Harry (given name)

Harry is a male given name. Beginning as a Middle English form of Henry, in the modern era it became a diminutive for several names beginning with "Har". The Norwegian term " harry" is derived from the name.Kalvø, Are: ''Harry''. Det Norske Samlaget. ISBN 82-521-5419-0

People

Single name

* Dirty Harry (musician) (born 1982), British rock singer who has also used the stage name Harry
* Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984), second son of King Charles III of the United Kingdom

By surname

* Harry Akst (1894–1963), American songwriter
* Harry Allen (designer) (born 1964), American industrial and interior designer
* Harry Allen (musician) (born 1966), American jazz tenor saxophonist
* Harry Altham (1888–1965), English cricketer
* Harry Anderson (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Andersson (1913–1996), Swedish football striker
* Harry Andrews (1911–1989), English film actor
* Harry Angping (born 1952), Filipino politician
* Harry Arter (born 1989), professional footballer
* Harry Atkinson (1831–1892), tenth Premier of New Zealand
* Harry Bateman (1882–1946), English mathematician
* Harry Bateman (artist) (1896–1976), English landscape painter
* Harry Baweja (born 1956), Indian film director and producer
* Harry Bass (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Beck (1902–1974), English technical draughtsman
* Harry Beck (footballer) (1901–1979), English footballer
* Harry Belafonte (1927–2023), American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist
* Harry L. Billings (1913-1990), American journalist and civil rights advocate
* Harry Birtwistle (born 2003), Singaporean professional footballer
* Harry Blackmun (1908–1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Harry Boland (1887–1922), Irish republican politician
* Harry Bong (1905–1987), Swedish Navy officer
* Harry Boykoff (1922–2001), American basketball player
* Harry Bresslau (1848–1926), German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments
* Harry Brewis (born 1991), English YouTube personality
* Harry Brook (born 1999), English international cricketer
* Harry Browne (1933–2006), American writer, politician, and investment analyst
* Harry E. Burke (1878–1963), American forest entomologist
* Harry Bush (American cricketer) (born 1989), American first-class cricketer
* Harry Bush (English cricketer) (1871–1942), English first-class cricketer
* Harry F Byrd (1887 - 1966) American Newspaper publisher and politician
* Harry F Byrd, Jr (1914 - 2013), American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician
* Harry Callahan (photographer) (1912–1999), American photographer and educator
* Harry Caray (1914–1998), American radio and television sportscaster
* Harry Carey (actor) (1878–1947), American actor
* Harry Carpenter (1925–2010), British BBC sports commentator
* Harry Carpenter (bishop) (1901–1993), English bishop and theologian
* Harry Carpenter (priest), Anglican priest
* Henry Cort Harold Carpenter (1875–1940), British metallurgist and specialist on steels
* Harry Chapin (1942-1981), American folk singer-songwriter and philanthropist
* Harry Choates (1922–1951), American fiddler
* Harry Clarke (1889–1931), Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator
* Harry Clarke (footballer, born 2001) (born 2001), English professional footballer
* Harry Cole (journalist) (born 1986), British journalist
* Harry Connick Jr. (born 1967), American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host
* Harry Cothliff (1916–1976), English footballer
* Harry Crider (born 1999), American football player
* Harry Corbett (1918–1989), English magician, puppeteer and television presenter
* Harry H. Corbett (1925–1982), English actor and comedian
* Harry Crosbie (fl. 1990's - 2020's), Irish property developer
* Harry Crosby (1898–1929), American heir, World War I veteran, bon vivant, poet, and publisher
* Harry Crosby (businessman) (born 1958), American investment banker and former actor
* Harry Daghlian (1921–1945), American physicist
* Harry Danford (born 1939), Canadian politician
* Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball All-Star catcher
* Harry Davenport (1866–1949), American actor
* Harry Dias Bandaranaike (1822-1901), first Sinhala and first indigenous Puisne Justice and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
* Harry Edward (1898–1973), British runner
* Harry Eisenstat (1915–2003), Major League Baseball player
* Harry Enfield (born 1961), English comedian, actor, writer and director
* Henry Enfield (1849-1923), English cricketer
* Harry Enten (born 1988), American journalist
* Harry Eriksson (1892–1957), Swedish diplomat
* Harry Feldman (1919–1962), Major League Baseball pitcher
* Harry Wickwire Foster, senior Canadian Army officer who commanded two Canadian divisions during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Aleutian Islands campaign and Operation Cottage
* Harry Fox (1882–1959), American vaudeville dancer, actor and comedian born Arthur Carringford
* Harry Frankfurt (1929–2023), American philosopher
* Harrison Garside (born 1997), Australian boxer
* Harry Geithner (born 1976), Colombian actor, film director and producer
* Harry Gesner (1925–2022), American architect
* Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), American President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
* Harry Giles (basketball) (born 1998), American professional basketball player
* Harry Giles (footballer) (1911–1986), Australian rules footballer
* Harry Gilmer (1926–2016), American football halfback and quarterback
* Harry Goodsir (1819–c. 1848), Scottish physician and naturalist
* Harry Goonatilake (1929–2008), 5th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
* Harry Gottsacker (born 1999), American racing driver
* Harry Grant (cyclist) (1906-1993), British racing cyclist
* Harry Grant (footballer) (born 1993), English footballer
* Harry Grant (racing driver) (1877–1915), American auto racing driver
* Harry Grant (rugby league) (born 1998), Australian professional rugby league footballer
* Harry Gration (1950–2022), English journalist and broadcaster
* Harry Gregg (1932–2020), Northern Irish professional footballer and manager
* Harry Gregson-Williams (born 1961), British composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer
