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Walter A. Haas, business executive
B. J. Habibie, Indonesian political leader
Joseph Hachem, poker player
Gene Hackman, actor
Sammy Hagar, singer
Jessica Hagedorn , novelist, poet, and performance artist
Chuck Hagel, politican, U.S. Senator
H. Rider Haggard, writer
Merle Haggard, country singer, songwriter
Paul Haggis, filmmaker
Larry Hagman, actor
Alexander Haig, military Leader, presidential advisor
Corey Haim, actor
Alan Hale , actor, director
Alex Haley, writer
Bill Haley, singer, bandleader
Anthony Michael Hall, actor, singer
Donald Hall, poet, editor
Huntz Hall, actor
Lloyd Augustus Hall, chemist
Michael C. Hall, actor
Prince Hall, clergyman, abolitionist
Geri Halliwell, singer
Lasse HallstrÃÂ¶m, director, screenwriter, producer
Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer, civil rights activist
Mark Hamill, actor
George Hamilton, actor
Henry Hamilton , British officer and governor
Lisa Gay Hamilton, actor
Margaret Hamilton, actor
Tom Hamilton, bassist
Marvin Hamlisch, composer
John Hamm, actor
Mia Hamm, soccer player
Armand Hammer, industrialist, art collector, philanthropist
Dashiell Hammett, writer
Kirk Hammett, lead guitar
Jupiter Hammon, poet
Lionel Hampton, jazz musician
Herbie Hancock, jazz musician
Chelsea Handler, comedien, TV personality, writer
W.C. Handy, songwriter, bandleader, blues musician
Charles Handy, management educator, writer
Michael Haneke, filmmaker
Tom Hanks, actor
Jack Hanna, TV personality, zoologist
William Hanna, cartoonist
Daryl Hannah, actor
Alyson Hannigan, actor
Sean Hannity, TV and radio personailty
Hanson, musicians
Curtis Hanson, filmmaker
Daniela Hantuchova, tennis player
Marcia Gay Harden, actor
Florence Kling Harding, U.S. First Lady
Tonya Harding, figure skater
Harriet Hardy, specialist in occupational medicine
Laurel and Hardy, comedians
Oliver Hardy, actor
Thomas Hardy, writer
Keith Haring, artist
Ashley Harkleroad, tennis player
Jean Harlow, actor
Shalom Harlow, model, TV personality
Mark Harmon, actor
Elisabeth Harnois, actor
Ben Harper, musician
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, politician
Valerie Harper, actor
Woody Harrelson, actor
Edward H. Harriman, financier, railroad executive
Charlaine Harris, writer
Ed Harris, actor
Julie Harris, actor
Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state
Neil Patrick Harris, actor
Paul Percy Harris, lawyer, founder of Rotary International
Richard Harris, actor
Anna Harrison, U.S. first lady
Caroline Scott Harrison, U.S. first lady
George Harrison, rock musician, movie producer
Sir Rex Harrison, actor
Deborah Harry, singer, actor
Prince Harry, royalty
Ray Harryhausen, filmmaker
John Charles Harsanyi, economist, educator
Johnny Hart, cartoonist
Kevin Hart, comedian, actor
Melissa Joan Hart, actor
George Huntington Hartford, retailer
George Ludlum Hartford, food merchant
John Augustine Hartford, food merchant
Phil Hartman, comedian, actor
Josh Hartnett, actor
Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of the Abbasid Empire
PJ Harvey, musician
Paul Harvey, radio personality
Nidal Malik Hasan, soldier, murder suspect
Sheeraz Hasan, TV personality
David Hasselhoff, actor, beefcake, singer
Robert Hass, poet and translator
William Henry Hastie, U.S. government official; civil rights advocate
Orrin Hatch, U.S. senator
Richard Hatch, TV personality
Richard Gordon Hatcher, politician, law professor
Teri Hatcher, actor
Anne Hathaway, actor
Rutger Hauer, actor
VÃÂ¡clav Havel, playwright, political leader
Olivia De Havilland, actor
Black Hawk , Sauk leader
Tony Hawk, skateboarder
Ethan Hawke, actor
John Hawkes, actor
Stephen Hawking, physicist
Coleman Hawkins, saxophonist, bandleader, jazz musician
