| Ḥarīrī (1054–1122), Arabian writer |
| Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah (Sixth Century), Pre-Islamic Arabian poet |
| Judah ben Solomon Ḥarizi (Twelfth–Thirteenth Century), Spanish Hebrew poet and traveller |
| Albert Harkness (1822–1907), American classical scholar |
| Robert Harkness (1816–1878), English geologist |
| James Harlan (1820–1899), American politician |
| John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), American jurist |
| Henry Harland (1861–1905), American novelist |
| Marion Harland (1830–1922), American authoress |
| François de Harlay de Champvallon (1625–1695), fifth Archbishop of Paris |
| Gottlieb Christoph Harless (1738–1815), German classical scholar and bibliographer |
| Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless (1806–1879), German divine |
| Josiah Harmar (1753–1813), American soldier |
| Harmodius (d. 514 B.C.), a handsome Athenian youth, and the intimate friend of Aristogeiton |
| Claus Harms (1778–1855), German divine |
| Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), German theologian |
| Cornelius Harnett (1723–1781), American statesman |
| William Selby Harney (1800–1889), American soldier |
| Harold I. (d. 1040), surnamed Harefoot, King of England |
| Harold II. (c. 1022–1066), King of the English |
| Harper, family of American book-publishers |
| William Rainey Harper (1856–1906), American educator |
| Henri Harpignies (1819–1916), French landscape painter |
| Valerius Harpocration, Greek grammarian of Alexandria |
| Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), English novelist |
| Edward Harrigan (1844–1911), American actor |
| Edward Henry Harriman (1848–1909), American financier and railroad magnate |
| Earls of Harrington |
| James Harrington (1611–1677), English political philosopher |
| Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), English mathematician and astronomer |
| Sir Augustus Harris (1852–1896), English playwright and theatrical manager |
| George, Baron Harris (1746–1829), British general |
| James Harris (1709–1780), English grammarian |
| Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908), American author |
| John Harris (c. 1667–1719), English writer |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768–1842), American clergyman |
| Thomas Lake Harris (1823–1906), American spiritualistic “prophet” |
| Sir William Snow Harris (1791–1867), English electrician |
| William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), American educationist |
| Benjamin Harrison (c. 1726–1791), American statesman |
| Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), twenty-third President of the United States |
| Constance Cary Harrison (1843–1920), American author |
| Frederic Harrison (1831–1923), English jurist and historian |
| John Harrison (1693–1776), English horologist |
| Thomas Harrison (1606–1660), English parliamentarian |
| Thomas Alexander Harrison (1853–1930), American artist |
| William Harrison (1534–1593), English topographer and antiquary |
| William Henry Harrison (1773–1841), ninth President of the United States |
| Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby (1762–1847), English statesman |
| Harṣavardhana (fl. 606–648), Indian King |
| Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658), German poet |
| Samuel Harsnett (1561–1631), English divine, Archbishop of York |
| Albert Bushnell Hart (1854–1943), American historian |
| Charles Hart (d. 1683), English actor |
| Ernest Abraham Hart (1835–1898), English medical journalist |
| John Hart (d. 1779), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Sir Robert Hart (1835–1911), Anglo-Chinese statesman |
| William Hart (1823–1894), American landscape and cattle painter |
| Bret Harte (1836–1902), American author |
| Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837), German agriculturist and writer on forestry |
| Sir Charles Augustus Hartley (1825–1915), English engineer |
| David Hartley (1705–1757), English philosopher, and founder of the Associationist school of psychologists |
| Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845–1912), American sculptor |
| Samuel Hartlib (d. 1662), English writer on education and agriculturist |
| Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906), German philosopher |
| Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), German poet and author |
| Hartmann von Aue (Twelfth Century), one of the chief Middle High German poets |
| Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch (1806–1880), Spanish dramatist |
| Hārūn al-Rashīd (c. 763–809), the fifth of the ‘Abbasid caliphs of Bagdad |
| Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545–1630), English writer |
