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James Hepburn

James Hepburn

Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training

Date of Birth: 21 May 1979
Age: 47

James Douglas Hepburnis a Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (...

Adam Heppinstall

Adam Heppinstall

Lawyer

Adam HeppinstallKC is described by Legal 500 as being “Very sharp, always finds the best way through a complex situation and very commercial, too. Has an engaging easy manner that makes him a pleasure...

Oliver Hermanus

Oliver Hermanus

South African film director and writer

Date of Birth: 26 May 1983
Age: 43

Oliver Hermanusis a South African film director and writer. His films include Shirley Adams (2009), Beauty (Skoonheid) (2011), The Endless River (2015), and Moffie (2019). His film Beauty won the Quee...

Marcello Hernandez

Marcello Hernandez

American stand-up comedian

Date of Birth: 19 August 1997
Age: 28

Marcello Hernandezis an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Hernandez joined the cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live as a featured player before the start of the show's...

Thomas Herndon

Thomas Herndon

Economics at Loyola Marymount University

Thomas Herndon(born 1985) is an assistant professor of economics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who became known for critiquing "Growth in a Time of Debt", a widely cited academic pape...

Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera

Venezuelan American fashion designer

Date of Birth: 8 January 1939
Age: 87

Carolina Herrerais a Venezuelan American fashion designer. Known for her personal style, she founded her namesake brand in 1980. Herrera has dressed various First Ladies of the United States, includin...

Juan Herrera-jimenez

Juan Herrera-jimenez

Actor

Date of Birth: 30 July 1948
Age: 77

Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez, commonly known asJean Reno, is a French and Spanish actor. He established himself as a leading man of French cinema through his collaborations with director Luc Besson, ...

Peter Herweck

Peter Herweck

CEO, Aveva

Peter Herweckjoined AVEVA as Chief Executive Officer in May 2021 from Schneider Electric, where he led their global Industrial Automation Business and was Vice Chairman of the AVEVA Board of Directors...

Seth Herzog

Seth Herzog

American comedian

Seth G. Herzogis an American comedian. Besides being active in New York City performing comedy, Herzog was the subject of the short film Zog's Place. He has also had small roles in such films as Safe ...

Neil Heslop

Neil Heslop

Chief Executive of The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)

Neil Heslophas a distinguished career in both business and the charitable sector. He joined the Charities Aid Foundation as Chief Executive in October 2020 from the international disability charity Le...

Francis Hester

Francis Hester

Owner and CEO of the The Phoenix Partnership

Francis Xavier James HesterOBE (born April 1966) is a British businessman, and the founder, owner and CEO of software company The Phoenix Partnership. He is the largest ever donor to the Conservative ...

Stephen Hester

Stephen Hester

International businessman and chairman of Nordea Bank

Date of Birth: 14 December 1960
Age: 65

Sir Stephen Alan Michael Hesteris an international businessman and former banker. He is chairman of Nordea Bank and easyJet, and former chief executive officer (CEO) of RSA Insurance Group, of the RBS...

James Hetfield

James Hetfield

American musician

Date of Birth: 3 August 1963
Age: 62

James Alan Hetfieldis an American musician who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder and main songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica. He is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing...

Rachel Hewitt

Rachel Hewitt

Member of the Campaign for Mainstream Universities (MillionPlus)

Rachel Hewittis member of the Campaign for Mainstream Universities (MillionPlus) and a writer and lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University. Hewitt attended the University of Oxford (BA and...

Patricia Hewitt

Patricia Hewitt

British government adviser

Date of Birth: 2 December 1948
Age: 77

Dame Patricia Hope Hewittis a British government adviser and former politician, who was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, she had previously been the S...

Danni Hewson

Danni Hewson

Financial analyst, AJ Bell

For three yearsDanni Hewsonwas the voice of Business on BBC Radio 5 Live. She regularly presented the station’s flagship business programme Wake Up To Money and was heard across the network, demystify...

Jon Heyman

Jon Heyman

American baseball columnist for the New York Post

Date of Birth: 7 February 1961
Age: 65

Jon Heymanis an American baseball columnist for the New York Post, a baseball insider for MLB Network and WFAN Radio and co-host with Joel Sherman of the baseball podcast The Show. Heyman has also app...

David Heyman

David Heyman

British film producer

Date of Birth: 26 July 1961
Age: 64

David Jonathan Heymanis a British film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. Heyman is best known as the producer of all eight installments of the Harry Potter film series, which are based on a se...

Thomas Hiddleston

Thomas Hiddleston

English actor

Date of Birth: 9 February 1981
Age: 45

Thomas William Hiddlestonis an English actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with Thor in 2011 and most recently in the Disney+ series Lo...

Indriatti Van Hien

Indriatti Van Hien

Portfolio Manager of UK equities at Janus Henderson Investors

Indriatti van Hienis Portfolio Manager of UK equities at Janus Henderson Investors, a position she has held since 2016. Indriatti joined Henderson in 2011 as a UK equity analyst. Prior to Henderson, s...