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Henry (given name)

Henry is an English language male given name and a surname, derived from the Germanic languages name Heinrich, which was derived from the word elements heim, meaning "home" and ric, meaning "power, ruler." Harry , its English short form, was considered the "spoken form" of Henry in medieval England....
 is an English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 male given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
 and a surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
, borrowed from Old French, ultimately of Germanic origin from the elements haim (“‘home’”) and ric (“‘ruler’”). Equivalents in other languages are Henrik
Henrik

Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Hungary and Slovenia. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Heikki , Hendrik , Heinrich , Enrico , Henri , Enrique , Henrique and Henryk ....
 (Scandinavian), Heinrich
Heinrich

Heinrich is a male given name or surname of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Hendrik , Hinnerk , Enrico , Henri , Enrique , and Henrique ....
 (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
), Eanruig (Scots Gaelic), Enrico
Enrico

Enrico is an Italian language male given name, derived from Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Henri , Enrique , and Henrique ....
 (Italian), Henri (Modern French), Enrique
Enrique

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 (Spanish), Henrik
Henrik

Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Hungary and Slovenia. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Heikki , Hendrik , Heinrich , Enrico , Henri , Enrique , Henrique and Henryk ....
 (Hungarian), Henryk
Henryk

Henryk may refer to:* Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer ;* Henryk_G%C3%B3recki, Polish Composer ;* Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author , Nobel Prize laureate;...
 (Polish), Henning (Swedish) and Henrique
Henrique

Henrique is the name of two List of Portuguese monarchs and two princes of Portugal:*Henry, Count of Portugal .*Henry of Portugal .*Henry the Navigator , a royal prince and important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire....
 (Portuguese). Nicknames include Harry
Harry

Harry is a male given name, the Middle English form of Henry . It is also sometimes used as a diminutive form of Harold.See also* Harry ...
, Hank
Hank (disambiguation)

Hank is a piece of yarn.Hank may also refer to:*Hank , a town in the Netherlands*Hank , an American TV sitcomHank as a given name may refer to:...
, and Hal
HAL

HAL or Hal may refer to:...
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Henry
Henry (given name)

Henry is an English language male given name and a surname, derived from the Germanic languages name Heinrich, which was derived from the word elements heim, meaning "home" and ric, meaning "power, ruler." Harry , its English short form, was considered the "spoken form" of Henry in medieval England....
 is an English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 male given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
 and a surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
, borrowed from Old French, ultimately of Germanic origin from the elements haim (“‘home’”) and ric (“‘ruler’”). Equivalents in other languages are Henrik
Henrik

Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Hungary and Slovenia. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Heikki , Hendrik , Heinrich , Enrico , Henri , Enrique , Henrique and Henryk ....
 (Scandinavian), Heinrich
Heinrich

Heinrich is a male given name or surname of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Hendrik , Hinnerk , Enrico , Henri , Enrique , and Henrique ....
 (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
), Eanruig (Scots Gaelic), Enrico
Enrico

Enrico is an Italian language male given name, derived from Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Henri , Enrique , and Henrique ....
 (Italian), Henri (Modern French), Enrique
Enrique

name = Enrique| image=| imagesize=| caption=| pronunciation=en-REE-ke| gender =Male| meaning =| region =| origin =Spanish| related names =Henry...
 (Spanish), Henrik
Henrik

Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Hungary and Slovenia. Equivalents in other languages are Henry , Heikki , Hendrik , Heinrich , Enrico , Henri , Enrique , Henrique and Henryk ....
 (Hungarian), Henryk
Henryk

Henryk may refer to:* Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer ;* Henryk_G%C3%B3recki, Polish Composer ;* Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author , Nobel Prize laureate;...
 (Polish), Henning (Swedish) and Henrique
Henrique

Henrique is the name of two List of Portuguese monarchs and two princes of Portugal:*Henry, Count of Portugal .*Henry of Portugal .*Henry the Navigator , a royal prince and important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire....
 (Portuguese). Nicknames include Harry
Harry

Harry is a male given name, the Middle English form of Henry . It is also sometimes used as a diminutive form of Harold.See also* Harry ...
, Hank
Hank (disambiguation)

