| Heraclitus (c. 535–c. 475 B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| Heraclius (c. 575–641), East Roman Emperor |
| Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1759–1794), French politician |
| Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841), German philosopher and educationist |
| Barthélemy d’Herbelot (1625–1695), French orientalist |
| Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts (d. c. 1557), French translator |
| Herbert, English family |
| George Herbert (1593–1633), English poet |
| Henry William Herbert (1807–1858), English novelist and writer on sport |
| Sir Thomas Herbert (1606–1682), English traveller and author |
| Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), English soldier, diplomatist, historian and religious philosopher |
| Sidney Herbert, Baron Herbert of Lea (1810–1861), English statesman |
| Andrew John Herbertson (1865–1915), British geographer |
| Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo (1810–1877), Portuguese historian |
| Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), one of the most prolific and influential writers that Germany has produced |
| José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905), French poet, the modern master of the French sonnet |
| Hereward (fl. 1071), Englishman famous for his resistance to William the Conqueror |
| Joseph Hergenröther (1824–1890), German theologian |
| George Heriot (1563–1624), founder of Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh |
| Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914), British painter |
| Fritz Herlen (Fifteenth Century), German artist of the early Swabian school |
| Hermagoras of Temnos (fl. 150 B.C.), Greek rhetorician of the Rhodian school and teacher of oratory in Rome |
| Herman de Valenciennes (Twelfth Century), French poet |
| Hermann I. (d. 1217), Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony |
| Hermann of Reichenau (1013–1054), German scholar and chronicler |
| Hermann of Wied (1477–1552), Elector and Archbishop of Cologne |
| Friedrich Benedict Wilhelm von Hermann (1795–1868), German economist |
| Gottfried Hermann (1772–1848), German classical scholar and philologist |
| Karl Friedrich Hermann (1804–1855), German classical scholar and antiquary |
| Abel Hermant (1862–1950), French author and dramatist |
| Georg Hermes (1775–1831), German Roman Catholic theologian |
| Hermesianax (c. 300–250 B.C.), elegiac poet of the Alexandrian school |
| Hermias, Greek philosopher of the Alexandrian school |
| Hermippus (Fifth Century B.C.), Athenian writer of the Old Comedy |
| Hermogenes (Second Century), Greek rhetorician |
| William Lewis Herndon (1813–1857), American naval officer |
| James A. Herne (1839–1901), American actor and playwright |
| Hero of Alexandria (fl. c. First Century), Greek geometer and writer on mechanical and physical subjects |
| Hero the Younger (fl. c. 938), Byzantine author |
| Herod I. (73–4 B.C.), surnamed the Great, King of Judea |
| Herod Agrippa I. (c. 10 B.C.–44 A.D.), King of Judea |
| Herod Agrippa II. (27–100), King |
| Herod Antipas (21 B.C.–39 A.D.), King of Judea |
| Herodas (Third Century B.C.), Greek poet |
| Herodes Atticus (101–177), Greek rhetorician |
| Herodian (fl. Third Century), Greek historian |
| Aelius Herodianus (fl. Second Century), Alexandrian grammarian |
| Herodotus (c. 484–425 B.C.), Greek historian, called the Father of History |
| Antoine Héroet (d. 1568), French poet |
| Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833), French musician |
| Fernando de Herrera (c. 1534–1597), Spanish lyrical poet |
| Francisco de Herrera (1576–1656), Spanish historical and fresco painter |
| Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (d. 1625), Spanish historian |
| Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet |
| Robert Herrick (1868–1938), American author |
| John Charles Herries (1778–1855), English politician |
| John Maxwell, Lord Herries (c. 1512–1583), Scottish politician |
| Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750–1848), English astronomer |
| John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871), English astronomer |
| William Herschel (1738–1822), English astronomer |
| Farrer, Baron Herschell (1837–1899), Lord Chancellor of England |
| Louis Hersent (1777–1860), French painter |
| Earls and Marquesses of Hertford |
| Georg, Count von Hertling (1843–1919), German statesman |
| Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), German physicist |
| Henrik Hertz (1798–1870), Danish poet |
| Wilhelm Hertz (1835–1902), German poet |
| Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg (1725–1795), Prussian statesman |
| Alexandr Ivanovich Hertzen (1812–1870), Russian author |
| James Barry Munnik Hertzog (1866–1942), Dutch South African politician |
| Lorenzo Hervás (1735–1809), Spanish philologist |
