Harry (given name)

Harry is a male given name of English, Norse and Germanic origin. Beginning as a Middle English form of Henry and a diminutive form of Harold, Harrison or Harvey, it eventually came into use as its own name and is the 721st most popular boys name as of 2021.

People

 * 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 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 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 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 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
 * Henry Cort Harold Carpenter (1875–1940), British metallurgist and specialist on steels
 * 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 Dias Bandaranaike (1822-1901), first Sinhala and first indigenous Puisne Justice and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
 * Harry Edward (1898–1973), British runner
 * Harry Eisenstat (1915–2003), Major League Baseball player
 * Harry Enfield (born 1961), English comedian, actor, writer and director
 * Henry Enfield (1849-1923), English cricketer
 * 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 Harris (boxer) (1880–1959), American world champion bantamweight
 * Harry Harrison (writer) (1925–2012), American science fiction author
 * 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 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 (politician) (1902-1981), American politician
 * 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 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 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 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 Dean Stanton (1926–2017), American actor, musician, and singer
 * Harry Styles (born 1994), British singer, songwriter, actor as well as member of the boy band One Direction.
 * Harry Stafford (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Harry Sugiyama (born 1985), Japanese television personality and model
 * Harry Swartz (born 1996), American soccer player
 * Harry Taylor (disambiguation), multiple people
 * 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 Vickers (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Harry Warner (1881–1958), American cartoonist and one of the founders of Warner Brothers
 * Harry Weese (1915–1998), American architect
 * Harry Wolff (booking agent) (1890–1934), booking agent for theater and vaudeville performers in the early 20th century
 * Harry Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Harry Winks (born 1993) English footballer
 * Harry Winston (1896–1978), American jeweler
 * H. J. Sterling (Harry John Sterling; 1882–1959), Canadian ice hockey administrator
 * Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984), second son of King Charles III of the United Kingdom
 * Harry F. Stimpson Jr., (Harry Farnum Stimpson Junior, 1913–2005), American lawyer and ambassador

Fictional characters

 * Harry, a main character in Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
 * Harry Potter, the title character in Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
 * Sheriff Harry S. Truman, a character in the American television series Twin Peaks
 * Dr. Harry Bertram, a character in the 1989 American science-fiction drama movie Beyond the Stars
 * Harry Black, in Mark Millar's and Greg Capullo's comic book series Reborn
 * 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
 * Harry Hart, a character in the Kingsman film series
 * 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
 * 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 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 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 Watling, a character from Inside Man, played by David Tennant
 * Harry Wells, a character from the Arrowverse franchise
 * Harry Keogh, the main character in Brian Lumley's series of horror novels, Necroscope
 * Henry's cousin in Henry Hugglemonster