Hank is a piece of yarn.Hank may also refer to:*Hank , a town in the Netherlands*Hank , an American TV sitcomHank as a given name may refer to:...
, and Hal
HAL

HAL or Hal may refer to:...
. Henry may refer to:

Things

  • henry (unit), the SI unit of inductance
  • Henry (comic)
    Henry (comic)

    Henry is a comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson . The title character is a young bald boy who almost never speaks. With the exception of a few early strips, Henry communicates only through Mime artist....
  • Henry (vacuum cleaner), a red vacuum cleaner manufactured by Numatic International
  • Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
    Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer

    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 film directed by John McNaughton about the random crimespree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity....
    , a horror movie
  • Henry rifle
    Henry rifle

    The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action, breech-loading, tubular magazine rifle....
    , the first "practical" repeating rifle
  • Henry's law
    Henry's law

    In chemistry, Henry's law is one of the gas laws, formulated by William Henry in 1803. It states that:An equivalent way of stating the law is that the solubility of a gas in a liquid is proportional to the pressure of that gas above the liquid....
    , a gas law in chemistry
  • SS Henry
    SS Henry

    SS Henry was a Norway steam-powered cargo ship best known for being one of the two ships sunk in one of the most controversial incidents in Norway during World War II....
    , a Norwegian merchant ship sunk in controversial circumstances in 1944.
  • Henry, Christy Brown's name for the cart that gave him independence in his autobiography, My Left Foot
    My Left Foot (book)

    My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Christy Brown, an Irish ethnicity author, Painting and poet who had cerebral palsy.Brown was born in Crumlin, Dublin, Dublin....
  • A Henry, A simple non-alcoholic cocktail drink consisting of Orange Juice and Lemonade


Animals

  • Henry the Hexapus
    Henry the Hexapus

    Henry the Hexapus is a six-limbed octopus found by Great Britain Marine experts in 2008. His name comes from the fact that it alliterates well with "hexapus" and also from Henry VIII of England, who had six wives....
    , the world's first six-legged octopus
    Octopus

    The octopus is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. The term may also refer to only those creatures in the genus Octopus ....


People and fictional characters


Surname
  • Alan Henry
    Alan Henry

    Alan Henry has been a grand prix reporter since the early 1970s. He is the Formula One correspondent of the The Guardian newspaper, and currently holds the title of Editor at Large of F1 Racing magazine....
    , British motorsport journalist
  • Alexander Henry
    Alexander Henry

    Alexander Henry was a fur trader and entrepreneur.Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in what was then British North America, he became a fur-trader at Fort Michilimackinac in 1761....
     (1739-1824), American/Canadian fur trader
  • Benjamin Tyler Henry
    Benjamin Tyler Henry

    Benjamin Tyler Henry was an United States gunsmith and manufacturer. He was the inventor of the Henry rifle, the first reliable lever-action repeating rifle....
     (1821–1898), American inventor of the Henry rifle
  • Beulah Louise Henry
    Beulah Louise Henry

    Beulah Louise Henry was an American inventor from Memphis,Tennessee. She has the nickname Lady Edison. She was awarded many patents including a bobbin-free sewing machine and a vacuum ice cream freezer....
     (1887–1973), American inventor; nicknamed "Lady Edison"
  • Brad Henry
    Brad Henry

    Charles Bradford "Brad" Henry is the Governor of Oklahoma of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party , he was elected governor in 2002....
     (1963 - ? ), Governor of Oklahoma
  • Caleb Sprague Henry
    Caleb Sprague Henry

    Caleb Sprague Henry was an United States Protestantism Episcopal Church in the United States of America clergyman and author. He was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825 and studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary and New Haven, Connecticut....
     (1804-84), American clergyman
  • Charles Henry
    Charles Henry

    Charles Henry was a French people librarian and editor. He was born at Bollwiller, Haut-Rhin, and was educated in Paris, where in 1881 he became assistant and afterward librarian in the Sorbonne....
     (1859- ? ), French librarian and editor
  • Edward Henry
    Edward Henry

    Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet Royal Victorian Order Order of the Bath Order of the Star of India Queen's Police Medal was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1903 to 1918....
     (1850–1931), London police commissioner
  • Edward Lamson Henry
    Edward Lamson Henry

