Hal (given name)
Hal is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form of Harold, Henry or Harvey, and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
People
- Hal Ashby, American film director
- Hal Barwood, American game designer
- Hal Bernton, American author and journalist
- Hal Bidlack, former USAF officer
- Hal Blaine, American drummer
- Hal Clement, American author and artist
- Hal Clements, American actor
- Hal Colebatch, Australian politician
- Hal Colebatch (author), Australian author
- Hal Cormier, Canadian politician
- Hal Cruttenden, English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor
- Hal Daub, American politician
- Hal David, American lyricist
- Hal Davis, American songwriter
- Hal Dixon (biochemist), Irish biochemist
- Hal Duncan, Scottish writer
- Hal Geer, American film producer
- Hal Gibney, American broadcast announcer
- Hal Gill, American ice hockey player
- Hal Goldsmith, American fencer
- Hal Gurnee, American TV director
- Hal Halvorsen, military officer
- Hal Helgeson, American geochemist
- Hal Holbrook, American actor
- Hal Hunter (disambiguation)
- Hal Ketchum, American singer
- Hal Linden, American actor
- Hal Lindsey, American evangelist
- Hal Mayforth, American cartoonist and artist
- Hal McRae, American baseball player
- Hal Moore, U.S. Army general
- Hal Moore (wrestler), American
- Hal Needham, American stunt performer
- Hal Newhouser, American baseball pitcher
- Hal Porter, Australian novelist
- Hal Prewitt, American racing driver
- Hal Prince, American theatrical producer
- Hal Roach, American film producer
- Hal Roach (comedian), Irish
- Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer
- Hal Rogers, American politician
- Hal Singer, American musician
- Hal Smith (disambiguation)
- Hal Sparks, American actor
- Hal Steinbrenner, American businessman
- Hal Sutton, American golfer
- Hal B. Wallis, American film producer
- Hal Williams, American actor
- Hal Willis (ice hockey), Canadian
- Hal Willis (singer), Canadian
- Hal Willis, pseudonym of English writer Charles Robert Forrester
- Jean Ven Robert Hal, Italian composer
Fictional characters
- Prince Hal, later Henry V of England
- HAL 9000, a computer in Arthur C. Clarke's fiction
- Dr. Hal Emmerich, Metal Gear video games
- Hal Hunt, in children's novels
- Hal Incandenza, in the novel Infinite Jest
- Hal Jordan, in DC Comics
- Hal Willis, in the 87th Precinct series
- Hal Wyler, Vice President of the United States in the American TV series The Diplomat
- 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''