Burgundy |
| Gupta, empire and dynasty of northern India |
| Eugen Gura (1842–1906), German singer |
| Iosif Vladimirovich Gurko (1828–1901), Russian general |
| Vasili Gurko (1864–1937), Russian general |
| William Gurnall (1617–1679), English author |
| Gurney, name of a philanthropic English family of bankers and merchants |
| Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), English psychologist |
| Adam Gurowski (1805–1866), Polish historian |
| Stephen Humphreys Gurteen (1840–1898), American clergyman and author |
| John Gurwood (1790–1845), British soldier |
| Gustav I. Vasa (1496–1560), King of Sweden |
| Gustavus Adolphus (1594–1632), King of Sweden |
| Gustav III. (1746–1792), King of Sweden |
| Gustav IV. (1778–1837), King of Sweden |
| Gustav V. (1858–1950), King of Sweden |
| Johann Gutenberg (1397?–1468), German printer |
| Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (1840–1920), Scottish lawyer |
| Sir James Guthrie (1859–1930), Scottish painter |
| Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873), Scottish divine |
| Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey) (1856–1934), English novelist |
| Guthrum (d. 890), King of East Anglia |
| Alfred von Gutschmid (1831–1887), German historian and orientalist |
| Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts-Muths (1759–1839), German teacher and the principal founder of the German school system of gymnastics |
| Karl Gutzkow (1811–1878), German novelist and dramatist |
| Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (1803–1851), German missionary to China |
| Thomas Guy (1645?–1724), founder of Guy’s Hospital |
| Madame Guyon (1648–1717), French quietist writer |
| Richard Debaufre Guyon (1803–1856), British soldier |
| Arnold Guyot (1807–1884), Swiss-American geologist and geographer |
| Yves Guyot (1843–1928), French politician and economist |
| Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737–1816), French chemist |
| Izidor Guzmics (1786–1839), Hungarian theologian |
| Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), English theological scholar |
| Joseph Gwilt (1784–1863), English architect and writer |
| Button Gwinnett (1732–1777), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Nell Gwyn (1650–1687), English actress, and mistress of Charles II. |
| Gyges (d. c. 657 B.C.), founder of the third or Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings |
| Gylippus (Fifth Century B.C.), Spartan general |
| Thomasine Christine, Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd (1773–1856), Danish author |
| Johan Gyllenstierna (1635–1680), Swedish statesman |
| István Gyöngyösi (1629–1704), Hungarian poet |
| Gyp (Madame de Martel) (1849–1932), French writer |
| Carl Haag (1820–1915), Naturalized British painter |
| Haakon, name of several kings of Norway |
| Friedrich Haase (1825–1911), German actor |
| Friedrich Haase (1808–1867), German classical scholar |
| Hugo Haase (1863–1919), German Independent Socialist leader |
| Julius von Haast (1822–1887), German and British geologist |
| Habakkuk, name borne by the eighth book of the Old Testament minor prophets |
| John Habberton (1842–1921), American journalist and author |
| William Habington (1605–1654), English poet |
| Habsburg, name of the famous family |
| Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834), French mathematician |
| Jeanne Hachette (b. 1454), French heroine |
| Louis Hachette (1800–1864), French publisher |
| John Hacket (1592–1670), Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry |
| Horatio Balch Hackett (1808–1875), American biblical scholar |
| James Henry Hackett (1800–1871), American actor |
| Friedrich Wilhelm von Hackländer (1816–1877), German novelist and dramatist |
| Earl of Haddington |
| Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), English surgeon and etcher |
| Jane Hading (1859–1934), French actress |
| Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930), American political economist and educationist |
| James Hadley (1821–1872), American scholar |
| William Henry Hadow (1859–1937), English scholar and musician |
| Hadrian (76–138), Roman Emperor |
| Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German biologist |
| Hafez (c. 1325–c. 1389), one of the most celebrated writers of Persian lyrical poetry |
| Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708–1754), German poet |
| Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen (1780–1856), German philologist |
| Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801–1874), German church historian |
| Carl Hagenbeck (1844–1913), wild-animal collector and dealer |
| Haggai, in the Bible, the tenth in order of the minor prophets |
| Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), English novelist |
| August Hahn (1792–1863), German Protestant theologian |
| Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), German physician and founder of “homoeopathy” |
| Countess Ida von Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880), German author |
| Hai (939–1038), Jewish Talmudical scholar |
| Wilhelm von Haidinger (1795–1871), Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist |
| Sir Douglas Haig (1861–1928), British field-marshal |
| David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes (1726–1792), Scottish lawyer and historian |
| Edward Hake (fl. 1560–1604), English satirist |
| Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895), English poet |
| Richard Hakluyt (c. 1553–1616), British geographer |
