Harry (given name)
Harry is a male given name. Beginning as a Middle English form of Henry, in the modern era it became a diminutive for several names beginning with "Har". The Norwegian term "harry" is derived from the name.
People
Single name
- Dirty Harry (musician), British rock singer who has also used the stage name Harry
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, second son of King Charles III of the United Kingdom
By surname
- Harry Akst, American songwriter
- Harry Allen (designer), American industrial and interior designer
- Harry Allen (musician), American jazz tenor saxophonist
- Harry Altham, English cricketer
- Harry Anderson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Andersson, Swedish football striker
- Harry Andrews, English film actor
- Harry Angping, Filipino politician
- Harry Arter, professional footballer
- Harry Atkinson, tenth Premier of New Zealand
- Harry Baals American mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Harry Bateman, English mathematician
- Harry Bateman (artist), English landscape painter
- Harry Baweja, Indian film director and producer
- Harry Bass (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Beck, English technical draughtsman
- Harry Beck (footballer), English footballer
- Harry Belafonte, American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist
- Harry L. Billings, American journalist and civil rights advocate
- Harry Birtwistle, Singaporean professional footballer
- Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Harry Boland, Irish republican politician
- Harry Bong, Swedish Navy officer
- Harry Boykoff, American basketball player
- Harry Bresslau, German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments
- Harry Brewis, English YouTube personality
- Harry Brook, English international cricketer
- Harry Browne, American writer, politician, and investment analyst
- Harry E. Burke, American forest entomologist
- Harry Bush (American cricketer), American first-class cricketer
- Harry Bush (English cricketer), English first-class cricketer
- Harry F Byrd American Newspaper publisher and politician
- Harry F Byrd, Jr, American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician
- Harry Callahan (photographer), American photographer and educator
- Harry Caray, American radio and television sportscaster
- Harry Carey (actor), American actor
- Harry Carpenter, British BBC sports commentator
- Harry Carpenter (bishop), English bishop and theologian
- Harry Carpenter (priest), Anglican priest
- Harry Chapin, American folk singer-songwriter and philanthropist
- Harry Choates, American fiddler
- Harry Clarke, Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator
- Harry Clarke (footballer, born 2001), English professional footballer
- Harry Cole (journalist), British journalist
- Harry Connick Jr., American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host
- Harry Cothliff, English footballer
- Harry Crider, American football player
- Harry Corbett, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter
- Harry H. Corbett, English actor and comedian
- Harry Crosbie, Irish property developer
- Harry Crosby, American heir, World War I veteran, bon vivant, poet, and publisher
- Harry Crosby (businessman), American investment banker and former actor
- Harry Daghlian, American physicist
- Harry Danford, Canadian politician
- Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball All-Star catcher
- Harry Davenport, American actor
- Harry Davies-Carr, main subject of viral video Charlie Bit My Finger
- Harry Dias Bandaranaike, first Sinhala and first indigenous Puisne Justice and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- Harry Diddlebock, American sportswriter and Major League Baseball manager
- Harry Edward, British runner
- Harry Eisenstat, Major League Baseball player
- Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer and director
- Harry Enten, American journalist
- Harry Eriksson, Swedish diplomat
- Harry Feldman, 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, American vaudeville dancer, actor and comedian born Arthur Carringford
- Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
- Harrison Garside, Australian boxer
- Harry Geithner, Colombian actor, film director and producer
- Harry Gesner, American architect
- Harry Gideonse, American President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
- Harry Giles (basketball), American professional basketball player
- Harry Giles (footballer), Australian rules footballer
- Harry Gilmer, American football halfback and quarterback
- Harry Goodsir, Scottish physician and naturalist
- Harry Goonatilake, 5th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Harry Gottsacker, American racing driver
- Harry Grant (cyclist), British racing cyclist
- Harry Grant (footballer), English footballer
- Harry Grant (racing driver), American auto racing driver
- Harry Grant (rugby league), Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Harry Gration, English journalist and broadcaster
- Harry Gregg, Northern Irish professional footballer and manager
- Harry Gregson-Williams, 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, German-born American actor and dancer
- Harry Guardino, American actor
- Harry Gurney, English cricketer
- Harry Gwala, South African African National Congress and Communist Party of South Africa revolutionary
- Harry Gyles, Australian rules footballer
- Harry Haldeman, American politician and businessman
- Harry Harris (boxer), American world champion bantamweight
- Harry Harrison (writer), American science fiction author
- Harry Heaney, British chemist
- Harry Hill, British comedian - also known as Matthew Keith Hall
- Harry Hollins, American politician
- Harry Houdini, American escapologist and stunt performer born Erik Weisz
- Harry Hughes (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Jerome, Canadian track and field sprinter and physical education teacher
- Harry Jowsey, Australian television personality
- Harry Kalas, American sportscaster
- Harry Kane, English footballer
- Harry Kewell, Australian association football coach, manager and former player
- Harry King (cricketer), English cricketer
- Harry King (footballer), English footballer
