Harry (given name)

{{Not to be confused|Harry (surname)}} {{Infobox name | name = Harry | image = File:HarryTruman.jpg | caption = Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, official portrait by Greta Kempton, {{circa|1945}} | pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|æ|r|.|i}} | gender = Masculine | region = | origin = Medieval English form of Henry (name) | related names = Henry, Hendrick, Hennie, Hendrie, Henrique, Hen, Heinrich, Henderson, Han, Hank, Henk, Hendrik, Harold, Hereweald, Haraldr, Harald, Hagrold, Harvey, Harris, Harrison, Harriet, Harriete, Harolda, Éibhear (Irish), Arioald, Chariovalda, Häräy (Tatar), Gäräy (Tatar), Hari (Hindi), Harri (Finnish/Afrikaans), Heinrich (Old Germanic) Harchibald | meaning = Ruler (Old English), War God (Norse), Army Commander (Old Germanic) | footnotes = }}

'''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".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=harry |year=2007 |accessdate=2007-05-15 |title=Harry |work=Behind the Name}}</ref> The Norwegian term "harry" is derived from the name.<ref>Kalvø, Are: ''Harry''. Det Norske Samlaget. ISBN 82-521-5419-0</ref>

==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 * {{anbl|Harry C. Claiborne}} * 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

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