| Sir George Harvey (1806–1876), Scottish painter |
| George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864–1928), American editor and diplomat |
| William Harvey (1578–1657), English physician, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood |
| Ḥasan (d. c. 669) and Ḥosain (d. 680), sons of the fourth Mahommedan caliph Ali |
| Ḥasan ul-Baṣrī (642–728 or 737), Arabian theologian |
| Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907), Rumanian philologist |
| Hasdrubal, name of several Carthaginian generals |
| Karl Benedict Hase (1780–1864), French Hellenist |
| Karl von Hase (1800–1890), German Protestant theologian and Church historian |
| Johannes Petrus Hasebroek (1812–1896), Flemish poet |
| Childe Hassam (1859–1935), American figure and landscape painter |
| Ḥassān ibn Thābit (d. 674), Arabian poet |
| John Rose Greene Hassard (1836–1888), American journalist |
| Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783), German musical composer |
| Rosa Sucher-Hasselbeck (1849–1927), German opera singer |
| Fredrik Hasselquist (1722–1752), Swedish traveller and naturalist |
| André Henri Constant van Hasselt (1806–1874), Belgian poet |
| Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug (1794–1862), German statesman |
| Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770–1843), Swiss-American scientist |
| Hastings, famous English family |
| Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826), British soldier and governor-general of India |
| Frank Abney Hastings (1794–1828), British naval officer and Philhellene |
| Warren Hastings (1732–1818), first governor-general of British India |
| Edwin Hatch (1835–1889), English theologian |
| William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley (1801–1881), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain |
| Edward John Littleton, Baron Hatherton (1791–1863), English politician |
| Hatto I. (c. 850–913), Archbishop of Mainz |
| Sir Christopher Hatton (1540–1591), Lord Chancellor of England and favourite of Queen Elizabeth |
| John Liptrot Hatton (1809–1886), English musical composer |
| Joseph Hatton (1837–1907), English author |
| Ludwig Hätzer (c. 1500–1529), Swiss divine |
| Carsten Hauch (1790–1872), Danish poet |
| Albert Hauck (1845–1918), German theologian |
| Franz von Hauer (1822–1899), Austrian geologist |
| Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), German poet and novelist |
| Martin Haug (1827–1876), German orientalist |
| Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771–1824), Norwegian Lutheran divine |
| Samuel Haughton (1821–1897), Irish scientific writer |
| William Haughton (fl. 1598), English playwright |
| Christian August Heinrich Kurt, Count von Haugwitz (1752–1831), Prussian statesman |
| Moritz Haupt (1808–1874), German philologist |
| Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist |
| Moritz Hauptmann (1792–1868), German musical composer and writer |
| Barthélemy Hauréau (1812–1896), French historian and miscellaneous writer |
| Kaspar Hauser (1812–1833), German youth |
| Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (1782–1859), German mineralogist |
| Adolph Hausrath (1837–1909), German theologian |
| Ludwig Häusser (1818–1867), German historian |
| Georges Eugène, Baron Haussmann (1809–1891), name associated with the rebuilding of Paris |
| Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, Comte d’Haussonville (1809–1884), French politician and historian |
| Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, comte d’Hauterive (1754–1830), French statesman and diplomatist |
| René Just Haüy (1743–1822), French mineralogist |
| Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), British soldier, one of the heroes of the Indian Mutiny |
| Alice Bradley Haven (1827–1863), American authoress |
| Evelina Haverfield (1867–1920), English war hospital worker |
| Francis John Haverfield (1860–1919), English historian and archæologist |
| Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), English hymn-writer |
| Ernest Havet (1813–1889), French scholar |
| Julien Havet (1853–1893), French historian |
| Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838–1901), English preacher and writer |
| Stephen Hawes (d. 1523), English poet |
| William Hawes (1785–1846), English musician |
| Edward, Baron Hawke (1705–1781), British admiral |
| Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), English antiquary and poet |
| John Hawkesworth (c. 1715–1773), English miscellaneous writer |
| Cæsar Henry Hawkins (1798–1884), British surgeon |
| Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), British admiral |
| Sir John Hawkins (1719–1789), English writer on music |