| Aimé Marie Edouard Hervé (1835–1899), French journalist |
| James Hervey (1714–1758), English divine |
| John, Lord Hervey (1696–1743), English statesman and writer |
| Léon, Marquis d’Hervey de Saint Denys (1822–1892), French orientalist and man of letters |
| Paul Hervieu (1857–1915), French dramatist and novelist |
| Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1796–1884), Prussian general field-marshal |
| Georg Herwegh (1817–1875), German political poet |
| Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), founder of modern political Zionism |
| Hans Herzog (1819–1894), Swiss general |
| Johann Jakob Herzog (1805–1882), German Protestant theologian |
| George Hesekiel (1819–1874), German author |
| Sir Arthur Hesilrige (d. 1661), English parliamentarian |
| Hesiod (fl. Eighth Century B.C.), father of Greek didactic poetry |
| Hess, name of a family of German artists |
| Heinrich, Freiherr von Hess (1788–1870), Austrian soldier |
| Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488–1540), German Latin poet |
| Hesychius (Fifth Century), grammarian of Alexandria |
| Hesychius of Miletus (Sixth Century), Greek chronicler and biographer |
| Hermann Hettner (1821–1882), German literary historian and writer on the history of art |
| Theodor von Heuglin (1824–1876), German traveller in northeast Africa |
| Willem de Heusch (c. 1625–1692), Dutch landscape painter |
| Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), German astronomer |
| Joseph Hewes (1730–1779), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Sir Prescott Gardner Hewett (1812–1891), British surgeon |
| Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822–1903), American manufacturer and political leader |
| Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), English novelist |
| Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712), Dutch painter |
| Peter Heylyn (1599–1662), English historian and controversialist |
| Piet Heyn (1578–1629), Dutch admiral |
| Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812), German classical scholar and archæologist |
| Paul Heyse (1830–1914), German novelist, dramatist and poet |
| Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1746–1809), American statesman |
| John Heywood (c. 1497–c. 1580), English dramatist and epigrammatist |
| Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641), English dramatist and miscellaneous author |
| Hezekiah, in the Bible son of Ahaz |
| Hiawatha (c. 1450), a legendary chief of the Onondaga tribe of North American Indians |
| John Grier Hibben (1861–1933), American educator |
| Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), English novelist |
| Edmund Hickeringill (1631–1708), English divine |
| George Hickes (1642–1715), English divine and scholar |
| Laurens Perseus Hickok (1798–1888), American philosopher and divine |
| Elias Hicks (1748–1830), American Quaker |
| Henry Hicks (1837–1899), British physician and geologist |
| William Hicks (1830–1883), British soldier |
| Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811), Mexican patriot |
| Emmanuel Hiel (1834–1899), Belgian-Dutch poet and prose writer |
| Hiempsal, name of the two kings of Numidia |
| Hierax (Third Century), learned ascetic |
| Hiero, name of two rulers of Syracuse |
| Hierocles (Third–Fourth Century), Proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria |
| Hierocles of Alexandria (fl. c. 430), Neoplatonist writer |
| Hieronymus of Cardia (c. 364–c. 260 B.C.), Greek general and historian |
| Ranulf Higden (c. 1299–1364), English chronicler |
| Matthew James Higgins (1810–1868), British writer |
| Francis Higginson (1588–1630), New England clergyman |
| Henry Lee Higginson (1834–1919), American banker |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), American author and soldier |
| George Higinbotham (1826–1892), Chief-justice of Victoria, Australia |
| Saint Hilarion (c. 291–c. 371), abbot |
| Hilarius (d. 468), Bishop of Rome |
| Hilarius (fl. 1125), Latin poet |
| Saint Hilarius (c. 403–449), Bishop of Arles |
| Saint Hilary (d. 367), Bishop of Pictavium (Poitiers), an eminent “doctor” of the Western Church |
| Saint Hilda (614–680), daughter of Hereric, a nephew of Edwin, King of Northumbria |
| Hildebert (c. 1055–1133), French writer and ecclesiastic |
| Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson (1838–1925), Swedish meteorologist |
| Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1869), German painter |
| Theodor Hildebrandt (1804–1874), German painter |
| Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), saint, German abbess and mystic |
| Richard Hildreth (1807–1865), American journalist and author |
| Adolf Hilgenfeld (1823–1907), German Protestant divine |
| Aaron Hill (1685–1750), English author |
| Ambrose Powell Hill (1825–1865), American Confederate soldier |
| Daniel Harvey Hill (1821–1889), American Confederate soldier |
