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Henry Hall

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5722470 ↗
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Henry Hall may refer to:

Politics and government

Henry Hall (MP), in 1601 MP for City of York

Henry Charles Hall (1883–1962), Canadian politician

Henry Clay Hall (1860–1936), attorney and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission appointed by President Wilson

Lyall Hall (Henry Lyall Hall, 1861–1935), member of the West Australian parliament

Entertainment

Henry Hall (bandleader) (1898–1989), British bandleader

Henry Hall (actor) (1876–1954), American actor, including in The Secret Witness

Henry Hunter Hall (born 1997), American actor

Henry Richard Hall (1920–1999), American actor better known as Huntz Hall

Arts and literature

Henry Hall (poet) (died 1707), English poet and composer

Henry Robinson Hall (1859–1927), British painter

Henry Bryan Hall (1808–1884), English stipple engraver and portrait painter

Academia

Henry Hall (physicist) (1928–2015), British physicist

Henry Hall (Egyptologist) (1873–1930), British Egyptologist

Henry Usher Hall (1876–1944), American anthropologist

Henry F. Hall (1897–1971), Canadian academic administrator at Sir George Williams University

Sports

Henry Hall (cricketer, born 1810) (1810–1864), Yorkshire cricketer

Henry Hall (Somerset cricketer) (1857–1934)

Henry Hall (skier) (1893-1986), American ski jumper

Henry Hall (British boxer) (1922–1979), British boxer

Henry Hall (American boxer) (1922-2016), American boxer

Henry Hall (footballer) (born 1945), Scottish former football player and manager

Henry Snow Hall Jr.

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