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Habrecht, Isaac (clockmaker)
Hadrian (Roman emperor)
Haghe, Louis (artist)
Haldi (Urartian god)
Hamilton, Lady Emma
Hamilton, Sir William (British Envoy)
Hammurapi (king of Babylonia)
Han Xiang (Chinese immortal)
Hanabusa Itchō (artist)
Handaka Sonja (disciple of Buddha)
Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
Haozous, Bob (artist)
Hapy (son of Horus)
Hara Zaichū (artist)
Harache, Pierre (goldsmith)
Harihara (Hindu god)
Hariti (Buddhist goddess)
Harpokrates (Horus the child)
Hartung, Hans (artist)
Harun al-Rashid (cAbasid caliph of Baghdad)
Hashiguchi Goyō (artist)
Hastings, Sir Warren (Governor General of India)
Hata Zōroku (bronzeworker)
Hathor (Egyptian goddess)
Hatshepsut (king of Egypt)
Haydon, Benjamin Robert (artist)
Hayter, Stanley William (artist)
Heckel, Erich (artist)
Heh (Egyptian god)
Hekate (Greek goddess)
Helen of Troy
Helena (Christian saint)
Helios (Greek god)
Henrietta Maria (queen of great Britain and Ireland)
Henry (earl of Northumberland)
Henry I (king of England)
Henry II (king of England)
Henry III (king of England)
Henry IV (king of England)
Henry of Blois (bishop of Winchester)
Henry VII (king of England)
Henutmehyt (Theban priestess and tomb-owner)
Hephaistos (Greek god)
Hera (Greek goddess)
Heraclius (Byzantine emperor)
Herakles (Greek hero)
Hermes (Greek god)
Herod ('the Great', king of Judea)
Herodotus (Greek historian)
Hesperides (daughters of Hesperus)
Hetepheres (Egyptian woman, wife of Katep)
Heyden, Pieter van der (artist)
Hieron I (king of Syracuse)
Hilliard, Nicholas (artist)
Hine Taizan (artist)
Hinenuitepo (Maori goddess)
Hippocrates (Greek physician)
Hippolyta (queen of the Amazons)
Hirakawa Seizō (artist)
Hirasawa Byōzan (artist)
Hirst, Damien (artist)
Hishikawa Moronobu (artist)
Hitchcock, Alfred (film director)
Ho Chi Minh (Vietnamese statesman)
Hoa Hakananai'a (Easter Island ancestor)
Hockney, David (artist)
Hodges, William (artist)
Hoffman, Josef (architect, designer)
Hogarth, D.G. (archaeologist)
Hogarth, William (artist)
Hōjitsu (netsuke carver)
Holbein 'the Younger', Hans (artist)
Hollar, Wenceslaus (artist)
Homer (Greek poet)
Hon'ami Kōetsu (artist)
Honorius (Roman emperor)
Hopper, Edward (artist)
Hor (priest of Montu and tomb-owner)
Horemheb (king of Egypt)
Hormizd I (king of the Sassanian empire)
Hormizd IV (king of the Sassanian empire)
Hornedjitef (priest of Amun and tomb-owner)
Horus (Egyptian god)
Hose, Charles (colonial administrator, collector and ethnographer)
Hoshi Jōichi (artist)
Hosoda Eishi (artist)
Hosokawa Hanzō Yorinao (author, inventor and mathematician)
Hotei (Shintō god)
Hound Painter (vase painter)
Houshiary, Shirazeh (artist)
Howard, Thomas (earl of Arundel)
Hu Zhengyan (artist)
Hubert (Christian saint)
Hughes, Arthur (artist)
Huizong (emperor of China)
Hull Grundy, Anne (collector)
Humayun (Mughal emperor of India)
Hunefer (Egyptian royal scribe)
Hunt, William Henry (artist)
Hunt, William Holman (artist)
Husam al-Din Yuluk Arslan (Artuqid ruler)
Husayn I (Safavid sultan)
Huvishka (king of the Kushan dynasty)
Huwawa (mythical demon)
Hyder Ali (ruler of Mysore)
Hygieia (Greek god)
Hypnos (Greek god)
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