He or HE may refer to:

Language

* He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ *

He (letter) He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Hē , Hebrew Hē , Aramaic Hē , Syriac Hē , and Arabic . Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative (). The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon Ε ...

, the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets *

He (Cyrillic) Ge or Ghe (Г г; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is also known in some languages as He. It commonly represents the voiced velar plosive , like in "gift". It is generally romanized using the Latin letter G, but to roma ...

, a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in Ukrainian * Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 code: he)

Places

* He County, Anhui, China * He River, or Hejiang (贺江), a tributary of the Xi River in Guangxi and Guangdong * Hebei, abbreviated as ''HE'', a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation HE) * Hesse, abbreviated as ''HE'', a state of Germany

People

He (surname) He or Ho is the Romanization, romanized transliteration of several Chinese family names. According to a 2012 survey, 14 million people had Hé (wiktionary:何, 何) listed as their surname, making it the 17th most common surname in Mainland China ...

, Chinese surname, sometimes transcribed Hé or Ho; includes a list of notable individuals so named * Zheng He (1371–1433), Chinese admiral * He (和) and He (合), collectively known as 和合二仙 ('' He-He er xian'', "Two immortals He"), two Taoist immortals known as the "Immortals of Harmony and Unity" * Immortal Woman He, or He Xiangu, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism

Arts, entertainment, and media

* "He" (short story), a 1926 short story by H. P. Lovecraft * "He", a 1927 short story by Katherine Anne Porter * ''He'' (film), a 2012 Irish film * "He" (song), a 1955 Christian song written by Jack Richards and Richard Mullan * "He", a song by Jars of Clay from the 1995 album Jars of Clay (album) * ''He'', a novel by John Connolly about Stan Laurel

Acronyms

His Eminence His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. or H.E. or HE) is a style (manner of address), style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts. Catholicism The style remains in use as the official style or standard form of a ...

, a religious title * His or Her Excellency, a political title

Science

* Hektoen enteric agar, used in microbiology to identify certain organisms * Helium, symbol He, a chemical element * Hemagglutinin esterase, a viral protein * Hematoxylin and eosin stain, a popular staining method in histology * Hepatic encephalopathy * High explosive *Holocene Era or Human Era, the year count system of the Holocene calendar ** Holocene Epoch, its rough equivalent * Homomorphic encryption

Military

* High-explosive anti-tank, or HEAT * High-explosive incendiary, or HEI *

High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition (HEIAP) is a form of shell which combines armor-piercing capability and a high-explosive effect. In this respect it is a modern version of an armor-piercing shell. The ammunition may also be cal ...

, or HEIAP

Other uses

* Heathrow Express, an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington *

Heinkel Heinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with ...

Flugzeugwerke (in aircraft model prefixes) * Higher education * Hurricane Electric, a global Internet service provider