Horn (surname)
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Horn is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Alan F. Horn
    Alan F. Horn
    Alan F. Horn is the President & COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Horn also sits on the board of directors of Univision.Prior to Warner Bros., Horn served in various positions at 20th Century Fox and at Norman Lear's television production company, Tandem Productions...

  • Alfred Horn
    Alfred Horn
    Alfred Horn was an American mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming.Horn was born on...

     (1918–2001), American mathematician
    • Horn clause
      Horn clause
      In mathematical logic, a Horn clause is a clause with at most one positive literal. They are named after the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951...

       is a term in formal logic named after him
  • Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn
    Trader Horn
    Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn was an ivory trader in central Africa. He wrote a book, Trader Horn: A Young Man's Astounding Adventures in 19th-Century Equatorial Africa , detailing his journeys into jungles teeming with buffalo, gorillas, man-eating leopards, serpents and "savages"...

    , an African trader during the Scramble for Africa
    Scramble for Africa
    The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa or Partition of Africa was a process of invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and World War I in 1914...

  • Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn
    Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn
    Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn was a German physician who was a native of Braunschweig. In 1797 he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen, and later worked as a physician at the clinical institute in Braunschweig...

     (1774-1848), German physician
  • Blair Horn
    Blair Horn
    Blair Horn is a former Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He was also a graduate of Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, British Columbia.-References:*...

    , Canadian rower
  • Bob Horn (broadcaster)
  • Bruce Horn
    Bruce Horn
    Bruce Lawrence Horn was a programmer with Apple Computer and the creator of the Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the Macintosh 128K....

  • Carl Graf von Horn
    Carl von Horn
    Carl Graf von Horn was a Bavarian Colonel General and War Minister from April 4, 1905 to February 16, 1912. He was born in Würzburg and died in Munich., House of the Bavarian history...

     (1847–1923), Bavarian general and War Minister
  • Carl Carlsson von Horn (1903–1989), Swedish general
  • Charles Edward Horn
    Charles Edward Horn
    Charles Edward Horn was an English composer and singer. He was born in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London to Charles Frederick Horn and his wife, Diana Dupont. He was the eldest of their seven children. His father taught him music; he also took music lessons briefly in 1808 from singer Venanzio...

     (1786-1849), English composer
  • Cody Horn
    Cody Horn
    Cody Horn is an American actress and model, and the daughter of entertainment executive Alan F. Horn. She has appeared on Rescue Me and guest starred on 3 episodes of The Office. She also played Lynetta Loski in the 2010 movie Flipped.- Film :- Television :-External links:...

  • Corran Horn, character in Star Wars
    Star Wars
    Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...

     franchise
  • Dave van Horn
    Dave van Horn
    Dave Van Horn is the current head baseball coach of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, which plays its home games in recently renovated Baum Stadium...

  • Dimitris Horn
    Dimitris Horn
    Dimitris Horn was a Greek theatrical and film performer. He is regarded probably as the greatest Greek actor of modern times.-Biography:...

     (1921-1998), famous Greek actor
  • Don Horn
    Don Horn
    Donald Glenn Horn is a former National Football League quarterback. He was a first round pick All American out of San Diego State University by the Green Bay Packers, but his NFL career was less impressive because he only threw for 3,369 yards and 20 touchdowns in 8 seasons...

  • Frederik Winkel Horn
    Frederik Winkel Horn
    Frederik Winkel Horn , was a Danish historian and translator. Original archaeologist.-Works:* Mennesket i forhistorisk tid, 1874 * Nordiske heltesagaer, 1876...

     (1845–1898), Danish writer and translator
  • Frederik Winkel-Horn
    Frederik Winkel-Horn
    Frederik Winkel-Horn, born Frederik Horn , Danish writer.From 1812 he called himself Winkel-Horn.-Works:* Verdensalt, 1834* Min aandige Skjerv, 1837...

     (1756–1837), Danish writer
  • Gabriel Horn
    Gabriel Horn
    Sir Gabriel Horn, FRS is a British biologist. His research is into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.He was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol, 1974–77, then Professor of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1978–95 . He was Master of Sidney Sussex...

  • George Henry Horn
    George Henry Horn
    George Henry Horn was a U.S. entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born in Philadelphia, Horn attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1861...

     (1840–1897), U.S. entomologist
  • Greg Horn
    Greg Horn
    Greg Horn is an American comic book artist best known for his work as a cover artist for Marvel Comics and various other publications. Working primarily as a digital painter, he is well known for his pinup paintings of female characters...

  • Guildo Horn
    Guildo Horn
    Guildo Horn He is mainly famous for his eccentric stage persona, which includes outrageous clothes and very extroverted antics.At the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, he came in 7th with the title "Guildo hat euch lieb!" ....