    Edward Lamson Henry , commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an United States genre Painting, born in Charleston, South Carolina....
     (1841-1919), American genre painter
  • Etienne Ossian Henry
    Etienne Ossian Henry

    Etienne Ossian Henry was a French people chemist, son of N?el Etienne Henry , born in Paris, and trained by his father, who was director of the Central Pharmacy of the Parisian hospitals and professor in the School of Pharmacy....
     (1798-1873), French chemist
  • George Henry (painter)
    George Henry (painter)

    George Henry was a Scotland Painting, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School. He was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, later in Macgregor's studio, but learned most from his nature studies at Kirkcudbright....
     (1858-1943), Scottish painter (1880s to 1910s)
  • George Stewart Henry
    George Stewart Henry

    George Stewart Henry was a farmer, businessman and politician in Ontario, Canada.Born in King, Ontario, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Ontario, the son of William and Louisa Henry, Henry was educated at the public schools of Toronto, Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto where he received a B.A....
    , (1871-1958) Canadian politician
  • Graham Henry
    Graham Henry

    Graham Henry is a New Zealand Rugby Union coach, and head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks....
    , (b. 1946), New Zealander rugby union coach
  • Horrid Henry
    Horrid Henry

    Horrid Henry is a fictional character created by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross. The first Horrid Henry was written and published in 1994 and as of the end of 2008, there have been sixteen titles published, as well as numerous collections, activity books and joke books....
    , fictional character and children' comedy TV show
  • Jim Henry, several people
  • John Henry, several people
  • Joseph Henry
    Joseph Henry

    Joseph Henry was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was considered one of the greatest American scientists since Benjamin Franklin....
     (1797–1878), American physicist
  • Lenny Henry
    Lenny Henry

    Lenworth George Henry Order of the British Empire is an England actor, writer and comedian....
     (1958 –), British comedian
  • Mark Henry
    Mark Henry

    Mark Jerrold Henry is an United States Professional wrestling currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment performing on its Extreme Championship Wrestling WWE Brand Extension....
     (1971 –), American professional wrestler
  • Matthew Henry
    Matthew Henry

    Matthew Henry , was an England non-conformist clergyman....
     (1662-1714), English divine
  • Mike Henry
    Mike Henry

    Mike Henry is an American professional American football player and actor. He is probably best known for his role as Tarzan in three movies of the 1960s: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold , Tarzan and the Great River , and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy , and as a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Los Angeles Rams ....
    , (1936- ), American football player and actor
  • Mike Henry
    Mike Henry (television writer/producer)

    Mike "Bear" Henry is an United States writer, television producer, voice actor, and comedian from Richmond, Virginia. A graduate of Washington and Lee University, Henry is best known for his work on Family Guy, where he is a writer, producer and voice actor....
    , (1964- ), American writer, producer, voice actor, and comedian
  • O. Henry
    O. Henry

    O. Henry was the pen name of United States writer William Sydney Porter . O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings....
     [pen name] (1862–1910), American writer
  • Patrick Henry
    Patrick Henry

    Patrick Henry was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is remembered as one of the most influential advocates of the American Revolution and Republicanism in the United States, especially in his denunciations of c...
     (1736–1799), American politician
  • Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
    Paul Henry and Prosper Henry

    Paul-Pierre Henry and his brother Mathieu-Prosper Henry were France opticians and astronomers.They made refracting telescopes and instruments for observatories, and were involved in the origin of the Carte du Ciel project....
     (1848-1905), French astronomers
  • Philip Henry, 4th and 5th Earl Stanhope
    Earl Stanhope

    Earl Stanhope was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1718 for James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, the principal minister of George I of Great Britain, with remainder to the heirs male of his body....
  • Philip Henry (clergyman)
    Philip Henry (clergyman)

    Philip Henry was an English people Nonconformism clergyman, born in London....
     (1631-1696), English clergyman
  • Pierre Henry
    Pierre Henry

    Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concr?te genre of electronic music.Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at Office de Radiodiffusion T?l?vision Fran?aise, founded by Pierre Schaeffer....
     (1927–), French composer
  • Robert Henri
    Robert Henri

    Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art....
     (1865–1929), American painter
  • Robert Henry
    Robert Henry

    Robert Henry was a Scotland historian.Born into a farming family at St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Henry was educated at Stirling High School and the University of Edinburgh....
     (1718-90), Scottish historian and minister
  • Robert Harlan Henry
    Robert Harlan Henry

    See also Robert Henry Robert Harlan Henry is a U.S. judge and politician. He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Oklahoma in 1974 and 1976 respectively....
     (1953- ?), American judge and Oklahoma politician, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
  • Robert L. Henry
    Robert L. Henry

    Robert Lee Henry was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from 1897 to 1917 .Early life...
     (1864-1931), American politician
  • Robert L. Henry, Jr.
    Robert L. Henry, Jr.

    Robert L. Henry, Jr. was an United States professor of law....
     (1882- ? ), American professor of law
  • Stuart Henry
    Stuart Henry

    Stuart Henry , is a former Australian politician, who was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as member for the Division of Hasluck, Western Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia at the Australian federal election, 2004....
     (b. 1946), Australian politician
  • Thierry Henry
    Thierry Henry

    Thierry Daniel Henry is a French association football striker who plays for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona and the France national football team....
     (b. 1977), French footballer
  • Travis Henry
    Travis Henry

    Travis Deion Henry is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft....
     (b. 1978), American Football player
  • Victor Henry
    Victor Henry

    Victor Henry was a France philologist, born at Colmar in Alsace.Having held appointments at Douai and Lille, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar in the university of Paris....
     (1850-1907), French philologist
  • William Henry, several people


First name
  • Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, (d.1150) Bishop of Uppsala. He became a martyr in Finland
  • Henry of Cocket
    Henry of Cocket

    Henry of Cocket was a Danes who lived in a hermitage on the island of Cocket, off the Northumberland coast. He died there in 1127. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church....
    , (d. 1127) a hermit Dane. He lived on the island of Cocket, off Northumberland, England.
  • Henry of Livonia, (b. 1180) Catholic priest. Author of Chronicle of Henry of Livonia
    Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

    The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia is a historic document describing the history of Livonia and surrounding areas from 1180 to 1227. Apart from the few references in the Russian Primary Chronicle compiled in Kiev in the twelfth century, it is the oldest known written document about the history of these countries....
     one of the earliest histories of the Eastern Baltic.
  • Henry Aaron
    Henry Aaron

    Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron , nicknamed "Hammer," "Hammerin' Hank,? and "Bad Henry,? is a retired United States baseball player whose Major League Baseball career spanned from 1954 in baseball through 1976 in baseball....
    , (b. 1934) American baseball player. Played from 1954-1976 and held the record for most career home runs (755) until it was broken in 2007.
  • Henri Becquerel
    Henri Becquerel

    Antoine Henri Becquerel was a France physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering radioactivity....
    , (1852–1908) French physicist who discovered radioactivity.
  • Henry G. Brinton
    Henry G. Brinton

    Henry G. Brinton is a contributor to The Washington Post and USA Today, author of the book Balancing Acts: Obligation, Liberation, and Contemporary Christian Conflicts , co-author of Ten Commandments of Faith and Fitness : A Practical Guide for Heath and Wellness , and the senior pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church....
    , (b. 1960) American author and pastor. Contributor to The Washington Post, USA Today, and author of a few books.
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Henri Cartier-Bresson was a France photography considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography....
    , (1908-2004) French photographer. Considered to be the father of modern photojournalism.
  • Henry Cavill
    Henry Cavill

    Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill is a British actor....
    , (b. 1983) British actor
  • Henry Clay
    Henry Clay

    Henry Clay, Sr. was a nineteenth-century United States statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate....
    , (1777-1852) American/Kentucky statesman. A presidential candidate, compromiser, pacifier, War Hawk, and founder of the Whig Party.
  • Henry Collins (boxer)
    Henry Collins (boxer)

    Henry Collins is a former light welterweight Boxing from Australia, who represented his native country at the Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
    , (b. 1977) Australian boxer.
  • Henry Cooper (boxer)
    Henry Cooper (boxer)

