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Henley Bridge Henley Bridge is a five-arched stone bridge built in 1786 at Henley-on-Thames over the River Thames, between Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It replaced an earlier wooden bridge, the foundations of which can be seen in the basement of the Henley Royal Regatta headquarters.
Henley Festival The Henley Festival of Music and the Arts is held each July in England on the Berkshire bankside of the River Thames at Remenham opposite Henley-on-Thames. It uses adapted facilities from the Henley Royal Regatta, which is held the week before.
Henley Hawks Henley Rugby Club is the leading rugby club based in the Thames Valley (London Irish play their matches at the Madjeski Stadium but their headquarters are still at Sunbury, Middlesex where all their junior teams are based), playing in English National Division Two which places them amongst the top 42 clubs in England.
Henley Management College Henley Management College is an English triple accredited business school based in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. It has a large number of local owned or affiliated colleges, under the same name, throughout the world.
Henley-in-Arden Henley-in-Arden is a vibrant and friendly town of 4,000 inhabitants that is surrounded by countryside. It is situated on the A3400 in the County of Warwickshire 8 miles north of Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare's birthplace, 11 miles to the south of Solihull and 18 miles south of Birmingham, England's second city.
Henley-in-Arden railway station Henley-in-Arden had two stations serving the town of Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire. The first station was at the end of a short branchline which departed from the GWR's main Oxford to Birmingham Railway line at Rowington.
Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames is a town on the north side of the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, about 10 miles downstream and north-east from Reading, 10 miles upstream and west from Maidenhead. It is located on the corner between Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
Henley-on-Todd Regatta The Henley-on-Todd Regatta (also called the Todd River Race) is a "dry" sand river race held annually in Alice Springs, Australia. It began - and continues - as a joke at the expense of the original British settlers and the formal atmosphere of the British river races which continue today.
Henley, New Zealand Henley is a township on New Zealand's Taieri Plains, presumably named after the rowing centre Henley-on-Thames in England. It lies close to the confluence of the Taieri and Waipori Rivers at the eastern edge of the plain, at the foot of a low range of coastal hills.
Henman Hill Henman Hill is an area in the grounds of the All England Club where the Wimbledon tennis championships are annually held. The area is officially known as Aorangi Terrace and is named for Aorangi Park, the London New Zealand Rugby Club's ground which was situated on the site until 1981.
Henmaru Machino Henmaru Machino (町野 変丸 Machino Henmaru, sometimes given as 'Hanmaru', born 1969, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese artist whose works prominently feature themes of dysmorphic hermaphrodism and body transformation, as well as dozens of other sexual paraphilia. Most of his work has emerged within a paradigm of Hentai manga and images, but some has appeared in galleries; several of his pieces were part of Takashi Murakami's traveling Superflat exhibition.
Henneicke Column The Henneicke Column was a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators working in the investigative division of the Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle fĂĽr jĂĽdische Auswanderung) during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II .
Hennepin Avenue Hennepin Avenue is a major street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, running from Lakewood Cemetery (at 36th Street) in Minneapolis' southwest Uptown district to the eastern boundary of the city via downtown. For sections south of the Mississippi River, Hennepin Avenue often follows stretches of an old indian trail from Saint Anthony Falls to Lake Calhoun.
Hennepin Canal The Hennepin Canal is an abandoned waterway in northwest Illinois, between the Mississippi River at Rock Island and the Illinois River near Hennepin. The entire canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin County Medical Center Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) is a Level I trauma center based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the county seat of Hennepin County. The primary 422-bed facility is located on five city blocks across the street from the Hubert H.
Hennesey Hennesey is a 1959-1962 television series starring Jackie Cooper as an onshore Navy doctor and Abby Dalton as a stunning nurse. The series was midway between a comedy and a drama, and featured such guest stars as Charles Bronson, Marty Ingels, Jack Cassidy, Soupy Sales, and Frank Gorshin.