- Harry King (racing driver), English racing driver
- Harry Kinnard, American general officer, one of the principal commanders of Pleiku campaign
- Harry Knowles, American film critic and writer
- Harry Krakow, birth name of King Levinsky, American heavyweight boxer
- Harold Walter Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, English chemist
- Harry Landis, British actor and director
- Harry Richard Landis, American First World War veteran
- Harry Langdon, American comedian
- Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and comedian
- Harry Lawtey, English actor
- Harry Lennix, American actor
- Harry Lewis (boxer), American world champion welterweight born Harry Besterman
- Harry Litman, American lawyer, law professor and political commentator
- Harry Lloyd, English actor
- Harry Lorraine (American actor), American silent film actor
- Harry Lorraine (English actor), actor in English silent films
- Harry Lorayne, American magician
- Harry Luff, American Major League Baseball player
- Harry Maguire, English footballer
- Harry Manser, justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
- Harry Michael, Australian rapper and songwriter, known professionally as Masked Wolf
- Harry Clive Minnett, Australian physicist and radio engineer
- Harry Morgan, American actor
- Harry S. Morgan, German director and producer of pornographic movies
- Harry Mosby, 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, British colonial administrator
- Harry Pace, American music publisher and insurance executive
- Harry Partch, American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments
- Harry Patch, 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, English seaman
- Harry Pollitt, British communist politician, former General Secretary of the CPGB
- Harry Prendergast, British general, one of the principal commanders of Third Anglo-Burmese War
- Harry Redknapp, English footballer and manager
- Harry Reems, American pornographic film actor
- Harry Reid, American politician
- Harry Roque, Filipino lawyer and former law professor
- Harry Sacksioni, composer and guitar virtuoso of Dutch origin
- Herschel Saltzman, known as Harry Saltzman, Canadian theatre and film producer
- Harry Scarff, English professional boxer
- Harry Secombe, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and television presenter
- Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian architect
- Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retail magnate
- Harry Sheezel, Australian rules footballer
- Harry Shum, Chinese computer scientist
- Harry Shum Jr., Costa Rican-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer
- Harry Thomas Silcock, English Quaker missionary
- Harry Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Souttar, professional footballer
- Harry Stafford (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer
- H. J. Sterling, Canadian ice hockey administrator
- Harry F. Stimpson Jr.,, American lawyer and ambassador
- Harry Styles, British singer, songwriter, actor as well as member of the boy band One Direction
- Harry Sugiyama, Japanese television personality and model
- Harry Swartz, American soccer player
- Harry Taylor (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Thurston, Canadian writer and journalist
- Harry Alan Towers, British-born radio and independent film producer and screenwriter
- Harry Traver, American roller coaster and amusement ride engineer
- Harry Treadaway, English actor
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
- Harry Twite, Bermudian footballer
- Harry Vickers (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Warner, American cartoonist and one of the founders of Warner Brothers
- Harry Washington (American football) American football player
- Harry Weese, American architect
- Harry Weld-Forester, Scottish cricketer
- Harry Wolff (booking agent), booking agent for theater and vaudeville performers in the early 20th century
- Harry Woolf, American educator and historian
- Harry Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Winks English footballer
- Harry Winston, American jeweler
Fictional characters
- Harry, a main character in Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
- Harry, Henry's cousin in Henry Hugglemonster
- Harry, one of the main characters in the Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
- 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 Bailey, George Bailey's younger brother in the movie It's A Wonderful Life
- Dr. Harry Bertram, a character in the 1989 American science-fiction drama movie Beyond the Stars
- 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 Coleman, a character in the 2003 film Freaky Friday
- Harry Dresden, the title character Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series, The Dresden Files
- Harry Fisher, a former character in the BBC drama Waterloo Road
- Sir Harry Paget Flashman, main and eponymous character in the "Flashman" series by George MacDonald Fraser
- Harry Haller, the protagonist in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
- Harry Hart, a character in the Kingsman film series
- Harry Hewitt, a character from Coronation Street
- Harry Hooperman, LAPD Detective from TV show Hooperman
- Harry Keogh, the main character in Brian Lumley's series of horror novels, Necroscope
- Harry Leland, a Marvel Comics villain
- Harry Lyme, an antagonist in the Home Alone series
- Harry Mason, protagonist in the 1999 survival horror video game Silent Hill
- Harry Osborn, a character from Spider-Man
- Sir Harry Pearce, a character in the BBC spy drama Spooks
- Harry Potter, the title character in Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Solomon, a character on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
- 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 Sultenfuss, a character 1991 and 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama movies My Girl and My Girl 2 played by Dan Aykroyd
- Sheriff Harry S. Truman, a character in the American television series Twin Peaks
- Harry Watling, a character from Inside Man, played by David Tennant
- Harry Weiss, a character from the 1981 musical satire film Shock Treatment
- Harry Wells, a character from the Arrowverse franchise