List of Famous people named Harold

Harold Wallace Ross was an American journalist who co-founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and served as its editor-in-chief from its inception until his death.

Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist, ethnomethodologist, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology. He is probably best known for his classic book, Studies in Ethnomethodology, which was published in 1967, a collection of articles some of which had previously been published. Selections from unpublished materials were later published in two volumes: Seeing Sociologically and Ethnomethodology's Program. There was also a collection of 'studies of work' by his students which he edited.

Harold Henry "Bev" Beverage was an inventor and researcher in electrical engineering. He is known for his invention and development of the wave antenna, which came to be known as the Beverage antenna. Less widely known is that Bev was a pioneer of radio engineering and his engineering research paralleled the development of radio transmission technology throughout his professional career with significant contributions not only in the field of radio frequency antennas but also radio frequency propagation and systems engineering.

Harold Goodwin was an American actor who performed in over 225 films.

Harold D. Schuster was an American editor and film director. In 1937 he made Wings of the Morning, the first-ever three-strip Technicolor film shot in Europe.

Harold Joseph Dimmerling was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota. Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Dimmerling was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud, Minnesota. On September 11, 1969, Pope Paul VI appointed him bishop and he was ordained bishop on October 30, 1969. Dimmerling died in office.

Harold Dwight Lasswell was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University. He studied at the Universities of London, Geneva, Paris, and Berlin in the 1920s. He served as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA), of the American Society of International Law and of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).

Harold Victor Bauer was a noted pianist of Jewish heritage who began his musical career as a violinist.