David Hawkins, philosopher of science and historian
Sally Hawkins, actor
Howard Hawks, director
Goldie Hawn, actor, movie producer
S. I. Hayakawa, former U.S. Senator
Tom Hayden, political activist
Salma Hayek, actor
Helen Hayes, actor
Isaac Hayes, singer, actor
Lucy Hayes, U.S. First Lady
Elwood Haynes, inventor
Todd Haynes, filmmaker
Tony Hayward, business personality
Susan Hayward, actor
Rita Hayworth, actor
Anna Hazare, activist
Michel Hazanavicius, director
Edith Head, fashion designer
Amber Heard, actor
Patty Hearst, kidnapping victim, writer, actor
William Randolph Hearst, publisher
Erin Heatherton, model
Anne Heche, actor
Ben Hecht, writer, screenwriter
Jon Heder, actor
Tippi Hedren, actor
Van Heflin, actor
Hugh Hefner, publisher
Tim Hetherington, photographer, filmmaker
Mike Heidorn, drummer
Katherine Heigl, actor
Henry Heimlich, physician, inventor
Robert A. Heinlein, writer
Howard Heinz, business executive, philanthropist
H. J. Heinz, food manufacturer
Tricia Helfer, model, actor
Brian Helgeland, screenwriter
Lillian Hellman, playwright
Leona Helmsley, business personality
Richard Helms, CIA director and ambassador
Sally Hemings, political relative
Margaux Hemingway, actor, model
Mariel Hemingway, actor
Liam Hemsworth, actor
Chris Hemsworth, actor
Florence Henderson, actor, singer
Christina Hendricks, actor
Jimi Hendrix, rock musician, guitarist
Sonja Henie, figure skater, actor
Justine Henin-Hardenne, tennis player
Hilary Henkin, screenwriter
Doug Henning, magician
Lance Henriksen, actor, screenwriter
Henry I, royalty
Henry V of England, royalty
Theirry Henry, professional soccer player (France)
Jim Henson, puppeteer
Matthew Henson, explorer
Taraji P. Henson, actor
Audrey Hepburn, actor
Katharine Hepburn, actor
Heraclitus, philosopher
Frank Herbert, writer
Hercules, mythical figure
Pee-Wee Herman, actor, comedian, writer
Aaron Hernandez, murder suspect, football player
Jaime Hernandez, cartoonist
Joseph Marion Hernandez, U.S. Congressman
Thomas Herrion, football player
James Herriot, author
Seymour Hersh, journalist
Barbara Hershey, actor
Milton Hershey, chocolatier, philanthropist
Eva Herzigova, model, actor
Werner Herzog, filmmaker
Charlton Heston, actor
Sandra Hess, actor, pinup
Jayms, lead singer
Don Hewitt, former producer of 60 Minutes
Jennifer Love Hewitt, actor
Lleyton Hewitt, tennis player
William Hewlett, electronics entrepreneur
Bono, singer
Thor Heyerdahl, explorer, anthropologist
William Hickey, film, television and stage actor
Ana Hickmann, model
"Wild Bill" Hickok, law officer
Sir John Richard Hicks, economist
Leon A. Higginbotham, judge, historian
Pattillo Higgins, Texas oil pioneer
Peter Ware Higgs, physicist
Patricia Highsmith, writer
Oscar Hijuelos, Writer
Ally Hilfiger, TV personality
Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
Anita Hill, lawyer, educator, author, activist
Benny Hill, comedian
Faith Hill, country singer
Joe Hill, writer
Jonah Hill, actor
Lauryn Hill, singer
Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber
Maurice Hilleman, inventor
Laura Hillenbrand, writer
Harriet Hilliard, actor
Conrad Hilton, business personality
Nicky Hilton, socialite
Paris Hilton, socialite, TV personality
Perez Hilton, internet celebrity
Heinrich Himmler, Military leader, World War II figure
John Hinckley, Jr., attempted assassin
Connie Hines, actor
Earl Hines, pianist, bandleader, jazz musician
Gregory Hines, dancer, actor
Martina Hingis, tennis player
Pat Hingle, actor
Maria Hinojosa, Journalist
S.E. Hinton, writer
Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi, activist
Al Hirschfeld, artist
Emile Hirsch, actor
Alger Hiss, actor
Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker
Christopher Hitchens, writer
Dee Ward Hock, financial services pioneer
David Hockney, artist
