Harry (given name)
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| Gender | Male |
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| Origin | |
| Word/name | Medieval English form of Henry (name) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Henry, Hank, Harold, Harvey, Harris, Harrison, Harriet, Harriete, Haris (Greek), Charis (Greek), Harilaos (Greek), Charilaos (Greek), Häräy, Gäräy (Tatar), Hari (Hindi), Harri (Finnish/Afrikaans), Theoharry, Theoharis (Greek), Theocharis (Greek) |
Harry is a male given name, the Middle English form of Henry.[1] It is also a diminutive form of Harold, Harrison or Harvey.[2]
Harry may refer to:
People[]
- Harry Akst (1894-1963), American songwriter
- Harry Altham (1888–1965), English cricketer
- Harry Anderson, American actor, writer, director and magician
- Harry Andrews (1911–1989), English film actor
- Harry Atkinson (1831–1892), tenth Premier of New Zealand
- Harry B. Smith (1860–1936), writer, lyricist, and composer
- Harry Bateman (1882–1946), English mathematician
- Harry Bateman (artist) (1896–1976), English landscape painter
- Harry Bass (disambiguation)
- Harry Belafonte (born 1927), American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist
- Harry Blackmun (1908–1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Harry Bong (1905–1987), Swedish Navy officer
- Harry Boykoff (1922–2001), American basketball player
- Harry Brewis (born 1991), English YouTube personality
- Harry Browne (1933–2006), American writer, politician, and investment analyst
- Harry Chapin (1942-1981), American folk singer-songwriter and philanthropist
- Harry Choates (1922–1951), American fiddler
- Harry Cothliff (1916–1976), English footballer
- Harry Crider (born 1999), American football player
- 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 Eisenstat (1915–2003), Major League Baseball player
- 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 Gideonse (1901–1985), American President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
- Harry Goonatilake (1929–2008), 5th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Harry Grindell Matthews, English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s
- Harry Gwala (1920-1995), South African African National Congress and Communist Party of South Africa revolutionary
- Harry Harris (boxer) (1880–1959), American world champion bantamweight
- Harry Hollins (1932–1989), American politician
- Harry Houdini (1874–1926), American escapologist and stunt performer born Erik Weisz
- Harry Kane (born 1993), English footballer
- Harry Kinnard, American general officer, one of the principal commanders of Pleiku Campaign
- Harry Krakow (1910–1991), birth name of King Levinsky, American heavyweight boxer
- Harry Lewis (boxer) (1886–1956), American world champion welterweight born Harry Besterman
- Harry Maguire (born 1993), English footballer
- Harry Michael (born 1992), Australian rapper and songwriter, known professionally as Masked Wolf
- Harry Ord (1819–1885), British colonial administrator
- 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 Bauer Rodrigues, American electronic music producer known as Baauer
- Harry Roque (born 1966), Filipino lawyer and former law professor
- Harry Shum Jr. (born 1982), Costa Rican-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer
- Harry Styles (born 1994), British singer, songwriter, actor as well as member of the boy band One Direction.
- Harry Stafford (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Alan Towers (1920–2009), British-born radio and independent film producer and screenwriter
- 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 Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
- H. J. Sterling (Harry John Sterling; 1882–1959), Canadian ice hockey administrator
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984), second son of the Prince of Wales and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II
Fictional characters[]
- Harry, a main character in Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
- Harry, a dog from the Playhouse Disney animated show Stanley
- Harry Potter, the title character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
- Sheriff Harry S. Truman, a character in the American television series Twin Peaks
- 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 Lyme (Joe Pesci), an antagonist in the Home Alone series
- Harry Solomon, a character on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Harry Fisher, a former character in the BBC drama Waterloo Road
- Harry Coleman, a character in the 2003 film Freaky Friday
- Harry Bailey, George Bailey's younger brother in the movie It's A Wonderful Life
- Harry Haller, the protagonist in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
- Sir Harry Pearce, a character in the BBC spy drama Spooks
- Sir Harry Paget Flashman, main and eponymous character in the "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser
- Harry Mason, protagonist in the 1999 survival horror video game Silent Hill.
- Harry Sullivan, a companion to Tom Baker's Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who
- Harry Dresden, the title character Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series, The Dresden Files and in The Dresden Files (TV series)
- 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 the Duck, a character in the TV series Bear in the Big Blue House
- Harry Hewitt, a character from Coronation Street
- Harry Osborn, a character from Spider-Man
- Harry Sultenfuss, a character 1991 and 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama movies My Girl and My Girl 2 played by Dan Aykroyd
- Harry Wells, a character from the Arrowverse franchise
- Harry Keogh, the main character in Brian Lumley's series of horror novels, Necroscope
References[]
- ^ "Harry". Behind the Name. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
- ^ Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992), Werner Winter and Richard A. Rhodes (ed.), A Badaga-English Dictionary, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, vol. 8, Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8, OCLC 25963917, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
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