Henry Allen may refer to:
- Henry Allen (journalist), Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winner
- Henry Allen (theologian) (1748–1784), Christian hymnwriter
- Henry Allen (Mayor of Gloucester) (1815–1893), mayor of Gloucester, England, 1873
- Henry Dixon Allen (1854–1924), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- Henry Justin Allen (1868–1950), Governor of Kansas
- Henry Tureman Allen (1859–1930), Alaskan explorer and military leader
- Red Allen (Henry Allen, 1906–1967), jazz trumpeter
- Henry Watkins Allen (1820–1866), American soldier and politician
- Henry Allen (footballer) (born 1896), English footballer
- Henry George Allen (1815–1908), British Member of Parliament for Pembroke, 1880–1885, and Pembroke and Haverfordwest, 1885–1886
- Henry C. Allen (1872–1942), American Republican Party politician in New Jersey
- Henry Edgarton Allen (born 1864), Canadian politician and merchant
- Henry Wilson Allen (1912–1991), American author and screenwriter
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“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)