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  • Haberler, Gottfried (1900-1995) - 20th century Austrian-born economist
  • Hackman, Gene (1930- ) - American actor, winner of Oscars for The French Connection and Unforgiven
  • Haldane, Richard (1856-1928) - Scottish lawyer and politician, served as British Secretary of State for War (1905-1912)
  • Halleck, Charles A. (1900-1986) - Politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana (1935-1969)
  • Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804) - American revolutionary leader, author of the majority of The Federalist papers
  • Hamowy, Ronald (1937-2012) - American/Canadian historian, editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (2008)
  • Hancock, John (1737-1793) - Signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, president of the Second Continental Congress
  • Hancock, Thomas (1703-1764) - Colonial America businessman, uncle of founding father John Hancock
  • Hán Fēi (韓非; 280-233 BCE) - Chinese philosopher of the Legalist school (Fǎjiā)
  • Hanneken, Russell - Software engineer, former webmaster for Laissez Faire Books
  • Hán Yīng (韓嬰) - Confucian scholar of the 2nd century BCE
  • Harden, Cecil M. (1894-1984) - Politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana (1949-1959)
  • Hardwick, Charles (1821-1859) - English priest and historian, archdeacon of the diocese of Ely
  • Harmodius (Harmódios; -514 BCE) - Young lover of Aristogeiton; the two Athenians assassinated Hipparchus (brother of the tyrant Hippias) and became celebrated as the Tyrannicides
  • Harriman, W. Averell (1891-1986) - American businessman and politician, governor of New York (1955-1958)
  • Hartley Jr., Fred A. (1902-1969) - Politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey (1929-1949)
  • Hauge, Gabriel (1914-1981) - American economist and banking executive, chairman of the Board of Directors of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (1971-1979)
  • Havel, Václav (1936-2011) - First President of the Czech Republic
  • Hayden, Carl (1877-1972) - Politician, United States senator from Arizona (1927-1969)
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) - German philosopher, author of Phänomenologie des Geistes ("The Phenomenology of Spirit")
  • Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) - American novelist, recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Herrmann, Edward (1943-2014) - Film, stage and television actor
  • Herter, Christian (1895-1966) - Politician, governor of Massachusetts (1953-1957), United States Secretary of State (1959-1961)
  • Héshàng Gōng (河上公) - Reputed author of well known commentary on the Dào Dé Jīng, believed to have lived in the first century CE
  • Heston, Charlton (1923-2008) - American movie actor, winner of Oscar for Ben-Hur
  • Heyne, Paul (1931-2000) - American economist, author of The Economic Way of Thinking (1973)
  • Hicks, Stephen (1960- ) - Philosopher, author of Explaining Postmodernism (2004)
  • Hieron I (Ἱέρων; -467 BCE) - Tyrant of Syracuse (478-467 BCE)
  • Himmelfarb, Gertrude (1922-2019) - American historian, author of Lord Acton (1952)
  • Hiss, Alger (1904-1996) - United States government official, accused in 1948 of being a Soviet spy, later convicted of perjury
  • Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) - German dictator, chancellor and self-declared Führer of the Deutsches Reich (1933-1945)
  • Hoffman, Paul G. (1891-1974) - American automotive executive, Marshall Plan and United Nations administrator
  • Hogan, James P. (1941-2010) - British-born science fiction author, winner of the 1993 and 1983 Prometheus Awards
  • Hoiles, Raymond C. (1878-1970) - American newspaper businessman, president of Freedom Newspapers, Inc. (1950-1970)
  • Holden, William (1918-1981) - American film actor, winner of an Oscar for best actor
  • Homer (Ὅμηρος) - Ancient Greek poet, presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  • Hook, Sidney (1902-1989) - American philosopher
  • Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964) - Thirty-first President of the United States (1929-1933)
  • Hopkins, Anthony (1937- ) - Welsh film, stage, and TV actor
  • Hopkins, Stephen (1707-1785) - Politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, representing Rhode Island
  • Houston, Sam (1793-1863) - Nineteenth century American politician, governor of Texas and Tennessee
  • Hsiao, Kung-chuan (蕭公權; 1897-1981) - Professor of Chinese history and political thought
  • Huángdì (黃帝) - Legendary Chinese emperor supposed to have reigned during the 27th century BCE
  • Hurley, Edward N. (1864-1933) - American businessman, second chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
  • Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) - American writer, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Hurt, John (1940-2017) - Oscar-nominated English stage and film actor
  • Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643) - English-born American colonist and religious leader
  • Hutchinson, Thomas (1711-1780) - British colonial governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay (1771-1774)