American forester who trained at Yale University before being employed in the Philippines by the Bureau of Forestry, Manila (1906-1913). He later worked in South America before returning to the United States as a forester. From 1929 until the second World War he was appointed Professor of Tropical Forestry at the Agricultural College, Laguna in Luzon. After surviving internment by the Japanese at Los Baños during the war, he emigrated to South America as a forestry consultant in Venezuela. H.M. Curran is commemorated by the Philippine genera Currania Copel. and Curraniodendron Merr.