Henry (surname)

Henry is an English and French male given name and an Irish and French^[1]^[2] surname, borrowed from Old French, originally of Germanic origin (Haimirich) from the elements haim ("‘home’") and ric ("‘powerful’"). Equivalents in other languages are Anraí (Irish), Eanruig (Scots Gaelic), Enrico (Italian), Enrique (Spanish), Heinrich (German), Henning (Swedish), Henri (Modern French), Henrik (Hungarian and Scandinavian), Henrique (Portuguese), Henryk (Polish), (H)enric (Occitan surname^[3]), Hendrik (Dutch), and Genrikh (Russian), among others.[1]

Arts

Chad Henry (born 1946), American musical theatre composer
Charles Henry (librarian) (1859–1926), French librarian and editor
Clarence "Frogman" Henry (born 1937), American rhythm and blues singer
David Eugene Henry (born 1946), American painter and sculptor
Dorothy Henry (1925-2020), American artist and cartoonist
Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), American genre painter
François-Louis Henry (1786–1855), French opera singer
George Henry (painter) (1858–1943), Scottish painter (1880s to 1910s)
Jim Henry (singer) (born 1964), bass singer in barbershop quartets
Lenny Henry (born 1958), British comedian
Michel Henry (1922–2002), French continental philosopher
Mike Henry, (born 1964), American writer, producer, voice actor, and comedian
O. Henry [pen name] (1862–1910), American writer
Pierre Henry (born 1927), French composer
Robert Henri (1865–1929), American painter
Teuira Henry (1847–1915), Tahitian ethnologist
Victor Henry (1850–1907), French philologist

Clergy

Caleb Sprague Henry (1804–1884), American clergyman
Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003), American theologian
Harold William Henry (1909–1976), American-born Catholic archbishop in South Korea
Matthew Henry (1662–1714), English divine
Philip Henry (clergyman) (1631–1696), English clergyman

Inventors and scientists

Benjamin Tyler Henry (1821–1898), American inventor of the Henry rifle
Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), American inventor; nicknamed "Lady Edison"
Etienne Ossian Henry (1798–1873), French chemist
George Morrison Reid Henry (1891–1983), entomologist and ornithologist
Joseph Henry (1797–1878), American physicist
Paul Henry and Prosper Henry (1848–1905), French astronomers
Warren Elliot Henry (1909–2001), American physicist

Journalism

Alan Henry, Lifehacker staff writer

Politics

Albert Henry (politician), (1907–81), Premier of the Cook Islands
Brad Henry (born 1963), Governor of Oklahoma
Cameron Henry (born 1974), Louisiana politician
Douglas Henry (1926–2017), American politician
Edward Stevens Henry (1836-1921), American politician
Émile Henry (anarchist) (1872–1894), French anarchist
Geoffrey Henry, (1940–2012), Premier of the Cook Islands
George Stewart Henry, (1871–1958) Canadian politician
Hubert-Joseph Henry, French soldier involved in the Dreyfus Affair
Patrick Henry (1736–1799), American politician
Robert Harlan Henry (born 1953), American judge and Oklahoma politician, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Robert L. Henry (1864–1931), American politician
Stuart Henry (born 1946), Australian politician

Sports

Alan Henry, British motorsports journalist
Beau Henry, Australian rugby league footballer
Bernard Henry (born 1960), American football player
Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player
Chris Henry (wide receiver) (1983–2009), American football player
Derrick Henry (born 1994), American football player
Frank Henry (cricketer) (dates unknown), cricketer
Gordon Henry (footballer) (1930–2007), Scottish footballer
Graham Henry (born 1946), New Zealand rugby union coach
Hunter Henry (born 1994), American football player
Jim Henry (equestrian) (born 1947), Canadian Olympic equestrian
John Henry (catcher) (1889–1941), American baseball player
Malik Henry (born 1998), American football player
Mark Henry (born 1971), American professional wrestler
Matt Henry (cricketer) (born 1991), New Zealand cricketer
Mike Henry, (born 1936), American football player and actor
Mitchell Henry (American football) (1992–2017), American football player
Neil Henry, Australian rugby league football coach
Robert Henry (bowls), New Zealand lawn bowler
Sek Henry (born 1987), American-Jamaican professional basketball player, 2018 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
Thierry Henry (born 1977), French footballer
Tommy Henry (born 1969), American football player
Travis Henry (born 1978), American football player
Triston Henry (born 1993), Canadian soccer player
Xavier Henry (born 1991), American basketball player

Other

Buck Henry (1930–2020), American actor
Edward Henry (1850–1931), London police commissioner
Gloria Henry (born 1923), American actress
Philip Henry, 4th and 5th Earl Stanhope
Robert Henry (1718–1790), Scottish historian and minister
Robert L. Henry, Jr. (1882–?), American professor of law
Ken Henry (public servant), Australian economist
Robert Selph Henry (1889–1970), American lawyer, railroad executive and historian
S. M. I. Henry (1839–1900), American evangelist, temperance reformer, poet, author

Disambiguation

Alexander Henry (disambiguation) several people
Charles Henry (disambiguation), several people
David Henry (disambiguation), several people
Frederick Henry (disambiguation), several people
Jim Henry (disambiguation), several people
John Henry (disambiguation), several people and a renowned Thoroughbred racehorse
Marcus Henry (disambiguation), multiple people
Paul Henry (disambiguation), several people
William Henry (disambiguation), several people

References

^ Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 324b.
^ Repartition of the surname Henry in France
^ Dauzat 324b

External links

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[1] Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 324b.

[2] Repartition of the surname Henry in France

[3] Dauzat 324b

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