# 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 1925), 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 (1929–2024), 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