| Sir Richard Hawkins (c. 1562–1622), British seaman |
| Francis Lister Hawks (1798–1866), American clergyman |
| Sir John Hawkshaw (1811–1891), English engineer |
| Thomas Hawksley (1807–1893), English engineer |
| Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736), English architect |
| Sir John Hawkwood (d. 1394), English adventurer |
| Henry Hawley (c. 1679–1759), British lieut.-general |
| Joseph Roswell Hawley (1826–1905), American political leader |
| Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934), American author |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), American writer |
| Charles Hawtrey (1858–1923), English actor |
| Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789–1862), English educationalist |
| François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo (1774–1838), French general and military engineer |
| August, Freiherr von Haxthausen (1792–1866), German political economist |
| George Hay (1729–1811), Scottish Roman Catholic divine |
| Sir Gilbert Hay (fl. 1456), Scottish poet and translator |
| Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) (1876–1952), British novelist |
| John Hay (1838–1905), American statesman and author |
| Tadasu Hayashi (1850–1913), Japanese statesman |
| Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887), American geologist |
| Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian composer |
| Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), English historical painter and writer |
| Isaac Israel Hayes (1832–1881), American explorer of the Arctic regions |
| Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), nineteenth President of the United States |
| William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer, the friend and biographer of William Cowper |
| Rudolf Haym (1821–1901), German publicist and philosopher |
| Julius Jacob Haynau (1786–1853), Austrian general |
| Isaac Hayne (1745–1781), American Revolutionary soldier |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886), American poet |
| Robert Young Hayne (1791–1839), American political leader |
| Sir George Hayter (1792–1871), English painter |
| Hayton (d. 1271), King of Little Armenia or Cilicia |
| Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), English man of letters |
| John Hayward (1564?–1627), English historian |
| Eliza Fowler Haywood (1693?–1756), English writer |
| William Hazlitt (1778–1830), British literary critic and essayist |
| William Carew Hazlitt (1834–1913), bibliographer |
| Sir Edmund Head (1805–1868), English colonial governor and writer on art |
| Sir Francis Bond Head (1793–1875), English soldier, traveller and author |
| Joel Tyler Headley (1813–1897), American author |
| George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), American painter |
| Timothy Michael Healy (1855–1931), Irish lawyer and politician |
| Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), author of books about Japan |
| Samuel Hearne (1745–1792), English explorer |
| Thomas Hearne (1678–1735), English antiquary |
| William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), American newspaper proprietor |
| Benjamin Heath (1704–1766), English classical scholar and bibliophile |
| Nicholas Heath (c. 1501–1578), Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor |
| William Heath (1737–1814), American soldier |
| John Heathcoat (1783–1861), English inventor |
| Sir Gilbert Heathcote (c. 1651–1733), Lord Mayor of London |
| George Augustus Eliott, Baron Heathfield (1717–1790), British general |
| John Henniker Heaton (1848–1914), English postal reformer |
| Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863), German poet and dramatist |
| Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), German poet and popular writer |
| Reginald Heber (1783–1826), English Bishop and hymn-writer |
| William Heberden (1710–1801), English physician |
| Edmond Hébert (1812–1890), French geologist |
| Jacques-René Hébert (1757–1794), French Revolutionist |
| Hecataeus of Abdera (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek historian and Sceptic philosopher |
| Hecataeus of Miletus (Sixth–Fifth Century B.C.), Greek historian |
| Hecato of Rhodes, Greek Stoic philosopher and disciple of Panaetius |
| Friedrich Hecker (1811–1881), German revolutionist |
| Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819–1888), American Roman Catholic priest, the founder of the “Paulist Fathers” |
| John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743–1823), American Moravian missionary to the Indians |
| Annie French Hector (Mrs. Alexander) (1825–1902), British novelist |
| Willem Claeszoon Heda (c. 1594–c. 1680), Dutch painter |