Hennessey Viper Venom 1000 Twin Turbo The Hennessey Viper Venom 1000 Twin Turbo is an upgraded version of the Dodge Viper offered for sale as a whole car or as an upgrade by Hennessey Performance Engineering. The car comes in two variants, a coupe and a convertible.
Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup The Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup is a Grade 3 National Hunt horse race in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses run over a distance of 3 miles 2½ furlongs (5,331 metres) at Newbury Racecourse in late November.
Hennessy's Hennessy's was an American department store owned by Mercantile Stores and was headquarted in Billings, Montana. When Mercantile Stores was acquired by Dillard's in 1998 the 100 year old name was retired in favor for Dillard's.
Hennie Kuiper Hennie Kuiper (born February 3 1949) is a Dutch former professional cyclist who is ranked in the top 50 greatest riders in the history of the sport. His career highlights include a gold medal in the Olympic road race at Munich in 1972, becoming World professional road race champion in 1975, as well as winning four of the five “Monument” classics.
Hennie Muller Hendrik Scholtz Vosloo Muller (born 26 March, 1922 in Witbank), usually known as Hennie Muller is a former South African rugby union footballer. Muller is considered one of the greatest South African footballers, captaining the national side, the Springboks in nine tests, and is a member of the International Rugby Hall of Fame.
Hennie Penterman Hendrika ("Hennie") Penterman (born september 29, 1951 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a former medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at two consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico. There she was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 200m and 400m Individual Medley.
Henniker (CDP), New Hampshire Henniker CDP is a census-designated place located within the town of Henniker in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. The census provides these statistics for the more closely settled central village within the town, but the values are also included in the aggregate values for the town as a whole.
Hennin The hennin was a hat in the shape of a cone or truncated cone that was in fashion with European women of the nobility in 14th and 15th century Burgundy and France. Typically, it was twelve to eighteen inches in height.
Henning (surname) The name Henning is indigenous to the North German areas Mecklenburg, Hannover, Hamburg, Holstein and Pommern. Especially the towns Stralsund and Greifswald, in Mecklenburg, near the Baltic Sea is well known as places where the name originated.
Henning Engelsen Henning Engelsen (1918-2005) started his woodcarving career in 1947 in a small workshop at Toten, Norway. Ever since the beginning his idea has been to create a world of wood carved figures that radiate joy and humanity and inspire us to go up above the ordinary......
Henning Christophersen Henning Christophersen (born November 8 1939, Copenhagen) is a Danish politician, a former vice-president of the European Commission (1985 – 1995), former leader of the Danish liberal party Venstre (1978 – 1984) and former member of the European Convention.
Henning Jensen Henning Jensen (born August 17 1949) is a Danish former football (soccer) player, who played professionally for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, Spanish club Real Madrid and Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam where he won the domestic league championship in each country. He scored 9 goals in 21 gamesNot including the January 1973 exhibition match "Old Europe" vs.
Henning Lynge Jakobsen Henning Lynge Jakobsen (born March 6, 1962) is a Danish athlete, who competed in canoeing. He distinguished himself by winning two Olympic medals at the same Olympics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a feat that has yet to be repeated by a Dane.
Henning Meyer Henning Meyer is a German political scientist, analyst and commentator based at the European Research Forum at London Metropolitan University. He is an expert on social democracy, European social policy and British and German politics.
Henning Munk Jensen Henning Munk Jensen (born January 12, 1947) is a Danish former football defender, who most prominently played professionally for Dutch team PSV Eindhoven, as well as for Aalborg Boldspilklub in Denmark during the 1960s. Munk Jensen played 62 matches for the Denmark national football team between 1966 and 1978, 24 of these as team captain.
Henning Podebusk Henning Podebusk (Putbus; in today's genealogies, regularly prepared in a way that he is shown in German, known also as Herr Henning II zu Putbus), died circa 1388 (or 1387). Danish statesman, the last drost of Denmark.
