Harry (given name) explained
| Harry |
| Gender: | Masculine |
| Origin: | Medieval English form of Henry (name) |
| Related Names: | Henry,
Hendrick,
Hennie,
Hendrie,
Henrique,
Hen,
Heinrich,
Henderson,
Han,
Hank,
Henk,
Hendrik,
Harold,
Hereweald,
Haraldr,
Harald,
Hagrold,
Harvey,
Harris,
Harrison,
Harriet,
Harriete,
Harolda,
Éibhear (Irish),
Arioald,
Chariovalda,
Häräy (Tatar),
Gäräy (Tatar),
Hari (Hindi),
Harri (Finnish/Afrikaans),
Heinrich (Old Germanic)
Harchibald |
| Meaning: | Ruler (Old English),
War God (Norse),
Army Commander (Old Germanic) |
Harry is a male given name of English, Norse and Germanic origin. Beginning as a Middle English form of Henry[1] and not 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. The Norwegian term "harry" is derived from the name.[2]
People
Single name
- Dirty Harry (musician) (born 1982), British rock singer who has also used the stage name Harry
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984), second son of King Charles III of the United Kingdom
By surname
- 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 L. Billings (1913-1990), American journalist and civil rights advocate
- 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 F Byrd (1887 - 1966) American Newspaper publisher and politician
- Harry F Byrd, Jr (1914 - 2013), American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician
- 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 Haldeman (1926 - 1993), American politician and businessman
- 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 (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 Stafford (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Dean Stanton (1926–2017), American actor, musician, and singer
- H. J. Sterling (Harry John Sterling; 1882–1959), Canadian ice hockey administrator
- Harry F. Stimpson Jr., (Harry Farnum Stimpson Junior, 1913–2005), American lawyer and ambassador
- Harry Styles (born 1994), British singer, songwriter, actor as well as member of the boy band One Direction
- 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 Weld-Forester (born 1981), Scottish cricketer
- Harry Wolff (booking agent) (1890–1934), booking agent for theater and vaudeville performers in the early 20th century
- Harry Woolf (1923 - 2003), American educator and historian
- Harry Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Winks (born 1993) English footballer
- Harry Winston (1896–1978), American jeweler
Fictional characters
- Dirty Harry, eponymous character from the 70s and 80s played by Clint Eastwood
- Harry, a main character in Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
- 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 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 Coleman, a character in the 2003 film Freaky Friday
- Harry Dresden, the title character Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series, The Dresden Files and in The Dresden Files (TV series)
- 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 (Joe Pesci), 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 Wells, a character from the Arrowverse franchise
Notes and References
- Web site: Harry . 2007. 2007-05-15 . Behind the Name.
- Kalvø, Are: Harry. Det Norske Samlaget. ISBN 82-521-5419-0
