Harry (name)
Harry | |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Medieval English form of Henry (name) |
Other names | |
Related names | Henry, Harold, Harris, Harrison, Harriete, Haris (Greek), Charis (Greek), Harilaos (Greek), Charilaos (Greek), Häräy, Gäräy (Tatar), Haruomi (Japanese), Hari (Hindi), Harri (Finnish/Afrikaans) |
Harry is a male given name, the Middle English form of Henry.[1] It is also sometimes used as a diminutive form of Harold.[2]
Harry can refer to:
People
- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States
- Prince Harry, second son of the Prince of Wales and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II
- Harry Akst (1894-1963), American songwriter
- Harry Alan Towers (1920-2009), British-born radio and independent film producer and screenwriter
- Harry Altham (1888-1965), English cricketer
- Harry Anderson, American actor, writer, director and magician
- Harry Andrews (1911-1989), English film actor
- Harry Atkinson (1831-1892), tenth Premier of New Zealand
- Harry B. Smith (1860-1936), writer, lyricist, and composer
- Harry Brinkley Bass (1916–1944), American military pilot
- Harry W. Bass, Sr. (1895–1970), American oilman and philanthropist
- Harry W. Bass, Jr. (1927–1998), American oilman, coin collector and philanthropist
- Harry Belafonte (born 1927), American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist
- Harry Blackmun (1908-1999), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Harry Browne (1933-2006), American writer, politician, and investment analyst
- Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball All Star catcher
- Harry Fox (1882-1959), American vaudeville dancer, actor and comedian born Arthur Carringford
- Harry Goonatilake (1929-2008), 5th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Harry Harris (boxer) (1880-1959), American world champion bantamweight
- Harry Hollins (1932-1989), American politician
- Harry Houdini (1874-1926), American escapologist and stunt performer born Erik Weisz
- Harry Krakow (1910-1991), birth name of King Levinsky, American heavyweight boxer
- Harry Lewis (boxer) (1886-1956), American world champion welterweight born Harry Besterman
- Harry Newman (1909-2000), American All-Pro football quarterback
- Harry Stafford (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harry Styles (born 1994), from a band named One Direction
- Harry T Nonyane (born 1982), a South African Insolvency Law practitioner and a Christian Priest
Fictional characters
- Harry Potter, the title character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
- Sheriff Harry S. Truman, a character in the American television series Twin Peaks
- Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood's character in the The Dirty Harry series
- Harry Callahan, a minor character in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
- Harry, 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 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).
References
- ↑ "Harry". Behind the Name. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
- ↑ Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992), Werner Winter and Richard A. Rhodes, ed., A Badaga-English Dictionary, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, 8, Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8, OCLC 25963917, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
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