Humphry is a masculine

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and surname. It comes from the

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name Hunfrid, which means "friend of the hun". The name may refer to:

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Humphry Berkeley Humphry John Berkeley (21 February 192614 November 1994) was a British politician and author. He was noted for his three changes of parties and his early support for gay rights. He is also remembered for a series of hoax letters he sent as fi ...

(1926–1994), British politician * Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), British botanist and chemist *

Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for t ...

(1778–1829), British scientist * Humphry Ditton (1675–1715), British mathematician * Humphry Garratt (1898–1974), British cricket player * Humphry Knipe (born 1941), South African writer *

Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth, (14 March 1888 – 16 October 1962) was a British peer and police officer. Legge was the youngest son of the William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth. During the First World War, he served as a commander with ...

(1888–1962), British police officer *

Humphry Marshall Humphry Marshall (October 10, 1722 – November 5, 1801) was an American botanist and plant dealer. Biography Humphry Marshall was born at Derbydown Homestead in the village of Marshallton, Pennsylvania (within West Bradford Township) on Octo ...

(1722–1801), American botanist *

Humphry Morice Humphry Morice may refer to: * Humphry Morice (Governor of the Bank of England) (c. 1671 – 1731), British merchant * Humphry Morice (MP for Launceston) Humphry Morice (1723 – 18 October 1785) was a Whig Member of Parliament for the Cornish ...

(1671–1731), British banker *

Humphry Osmond Humphry Fortescue Osmond (1 July 1917 – 6 February 2004) was an English psychiatrist who expatriated to Canada, then moved to work in the United States. He is known for inventing the word ''psychedelic'' and for his research into interesting a ...

(1917–2004), British psychiatrist *

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

(1752–1818), British landscape designer *

Humphry Rolleston Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, (21 June 1862 – 23 September 1944) was a prominent English physician. Rolleston was the son of George Rolleston (Linacre Professor of Physiology at Oxford) and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy an ...

(1862–1944), British physician *

Thomas Humphry Ward Thomas Humphry Ward (9 November 1845 – 6 May 1926) was an English author and journalist, (usually writing as Humphry Ward) but best known as the husband of the author Mary Augusta Ward, who wrote under the name Mrs. Humphry Ward. Life He wa ...

(1845–1926), British writer * Humphry William Woolrych (1795–1871), British lawyer and writer

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* C.E. Humphry (1854–1925), British journalist *

Derek Humphry Derek Humphry (born 29 April 1930) is a British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolv ...

(born 1930), American writer * George Humphry (1816–1867), British cricketer *

George Murray Humphry Sir George Murray Humphry, FRS (18 July 1820 – 24 September 1896) was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer. Life He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of Wi ...

(1820–1896), British doctor and writer *

Jay Humphry Jay (James Clarke)"1963 North American, U.S., and Canadian Champions", ''Skating'' magazine, May 1963 Humphry (born July 28, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian former figure skater who competed in men's singles. He won the gold m ...

(born 1948), Canadian figure skater *

Ozias Humphry Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed ''P ...

(1742–1810), British painter *

William Gilson Humphry William Gilson Humphry (1815–1886) was an English clergyman and academic. Life Humphry was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, on 30 January 1815, son of William Wood Humphry, barrister-at-law, and brother of George Murray Humphry. Humphry was educated a ...

(1815–1886), British clergyman

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Humphry Clinker ''The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'' was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. It is an epis ...

, fictional character in the novel ''The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'' by Tobias Smollett

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