* Harry Grindell Matthews, English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s
* Harry Groener (born 1951), German-born American actor and dancer
* Harry Guardino (1925–1995), American actor
* Harry Gurney (born 1986), English cricketer
* Harry Gwala (1920-1995), South African African National Congress and Communist Party of South Africa revolutionary
* Harry Gyles (1880–1959), Australian rules footballer
* Harry Haldeman (1926 - 1993), American politician and businessman
* Harry Harris (boxer) (1880–1959), American world champion bantamweight
* Harry Harrison (writer) (1925–2012), American science fiction author
* Harry Heaney, British chemist
* Harry Hill (born 1964), British comedian - also known as Matthew Keith Hall
* Harry Hollins (1932–1989), American politician
* Harry Houdini (1874–1926), American escapologist and stunt performer born Erik Weisz
* Harry Hughes (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Jerome (1940–1982), Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher
* Harry Kalas (1936-2009), American sportscaster
* Harry Kane (born 1993), English footballer
* Harry Kewell (born 1978), Australian association football coach, manager and former player
* Harry King (cricketer) (1881-1947), English cricketer
* Harry King (footballer) (1886-1968), English footballer
* Harry King (racing driver) (born 2001), English racing driver
* Harry Kinnard, American general officer, one of the principal commanders of Pleiku campaign
* Harry Knowles (born 1971), American film critic and writer
* Harry Krakow (1910–1991), birth name of King Levinsky, American heavyweight boxer
* Harold Walter Kroto, known as Harry Kroto (1939–2016), English chemist
* Harry Landis (1926–2022), British actor and director
* Harry Richard Landis (1899–2008), American First World War veteran
* Harry Langdon (1884–1944), American comedian
* Harry Lauder (1870–1950), Scottish singer and comedian
* Harry Lawtey (born 1996), English actor
* Harry Lennix (born 1964), American actor
* Harry Lewis (boxer) (1886–1956), American world champion welterweight born Harry Besterman
* Harry Litman, American lawyer, law professor and political commentator
* Harry Lloyd (born 1983), English actor
* Harry Lorraine (American actor) (1873–1935), American silent film actor
* Harry Lorraine (English actor) (1885–1970), actor in English silent films
* Harry Lorayne (1926–2023), American magician
* Harry Luff (1856–1916), American Major League Baseball player
* Harry Maguire (born 1993), English footballer
* Harry Manser (1874–1955), justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
* Harry Michael (born 1992), Australian rapper and songwriter, known professionally as Masked Wolf
* Harry Clive Minnett (1917–2003), Australian physicist and radio engineer
* Harry Morgan (1915–2011), American actor
* Harry S. Morgan (1945–2011), German director and producer of pornographic movies
* Harry Mosby (1945–1993), Australian Paralympic athlete from the Torres Strait
* Sir Harry Burrard Neale, British officer of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for Lymington
* Harry Ord (1819–1885), British colonial administrator
* Harry Pace (1884–1943), American music publisher and insurance executive
* Harry Partch (1901–1974), American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments
* Harry Patch (1898–2009), English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War from any country
* Harry Paulet, British sailor
* Harry Peglar (1812 – c. 1849), English seaman
* Harry Pollitt (1890-1960), British communist politician, former General Secretary of the CPGB
* Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), British general, one of the principal commanders of Third Anglo-Burmese War
* Harry Redknapp (born 1947), English footballer and manager
* Harry Reems (1947–2013), American pornographic film actor
* Harry Reid (1939–2021), American politician
* Harry Roque (born 1966), Filipino lawyer and former law professor
* Harry Sacksioni (born 1950), composer and guitar virtuoso of Dutch origin
* Herschel Saltzman, known as Harry Saltzman (1915–1994), Canadian theatre and film producer
* Harry Secombe (1921–2001), Welsh comedian, actor, singer and television presenter
* Harry Seidler (1923–2006), Austrian-born Australian architect
* Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947), American retail magnate
* Harry Sheezel (born 2004), Australian rules footballer
* Harry Shum (born 1966), Chinese computer scientist
* Harry Shum Jr. (born 1982), Costa Rican-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer
* Harry Thomas Silcock (1882–1969), English Quaker missionary
* Harry Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Souttar (born 1998), professional footballer
* Harry Stafford (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Dean Stanton (1926–2017), American actor, musician, and singer
* H. J. Sterling (Harry John Sterling; 1882–1959), Canadian ice hockey administrator
* Harry F. Stimpson Jr., (Harry Farnum Stimpson Junior, 1913–2005), American lawyer and ambassador
* Harry Styles (born 1994), British singer, songwriter, actor as well as member of the boy band One Direction
* Harry Sugiyama (born 1985), Japanese television personality and model
* Harry Swartz (born 1996), American soccer player
* Harry Taylor (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Alan Towers (1920–2009), British-born radio and independent film producer and screenwriter
* Harry Traver (1877-1961), American roller coaster and amusement ride engineer
* Harry Treadaway (born 1984), English actor
* Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), 33rd President of the United States
* Harry Vickers (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Warner (1881–1958), American cartoonist and one of the founders of Warner Brothers
* Harry Washington (American football) (born 1956) American football player
* Harry Weese (1915–1998), American architect
* Harry Weld-Forester (born 1981), Scottish cricketer
* Harry Wolff (booking agent) (1890–1934), booking agent for theater and vaudeville performers in the early 20th century
* Harry Woolf (1923 - 2003), American educator and historian
* Harry Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Winks (born 1993) English footballer
* Harry Winston (1896–1978), American jeweler

