Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
E. Lynn Harris
Author Born Everette Lynn Harris, in 1955, in Flint, MI; son of James Jeter and Etta W. Harris (a factory worker). Education: Graduated from the Univ...
Richard Harris
Born Richard St. John Harris, October 1, 1930, in Limerick, Ireland; died of Hodgkin's disease, October 25, 2002, in London, England. Actor. To a generation of filmgoers, Anglo–Irish star ...
Carey Hart
Motocross athlete and business owner Born July 17, 1975, in Las Vegas, NV; son of Tom Hart (a construction company owner); married Pink (aka Alecia Moore; a singer), January 7, ...
Reed Hastings
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Chair of Netflix Born Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr., c. 1961; married; children: two. Education: Earned undergradu...
Teri Hatcher
Actress Born December 8, 1964, in Sunnyvale, CA; daughter of Owen (an electrical engineer) and Esther (a computer programmer) Hatcher; married Marcus Leithold (a fitness tra...
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Physicist Born November 13, 1959, in Vejle, Denmark. Education: Received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Aarhus, and Ph.D., 1991. ...
Laura S. Haviland
American antislavery activist Laura Smith Haviland (1808–1898) is not as well known as the great writers and orators of the Abolitionist movement, those whose ideas rallied the Nor...
Tony Hawk
May 12, 1968 • San Diego, California Skateboarder, businessman According to Newsweek magazine, Tony Hawk is the...
Stephen Hawking
Born: January 8, 1942 Oxford, England English scientist, physicist, and mathematician British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking has made fund...
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Born: July 4, 1804 Salem, Massachusetts Died: May 19, 1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire American writer The work of Americ...
Dennis Haysbert
Actor Born Dennis Dexter Haysbert, June 2, 1954, in San Mateo, CA; son of Charles (a security guard and sheriff's deputy) and Gladys (a homemaker and housecleaner) Haysbert;...
Bruce Hayse
Conservationist Born c. 1949, in Burns, OR; son of Joe (stepfather, a civil engineer) and Laura; married to Jan; children: two daughters. Education: ...
Eliza Haywood
Pioneering English novelist Eliza Haywood (c. 1693–1756) was also a successful playwright and journalist. Though little is known about her early life, and her works were usually pu...
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919) was the mother of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. She was a philanthropist and art collector. Very passionate about education, she was i...
William Randolph Hearst
Born: April 29, 1863 San Francisco, California Died: August 14, 1951 Beverly Hills, California American publisher and editor ...
Werner Heisenberg
Born: December 5, 1901 Würzburg, Germany Died: February 1, 1976 Munich, Germany German physicist German physicist Wer...
Al Held
Born Alvin Jacob Held, October 12, 1928, in New York, NY; died of natural causes, July 26, 2005, in Camerata, Umbria, Italy. Artist. Al Held earned his slot in the annals of American conte...
Joseph Heller
Born: May 1, 1923 Brooklyn, New York Died: December 12, 1999 East Hampton, New York American author Joseph Heller was a popular and respected writer whose first ...
Sophie von Hellermann
Artist Born in 1975, in Munich, Germany. Education: Studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany, 1993-98; earned graduate fine-arts degree fr...
Lillian Hellman
Born: June 20, 1906 New Orleans, Louisiana Died: June 30, 1984 Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts American playwright Lill...