Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948 in Tokaj, Hungary) is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[1] and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

His research interests are in computer graphics, particularly rendering algorithms, hardware, virtual environments, telepresence systems, and applications in medicine.

[3] Fuchs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to computer graphics hardware and algorithms.

Fuchs started his career as a programmer and consultant at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and as an engineer and consultant at the Image Processing Laboratory of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the California Institute of Technology.

In 2018 Henry Fuchs received an Honorary Doctorate from TU Wien.