  • Gustav Horn, Count of Björneborg
  • Gyula Horn
    Gyula Horn
    Gyula Horn is a Hungarian politician and the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, from 1994–1998....

    , Prime Minister of Hungary from 1994–1998
  • Hans Horn
    Hans Horn
    Hans Horn is a Norwegian Nordic skier who shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1918 with Jørgen Hansen.-References:* - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file...

  • Jeremy Horn
    Jeremy Horn
    Jeremy Graham Horn is an American mixed martial artist. He is one of the most experienced fighters in the sport with a professional record of 88–21–5...

  • Jim Horn
    Jim Horn
    Jim Horn is an American saxophonist and woodwind player. He was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio...

  • Joan Kelly Horn
    Joan Kelly Horn
    Joan Kelly Horn is an American politician from Missouri. She served one term in the United States House of Representatives representing Missouri's 2nd congressional district in suburban St. Louis. She is a Democrat....

  • Joe Horn
    Joe Horn
    Joseph Horn is a retired American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and also played for the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons...

  • Joseph M. Horn
    Joseph M. Horn
    Joseph M. Horn is an American psychology professor known for his work on adoption studies.Horn received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and currently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include intelligence and personality and their development,...

  • Julian Horn-Smith
    Julian Horn-Smith
    Sir Julian Horn-Smith is a British businessman who is a member of the boards of a number of international corporations. He was formally Deputy Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc until July 2006....

  • Kaniehtiio Horn
    Kaniehtiio Horn
    Kaniehtiio Horn is a Mohawk actress. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role in the television film Moccasin Flats: Redemption...

    , actress
  • Karl Friedrich Horn (1762-1830), English composer
  • Keith Van Horn
    Keith Van Horn
    Keith Adam Van Horn is a retired American professional basketball player. The 6-foot-10, 240-pound forward graduated from Diamond Bar High School in Diamond Bar, California and attended the University of Utah where he went on to be a consensus First Team All-American in 1997...

  • Lawrence Horn
    Lawrence Horn
    Lawrence Horn is a musician, formerly a record producer and chief recording engineer for Motown Records. He is currently serving a life sentence for hiring a hit man to commit a triple-murder....

  • Michael 'J' Horn
    Michael 'J' Horn
    Michael 'J' Horn is an American pop singer formerly of the boyband "Natural". He also acts, writes plays, and teaches.-Early life:...

     a musician and musical director
  • Michelle Horn
    Michelle Horn
    Michelle Horn is an American actress known for her work in the TV shows Strong Medicine and Family Law. Horn is also known for her voiceover work in Disney's Lion King 2: Simba's Pride as the lion cub Kiara. Her voice can be heard in Lion King-related merchandise such as software, plushes, toys...

  • Michiel Horn
    Michiel Horn
    Michiel Steven Daniel Horn is a Canadian professor and historian.His family migrated to Canada in 1952, settling in Victoria, British Columbia.He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia, and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto...

  • Mike Horn
    Mike Horn
    Mike Horn is a South-African born Swiss explorer and adventurer. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa he currently resides in Château d'Oex, Switzerland.Mike Horn became famous in 2000 after completing a solo journey around the equator without motor transport...

  • Milton Horn
    Milton Horn
    Milton Horn is a Russian American sculptor and artist known for work that, according to a 1957 citation of honor from the American Institute of Architects, demonstrated "the truth that architecture and sculpture are not two separate arts but, in the hands of sympathetic collaborators, one and the...

  • Noel Van Horn
    Noel Van Horn
    Noel Van Horn is a comics artist and writer born in the United States and living in Canada. He does mainly Disney comics starring Mickey Mouse. He is the son of William Van Horn, a comics artist as well.-Life and career:...

  • Paul Horn
    Paul Horn (jazz musician)
    Paul Horn is an American jazz flautist, and is considered by some to be a pioneer of New Age music.-Biography:Paul Horn was born in New York City, and began playing the piano at the age of 4 and the saxophone at the age of 12...

     (b. 1930), flautist
  • Dr. Paul Horn
    Paul Horn (computer scientist)
    Dr. Paul M. Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist who has made contributions to pervasive computing, pioneered the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing, and he helped manage the development of deep computing, an important tool that provides business...

    , computer scientist
  • Rebecca Horn
    Rebecca Horn
    Rebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out...

     (b. 1944), German installation artist
  • Roni Horn
    Roni Horn
    Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York...

