Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name
Henry
Henry may refer to:
People
*Henry (given name)
*Henry (surname)
* Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry
Royalty
* Portuguese royalty
** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal
** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
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People with this given name
; French noblemen
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List of rulers named Henry
There have been many monarchs adopting the name "Henry". Years shown below are the regnal years.
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Byzantine Empire
* Henry of Flanders (1205–1216) (Latin Empire)
Castile
* Henry I of Castile
* Henry II of Castile
* Henry III of Cas ...
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Henri I de Montmorency
Henri I de Montmorency (15 June 1534 in Chantilly, Oise – 2 April 1614), Marshal of France, and Constable of France, seigneur of Damville, served as Governor of Languedoc from 1563 to 1614.
Biography
Born on 15 June 1534, Henri was the son ...
(1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France
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Henri I, Duke of Nemours
Biography
Henri of Savoy (french: Henri de Savoie) (2 November 157210 July 1632), called originally Marquis de Saint-Sorlin, was the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este, the widow of François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise. He succeeded his br ...
(1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este
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Henri II, Duke of Nemours
Henri of Savoy (7 November 1625, Paris – 4 January 1659, Paris) was the seventh Duc de Nemours (1652–59), and was also Count of Geneva.
Henri, as the third son of Henri de Savoie, 4th Duc de Nemours, was not expected to succeed to the dukedo ...
(1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours
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Henri, Count of Harcourt
Henri de Lorraine (20 March 1601 – 25 July 1666, Royaumont Abbey), known as ''Cadet la Perle'', was a French nobleman. He was count of Harcourt, count of Armagnac, count of Brionne and viscount of Marsan. He was the younger son of Charles I, ...
(1601–1666), French nobleman
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Henri, Dauphin of Viennois
Henri Dauphin (or Henri de la Tour du Pin) (1296–1349) was a bishop of Metz, France from 1319 to 1325.
Biography
Henri was the son of Humbert I and Anne of Burgundy. In 1318 he succeeded as regent to the Dauphiné of Viennois, on behalf of ...
(1296–1349), bishop of Metz
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Henri de Gondi (disambiguation) Henri de Gondi may refer to:
* Henri de Gondi (cardinal)
Henri de Gondi (1572 – 13 August 1622) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Gondi family. He was the son of Albert de Gondi, duc de Retz and Claude Catherine de Clermont-Tonnerre. ...
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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (''titular'' Duke of Bouillon, ''jure uxoris'', ''comte de Montfort et Negrepelisse, vicomte de Turenne, Castillon, et Lanquais'') (28 September 1555 – 25 March 1623) was a member of the powerful (then Huguenot) House ...
(1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne
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Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau
Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857-1923) was a French alpinist and sportsman who took part in the first ascent of the Meije. After his career as an alpinist he competed as an amateur cyclist.
Biography
Boileau de Castelnau was ...
(1857–1923), French mountain climber
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Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri (french: Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume, ; born 16 April 1955) is the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He has reigned since 7 October 2000. Henri, the eldest son of Grand Duke Jean and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, is a f ...
(born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg
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Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway
Henri de Massue, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway, (9 April 16483 September 1720) was a French Huguenot soldier and diplomat who was influential in the English service in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
Biograp ...
, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders of
Battle of Almansa
The Battle of Almansa took place on 25 April 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession. It was fought between an army loyal to Philip V of Spain, House of Bourbon, Bourbon claimant to the Spanish throne, and one supporting his House of Habs ...
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François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duke of Piney-Luxembourg, commonly known as Luxembourg (8 January 1628 – 4 January 1695), and nicknamed "The Upholsterer of Notre-Dame" (''Le Tapissier de Notre-Dame''), was a French general and Marsh ...
, French general,
marshal of France
Marshal of France (french: Maréchal de France, plural ') is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished (1 ...
, one of the principal commanders of
Battle of Steenkerque
The Battle of Steenkerque, also known as ''Steenkerke'', ''Steenkirk'' or ''Steinkirk'' was fought on 3 August 1692, during the Nine Years' War, near Steenkerque, then part of the Spanish Netherlands but now in modern Belgium A French force ...
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Henri, Prince of Condé (1552–1588)
Henri I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (29 December 1552 – 5 March 1588) was a French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general like his more prominent father, Louis I, Prince of Condé.
Life
Henri was the eldest son of Louis I de Bourbon and Eléanor ...
, French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general
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Henri, Prince of Condé (1588–1646)
Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1 September 1588 – 26 December 1646) was the head of the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon for nearly all his life and heir presumptive to the King of France for the first few years of his li ...
, member of the reigning House of Bourbon
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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne , was a French general and one of only six Marshal of France, Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustr ...
, French Marshal General and one of the principal commanders of
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...
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Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1908–1999), claimant to the throne of France from 1940 until his death
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Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France (born 1933), claimant to the French throne
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Prince Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat (1934-2018), Prince Consort to Queen
Margrethe II of Denmark
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Henri Aalto (born 1989), Finnish footballer
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Henri Anspach (1882–1979), Belgian Olympic champion épée and foil fencer
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Henri Anier (born 1990), Estonian footballer
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Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), French physicist who discovered radioactivity
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Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher
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Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861-1931), French general during World War I
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Henri Bertini, French classical composer and pianist
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Henri Betti
Henri Betti, born Ange Betti (24 July 1917 – 7 July 2005), was a French composer and a pianist.
Pianist and composer of Maurice Chevalier from 1940 to 1945, Henri Betti is best known for composing the music of the songs ''C'est si bon'' (lyric ...