    Sir Henry Cooper Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great in South East London, is a retired England heavyweight boxing and was the British, European and Commonwealth of Nations heavyweight champion in 1970....
    , (b. 1934) British boxer. Was the British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight champion in 1970.
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French Painting, printmaking, drawing, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de si?cle Paris yielded an oeuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of thos...
    , (1864-1901) French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator.
  • Henry Every
    Henry Every

    Henry Every or Avery or Avary was a pirate/Marooning whose aliases included John Avary, Long Ben, and Benjamin Bridgeman. He is most famous for being apparently one of the few major pirate captains to retire with his loot without being arrested or killed in battle....
    , (born c. 1653) British pirate. Made one of the richest plunders in sea history and then retired and vanished.
  • Henry Flagler (1830-1913) American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer, known as the father of Miama, Florida.
  • Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
    , (1905-1982) American actor. Acted in 115 films, with another 73 as himself, and 16 broadway shows.
  • Henry Ford
    Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was the United States founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T History of the automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry....
    , (1863-1947) Industrialist. Father of the modern, assembly line, Ford Motor Company, and 161 patents.
  • Henry Georges, (1919....) musician
  • Hank Greenberg
    Hank Greenberg

    Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg , nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," was an United States professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation....
    , (1911-1986) American baseball player. A premier power hitter and one of the first Jewish superstars in American pro sports.
  • Henry Hathaway
    Henry Hathaway

    Henry Hathaway was an United States film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Western , especially starring John Wayne....
    , film director
  • Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson was an England sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. After several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast Passage to China, Hudson explored the region around modern New York City while looking for a western route to the Orient under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company....
    , sea explorer
  • Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
    , author
  • Henry Jekyll, title character in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Henry Kissinger
    Henry Kissinger

    Henry Alfred Kissinger is a Germany-born United States Jewish political scientist, bureaucrat, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as United States National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the Nixon administration....
    , politician
  • Henry Lau
    Henry Lau

    Henry Lau , better known as Henry , is a singer, dancer, and one of the two new additional members to the Super Junior sub-unit Super Junior-M, the other being Zhou Mi ....
    , Chinese singer, dancer and violinist in the Chinese boy band
    Boy band

    A boy band, written in some countries boys band or boy's band, is a type of pop music band featuring several young male singers. The members are generally expected to perform as dancers as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music....
     Super Junior-M
    Super Junior-M

    Super Junior-M , often referred to as SJ-M, is the third official sub-unit of Korean boy band Super Junior established in April 2008. They are the first international music group in the Chinese music industry to have members of both Chinese people and Koreans descent....
  • Henri Legay
    Henri Legay

    Henri Legay was a French operatic tenor, primarily French-based and whose light lyric voice was especially suited to the French operatic repertoire....
    , French operatic tenor
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an United States educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride ", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline"....
    , poet
  • Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
    , composer
  • Henry Marsh
    Henry Marsh

    Henry Dinwoodey Marsh is a retired long-distance Running from the United States, who represented his native country in the men's 3,000 meter Steeplechase in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1976....
    , American long-distance runner
  • Henry Matisse, artist
  • Henry Miller
    Henry Miller

    Henry Valentine Miller was an United States novelist and Painting. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of...
    , author
  • Henry Pym
    Henry Pym

    Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym is a fictional character that appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. Created by editor and plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber and penciler Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27 ....
     (aka Ant Man, Giant Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket), fictional character in the Marvel Universe
  • Henry Purcell
    Henry Purcell

    Henry Purcell...
    , composer
  • Henry Ramsay
    Henry Ramsay

    Henry Ramsay was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours played by Craig McLachlan from 1987 until 1989.Herny Love intering has Sue Jones Malaine Patter son Sally Wells Lucy Robinson and Sharhon Davies....
    , from the Australian soap Neighbours
  • Henry "Hank" Rearden, steelmaker from the Ayn Rand
    Ayn Rand

    Ayn Rand , was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism ....
     book Atlas Shrugged
    Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in literature in the United States. It was Rand's fourth, List of longest novels, and last novel....
  • Henry Rollins
    Henry Rollins

