He or HE may refer to:

Language

He (letter) He is the fifth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician ''hē'' 𐤄, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew ''hē'' , Aramaic alphabet, Aramaic ''hē'' 𐡄, Syriac alphabet, Syriac ''hē'' ܗ, and Arabic ...

, the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads *

He (pronoun) In Modern English, ''he'' is a singular, masculine, third-person pronoun. Morphology In Standard Modern English, ''he'' has four shapes representing five distinct word forms: * ''he'': the nominative (subjective) form * ''him'': the ...

, a pronoun in Modern English * He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) *

Ge (Cyrillic) Ge, ghe, or he (Г г; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Most commonly, it represents the voiced velar plosive , like the in "gift", or the voiced glottal fricative , like the in "heft". It is generally romanized using t ...

, a Cyrillic letter called ''He'' in Ukrainian *

Hebrew language Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language unti ...

(ISO 639-1 language code: he)

Places

He County He County or Hexian () is a county in the east of Anhui Province, China, under the jurisdiction of Ma'anshan. It has a population of 650,000 and an area of . The government of He County is located in Liyang Town. History From 1965 to 2011, He Co ...

, Anhui, China * He River, or Hejiang (贺江), a tributary of the Xi River in Guangxi and Guangdong *

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

, abbreviated as ''HE'', a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation HE) *

Hessen Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Da ...

, 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 Chin ...

, Chinese surname, sometimes transcribed Hé or Ho; includes a list of notable individuals so named *

Zheng He Zheng He (also romanized Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese eunuch, admiral and diplomat from the early Ming dynasty, who is often regarded as the greatest admiral in History of China, Chinese history. Born into a Muslims, Muslim famil ...

(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 Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel '' Ship of Fools'' was the best-selling novel in the United States that y ...

* ''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 * '' HE...'', a 2011 film

Food

* Hé (Chinese pastry)

Acronyms

His Eminence His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. 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 address in ...

, a religious title * His or Her

Excellency Excellency is an honorific style (manner of address), style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency", the holder ...

, a political title

Science

Hektoen enteric agar Hektoen enteric agar (HEK, HE or HEA) is a selective and differential agar primarily used to recover '' Salmonella'' and '' Shigella'' from patient specimens. HEA contains indicators of lactose fermentation and hydrogen sulfide production; as we ...

, used in microbiology to identify certain organisms *

Helium Helium (from ) is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, inert gas, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is ...

, symbol He, a chemical element *

Hemagglutinin esterase Hemagglutinin esterase (HEs) is a glycoprotein that certain enveloped viruses possess and use as an invading mechanism. HEs helps in the attachment and destruction of certain sialic acid receptors that are found on the host cell surface. V ...

, 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, or HEIAP

Other uses

* Heathrow Express, an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington * Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (in aircraft model prefixes) * Higher education * Hurricane Electric, a global Internet service provider * He, the middle ranking threat level for abnormalities in the Korean video game ''Lobotomy Corporation''