(1917–2005), French composer and pianist
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Henri Beunke (1851–1925), Dutch writer
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Henri Bienvenu (born 1988), Cameroonian footballer
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Henri Bol
Henri Cornelis Bol (10 January 1945 – 10 July 2000) was a Dutch still life painter, whose work was noted for its realism and ''trompe-l'œil'' technique.
Life and career
Bol was born and raised in Eindhoven as the eldest son of painter Kees ...
(1945–2000), Dutch still life painter
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Henri Cappetta, French ichthyologist
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Henri Cartan
Henri Paul Cartan (; 8 July 1904 – 13 August 2008) was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
He was the son of the mathematician Élie Cartan, nephew of mathematician Anna Cartan, oldest brother of co ...
(1904–2008), French mathematician
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism
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Henri Casadesus (1879–1947), French violist and music publisher
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Henri Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist and naturalist
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Henri Coandă (1886–1972), Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft
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Henri Cohen (water polo) (died 1930), Belgian water polo Olympic silver medalist
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Henri Cordier (1849–1925), French linguist and historian
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Henri Cordier (1856–1877), French mountain climber
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Henri Drell (born 2000), Estonian basketball player
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Henri Dufaux
Henri Dufaux (18 September 1879, Chens-sur-Léman – 25 December 1980, Geneva) was a 101-year-old Swiss painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "sup ...
(1879–1980), Swiss painter
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Henri Duvanel, French Olympic water polo player
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Henri Estienne (16th century), Parisian printer and classical scholar
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Henri Farman (1874–1958), French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer
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Henri-Nicolas Frey, French general, one of the principal commanders of
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement, was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by ...
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Gaselee Expedition and
Battle of Beijing
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Henri Gouraud (1867-1946), French general, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War
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Henri Häkkinen (born 1980), Finnish sport shooter
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Henri Järvelaid (born 1998), Estonian footballer
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Henri Kichka (1926–2020), Belgian writer and
Holocaust survivor
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Henri Kontinen (born 1990), Finnish tennis player
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Henri Krasucki (1924–2003), French trade unionist
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Henri Lansbury (born 1990), English footballer
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Henri Lebesgue (1875–1941), French mathematician
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Henri Leconte (born 1963), French professional tennis player
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Henri Legay (1920–1992), French operatic tenor
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Henri Lehmann (1814–1882), German-born French historical painter and portraitist
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Henri Matisse (1869–1954), French artist
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Henri Menier (1853–1913), French businessman and adventurer
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Henri Messerer
Henri Messerer (19 May 1838 – 5 October 1923) was a French organist and composer. The ''Rue Henri Messerer'' in his hometown of Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the Fr ...
(1838-1923), French organist and music composer
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Henri Moissan (1852–1907), the French winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1906. He worked with
fluorine
Fluorine is a chemical element with the symbol F and atomic number 9. It is the lightest halogen and exists at standard conditions as a highly toxic, pale yellow diatomic gas. As the most electronegative reactive element, it is extremely reacti ...
, and it killed him.
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Henri Nouwen (1932–1996), Dutch Catholic priest, professor and writer
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Henri van Opstal (born 1989), Dutch kickboxer
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Henri Pélissier (1889–1935), French racing cyclist
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Henri Pescarolo (born 1942), French racing driver
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Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The ...
(1854–1912), French mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science
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Henri Rang (1902–1946), Romanian horse rider
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Henri Richard (born 1936), Canadian professional ice hockey player
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Henri Saint Cyr (1902–1979), Swedish military officer and equestrian
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Henri Tasso
Henri Tasso (8 October 1882 – 12 February 1944) was a French Socialist politician. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1935 to 1939. He also served as a member of the National Assembly from 1924 to 1938, and of the Senate from 1938 to 1945 ...
(1882–1944), French politician
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), French painter, printmaker, illustrator
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Henri Toivonen (1956–1986), Finnish rally driver
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Henri Toivomäki (born 1991), Finnish footballer
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Henri Treial
Henri Treial (born 28 May 1992) is an Estonian volleyball player, a member of the Estonia men's national volleyball team and Belgian club Greenyard Maaseik.
Club career
Treial was born in Võru, and started his career in hometown club Valio Võ ...
(born 1992), Estonian volleyball player
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Henri Weber
Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on ...
(1944–2020), French politician
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Henri
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry (given name), Henry.
People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the 'List_of_rulers_named_Henry#France, List of rulers named Henry ...
, cat in the web series ''Henri, le Chat Noir''
;Fictional characters
* Henri, French pigeon in the 1986 film ''
An American Tail''
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Henri, le Chat Noir, existential cat
* Henri, title character of
''Henri'' (2013 film)
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Pepe Henri Le Pew
* Henri Richard Maurice Dutoit LeFevbre, An energetic, rambunctious French boy in the 2002 animated series ''
Liberty's Kids''
Notable people with this surname
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Louie Henri Louie may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Louie'' (American TV series), by comedian Louis C.K.
* ''Louie'' (French TV series), animated series about a young rabbit who draws pictures which come to life
* "Louie" (song), by Blood Raw
* ''L ...
(1864–1947), British singer and actress
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Robert Henri (1865–1929), an American painter
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Victor Henri (1872–1940), a French chemist
See also
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Henry (given name)
Henry is a masculine given name derived from Old French ''Henri'' / ''Henry'', itself derived from the Old Frankish name ''Heimeric'', from Common Germanic ''*Haimarīks'' (from '' *haima-'' "home" and ''*rīk-'' "ruler"). In Old High German, t ...
, an equivalent English given name
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Hurricane Henri (disambiguation)
The name Henri has been used for six tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean:
*Hurricane Henri (1979), took unusual route around Yucatán Peninsula, caused no significant damage
* Tropical Storm Henri (1985), crossed Long Island as a weak storm, ...
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