    Henry Rollins is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, spoken word, stand-up comedian, author, actor, activist and publisher.After joining the short-lived Washington, D.C....
    , singer
  • Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was an United States author, poet, Natural history, tax resistance, development criticism, surveyor, historian, philosophy, and leading Transcendentalism....
    , author
  • Henry Townshend, the main protagonist in the game Silent Hill 4
  • Henry Turner
    Henry Turner

    Henry Turner may refer to:*Henry Turner , American basketball player* Henry McNeal Turner , Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church....
    , the title character from the Harrison Ford
    Harrison Ford

    Harrison Ford is an United Statesn actor. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy, and as the Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones franchise#Films film series....
     film Regarding Henry
    Regarding Henry

    Regarding Henry is a 1991 in film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening. The screenplay was written by J. J. Abrams....
    .
  • Henry Winkler
    Henry Winkler

    Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, film director, Film producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom, Happy Days....
    , actor, producer
  • Henry the Green Engine
    Henry the Green Engine

    File:henry.jpgHenry the Green Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic 4-6-0 steam locomotive from The Railway Series books written by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry, and the spin-off children's television series, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends....
    , a steam locomotive from The Railway Series of books by Reverend W. Awdry
  • Henry
    List of characters in No More Heroes

    This article provides a list of characters who appear in the 2008 Wii video game No More Heroes ....
    , a character from the 2008 video game No More Heroes
  • Henry, a character from the television show, KaBlam!
    KaBlam!

    KaBlam! is an United States List of animated television series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1996 to 2000. It features a collection of short films in several different styles of animation, bridged by the characters Henry and June, who introduce the shorts and have adventures of their own in between....
  • Henry
    Henry (comic)

    Henry is a comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson . The title character is a young bald boy who almost never speaks. With the exception of a few early strips, Henry communicates only through Mime artist....
    , a comic character that began in 1932.
  • Henry and Orville, the first pair of ghosts that Luigi encounters in Luigi's Mansion
    Luigi's Mansion

    is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 17, 2001, and in Europe on May 3, 2002....
  • Henri, a character from the film An American Tail
    An American Tail

    An American Tail is a 1986 in film animation film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986....
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Royalty
See also List of rulers named Henry
List of rulers named Henry

There have been many monarchs with the name "Henry". The years shown below are the regnal years....
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  • Portuguese royalty
    • King-Cardinal Henry of Portugal
      Henry of Portugal

      Henry, Cardinal-King of Portugal or Henrique the Chaste was the seventeenth List of Portuguese monarchs. He ruled between 1578 and 1580....
    • Henry of Burgundy
      Henry, Count of Portugal

      Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal was Count of Portugal from 1093 to his death. He was the son of Henry of Burgundy, heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, and brother of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy and Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy....
      , Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king)
    • Prince Henry the Navigator
      Henry the Navigator

      The Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu, Pronunciation ), in Sagres, Portugal) was an infante of the Portugal House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations....
      , Infante of Portugal
    • Infante Henry, 4th Duke of Coimbra
      Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra

      The Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra , born 6 November 1949, is the third son and youngest child of Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza and his wife Princess Maria Francisca of Orleans-Braganza ....
       (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne
  • King of Germany
    • Henry the Fowler (876-936), first king of Germany
  • Four kings of Castile:
    • Henry I of Castile
      Henry I of Castile

      Henry I of Castile was king of Kingdom of Castile. He was the son ofAlfonso VIII of Castile and his wife Leonora of England, .In 1211, Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Ferdinand suddenly died....
    • Henry II of Castile
      Henry II of Castile

      Henry II , better known as Henry of House of Trast?mara , 1st Conde de Trast?mara, before his coronation, was the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Eleanor of Guzman, half brother to Peter of Castile....
    • Henry III of Castile
      Henry III of Castile

      Henry III , sometimes known as Henry the Sufferer or Henry the Infirm was the son of John I of Castile and Eleanor of Aragon, and succeeded him as List of Castilian monarchs of Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of Le?n in 1390....
    • Henry IV of Castile
      Henry IV of Castile

      Henry IV , King of Castile, nicknamed the Impotent , was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile. During Enrique's reign the nobles increased in power and the nation became less centralised....
  • Five kings of France:
    • Henry I of France
      Henry I of France

