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| Hadrian’s Wall | Hadrian (AD76-138), Roman emperor |
| Halley’s comet | Edmund Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer |
| Hansard | Luke Hansard (1752-1828), English printer |
| hansom cab | Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-82), English architect |
| hartree | Douglas Rayner Hartree (1897-1958), English mathematician and physicist |
| havelock | Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), British general |
| Heath Robinson | William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), English artist |
| Heaviside layer | Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925), British physicist |
| hector | Hector, Greek legendary character |
| hefner candle | Friedrich Franz von Hefner-Alteneck (1845-1904), German engineer |
| Heimlich Manoeuvre | Dr Henry Heimlich (b1920), American physician |
| henry | Joseph Henry (1797-1878), American physicist |
| Hepplewhite | George Hepplewhite (d.1786), English cabinet-maker |
| herculean | Hercules, Greek demigod |
| hermaphrodite | Hermaphroditos, Greek mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite |
| hermetic | Hermes Trismegistus, Greek name of Egyptian god of learning |
| hertz | Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-94), German physicist |
| Hilary term | St Hilary of Poitiers (c.315-c.367) |
| Hindenburg line | Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934), German general |
| Hippocratic oath | Hippocrates (c.460-c.377BC), Greek physician |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Ho Chi Minh (original name Nguyen That Thanh; 1890-69), Vietnamese statesman |
| Hobson’s choice | Thomas Hobson (1544-1631), English liveryman |
| Hodgkin’s disease | Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), English physician |
| hooligan | Patrick Hooligan, Irish criminal active in London in the 1890s |
| Hoover | William Henry Hoover (1849-1932), American businessman |
| Huntingdon’s chorea | George S. Huntingdon (1851-1916), American neurologist |
| hyacinth | Hyacinthus, attractive youth in Greek mythology |
| hygiene | Hygeia, Greek goddess of health |
| hypnosis | Hypnos, Greek god of sleep |