Henning Stensrud Henning Stensrud (born August 20, 1977 in Lørenskog) is a Norwegian ski jumper, currently residing in Trondheim, Norway. He debuted on the Norwegian World Cup team in 1996, and his 4th place in Engelberg 1997 and Oberstdorf 1998 is his best result to this date.
Henning von Holtzendorff Henning von Holtzendorff (January 9, 1853-June 7, 1919) was a German admiral during World War I who became famous for his memo to Kaiser Wilhelm II about unrestricted submarine warfare against the United Kingdom. He was made a Grand Admiral in 1918.
Henny Youngman Henny Youngman (Henry Youngman, March 16, 1906 – February 24, 1998) was a British born Jewish-American comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known (and oft misquoted) one-liner was "Take my wife—please".
Heno, Ohio Heno is an unincorporated community of Madison Township, Butler County, Ohio on the west shore of the Great Miami River about one mile from Middletown. It was formerly a station on the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad.
Henoch Leibowitz Henoch Leibowitz (full name: Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz), is an Orthodox Judaism rabbi who as rosh yeshiva (dean), heads the Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim: Rabbinical Seminary of America founded by his father Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz in 1933.
Henophidia Henophidia is a superfamily of the suborder Serpentes (snakes) that contains boas, pythons and other snakes. Snakes belonging to superfamily Henophidia are considered to be more primitive than those belonging to the other superfamilies - namely, Typhlopoidea and Xenophidia.
Henri Alleg Henri Alleg (born 1921), also known as Henri Salem, is a French journalist, director of the "Alger républicain" newspaper, and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a French national who became famous for his role in the French-Algerian 'War Without a Name' (1954-1962) after the publication of La Question text in 1958.
Henri Arnaud Henri Arnaud (* 1641 in Embrun, France; † 1721) was a pastor of the Vaudois in Piedmont, who turned soldier in order to rescue, and who did rescue, his co-religionists from their dispersion under the persecution of Victor Amadeus II the Duke of Savoy. When the Vaudois were exiled a second time, Arnaud accompanied them in their exile to Schomberg, and continued to act as their pastor until his death.
Henri Baruk Henri Baruk is a french neuropsychiatrist who was born on August 15, 1897 to Jacques Baruk the chief doctor of Lesvellec's Asylum. Baruk was an apostle of Moral Psychiatry, publishing many books and quoted by many scholars of the time.
Henri Bellery-Desfontaines Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (1867-1909) french Art Nouveau painter, decorator and illustrator of posters, lithographies, tapestries, furniture, bank bills, etc. He created the printing works characters of Bellery-Desfontaines-large and Bellery-Desfontaines-Ă©troit for the Fonderie G.
Henri Belolo Henri Belolo is a French music producer, very successful during the disco era. Together with his friend composer Jacques Morali, he notably created the Ritchie Family group and, their most successful group, the Village People.
Henri Bendel Henri Bendel is an upscale women's specialty store, established in New York City in 1896. It carries women's apparel, fashion accessories, lingerie and loungewear, cosmetics and fragrances, gifts, and gourmet foods.
Henri Bernstein Henri/Henry Bernstein, Henri/Henry-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (June 20, 1876 - 1953) was a French playwright. The far right royalists Camelots du Roy, youth organization of the Action française, organized an anti-Semitic riot against a representation of one of his play in 1911.
Henri Breuil Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (February 28, 1877, Mortain, Manche, Normandy–August 14, 1961, L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France), often referred to as Abbé Breuil was a French archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist.
Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped to develop the "street photography" style that influenced generations of photographers that followed.
Henri Casadesus Henri Casadesus (September 30, 1879 – May 31, 1947) was a violist and music publisher who founded the Society of Ancient Instruments with Camille Saint-Saëns in 1901. The society, which operated between 1901 and 1939, was a quintet of performers who used obsolete instruments such as the viola da gamba, or Casadesus's own instrument, the viola d'amore.
