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.

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 Allen (executioner) (1911–1992), British executioner
  • 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 Baals (1886–1954) American mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • 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
  • 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 Davies-Carr (born 2006?), main subject of viral video Charlie Bit My Finger
  • Harry Dias Bandaranaike (1822–1901), first Sinhala and first indigenous Puisne Justice and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
  • Harry Diddlebock (1854–1900), American sportswriter and Major League Baseball manager
  • Harry Edward (1898–1973), British runner
  • Harry Eisenstat (1915–2003), Major League Baseball player
  • Harry Enfield (born 1961), English comedian, actor, writer and director
  • 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 Jowsey (born 1997), Australian television personality
  • 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 Scarff (born 1993), English professional boxer
  • 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 Thurston (born 1950), Canadian writer and journalist
  • 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 Twite (born 2005), Bermudian footballer
  • 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

  • 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 Duckworth, a barman who serves beer, from the sitcom series Yanks Go Home, portrayed by David Ross
  • 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 Hutchins, a caretaker that works for the Lancastrian Insurance Company, from the sitcom series Leave it to Charlie, portrayed by David Ross
  • 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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