{{short description|Tennis players}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Hugo Hardy | image = | alt = | caption = | fullname = Hugo James Hardy | residence = | birth_date = 16 October 1877 | birth_place = Hamburg, Germany<ref>''Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901''</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|10|8|1877|10|16|df=y}} | death_place = Berlin, Germany | height = | weight = | college = | turnedpro = | retired = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | tennishofyear = | tennishofid = }}

'''Hugo James Hardy''' (16 October 1877 &ndash; 8 October 1936) was a German tennis player and jurist. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, where he was the only non-American competitor.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/hugo-hardy-1.html |title=Hugo Hardy Olympic Results |accessdate=27 January 2014 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201225713/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/hugo-hardy-1.html |archivedate=1 February 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/145 |title=Hugo Hardy |work=Olympedia |access-date=21 February 2021}}</ref>

A lawyer, Hardy was on the board of an early version of the ''Deutschen Reichsausschuß für Olympische Spiele'' (DRA), a predecessor to the German Olympic Committee that oversaw sports in the Weimar Republic.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Court|first1=Jürgen|title=Deutsche Sportwissenschaft in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus. Band 2|date=2014|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=9783643125583|page=34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c68eAwAAQBAJ&q=Olympischen+Spielen+1904+der+deutsche+Hugo+Hardy&pg=PA34|accessdate=24 July 2017|language=de}}</ref>

Hardy was born in Hamburg, the son of banker James Nathan Hardy and Helena Ida Noemie Cahn.<ref>''Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901''</ref>

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