| David Bennett Hill (1843–1910), American politician |
| David Jayne Hill (1850–1932), American diplomat and publicist |
| George Birkbeck Hill (1835–1903), English author |
| James Jerome Hill (1838–1916), American railway capitalist |
| John Hill (1714?–1775), English author |
| Matthew Davenport Hill (1792–1872), English lawyer and penologist |
| Octavia (1838–1912) and Miranda (1836–1910) Hill, English philanthropic workers |
| Rowland Hill (1744–1833), English preacher |
| Sir Rowland Hill (1795–1879), English administrator, author of the penny postal system |
| Rowland, Viscount Hill (1772–1842), British general |
| Thomas Hill (1818–1891), American Unitarian clergyman and educator |
| George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879), American lawyer and author |
| Karl Hillebrand (1829–1884), German author |
| Hillel (fl. First Century B.C.–First Century A.D.), Jewish rabbi |
| Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), German composer |
| Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), German musical composer |
| Laurence Hilliard (1582–1648), English miniature painter |
| Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547–1619), first true English miniature painter |
| John Hilton (1804–1878), British surgeon |
| William Hilton (1786–1839), English painter |
| Himerius (c. 310–c. 390), Greek sophist and rhetorician |
| Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer |
| Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765–1814), German composer |
| Edward Hincks (1792–1866), British assyriologist |
| Sir Francis Hincks (1807–1885), Canadian statesman |
| Hincmar (c. 806–882), Archbishop of Reims, one of the most remarkable figures in the ecclesiastical history of France |
| Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), German soldier, chief of the great general staff during the World War |
| Gustav Eduard von Hindersin (1804–1872), Prussian general |
| Walker Downer Hines (1870–1934), American railway official |
| Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861–1931), Irish author |
| Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs (1794–1861), German philosopher |
| Paul Hinschius (1835–1898), German jurist |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1837–1900), American educator and author |
| James Hinton (1822–1875), English surgeon and author |
| Paul von Hintze (1864–1941), German admiral and diplomatist |
| Hipparchus (fl. 190–127 B.C.), Greek astronomer |
| Hippasus of Metapontum, Pythagorean philosopher |
| Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741–1796), German satirical and humorous writer |
| Hippias of Elis (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek sophist |
| Hippo, Greek philosopher and natural scientist |
| Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 370 B.C.), Greek philosopher and writer, termed the “Father of Medicine” |
| Hippodamus of Miletus (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek architect |
| Saint Hippolytus (170–235), writer of the early Church |
| Hipponax (c. 540–537 B.C.), Greek iambic poet |
| Hiroshige (1797–1858), Japanese artist |
| Emil Gustav Hirsch (1851–1923), American Jewish rabbi |
| Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896), capitalist and philanthropist |
| Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), Jewish theologian |
| Aulus Hirtius (c. 90–43 B.C.), Roman historian and statesman |
| Ḥisdai ibn Shapruṭ (c. 915–c. 975), founder of the new culture of the Jews in Moorish Spain |
| Hishām ibn al-Kalbī (d. c. 819), Arabic historian |
| Histiaeus (d. 494 B.C.), tyrant of Miletus |
| Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), American geologist |
| Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798–1870), American general and author |
| George Hitchcock (1850–1913), American artist |
| Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (1859–1934), American politician |
| Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817–1887), American divine |
| Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792–1867), French architect |
| Ferdinand Hitzig (1807–1875), German biblical critic |
| Hlothhere (d. 685), King of Kent |
| Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), English divine |
| Samuel Hoar (1778–1856), American lawyer |
| Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), English antiquary |
| Garret Augustus Hobart (1844–1899), Vice-President of the United States |
| John Henry Hobart (1775–1830), American Protestant Episcopal Bishop |
| Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (1822–1886), Hobart Pasha, English naval captain and Turkish admiral |
| Meindert Hobbema (1638–1709), greatest landscape painter of the Dutch school after Ruysdael |
| John Oliver Hobbes (1867–1906), Anglo-American novelist and dramatist |
| Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher |
| Sir Thomas Hoby (1530–1566), English diplomatist and translator |
| Thomas Hoccleve (1370?–1450?), English poet |
| Lazare Hoche (1768–1797), French general |
| Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829–1884), Austrian geologist |
| Silas Kitto Hocking (1850–1935), English novelist |
| Charles Hodge (1797–1878), American theologian |
| Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956), American ethnologist |
| John Hodge (1855–1937), British Labour politician |
| Thomas Hodgkin (1831–1913), British historian |
| Eaton Hodgkinson (1789–1861), English engineer |
| Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894), English administrator, ethnologist and naturalist |
| Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1832–1912), English philosopher |
| William Stephen Raikes Hodson (1821–1858), known as “Hodson of Hodson’s Horse,” British leader of light cavalry during the Indian Mutiny |
| Humphrey Hody (1659–1707), English divine |
| Richard March Hoe (1812–1886), American inventor |
| Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601), Dutch painter and engraver |
| Frances Cashel Hoey (1830–1908), Irish author |
| Andreas Hofer (1767–1810), Tirolese patriot |
| Jacobus Hendricus van ’t Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch chemist and physicist |
| Harald Høffding (1843–1931), Danish philosopher |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884), American author |
| August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874), German poet, philologist and historian of literature |
| Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822), German romance-writer |
| François Benoît Hoffmann (1760–1828), French dramatist and critic |
| Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), German physician |
| Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1805–1878), German scholar |
| August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892), German chemist |
| Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann (1810–1877), Lutheran theologian and historian |
| Melchior Hofmann (c. 1498–1543–4), Anabaptist |
| Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877), German botanist |
| Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1845–1909), South African politician |
| Petrus Hofstede de Groot (1802–1886), Dutch theologian |
| David George Hogarth (1862–1927), British classical archæologist |
| William Hogarth (1697–1764), the great English painter and pictorial satirist |
| James Hogg (1770–1835), Scottish poet, known as the “Ettrick Shepherd” |
| Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), English man of letters |
| Hohenlohe, German princely family |
| Hohenstaufen, name of a celebrated Swabian family |
| Hohenzollern, name to the family to which the German Emperor belongs |
| Hokusai (1760–1849), the greatest of all the Japanese painters of the Popular School |
| Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723–1789), French philosopher and man of letters |
| Hans Holbein the Elder (1460–1524), German painter |
| Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543), German painter |
| Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), the great Scandinavian writer |
| Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958), English musical composer |
| Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Sir Edward Hopkinson Holden (1848–1919), English banker |
| Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914), American astronomer |
| Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), English classical scholar |
| Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897), English inventor and manufacturer |
| Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet |
| Earl of Holdernesse |
| Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), Jewish rabbi |
| Raphael Holinshed (c. 1515–1573), English chronicler |
| Frank Holl (1845–1888), English painter |
| Charles Holland (1733–1769), English actor |
| Sir Henry Holland (1788–1873), English physician and author |
| Henry Fox, Baron Holland (1705–1774), English statesman |
| Henry Rich, Earl of Holland (1590–1649), English noble |
| Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Baron Holland (1773–1840), English politician |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881), American author and editor |
| Philemon Holland (1552–1637), English scholar |
| Sir Richard Holland (fl. 1450), Scottish writer |
| Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677), Bohemian etcher |
| Denzil, Baron Holles (1599–1680), English statesman and writer |
| John Hollingshead (1827–1904), English author and theatrical manager |
| Thomas Holloway (1800–1883), English patent-medicine vendor and philanthropist |
| James Holman (1786–1857), known as the “Blind Traveller” |