| James Alexander Haldane (1768–1851), Scottish divine |
| Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (1856–1928), British statesman, philosopher and lawyer |
| Robert Haldane (1764–1842), Scottish divine |
| Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880), American naturalist and philologist |
| Sir Frederick Haldimand (1718–1791), British general and administrator |
| Benjamin Hale (1797–1863), American educator |
| Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), American author |
| George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), American astronomer |
| Horatio Hale (1817–1896), American ethnologist |
| John Parker Hale (1806–1873), American statesman |
| Matthew Hale (1609–1676), Lord Chief Justice of England |
| Nathan Hale (1755–1776), American hero of the War of Independence |
| Nathan Hale (1784–1863), American journalist |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879), American author |
| William Gardner Hale (1849–1928), American classical scholar |
| John Hales (d. 1571), English writer and politician |
| John Hales (1584–1656), English scholar |
| John Wesley Hales (1836–1914), British man of letters |
| Stephen Hales (1677–1761), English physiologist, chemist and inventor |
| Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141), the greatest Hebrew poet of the middle ages |
| Fromental Halévy (1799–1862), French composer |
| Joseph Halévy (1827–1917), French orientalist |
| Léon Halévy (1802–1883), French poet and dramatist, of Jewish extraction |
| Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), French author |
| William Halfpenny (d. 1755), English architectural designer |
| Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830), English orientalist and philologist |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865), British writer, long a judge of Nova Scotia |
| Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English statesman and poet |
| George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of Halifax (1716–1771), English statesman |
| George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633–1695), English statesman and writer |
| Hugh Halkett (1783–1863), British soldier and general of infantry in the Hanoverian service |
| Basil Hall (1788–1844), British naval officer, traveller and miscellaneous writer |
| Carl Christian Hall (1812–1888), Danish statesman |
| Charles Francis Hall (1821–1871), American Arctic explorer |
| Christopher Newman Hall (1816–1902), English Nonconformist divine |
| Dominick Augustine Hall (1765–1820), American jurist |
| Edward Hall (c. 1498–1547), English chronicler and lawyer |
| Fitzedward Hall (1825–1901), American orientalist |
| Granville Stanley Hall (1844–1924), American philosopher and educator |
| Isaac Hollister Hall (1837–1896), American orientalist |
| James Hall (1761–1832), Scottish geologist and physicist |
| James Hall (1793–1868), American judge and man of letters |
| James Hall (1811–1898), American geologist and palæontologist |
| Joseph Hall (1574–1656), English Bishop and satirist |
| Lyman Hall (1724–1790), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Marshall Hall (1790–1857), English physiologist |
| Robert Hall (1764–1831), English Baptist divine |
| Samuel Carter Hall (1800–1889), English journalist |
| William Edward Hall (1835–1894), English writer on international law |
| Henry Hallam (1777–1859), English historian |
| Robert Hallam (d. 1417), Bishop of Salisbury and English representative at the council of Constance |
| Charles Hallé (1819–1895), English pianist and conductor |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867), American poet |
| Henry Wager Halleck (1815–1872), American general and jurist |
| Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), Swiss anatomist and physiologist |
| Edmund Halley (1656–1742), English astronomer |
| Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807–1845), chief lyrical poet of Iceland |
| Andrew Halliday (1830–1877), British journalist and dramatist |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), English Shakespearian scholar |
| Friedrich Halm (1806–1871), Austrian poet and dramatist |
| Karl Halm (1809–1882), German classical scholar and critic |
| Charles Graham Halpine (1829–1868), Irish-American soldier and author |
| Frans Hals (1584–1666), Dutch painter |
| Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Earl of Halsbury (1823–1921), English lawyer and politician |
| James Halyburton (1518–1589), Scottish reformer |
| Thomas Halyburton (1674–1712), Scottish divine |
| Ham, in the Bible, son of Noah |
| Hamadhānī (969–1008), Arabian writer |
| Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), German writer on philosophical and theological subjects |
| Hamdānī (d. 945), Arabian geographer |
| Ferdinand Hamelin (1796–1864), French admiral |
| Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), Austrian poet |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894), English artist and author |
| Hamilcar Barca (c. 270–229 B.C.), Carthaginian general and statesman, father of Hannibal |
| Hamilton, name of a famous Scottish family |
| Marquesses and Dukes of Hamilton |
| Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), American statesman and economist |
| Anthony Hamilton (1645?–1719), French classical author |
| Elizabeth Hamilton (1758–1816), British author |
| Lady Emma Hamilton (1761?–1815), mistress of Nelson |
