Henry Elinson (1935-2010) – painter, graphic artist, teacher. Member of the Nonconformist Artists group.

Studied at the Alexander Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad (1954–57). Took up art independently and began to show signs of a professional approach (1956). Graduated from the Novgorod Pedagogical Institute (1958) and the Vladimir Lenin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (1963).
Worked as a speech therapist with mentally handicapped children (1961–73).
Emigrated to the United States (1973), where he worked as a liftman at Yale University and a teacher of Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey.
Contributed to private apartment exhibitions (from early 1960s) and official exhibitions (from 1974), including Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02).