| Mary Jane Holmes (1825–1907), American novelist |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), American writer and physician |
| Sir Charles Holroyd (1861–1917), British painter-etcher |
| Friedrich von Holstein (1837–1909), German statesman |
| Carl Holsten (1825–1897), German theologian |
| Lucas Holstenius (1596–1661), German humanist, geographer and theological writer |
| Sir John Holt (1642–1710), Lord Chief Justice of England |
| Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor |
| Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776), German poet |
| Joachim Wilhelm Franz Philipp von Holtzendorff (1829–1889), German jurist |
| Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (1832–1910), German Protestant theologian |
| Emil Holub (1847–1902), Bohemian traveller in south-central Africa |
| George Jacob Holyoake (1817–1906), English secularist and co-operator |
| Wilhelm Homberg (1652–1715), Dutch natural philosopher |
| Earls of Home |
| Daniel Dunglas Home (1833–1886), Scottish spiritualist |
| John Home (1722–1808), Scottish dramatic poet |
| Homer (fl. 850 B.C.), the great epic poet of Greece |
| Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter |
| Carl Gustav Homeyer (1795–1874), German jurist |
| Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636–1695), Dutch painter |
| Nathaniel Hone (1718–1784), British painter |
| William Hone (1780–1842), English writer and bookseller |
| Honorius, name of four popes and one antipope |
| Flavius Honorius (384–423), Emperor of Rome |
| Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701–1790), German historian and theologian |
| Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656), Dutch painter |
| Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), Dutch painter |
| Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport (1726–1814), British admiral |
| Arthur William Acland Hood (1824–1901), English admiral |
| Horace Lambert Alexander Hood (1870–1916), British naval officer |
| John Bell Hood (1831–1879), American soldier, lieut.-general of the Confederate army |
| Lord Hood (1724–1816), British admiral |
| Sir Samuel Hood (1762–1814), British vice-admiral |
| Thomas Hood (1799–1845), British humorist and poet |
| Tom Hood (1835–1874), English humorist |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch poet and historian |
| Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–1678), Dutch painter |
| James Clarke Hook (1819–1907), English painter |
| Theodore Edward Hook (1788–1841), English author |
| Walter Farquhar Hook (1798–1875), English divine |
| Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English experimental philosopher |
| Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), American general |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), English botanist and traveller |
| Richard Hooker (1554–1600), English writer |
| Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), New England theologian |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist |
| John Hoole (1727–1803), English translator and dramatist |
| Horace Everett Hooper (1859–1922), Publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| John Hooper (d. 1555), Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester and martyr |
| William Hooper (1742–1790), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), thirty-first President of the United States |
| Anthony Hope (1863–1933), British novelist |
| Thomas Hope (1770?–1831), English art-collector |
| James Robert Hope-Scott (1812–1873), English barrister and Tractarian |
| Hans Hopfen (1835–1904), German poet and novelist |
| Anders Johan von Höpken (1712–1789), Swedish statesman |
| Edward Hopkins (1600–1657), English statesman |
| Edward Washburn Hopkins (1857–1932), American Sanskrit scholar |
| Esek Hopkins (1718–1802), first admiral of the United States navy |
| Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), American philanthropist |
| Lemuel Hopkins (1750–1801), American poet and satirist |
| Mark Hopkins (1802–1887), American educationist |
| Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803), American theologian |
| Stephen Hopkins (1707–1785), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| William Hopkins (1793–1866), English mathematician and geologist |
| Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791), American author and statesman |
| John Hopkinson (1849–1898), English engineer and physicist |
| Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842), American author |
| Isaac Tatem Hopper (1771–1852), American philanthropist |
| Augustus Hoppin (1828–1896), American author and illustrator |
| James Mason Hoppin (1820–1906), American educator |
| John Hoppner (1758–1810), English portrait-painter |
| Ralph, Baron Hopton (1598–1652), Royalist commander in the English Civil War
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