Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name
Henry.
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 (1601–1666), French nobleman
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Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (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 (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne
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Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (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, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders of
Battle of Almansa
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François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general,
marshal of France, 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), French Prince du Sang and Huguenot general
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Henri, Prince of Condé (1588–1646), member of the reigning House of Bourbon
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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, French Marshal General and one of the principal commanders of
Thirty Years' War
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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
Henri Bienvenu Ntsama (born 5 July 1988) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for French club FC Métropole Troyenne as a striker.
Career
CA Bizertin
Henri Bienvenu began his professional career in the 2006–07 season at Club Athlétique Bi ...
(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
Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as cap ...
(1908–2004), French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism
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Henri Casadesus
Henri-Gustave Casadesus (30 September 1879, Paris – 31 May 1947, Paris) was a violist, viola d'amore player, composer, and music publisher.
Early life
Casadesus received his early musical instruction with Albert Lavignac and studied viola with ...
(1879–1947), French violist and music publisher
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Henri Cassini
Count Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and natural history, naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae).
He was the youngest of five chi ...
(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
Henri Duvanel (7 March 1896 – 21 February 1953) was a French water polo player. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Oly ...
, 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
Henri-Nicolas Frey was a French major general of the Troupes coloniales. He led the French troops at the Battle of Peking in August 1900 where a multinational force ended the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion.
Biography
Henr ...
, 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 ...
,
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
Henri Häkkinen (born 16 June 1980, in Joensuu) is a Finnish sport shooter. He won the bronze medal in Men's 10m air rifle at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was leading with Abhinav Bindra of India until the final shot. Bindra won gold wit ...
(born 1980), Finnish sport shooter
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Henri Järvelaid (born 1998), Estonian footballer
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Henri Kichka
Henri Kichka (14 April 1926 – 25 April 2020) was a Belgian writer and Holocaust survivor who was one of the leading figures in Holocaust education in Belgium. Kichka was the only member of his family to have survived the deportation of Belg ...
(1926–2020), Belgian writer and
Holocaust survivor
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Henri Kontinen (born 1990), Finnish tennis player
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Henri Krasucki
Henri Krasucki (2 September 1924, Wołomin, Poland – 24 January 2003, France) was a French trade-unionist, former secretary general of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) from 1982 to 1992.
Early life
Henri Krasucki's father, Iza ...
(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
Henri Legay (1 July 1920 in Paris – 16 September 1992 in Paris) was a French operatic tenor. He was primarily French-based as his light lyric voice was especially suited to the French operatic repertoire.
Life and career
Legay studied in Bru ...
(1920–1992), French operatic tenor
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Henri Lehmann Henri Lehmann (; 14 April 1814 – 30 March 1882) was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist.
Life
Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo 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
Henri van Opstal (born February 20, 1989) is a Dutch kickboxer who competes in the middleweight division. Van Opstal came to prominence by winning the WMC European Junior Middleweight Championship but found further success competing in Japan, ...
(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
Henri Julius Reverony Saint Cyr (15 March 1902 – 27 July 1979) was a Swedish officer and equestrian. Competing in five consecutive Olympics, he won two gold medals in dressage in 1952, and two gold medals in 1956.
Early life
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
Henri Pauli Toivonen (25 August 1956 – 2 May 1986) was a Finland, Finnish rallying, rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli Toivonen, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Championship, European Rally C ...
(1956–1986), Finnish rally driver
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Henri Toivomäki
Henri Toivomäki (born 21 February 1991) is a Finnish footballer, who plays as a defender for KuPS. He previously played for Sarpsborg 08, FC Lahti, Atalanta, FC Hämeenlinna, AFC Ajax and Almere City FC.
Career
FC Lahti
A product of the FC L ...
(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
Henri, le Chat Noir (; French for "Henry, the Black Cat") is a web series of short films on the existential musings of the cat Henri, written and directed by William Braden. Henri was portrayed by Henry (2003–2020), a male longhair tuxedo ...
, 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
Victor Henri (6 June 1872 – 21 June 1940) was a French-Russian Physical chemistry, physical chemist and physiologist. He was born in Marseilles as a son of Russian parents. He is known mainly as an early pioneer in enzyme kinetics. He publishe ...
(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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