| Harry Borghouts | |
| Office: | Queen's Commissioner in North Holland |
| Term Start: | 1 June 2002 |
| Term End: | 1 December 2009 |
| Predecessor: | Jos van Kemenade |
| Successor: | Elisabeth Post |
| Birth Date: | 7 February 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Party: | Political Party of Radicals GreenLeft |
| Alma Mater: | Royal Netherlands Naval College University of Amsterdam |
Henricus Cornelius Johannes Lodewijk (Harry) Borghouts (born 7 February 1943) was the Queen's Commissioner in the province North Holland from 2002 till 2009. He is a member of the political party GreenLeft. He was the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands from 1996 to 2002.[1]
Harry Borghouts was born in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands.[1] His father, who fought for the Dutch resistance during World War II, was State Secretary of Defence from 1965 to 1966.[2] After his gymnasium education in Rotterdam, where he majored in arts, Borghouts studied to be a naval officer at the Royal Netherlands Naval College from 1961 to 1964. Afterwards, he studied Law at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1977.[1]
Borghouts was made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 28 April 2006.[1]