| George Hamilton, Earl of Orkney (1666–1737), British soldier |
| Ian Hamilton (1853–1947), British general |
| James Hamilton (1769–1831), English educationist |
| James, Duke of Hamilton (1606–1649), Scottish nobleman |
| John Hamilton (c. 1511–1571), Scottish prelate and politician |
| Patrick Hamilton (1504?–1528), Scottish divine |
| Robert Hamilton (1743–1829), Scottish economist and mathematician |
| Thomas Hamilton (1789–1842), Scottish writer |
| Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British diplomatist and archæologist |
| Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician |
| William Hamilton of Bangour (1704–1754), Scottish poet |
| William Gerard Hamilton (1729–1796), English statesman, popularly known as “Single Speech Hamilton” |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Scottish mathematician |
| Sir Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), British general and military writer |
| Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891), Vice-president of the United States |
| Ḥammād ar-Rāwiya (Eighth Century), Arabic scholar |
| Otto Hammann (1852–1928), German journalist and Foreign Office official |
| Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953), Swedish statesman |
| Friedrich Julius Hammer (1810–1862), German poet |
| Joseph, Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), Austrian orientalist |
| Henry Hammond (1605–1660), English divine |
| John Hays Hammond (1855–1936), American mining engineer |
| James Henry Hammond (1807–1864), American statesman |
| Jean-Louis Hamon (1821–1874), French painter |
| Henry Bouverie William Brand, Viscount Hampden (1814–1892), Speaker of the House of Commons |
| John Hampden (1594–1643), English statesman |
| Renn Dickson Hampden (1793–1868), English divine |
| Wade Hampton (1818–1902), American cavalry leader |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford (1829–1921), American authoress |
| Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708–1759), English diplomatist and author |
| John Hancock (1737–1793), American Revolutionary statesman |
| Winfield Scott Hancock (1824–1886), American general |
| Ferdinand Hand (1786–1851), German classical scholar |
| George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), English musical composer |
| Václav Hanka (1791–1861), Bohemian philologist |
| Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837–1904), American politician |
| James Hannay (1827–1873), Scottish critic, novelist and publicist |
| James, Baron Hannen (1821–1894), English judge |
| Hannibal (247–182 B.C.), Carthaginian general and statesman |
| James Hannington (1847–1885), English missionary |
| Hanno, name of a large number of Carthaginian soldiers and statesmen |
| Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944), French statesman and historian |
| François Hanriot (1761–1794), French revolutionist |
| Luke Hansard (1752–1828), English printer |
| Peter Andreas Hansen (1795–1874), Danish astronomer |
| Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–1882), English architect and inventor |
| Sir Richard Hanson (1805–1876), Chief Justice of South Australia |
| Christopher Hansteen (1784–1873), Norwegian astronomer and physicist |
| Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), English traveller and philanthropist |
| Takashi Hara (1856–1921), Japanese statesman |
| Harald, name of four kings of Norway |
| Harcourt, noble family distinguished in French history |
| Lewis, Viscount Harcourt (1863–1922), British politician |
| Simon, Viscount Harcourt (c. 1661–1727), Lord Chancellor of England |
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904), English statesman |
| William Vernon Harcourt (1789–1871), founder of the British Association |
| William Joseph Hardee (1815–1873), American soldier |
| Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822), Prussian statesman |
| Hardicanute (c. 1019–1042), son of Canute, King of England |
| James Keir Hardie (1856–1915), British Labour politician |
| Chester Harding (1792–1866), American portrait painter |
| James Duffield Harding (1798–1863), English landscape painter |
| Warren G. Harding (1865–1923), twenty-ninth President of the United States |
| Henry, Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), British field marshal and governor-general of India |
| Jean Hardouin (1646–1729), French classical scholar |
| Hermann von der Hardt (1660–1746), German historian and orientalist |
| Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764), English Lord Chancellor |
| Alexandre Hardy (1572?–1632), French dramatist |
| Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847–1930), American educator and author |
| Iza Duffus Hardy (1850–1922), English author |
| Robert Spence Hardy (1803–1868), English author |
| Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist |
| Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804–1878), English antiquary |
| Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769–1839), British vice-admiral |
| John Hardyng (1378–1465?), English chronicler |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903), English writer and traveller |
| John Hare (1844–1921), English actor and manager |
| John Innes Clark Hare (1816–1905), American jurist |
| Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), English theological writer |
| Robert Hare (1781–1858), American scientist |
| Sir John Harington (1560–1612), English writer
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