Fictional characters

* Dirty Harry, eponymous character from the 70s and 80s played by Clint Eastwood
* Harry, a main character in '' Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs''
* Harry, Henry's cousin in Henry Hugglemonster
* Harry, one of the main characters in the Playhouse Disney animated television series '' Stanley''
* Harry the Hobo, a character played by Bilal Shahid in the British web series '' Corner Shop Show''
* Harry the Horse, a character in the Broadway Musical '' Guys and Dolls''
* Harry Bailey, George Bailey's younger brother in the movie '' It's A Wonderful Life''
* Dr. Harry Bertram, a character in the 1989 American science-fiction drama movie '' Beyond the Stars''
* Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood's character in the '' Dirty Harry'' film series
* Harry Callahan, a minor character in Diane Duane's ''Young Wizards'' series
* Harry Coleman, a character in the 2003 film ''Freaky Friday''
* Harry Dresden, the title character Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series, '' The Dresden Files''
* Harry Fisher, a former character in the BBC drama '' Waterloo Road''
* Sir Harry Paget Flashman, main and eponymous character in the "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser
* Harry Haller, the protagonist in Hermann Hesse's '' Steppenwolf''
* Harry Hart, a character in the ''Kingsman'' film series
* Harry Hewitt, a character from Coronation Street
*Harry Hooperman, LAPD Detective from TV show '' Hooperman''
* Harry Keogh, the main character in Brian Lumley's series of horror novels, '' Necroscope''
* Harry Leland, a Marvel Comics villain
* Harry Lyme ( Joe Pesci), an antagonist in the ''Home Alone'' series
* Harry Mason, protagonist in the 1999 survival horror video game '' Silent Hill''
* Harry Osborn, a character from Spider-Man
* Sir Harry Pearce, a character in the BBC spy drama ''Spooks''
* Harry Potter, the title character in ''Harry Potter'' series by J. K. Rowling
* Harry Solomon, a character on the sitcom '' 3rd Rock from the Sun''
* Judge Harold "Harry" T. Stone in the TV series '' Night Court''
* Harry Sullivan, a companion to Tom Baker's Doctor in the British television series ''Doctor Who''
* Harry Sultenfuss, a character 1991 and 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama movies '' My Girl'' and '' My Girl 2'' played by Dan Aykroyd
* Sheriff Harry S. Truman, a character in the American television series ''Twin Peaks''
* Harry Watling, a character from Inside Man, played by David Tennant
*Harry Weiss, a character from the 1981 musical satire film '' Shock Treatment''
* Harry Wells, a character from the Arrowverse franchise

References

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