Harry

### Caption

Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States of America, official portrait by Greta Kempton, c. 1945.

## Other Names

### Related Names

Henry, Hank, Harold, Harvey, Harris, Harrison, Harriet, Harriete, Harolda, Haris (Greek), Häräy, Gäräy (Tatar), Hari (Hindi), Harri (Finnish / Afrikaans), Garri, Gary (Russian) Harijs (Latvian)

**Harry** is a male given name, the Middle English form of Henry. It can also be used as a short or nickname form of Harold, Harrison or Harvey.

## People

### Presidents and Prime Ministers

* Harry Atkinson (1831–1892), tenth Prime Minister of New Zealand
* Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), 33rd President of the United States, one of the principal commanders of Korean War, Korean conflict, Operation Downfall and World War II

### Military leaders

* Harry Brinkley Bass, U.S. Navy pilot who was twice awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in the Pacific theater during World War II
* Harry Bong (1905–1987), Swedish Navy officer
* 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 Goonatilake (1929–2008), 5th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
* Harry Hoppe, German general during World War II who commanded several divisions, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Ancona and Battle of San Marino
* Harry Kinnard, American general officer, one of the principal commanders of Pleiku Campaign and Operation Masher
* Harry Shepard Knapp, Vice Admiral of the United States Navy, Military Governor of Santo Domingo, and Military Representative of the United States in Haiti, one of the principal commanders of United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)
* Sir Harry Burrard Neale, British officer of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for Lymington
* Harry Ord (1819–1885), British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Bermuda between 1861 and 1864, Governor of the Straits Settlements between 1867 and 1873, and Governor of Western Australia between 1877 and 1880
* Harry K. Pickett, United States Marine Corps Officer who has the distinction of having been present at the start of both world wars; serving as commanding officer of the Marine barracks at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and is most noted for leading the unit that trained both Marine and Army amphibious units in the Pacific Theater during World War II
* Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), British general, one of the principal commanders of Third Anglo-Burmese War
* Harry George Smart, British general, one of the principal commanders of Anglo-Iraqi War
* Harry Wright, Australian Air Force officer and social activist

### Others

* 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 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 Bass, member of the British melodic music DJ duo Third Party
* Harry Belafonte (born 1927), American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist
* Harry Benson, Scottish photographer
* Harry Blackmun (1908–1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Harry Boykoff (1922–2001), American basketball player
* Harry J. Bowman (1949–2019), American criminal and the former international president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club
* Harry Brewis (born 1991), English YouTube personality
* Harry Browne (1933–2006), American writer, politician, and investment analyst
* Harry Champion (1865-1942), English music hall composer, singer and comedian
* 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 Fox (1882–1959), American vaudeville dancer, actor and comedian born Arthur Carringford
* Harry Fraticelli, Puerto Rican singer and musician
* Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), American culture worker, President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
* Harry Grindell Matthews, English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s
* Harry Gwala (1920-1995), South African African Nation Congress and Communist Party of South Africa revolutionary
* Harry Harris (boxer) (1880–1959), American world champion bantamweight
* Harry Hibbs, Newfoundland's best-known musician of traditional Newfoundland music
* Harry Hollins (1932–1989), American politician
* Harry Hopkins, American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce
* Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach
* Harry Houdini (1874–1926), Hungarian-American escape artist, magician, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts, widely regarded as one of the greatest illusionists of all time
* Harry Innes, Virginia lawyer and patriot during the American Revolutionary War who became a local judge and prosecutor as well as helped establish the state of Kentucky, before he accepted appointment as United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky
* Harry Kalas (1936-2009), American sportscaster
* Harry Kane (born 1993), English footballer
* Harry Krakow (1910–1991), birth name of King Levinsky, American heavyweight boxer
* Harry Lewis (1886–1956), American world champion welterweight born Harry Besterman
* Harry Lewis (born 1996), Youtuber known as WROETOSHAW
* 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 S. Morgan (1945–2011), German director and producer of pornographic movies
* Harry Nilsson (1941–1994), sometimes credited simply as Nilsson, American singer-songwriter
* Harry Parke (1904-1958), American comedian, writer, and character actor
* 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 Shum Jr. (born 1982), Costa Rican-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer
* Harry Dean Stanton, 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, English footballer
* Harry Stafford, British former Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* Harry Stanford, English professional football goalkeeper who appeared in the Football League for Coventry City and Brentford
* Harry Swartz (born 1996), American soccer player
* Harry Kendall Thaw, American multi-millionaire
* Harry Alan Towers (1920–2009), British-born radio and independent film producer and screenwriter
* Harry Treadaway (born 1984), English actor
* Harry Vickers, cat-burglar who was active in the 1920s and 1930s and also served in the military
* Harry Franklin Vickers, American inventor and industrialist called the "Father of Industrial Hydraulics"
* Harry "Rube" Vickers, American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Superbas, Cincinnati Reds, and Philadelphia Athletics during the early 20th century
* Harry Warner (1881–1958), American cartoonist and one of the founders of Warner Brothers
* Harry Rodger Webb (born 1940), British singer and actor known as Cliff Richard
* Harry Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
* Harry Wright, Australian footballer
* Harry Wright, financial agent and political figure in British Columbia
* Harry Winks (born 1993) English footballer
* 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, Prince of UK and public figure

## 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 *Harry Potter* series by J. K. Rowling
* Sheriff Harry S. Truman, a character in the American television series *Twin Peaks*
* Harry Burns, the main character of the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally...
* Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood's character in the *Dirty Harry* film series
* Harry Keshegian, computer hacker from the TV series The Equalizer
* Harry Callahan, a minor character in Diane Duane's *Young Wizards* series
* Harry Lyme, 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 Hole, a crime investigator and main character of the psychological thriller *The Snowman*
* 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*