Paul Henry (11 April 1876 - 24 August 1958) was a Northern Irish artist who painted the west of Ireland landscape with a spare post-impressionist style.

Paul Henry was born in Belfast, Ireland, the son of a Baptist minister. He studied art in Belfast before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and at Whistler's studio. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and returned to Ireland in 1910. From then, until 1919, he lived on Achill Island and learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to Connemara. In 1919 he moved to Dublin and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters. He separated from his wife in 1929.

In the 1920s and 1930s Paul Henry was Ireland's best known artist, one who had a considerable influence on the popular image of the west of Ireland. Although he seems to have ceased experimenting with his technique after he left Achill and his range is limited, he created a large body of fine images whose familiarity is a testament to its influence. The National Gallery of Ireland held a major exhibition of his work in 2004.

A painting by Paul Henry was featured on the BBC show, The Antiques Roadshow which was aired on the 12 of November 2006. The painting was given a value of approximately £40,000 - £60,000 by the roadshow. However, due to the buoyancy of the Irish art market, it sold for an astonishing 260,000 euro on 5 December 2006 in James Adams' and Bonhams' joint Important Irish Art sale.

Paul Henry, born 1947 in Birmingham, is a British actor whose best-known role was Benny Hawkins, a bumbling semi-rustic handyman he played from 1975 to 1988 in the soap opera Crossroads.

This led to the name Benny being used as a pejorative slang term to describe anyone of apparent mental slowness, especially by children.

According to newspaper accounts such as Slang ranger (The Sunday Times, October 6 1996) the character gave rise to the pejorative nickname, 'Bennies', applied to locals by British troops serving in the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War in 1982. When ordered not to do this by their commanding officers, the troops took to referring to the islanders as 'Stills', on the grounds that they were 'Still Bennies'.

In 1977, Henry recorded Benny's Theme with the Mayson Glen Orchestra, on Pye Records. He is in character as Benny in the song, but speaks rather than sings.

Henry's post-Crossroads career included minor stage roles and running a nightclub in Whitchurch, Shropshire, but in 1994 he returned to television briefly in a tribute to Crossroads, called "30 years on". In a 2002 interview, Henry declared that the public still love Benny and during a shopping trip, he came back to his car and found a person had left piece of paper on it saying "Benny, we miss you". blank">http://www.crossroadsnetwork.co.uk/society/paulhenry.htm

In 2004 he was returned to acting on TV in an episode of the British hospital series Doctors. He then played a regular character, a delivery man, in the series of the prison drama _Bad Girls currently being shown on ITV1.

Comedian Ronnie Barker later in his life revealed that he had suggested Henry should be cast as the character Lennie Godber opposite him in the sitcom Porridge, but the actor Richard Beckinsale was chosen by the producer instead.

Paul Henry is a New Zealand radio and television broadcaster. He was born in 1960 in Auckland, and in 1971 moved with his mother to Bristol, England, where he finished his education, winning a drama school scholarship.

Paul Henry is an award-winning British poet who was born in Aberystwyth in 1959. He was originally a singer-songwriter.

He attended Alderlea Boys School, Shard End, Birmingham with Jeff Lynne of E.L.O. fame.