     (b. 1955), American visual artist and writer
  • Roy Horn (b. 1944), German-American entertainer
  • Rudolf Horn
    Rudolf Horn
    Rudolf Horn is a former Austrian biathlete and cross-country skier.- Cross-country skiing :* 1976:** 8th, Winter Olympics 4 × 10 kilometres relay...

     (b. 1954), Austrian biathlete and cross-country skier
  • Sally P Horn
    Sally P Horn
    Sally P. Horn is a multi award winning professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work in Costa Rica and other tropical regions has been featured in a number of publications, including National Geographic. She has published over 100 articles relating to paleolimnology and biogeography...

    , (b. 1958), geographer
  • Sam Horn
    Sam Horn
    Samuel Lee Horn is a former baseball player who spent parts of 8 seasons in MLB and was an anchor for New England Sports Network, the flagship station of Boston sports teams.-Pro career:...

  • Shifra Horn
    Shifra Horn
    .Shifra Horn is an Israeli author.-Biography:Shifra Horn was born in Tel Aviv. She lives in the Gilo neighbourhood of Jerusalem. After majoring in Bible Studies and Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she earned an MA in Bible Studies...

  • Shirley Horn
    Shirley Horn
    Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist.-Biography:Encouraged by her grandmother, who was an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. At twelve, Horn studied piano and composition at Howard University and later majored from there in classical music...

  • Siegfried Horn
    Siegfried Horn
    Siegfried Herbert Horn was a Seventh-day Adventist archaeologist and Bible scholar. He is perhaps best known for his numerous books and articles and for his excavations at Tell Hesban in Jordan. He was Professor of History of Antiquity at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary in Berrien...

    , archaeologist and Bible scholar
  • Steve Horn, university president and U.S. Congressman
  • Taylor Horn
    Taylor Horn
    Taylor Ashley Horn is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress from Kentwood, Louisiana. She now goes by the stage name of Princess Bambi Monroe....

  • Ted Horn
    Ted Horn
    Ted Horn , born Eylard Theodore Von Horn, was an American race car driver. He won the AAA National Championship in 1946, 1947 and 1948 and collected 24 wins, 12 second-place finishes and 13 third-place finishes in 71 major American open-wheel races prior to his death at the DuQuoin State...

  • Tom Horn
    Tom Horn
    Thomas "Tom" Horn, Jr. was an American Old West lawman, scout, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw and assassin. On the day before his 43rd birthday, he was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of Willie Nickell.-Early life:Born to Thomas S. Horn, Sr...

  • Tor Egil Moxness Horn
    Tor Egil Moxness Horn
    Tor Egil Moxness Horn is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper who played his entire professional career for Norwegian team FK Bodø/Glimt....

  • Trevor Horn
    Trevor Horn
    Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

     (b. 1949), British musician
  • Wade F. Horn
    Wade F. Horn
    Wade F. Horn is an American psychologist who received unanimous confirmation in 2001 as the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families. Before his resignation on April 1, 2007, he oversaw the function of the Administration For Children and Families, an agency within the United States...

  • Welby Van Horn
    Welby Van Horn
    Welby Van Horn is a retired American professional tennis player who later went on to have a career as a major tennis coach.As a 19-year-old player, Van Horn reached the finals of the 1939 U.S. Nationals only to lose to Bobby Riggs in just 56 minutes...

  • William Van Horn
    William Van Horn
    William Van Horn has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. He draws mostly Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the animated series DuckTales...


Other

  • Philip de Montmorency, Count of Ho(o)rn (1518-1568), a leader of the nobility in the Low Countries in the conflict escalating into the Eighty Years War
  • Horn of Kankas
    Horn of Kankas
    The Kankas noble family, otherwise known as Horn, is a noble family from Finland of medieval frälse.Its first known member, Olof Mattsson, was documented between 1381 and 1415, having a seat in Halikko, near the present town of Salo. His seal featured the figure of a drinking horn. The family...

    , a family in Finland and Sweden
    • Count Arvid Horn
      Arvid Horn
      Count Arvid Bernhard Horn of Ekebyholm was a Swedish soldier, diplomat and politician. He served twice as President of the Privy Council Chancellery and was one of the leading figures of the Swedish Age of Liberty.- Soldier and diplomat :He was born Arvid Bernhard Horn in Vuorentaka ,...

       (1664–1742), Swedish statesman
    • Evert Horn
      Evert Horn
      Evert Horn was a Swedish soldier. He was born in Haapsalu. He was appointed Governor of Narva in 1613, and Field Marshal in 1614. He was killed by a bullet during the early days of the Swedish siege of Pskov....

       (1585-1615), soldier
    • Count Gustaf Horn (1592–1657), commander of the Swedish forces in the Thirty Years' War
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