      Henry I was King of France from 1031 to his death. The Crown lands of France of France reached its lowest point in terms of size during his reign and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the House of Capet....
    • Henry II of France
      Henry II of France

      Henry II , of the House of Valois and the son and successor of Francis I of France, was King of France from 31 March 1547, until his death....
    • Henry III of France
      Henry III of France

      Henry III of France , born Alexandre-?douard de Valois-Angoul?me, was King of France from 1574 to 1589, and as Henry of Valois, first elected List of Polish rulers#Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and List of Lithuanian rulers#Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1573 to 1574....
    • Henry IV of France
      Henry IV of France

      Henry de Bourbon, , ruled as Henry III, List of Navarrese monarchs, from 1572 to 1610, and as Henry IV, List of French monarchs, from 1589 to 1610....
    • Henry V of France
  • Six Holy Roman Emperors:
    • Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
      Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

      Saint Henry II , called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy Roman Empire of the Ottonian dynasty from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later....
    • Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
      Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor

      Henry III , called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Empire. He was the eldest son of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor and Gisela of Swabia and his father made him duke of Bavaria in 1026, after the death of Henry V, Duke of Bavaria....
    • Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
      Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

      Henry IV was King of Germany from 1056 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 until his forced abdication in 1105. He was the third emperor of the Salian dynasty and one of the most powerful and important figures of the 11th century....
    • Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
      Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

      Henry V was King of Germany and Holy Roman Empire , the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. Henry's reign coincided with the final phase of the great Investiture Controversy, which had pitted pope against emperor....
    • Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
      Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

      Henry VI was King of Germany from 1190 to 1197, Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197 and King of Sicily from 1194 to 1197....
    • Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
      Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

      Henry VII was the King of Germany from 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1312. He was the first emperor of the House of Luxembourg. During his brief career he reinvigorated the imperial cause in Kingdom of Italy and inspired the praise of Dino Compagni and Dante Alighieri....
  • Eight kings of England:
    • Henry I of England
      Henry I of England

      Henry I was the fourth son of William I the Conqueror. He succeeded his elder brother William II of England as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106....
    • Henry II of England
      Henry II of England

      Henry II, called Curtmantle ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France....
    • Henry III of England
      Henry III of England

      Henry III was the son and successor of John of England as King of England, reigning for fifty-six years from 1216 to his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester....
    • Henry IV of England
      Henry IV of England

      Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland . Like other kings of England, he also claimed the title of King of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, Henry Bolingbroke....
    • Henry V of England
      Henry V of England

      Henry V was one of the most significant English warrior kings of the 15th century. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, and reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422....
    • Henry VI of England
      Henry VI of England

      Henry VI was Kingdom of England 1422?1461 and then 1470?1471, and King of France as the de jure monarch from 1422 to 1429....
    • Henry VII of England
      Henry VII of England

      Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty....
    • Henry VIII of England
      Henry VIII of England

      Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
  • Prince Henry of Wales ("Harry"), the third in line to British throne
  • Heinrich, Prince of Prussia, three men, (1726-1802) and (1747-1767) and (1862-1929)
  • Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

    }|}Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg is the head of state of Luxembourg. He is the eldest son of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Princess Jos?phine-Charlotte of Belgium....
  • Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
    Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

    The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Privy Council, Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Venerable Order of St John was a member of the British Royal Family, the third son of George V of the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom and Mary of...
  • Prince Henry of Battenberg
    Prince Henry of Battenberg

    Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg was a descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom....


Shakespearean plays
  • Henry IV, Part 1
    Henry IV, Part 1

    Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare's tetralogy that deals with the successive reigns of Richard II of England, Henry IV of England , and Henry V of England....
  • Henry IV, Part 2
    Henry IV, Part 2

    Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 and succeeded by Henry V ....
  • Henry V
    Henry V (play)

    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War....
  • Henry VI, Part 1
    Henry VI, part 1

    The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1588?1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First Tetralogy"....
  • Henry VI, Part 2
    Henry VI, part 2

    The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, or Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed written in approximately 1590-91....
  • Henry VI, Part 3
    Henry VI, part 3

    Henry the Sixth, Part 3, is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1590, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England....
  • Henry VIII
    Henry VIII (play)

    The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is a history play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of Henry VIII of England....


Novel
  • Henry Esmond, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1852)