Hal (given name)

Hal is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Harold, Henry or Harvey, and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

People

 * Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director
 * Hal Barwood, American game designer
 * Hal Bidlack (born 1958), former USAF officer
 * Hal Blaine (Harold Simon Belsky; 1929–2019), American drummer
 * Hal Clement (1922–2003), American author and artist
 * Hal Clements, American actor
 * Hal Colebatch, Australian politician
 * Hal Colebatch (author) (1945–2019), Australian author
 * Hal Cruttenden, English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor
 * Hal Daub (born 1941), American politician
 * Hal David (1921–2012), American lyricist
 * Hal Davis (1933–1998), American songwriter
 * Hal Dixon (biochemist) (1928–2008), Irish biochemist
 * Hal Duncan (born 1971), Scottish writer
 * Hal Geer (1916–2017), American film producer
 * Hal Gibney (1911–1973), American broadcast announcer
 * Hal Gill (born 1975), American ice hockey player
 * Hal Goldsmith (1930–2004), American fencer
 * Hal Gurnee (born 1935), American TV director
 * Hal Halvorsen, military officer
 * Hal Helgeson (1931–2007), American geochemist
 * Hal Holbrook (1925–2021), American actor
 * Hal Hunter (disambiguation)
 * Hal Ketchum (1953–2020), American singer
 * Hal Linden (born 1931), American actor
 * Hal Lindsey (born 1929), American evangelist
 * Hal Mayforth, American cartoonist and artist
 * Hal McRae (born 1945), American baseball player
 * Hal Moore (1922–2017), U.S. Army general
 * Hal Moore (wrestler) (1923–2003), American
 * Hal Needham (1931–2013), American stunt performer
 * Hal Newhouser (1921–1998), American baseball pitcher
 * Hal Porter (1911–1984), Australian novelist
 * Hal Prewitt (born 1954), American racing driver
 * Hal Prince (1928–2019), American theatrical producer
 * Hal Roach (1892–1992), American film producer
 * Hal Roach (comedian) (1927–2012), Irish
 * Hal Robson-Kanu (born 1989), Welsh footballer
 * Hal Rogers (born 1937), American politician
 * Hal Singer (1919–2020), American musician
 * Hal Smith (disambiguation)
 * Hal Sparks (born 1969), American actor
 * Hal Steinbrenner (born 1969), American businessman
 * Hal Sutton (born 1958), American golfer
 * Hal B. Wallis (1898–1986), American film producer
 * Hal Williams (born 1938), American actor
 * Hal Willis (ice hockey) (born 1946), Canadian
 * Hal Willis (singer) (1933–2015), Canadian
 * Hal Willis, pseudonym of English writer Charles Robert Forrester (1803–1850)
 * Jean Ven Robert Hal (born 1970), Italian composer

Fictional characters

 * Prince Hal, later Henry V of England
 * HAL 9000, a computer in Arthur C. Clarke's fiction
 * Dr. Hal Emmerich (Otacon), Metal Gear video games
 * Hal Hunt, in children's novels
 * Hal Incandenza, in the novel Infinite Jest
 * Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), in DC Comics
 * Hal Willis, in the 87th Precinct series
 * Hal Yorke, in UK TV series Being Human
 * Hal (A Series of Unfortunate Events), in the film
 * Hal the Dog, in Nature Cat
 * Hal Stewart, in Megamind
 * Hal Turner, in 24 (TV series)
 * Hal, a green boomerang toucan bird in the Angry Birds franchise
 * Hal, in the cartoon Dot.
 * Hal, a cockroach in WALL-E
 * Hal, a minor character in the novel series Warriors
 * Hal, a character from the video game Minecraft Dungeons
 * Hal, father character in Malcolm in the Middle played by Bryan Cranston
 * Hal, a fictional character from the animated film Wish
 * Samurai Hal, a character in the British comic book series MPH
 * Lil Hal, an auto-responder from the webcomic Homestuck