Henri Cazalis Henri Cazalis (1840-1909), was a French physician who was a symbolist poet and man of letters and wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor. He was born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Seine-et-Oise).
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (1620 - September 12, 1642) was a "favourite" of King Louis XIII of France who led the last and most nearly successful of the many conspiracies against the king's powerful first minister, the Cardinal Richelieu.
Henri Colpi Henri Colpi (July 15, 1921 - Brigue, Switzerland – 14 January, 2006 - Menton, France) was a French film editor and film director, most well-known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival for his film Une aussi longue absence with Viridiana, which was directed by Luis Bunuel.
Henri Coulette Henri Coulette (1927 - 1988) was an American poet. While his first book, The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems (Scribner, 1965), was greeted with acclaim, his second, The Family Goldschmitt (Scribner, 1971), seems to have received little attention.
Henri Curiel Henri Curiel (September 13, 1914 - May 4, 1978) was a political activist, founder of a communist organization in Egypt. He was then involved in the support of several national liberation causes until his in assassination in Paris on May 4, 1978.
Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale (January 16, 1822 – May 7, 1897) was born in Paris. He was the fifth and second youngest son of Louis-Philippe, King of the French and Duc d'Orléans and Marie Amalie of Bourbon-Sicilies.
Henri de France Henri Georges de France (7 September 1911 Paris – 29 April 1996 Paris) was an influential French television engineer. He was the author of the 819 line standard, the inventor of SECAM and apparently behind the HD-MAC high-definition standard.
Henri de la Falaise Henri le Bailly, Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise (Saint-Cyr-l'École, France, February 11, 1898 - April 10, 1972) was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometimes actor and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.
Henri de la Grange d'Arquien Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien (September 8 1602 - May 24 1707) was born in Calais, France, the son of Antoine de La Grange d'Arquien and Anne d'Ancienville. Henri was married to Françoise de La Châtre.
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, often referred to as Turenne (September 11, 1611 – July 27, 1675) achieved military fame and became a Marshal of France. He was the most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne family.
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, comte de Montfort et Negrepelisse, vicomte de Turenne, Castillon, et Lanquais, titular duc de Bouillon (September 28, 1555–March 25, 1623) was prince of the independent principality of Sedan and Marshal of France. He belonged to the La Tour d'Auvergne family.
Henri de Latouche Hyacinthe-Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de Latouche, commonly known as Henri de Latouche (2 February 1785 - 9 March 1851) was a French poet and novelist known for his publication of André Chénier and early encouragement of George Sand. (His family name is also seen as "Thabaud de La Touche" and even sometimes "Delatouche".
Henri de Laulanie Henri de Laulanie (born February 22 1920 in Poitou, France - died June 23 1995 in Madagascar) was a French Jesuit father who was responsible for the rice cultivation method known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
Henri de Massue, 1st Earl of Galway Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, afterwards Earl of Galway (April 9, 1648 - September 3, 1720), was a French soldier and diplomat who was influential in the Nine Years' War and the War of Spanish Succession.
Henri de Saussure Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (November 27, 1829 Geneva - February 20 1905 Geneva), was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthoptera. The mineral saussurite is named after him.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864 – September 9, 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an oeuvre of provocative images of modern life.
Henri Deloge Henri Deloge (November 21, 1874) was a French middle distance runner who won a silver medal over 1500m in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris ahead of John Bray. The race was won by Charles Bennett who won the gold medal.
Henri Dentz Henri Fernand Dentz (16 Dec 1881, Roanne, Loire, France - 13 Dec 1945, Fresnes, Val-de-Marne) was a General for Vichy France during WW II. He was charged with the defence of the (Vichy) Syrian protectorate, and commanded an army of approximately 45,000 men.
Henri Desmarets Henri Desmarets (or Desmarest) (February 1661 in Paris – September 7, 1741 in Lunéville) was a French composer of the middle Baroque period. He was a child prodigy and sang as a boy soprano in the royal chapel.
