| La Jill Hunt | | |
| Leigh Hunt | English critic, essayist, poe… | 1784–1859 |
| Mark Hunt | New Zealand kickboxer and mix… | 1974 |
| Samantha Hunt | American novelist | 1971 |
| Tristram Hunt | British historian and ex-poli… | 1974 |
| David Hunter | Union Army general | 1802–1886 |
| Erin Hunter | | |
| Madeline Hunter | American novelist | 1952 |
| Norman Hunter | author | 1899–1995 |
| Robert Hunter | American musician | 1941–2019 |
| Sam Hunter | American art historian | 1923–2014 |
| Henry of Huntingdon | English historian | 1080–1160 |
| Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon | British countess | 1707–1791 |
| Frederic Dan Huntington | American bishop | 1819–1904 |
| Samuel P. Huntington | American political scientist | 1927–2008 |
| Hồ Xuân Hương | Vietnamese poet | 1772–1822 |
| Douglas Hurd | British Conservative politici… | 1930 |
| Mark Hurd | American businessman, philant… | 1957–2019 |
| James Hurdis | British academic | 1763–1801 |
| Andrew Hurley | American musician | 1980 |
| Kameron Hurley | American writer | 1980 |
| Hannah Hurnard | British writer | 1905–1990 |
| Tom Hurndall | British activist | 1981–2004 |
| Al Hurricane | American singer-songwriter | 1936–2017 |
| Tim Hurson | Creativity theorist, author a… | 1946 |
| Fannie Hurst | novelist | 1889–1968 |
| Zora Neale Hurston | American folklorist, novelist… | 1891–1960 |
| Jakob Hurt | Estonian linguist | 1839–1907 |
| Robert Hurt | Virginia politician | 1969 |
| Leonid Hurwicz | Russian-American economist an… | 1917–2008 |
| Jan Hus | Czech linguist, religion writ… | 1369–1415 |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraqi politician and President | 1937–2006 |
| Edmund Husserl | German philosopher, known as … | 1859–1938 |
| Chuck Hustmyre | American journalist | 1963 |
| Charlie Huston | writer | 1968 |
| Warner Todd Huston | | |
| Siri Hustvedt | novelist, essayist, poet | 1955 |
| Halyna Hutchins | Ukrainian-American cinematogr… | 1979–2021 |
| Robert Maynard Hutchins | philosopher and university pr… | 1899–1977 |
| Anne Hutchinson | participant in the Antinomian… | 1591–1643 |
| Andrew Hutchison | Canadian bishops | 1938 |
| Kay Bailey Hutchison | American politician | 1943 |
| Jacob Hutter | Tyrolean Anabaptist leader an… | 1500–1536 |
| James Hutton | Scottish geologist and physic… | 1726–1797 |
| Richard Holt Hutton | English journalist | 1826–1897 |
| Aldous Huxley | English writer | 1894–1963 |
| Andrew Huxley | English physiologist and biop… | 1917–2012 |
| Elspeth Huxley | Kenyan writer | 1907–1997 |
| Julian Huxley | English biologist, philosophe… | 1887–1975 |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | English biologist and compara… | 1825–1895 |
| Christiaan Huygens | Dutch mathematician and natur… | 1629–1695 |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | French novelist and art critic | 1848–1907 |
| David Henry Hwang | Playwright | 1957 |
| Yi Hwang | Korean Confucianism scholar | 1501–1570 |
| Bill Hybels | American writer | 1951 |
| Bessie Hyde | | 1905 |
| Catherine Ryan Hyde | American writer | 1955 |
| Lewis Hyde | American writer | 1945 |
| Orson Hyde | American Mormon leader | 1805–1878 |
| Georgie Hyde-Lees | Wife of Yeats | 1892–1968 |
| Qurratulain Hyder | Urdu author | 1927–2007 |
| Kim Hye-ja | South Korean actress | 1941 |
| Lee Hyeon-seo | North Korean defector | 1980 |
| Stanley Edgar Hyman | American literary critic | 1918–1970 |
| Stephen the Hymnographer | Byzantine hymnographer and sa… | 725–802 |
| Chrissie Hynde | Rock singer-songwriter and fo… | 1951 |
| Kim Hyon-hui | former North Korean agent | 1962 |
| Mikko Hyppönen | Finnish computer security exp… | 1969 |