| Frans Hedberg (1828–1908), Swedith dramatic author |
| Matthew Forster Heddle (1828–1897), Scottish mineralogist |
| Frederic Henry Hedge (1805–1890), American clergyman and author and scholar of note |
| Sven Anders Hedin (1865–1952), Swedish geographer and explorer |
| Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/4), Dutch painter |
| Johan van Heemskerk (1597–1656), Dutch poet |
| Martin van Heemskerk (1498–1574), Dutch painter |
| Oswald Heer (1809–1883), Swiss geologist and naturalist |
| Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1760–1842), German historian |
| Karl Josef von Hefele (1809–1893), German theologian |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher |
| Hegemon of Thasos (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek writer of the old comedy |
| Hegesias of Magnesia (fl. c. 300 B.C.), Greek rhetorician and historian |
| Hegesippus (Fourth Century B.C.), Athenian orator and statesman |
| Hegesippus (fl. 150–180), early Christian writer |
| Hegesippus (Fourth Century?), supposed author of a free Latin adaptation of the Jewish War of Josephus |
| Alexander Hegius (1433/9–1498), German humanist |
| Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791–1860), Danish poet and critic |
| Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841), Danish political and dramatic writer |
| Johann Heinrich Heidegger (1633–1698), Swiss theologian |
| Carl Alexander von Heideloff (1788–1865), German architect |
| Karl August von Heigel (1835–1905), German novelist |
| Herman Heijermans (1864–1924), Dutch writer, of Jewish origin |
| Albert Heim (1849–1937), Swiss geologist |
| François-Joseph Heim (1787–1865), French painter |
| Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet and journalist |
| Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (1681–1741), German jurist |
| Christian Heinrich Heinecken (1721–1725), child remarkable for precocity of intellect |
| William Heinemann (1863–1920), British publisher |
| Samuel Heinicke (1727–1790), originator in Germany of systematic education for the deaf and dumb |
| Heinrich Raspe (c. 1202–1247), German King and landgrave of Thuringia |
| Wilhelm Heinse (1749–1803), German author |
| Daniel Heinsius (1580–1655), one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance |
| Nicolaas Heinsius (1620–1681), Dutch scholar |
| Saint Helena (c. 255–c. 330), mother of Constantine the Great |
| Karl Helfferich (1872–1924), German financier and politician |
| Helgaud (d. c. 1048), French chronicler |
| Povl Helgesen (c. 1485–c. 1534), Danish humanist |
| Heliodorus of Emesa (Third Century), Greek writer of romance |
| Hellanicus of Lesbos (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek logographer |
| Stephen Heller (1813–1888), Austrian pianist and composer |
| Ernest Hello (1828–1885), French critic |
| Jan Fredrik Helmers (1767–1813), Dutch poet |
| Gregor von Helmersen (1803–1885), Russian geologist |
| Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), German philosopher and man of science |
| Helmold (c. 1120–c. 1177), historian |
| Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1577–1644), Belgian chemist, physiologist and physician |
| Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875), English writer and clerk of the Privy Council |
| Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613?–1670), Dutch painter |
| Helvétius (1715–1771), French philosopher and littérateur |
| Helvidius Priscus (First Century), Stoic philosopher and statesman |
| John Hely-Hutchinson (1724–1794), Irish lawyer, statesman, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin |
| Pierre Hélyot (1660–1716), Franciscan friar and historian |
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835), English poet |
| François Hemsterhuis (1721–1790), Dutch writer on æsthetics and moral philosophy |
| Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685–1766), Dutch philologist and critic |
| Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917), British painter |
| Charles-Jean-François Hénault (1685–1770), French historian |
| Alexander Henderson (1583?–1646), Scottish ecclesiastic |
| Arthur Henderson (1863–1935), British Labour politician |
| Sir David Henderson (1862–1921), British general |
| Ebenezer Henderson (1784–1858), Scottish divine |
| George Francis Robert Henderson (1854–1903), British soldier and military writer |
| John Henderson (1747–1785), English actor |
| Thomas Andrews Hendricks (1819–1885), American political leader, Vice-president of the United States |
| Hengest and Horsa (Fifth Century), brother chieftains who led the first Saxon bands which settled in England |
| Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1802–1869), German Lutheran divine and theologian |
| Heinrich Philipp Conrad Henke (1752–1809), German theologian, best known as a writer on church history |
| Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885), German pathologist and anatomist |
| John Henley (1692–1756), English clergyman |
| William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), British poet, critic and editor |
| Louis Hennepin (1626–1704), French explorer of America |
| Philippe-Auguste Hennequin (1762–1833), French painter |
| Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905), French painter |
| Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), British military adventurer and author |
| Henri Christophe (1767–1820), King of Haiti |
| Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), Queen of Charles I. of England |
| Ellen Martin Henrotin (1847–1922), American social reformer |
| Henry the Minstrel (fl. 1470–1492), author of a Scots historical poem |
| Henry the Navigator (1394–1460), Duke of Viseu, governor of the Algarve |
| Henry I. (c. 876–936), surnamed the “Fowler,” German King |
| Henry II. (973–1024), surnamed the “Saint,” Roman Emperor |
| Henry III. (1017–1056), surnamed the “Black,” Roman Emperor |
| Henry IV. (1050–1106), Roman Emperor |
| Henry V. (1086–1125), Roman Emperor |
| Henry VI. (1165–1197), Roman Emperor |
| Henry VII. (c. 1269–1313), Roman Emperor |
| Henry VII. (1211–1242), German King |
| Henry (c. 1174–1216), Emperor of Romania, or Constantinople |
| Henry I. (1068–1135), King of England, nicknamed Beauclerk |
| Henry II. (1133–1189), King of England |
| Henry III. (1207–1272), King of England |
| Henry IV. (1367–1413), King of England |
| Henry V. (1387–1422), King of England |
| Henry VI. (1421–1471), King of England |
| Henry VII. (1457–1509), King of England |
| Henry VIII. (1491–1547), King of England and Ireland |
| Henry, Kings of Castile |
| Henry I. (1008–1060), King of France |
| Henry II. (1519–1559), King of France |
| Henry III. (1551–1589), King of France |
| Henry IV. (1553–1610), King of France |
| Henry I. (c. 1210–1274), surnamed le Gros, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne |
| Henry II. (1503–1555), titular King of Navarre |
| Henry I. (1512–1580), King of Portugal |
| Henry II. (1489–1568), Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
| Henry (c. 1108–1139), surnamed the “Proud,” Duke of Saxony and Bavaria |
| Henry (1129–1195), surnamed the “Lion,” Duke of Saxony and Bavaria |
| Henry (1858–1896), Prince of Battenberg |
| Henry (1155–1183), King of England |
| Henry Benedict Stuart, Duke of York (1725–1807), last Prince of the royal house of Stuart |
| Henry of Almain (1235–1271), English noble |
| Henry of Blois (c. 1101–1171), Bishop of Winchester |
| Henry of Ghent (c. 1217–1293), Scholastic philosopher |
| Henry of Huntingdon (1084?–1155), English chronicler |
| Henry of Lausanne (Twelfth Century), French heresiarch |
| Caleb Sprague Henry (1804–1884), American clergyman and author |
| Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), American genre painter |
| James Henry (1798–1876), Irish classical scholar |
| Joseph Henry (1797–1878), American physicist |
| Matthew Henry (1662–1714), English nonconformist divine |
| O. Henry (1862–1910), American short-story writer |
| Patrick Henry (1736–1799), American statesman and orator |
| Robert Henry (1718–1790), British historian |
| Victor Henry (1850–1907), French philologist |
| William Henry (1774–1836), English chemist |
| Robert Henryson (1430?–1506?), Scottish poet |
| George Henschel (1850–1934), English musician, of German family |
| Adolf von Henselt (1814–1889), German composer |
| John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), English botanist and geologist |
| Philip Henslowe (d. 1616), English theatrical manager |
| Josiah Henson (1789–1883), American clergyman |
| George Alfred Henty (1832–1902), English war-correspondent and author |
| Caroline Lee Hentz (1800–1856), American authoress |
| William Jory Henwood (1805–1875), English mining geologist |
| Sir John Hepburn (c. 1598–1636), Scottish soldier in the Thirty Years’ War |
| Hephaestion (d. 324 B.C.), Macedonian general |
| Hephaestion (Second Century), grammarian of Alexandria |
| George Hepplewhite (d. 1786), one of the most famous English cabinet-makers of the 18th century |
| Heracleon (fl. c. 125 A.D.), Gnostic |
| Heracleonas (fl. 641), East-Roman Emperor |
| Heraclidae, general name for the numerous descendants of Heracles (Hercules) |
| Heraclides Ponticus (c. 390–310 B.C.), Greek philosopher and miscellaneous writer
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