Henri Deterding Henri Wilhelm August Deterding KBE (Hon), (19 April 1866, Amsterdam - 4 February 1939, St Moritz) was for many years the chairman of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and then Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies.
Henri Dupuy de LĂ´me Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de LĂ´me (15 October 1816 - 1 February 1885) was a French naval architect of the 19th century, and arguably France's greatest naval architect ever. He was the son of a naval officer and was born in Ploemer near Lorient, Brittany, in western France.
Henri Dutilleux Henri Dutilleux (born January 22, 1916 in Angers, France) is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own. Although his output is relatively small, its high quality and originality have won international praise.
Henri Duveyrier Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. His youth was spent partly in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
Henri G. Hers Henri-GĂ©ry Hers (born 1923) is a Belgian physiologist and biochemist, and he was a professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. Hers' disease is an inborn glycogen metabolism disorder caused by deficiency of hepatic phosphorylase, it is associated with an enlarged liver and mild hypoglycaemia Lederer B, Van Hoof F, Van den Berghe G, Hers H.
Henri Gamache Henri Gamache was the pseudonym of an otherwise unknown author who was active in the United States during the 1940s, and who wrote on the subject of magic. All his books were published in New York City and most of them consist of semi-scholarly popular compilations that draw from (and give credit to) previously-published works on occultism.
Henri Génès Henri Génès (July 2, 1919 in Tarbes- August 22, 2005 in Paris) was a French actor and singer. He was the symbol of the good humor of the South West of France, and he played in more than 80 movies in more than 50 years.
Henri Ghéon Henri Ghéon (March 15, 1875 - June 13, 1944US National Centre for Biological Information), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, France was a French writer, critic and poet. Educated in Sens, he moved to Paris in 1893 to study medicine.
Henri Giffard Henri Giffard (1825-1882) was a French engineer who invented the injector and the powered airship with a steam engine weighing over 400 lb. It was the world's first passenger-carrying airship, called a dirigible.
Henri Gillain Henri Gillain (1913 - August 10, 1999) was a Belgian teacher and comics enthusiast who on several occasions wrote scripts for Franco-Belgian comics publications in the segment known as Bande Dessinée. He was also the brother of Joseph Gillain, famous under the pseudonym Jijé.
Henri Gougerot Henri Gougerot (July 2, 1881 - 1955) was a French dermatologist born in the town of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine. In 1908 he earned his doctorate from the University of Paris, and shortly afterwards was a professor agrégé at the university.
Henri Gouraud (soldier) Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud (November 17, 1867–September 16, 1946) was a French general, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War. Born in la Rue de Grenelle, Paris, an infantryman, he graduated from St.
Henri Hubert Henri Hubert (Paris June 23, 1872 - May 25, 1927), was an archaeologist and sociologist of comparative religions who is best known for his work on the Celts and his collaboration with Marcel Mauss and other members of the Annee Sociologique.
Henri Charrière Henri Charrière (Ardèche, France, 16 November 1906 - Madrid, Spain, 29 July 1973) was a convicted felon chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in a penal colony on French Guiana.
Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville or Henri de Valois-Longueville (1595 — 1663) a legitimated prince of France (of royal descent) and peer of France, was a major figure in the civil war of France, the Fronde. He was also duc d'Estouteville and of Coulommiers, sovereign prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, prince de Châtellaillon, comte de Dunois, and served as governor of Picardy, then of Normandy.
Henri Jayer Henri Jayer (born 1922 — died September 20, 2006) was a French vintner who is credited with introducing important innovations to Burgundian winemaking. He was particularly known for the quality of his Pinot Noir.
Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer (1840-1888), Belgian painter, was born at Antwerp. He was trained by his father, a genre painter, and his uncle, Baron Henri Leys, and devoted himself to scenes of everyday Antwerp life.
