People: H

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• H. David KotzInspector General of the SEC who reported on the agency’s handling of Madoff and Stanford.
• H. R. Haldeman 1926–1993White House chief of staff to President Nixon, convicted in the Watergate cover-up.
• Hansjörg WyssSwiss businessman; funder of the Wyss Foundation and the Berger Action Fund.
• Harold GeneenChairman of ITT’s board in 1970.
• Harry MarkopolosFraud examiner who says he sent the SEC written warnings about Bernard Madoff from 2000.
• Harry S. Truman 1884–1972President of the United States from 1945 to 1953, who gave the order to use the atomic bomb.
• Hassan NgezeChief editor of the newspaper Kangura; convicted by the Rwanda Tribunal in the Media case.
• Hazra BeeBhopal gas survivor interviewed by Amnesty International in 2012.
• Helena RubinsteinBeauty entrepreneur who opened a salon in Melbourne in 1902 and built a cosmetics company.
• Henry Ashby Turner 1932–2008American historian of Germany; his book of 1985 argued that big business did less for Hitler before 1933 than often said.
• Henry BouquetBritish colonel who led reinforcements to Fort Pitt in 1763.
• Henry Clay Frick 1849–1919Pittsburgh coke and steel executive; chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892.
• Henry Demarest Lloyd 1847–1903U.S. journalist who wrote against Standard Oil from 1881.
• Henry DobynsAnthropologist whose estimates of the pre-1492 population of the Americas are among the highest.
• Henry Flagler 1830–1913U.S. businessman, an officer of Standard Oil from its start.
• Henry Ford 1863–1947American car maker. Owned the Dearborn Independent, which printed the false, antisemitic series “The International Jew” from 1920.
• Henry H. Arnold 1886–1950U.S. general who led the Army Air Forces in the Second World War.
• Henry Kissinger 27 May 1923 – 29 Nov 2023U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor from 1973 to 1975.
• Henry KnoxFirst U.S. Secretary of War, 1789 to 1794.
• Henry L. Stimson 1867–1950U.S. Secretary of War during the Second World War.
• Henry Morgenthau Sr.U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916; his cables to Washington are among the earliest outside accounts of the deportations.
• Henry Morton Stanley 1841–1904Explorer and journalist who worked for Leopold II in the Congo.
• Henry P. DavisonPartner in J. P. Morgan & Co. and adviser to the National Monetary Commission.
• Henry PaulsonU.S. Treasury Secretary during the crisis of 2008.
• Henry WaxmanU.S. representative from California; chairman of the House Oversight Committee in 2008.
• Herbert NeedlemanAmerican physician who studied lead and children’s behaviour and learning from 1979.
• Herbert WinokurEnron director from 1985 and member of the committee that wrote the Powers Report.
• Herman BernsteinNew York Herald reporter; exposed the Protocols for American readers in 1921 and sued Henry Ford for libel in 1923.
• Hermann Göring 1893–1946Nazi leader who held a Nazi cabinet seat in 1933; the Nuremberg Tribunal found him guilty on all four counts of the indictment.
• Hernán CortésSpanish captain who led the expedition from Cuba to Mexico in 1519 and wrote letters to Charles V about it.
• Hiroaki KuromiyaAuthor of the 2008 essay "The Soviet Famine of 1932–1933 Reconsidered".
• Hirohito 1901–1989Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989.
• Hjalmar Schacht 1877–1970German banker; President of the Reichsbank in 1923 to 1930 and again from March 1933; acquitted at Nuremberg.
• Howard UdellFormer chief legal officer of the Purdue Frederick Company.
• HuascarInca ruler at Cuzco whom Atahualpa's captains took prisoner; Spanish and Andean writers say Atahualpa had him killed.
• Huayna CapacInca ruler, father of Atahualpa and Huascar; Pedro Pizarro writes that he died of smallpox.
• Hussein AghaAdviser to the Palestinians in negotiations (so Dennis Ross describes him); co-author with Robert Malley of an account of Camp David.
• Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of MeccaRuler of Mecca who corresponded with Sir Henry McMahon in 1915 and 1916.