List of Famous people named Henri
Henri Chopin
Henri Chopin was an avant-garde poet and musician.
Henri Lutz
Henri Estienne
Henri Estienne also known as Henricus Stephanus, was a 16th-century Parisian printer. Born in Paris in 1460 or 1470, he is the son of Geoffroy d'Estienne and Laure de Montolivet. His brother Raimond d'Estienne became the heir of the Estienne family, while Henri was disinherited by his father in 1482 "for having devoted himself to printing", the profession of printer then being the cause of losing your title. Estienne established the Estienne printing firm in 1502 from his wife's deceased husband's Higman Press. After his death in 1520, his wife married his colleague Simon de Colines who took control of the Estienne Press until his son Robert Estienne assumed control of the press in 1526.
Henri Lucien Doucet
Henri Lucien Doucet was a French figure and portrait painter and pastellist, born in Paris.
Henri Murger
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger, was a French novelist and poet.
Henri Fontaine
Henri Goovaerts
Henri Florimond Goovaerts was a Dutch painter. He was the son of a house painter and had to help his father at a young age with painting ornaments on ceilings. Soon he began to paint on canvas.
Henri van Abbe
Henri Jacob van Abbe was a Dutch tobacco industrialist and art collector. He is the founder of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Henri Baels
Henri Louis Baels, was a Belgian Catholic Party politician, and ship-owner from Ostend.
Henri Focillon
Henri Focillon was a French art historian. He was the son of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. He was Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Professor of Art History at the University of Lyon, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the Sorbonne, at the Collège de France and then in the United States, where he went into exile and taught at Yale University. A poet, printmaker, and teacher, Focillon trained generations of art historians including George Kubler. He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.