Henri Konan Bédié Aimé Henri Konan Bédié (born May 5, 1934 in Dadiékro) is leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire and was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999. As president of the National Assembly, Bédié succeeded long-time president Félix Houphouët-Boigny upon the latter's death in December 1993.
Henri Konow Henri Konow (February 7 1862 - January 18 1939) was an officer in the Danish navy, and the last governor of the Danish West Indies, overseeing the transfer of administration to the United States of America. He was born in Copenhagen, the son of consul Hans Jacob Hesselberg Konow and Ida Marie West.
Henri Labrouste (Pierre François) Henri Labrouste (11 May 1801–24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux Arts school of architecture. After having stayed for six year in Rome, Labrouste opened an architectural training workshop, which quickly became the center of the Rationalist view.
Henri Le Floch Father Henri Le Floch was the rector of the French Seminary (Collège Français) in Rome in the early 20th century until the late 1920s.In a profoundly Catholic seminary of this sort Marcel Lefebvre received his preparation for the Holy Priesthood in the 1920's during the reign of Pope Pius XI—at the prestigious French seminary of Rome, then under the direction of the distinguished Father Henri Le Floch, of the Holy Ghost Fathers The Society of Pius X, Douglas Laudenschlager, The Angelus, February 1979
Henri Le Sidaner Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939) was an impressionist painter born on the island of Mauritius in the year 1862. Le Sidaner received most of his tutelage from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the instruction of Alexandre Cabanel but later broke away due to artistic differences.
Henri Lebesgue Henri Léon Lebesgue (June 28, 1875, Beauvais – July 26, 1941, Paris) was a French mathematician, most famous for his theory of integration. Lebesgue's integration theory was originally published in his dissertation, Intégrale, longueur, aire ("Integral, length, area"), at the University of Nancy in 1902.
Henri Leconte Henri Leconte (born July 4, 1963 in Lillers, Pas-de-Calais) is a former French professional tennis player. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, for winning the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and for helping France win the Davis Cup in 1991.
Henri Lucien Doucet Henri Lucien Doucet (1856-95) was a French figure and portrait painter, born in Paris, where he studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome. His pictures are usually piquant, sparkling representations of modern life, eminently Parisian in style, but the audacious realism of his earlier work is not maintained in his later, which is somewhat characterless.
Henri Martin Bon-Louis-Henri Martin (February 20, 1810 - December 14, 1883) was a celebrated French historian, born at Saint-Quentin. Having first written a few novels, he later devoted his life to the study of the history of France and wrote an account of it, entitled Histoire de France, a magnificent work in 19 volumes.
Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century.
Henri Membertou Henri Membertou (died 18 September 1611) was the sakmow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally sakmow of the Kespukwitk district, he was appointed as Grand Chief by the sakmowk of the other six districts.
Henri Menier Henri Emile Anatole Menier (July 14, 1853 - September 6, 1913) was a French businessman and adventurer and a member of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Paris, he was the son of Emile-Justin Menier and grandson to Antoine Brutus Menier who founded the Menier Chocolate company.
Henri Mignet Henri Mignet, (October 19 1893 in Charente-Maritime – August 311965 in Ain Harronda in Morocco), was a well known French designer of aircraft and an avid builder, creator of the formula Flying Flea. He started corresponding with Gustav Lilienthal (the brother of Otto Lilienthal) in 1911.
Henri Michaux Henri Michaux (May 24, 1899 - October 18, 1984) was a highly individualistic Belgian poet, writer and painter who wrote in the French language. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism.
Henri Michel Henri Michel (born October 29, 1947 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-RhĂ´ne) is a former French footballer, who played as a midfielder and later went on to coach various national teams. In 2005, he helped CĂ´te d'Ivoire qualify for their first ever appearance in a world cup at the 2006 World Cup, he retired after the 2006 World Cup.
Henri Namphy Henri Namphy (born November 2, 1932) was a Haitian general and political figure. He served as President of Haiti's interim ruling body, the National Council of Government, from 7 February 1986 to 7 February 1988.

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