David Ho, AIDS researcher
Don Ho, Hawaiian entertainer
Jimmy Hoffa, missing person, political figure, criminal
Abbie Hoffman, activist, writer
Dustin Hoffman, actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor
Hulk Hogan, pro wrestler, TV personality
Mike Hogan, guitarist
Noel Hogan , guitarist
Paul Hogan, actor
Helen Hokinson, cartoonist
Hal Holbrook, actor
Richard Holbrooke, diplomat
William Holden, actor
Eric Holder, lawyer
Hole, rock group
Billie Holiday, jazz singer
Francois Hollande, President of France
John Hollander, poet, critic
Herman Hollerith, engineer, computer inventor
Mary Austin Holley, author, early settler
John Henry "Doc" Holliday, gunfighter, dentist
Buddy Holly, rock musician
Lauren Holly, actor
Holly Holm, martial artist, boxer
Katie Holmes, actor
Ian Holm, actor
Rupert Holmes, composer, writer
Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective
Winslow Homer, artist
Mike Honda, U.S. Congressman
Honey Boo Boo, TV personality, beauty contestant
Leroy Hood, inventor
Robin Hood, fictional outlaw
John Lee Hooker, blues musician
Bell Hooks, writer, activist
Tom Hooper, filmmaker
Hootie & the Blowfish, rock group
Larry Hoover, murderer, gangster
Lou Hoover, First Lady
William Hoover, industrialist
Bob Hope, comedian, actor
Anthony Hopkins, actor
Mark Hopkins, merchant, railroad developer
Dennis Hopper, actor, filmmaker
Edward Hopper, artist
Grace Hopper, rear admiral; computer scientist
Hedda Hopper, actor, gossip columnist
George A. Hormel, meatpacker
Jay Catherwood Hormel, food industry executive
Nick Hornby, writer
Lena Horne, singer, actor
John R. Jack Horner, Paleontologist
Elmyr de Hory, fraud
Johnny Horton, country singer
Bob Hoskins, actor
Katinka HosszÃÂº, swimmer
Harry Houdini, magician
Nicholas Hoult, actor
Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor
John Houseman, actor
Charles Hamilton Houston, civil-rights attorney
Sam Houston, military Leader, political figure
Whitney Houston, singer, actor
Wu Hou, first woman to rule China
Curly Howard, comedian
Leslie Howard, actor
Moe Howard, comedian
Ron Howard, actor, filmmaker
Shemp Howard, comedian
Terrence Howard, actor
Elias Howe, inventor
Julia Ward Howe, poet, activist
Howlin' Wolf, singer
Oscar De La Hoya, boxer
Edmond Hoyle, writer
Sir Fred Hoyle, astrophysicist
Kelly Hu, model, actor
Shi Huangdi, first Chinese emperor
L. Ron Hubbard, writer, religious figure
Edwin Hubble, astronomer
Mike Huckabee, state governor
Kate Hudson, actor
Rock Hudson, actor
Dolores Huerta, Labor leader
Felicity Huffman, actor
Catherine Elizabeth Cathy Hughes , radio personality, executive
Howard Hughes, business personality, aviator
John Hughes, writer, director
Langston Hughes, poet, writer
Sarah Hughes, figure skater
Ted Hughes, poet
Tom Hulce, actor
The Incredible Hulk, fictional superhero
David Hume, philosopher, historian
Kirsty Hume, model
William Hung, talent show contestant, singer
Charlie Hunnam, actor
Bonnie Hunt, actor, filmmaker
Helen Hunt, actor
Linda Hunt, actor
Richard Morris Hunt, architect
Holly Hunter, actor
Kim Hunter, actor
Rachel Hunter, model
Tab Hunter, actor
Collis P. Huntington, railroad executive
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, model, actor
Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah
Isabelle Huppert, actor
Elizabeth Hurley, actor
John Hurt, actor
William Hurt, actor
King Hussein I, political Leader
Anjelica Huston, actor
John Huston, filmmaker, actor
Walter Huston, film and stage actor
Josh Hutcherson, actor
Betty Hutton, actor, singer
Lauren Hutton, model, actor
Timothy Hutton, actor
David Henry Hwang , playwright
Glen and Bessie Hyde, adventurers, missing persons
Chrissie Hynde, rock musician

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