List of Famous people named Harold

Name Harold is among the most common names in USA. Shortened forms: Harry, Hal. Similar names: Harry, Hal, Harrold. Here are some famous Harolds:

Harold Meij

First Name Harold
Last Name Meij
Born on December 4, 1963 (age 62)

Harold George Meij is a Dutch businessman, he was the president of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from May 2018 until October 2020.

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Harold Betters

First Name Harold
Last Name Betters
Born on March 21, 1928
Died on October 11, 2020 (aged 92)

Harold Betters was an American jazz trombone player.

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Harold Hyman

First Name Harold
Last Name Hyman
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)

Harold Hyman is a Paris-based journalist. He was born in New York City, attended the Lycée Français de New York, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in international affairs. He has been a journalist in Paris since 1988, specializing in international diplomacy and international cultural relations. He began his journalism career writing for French and Spanish newspapers, and went on to radio journalist on French radio stations Radio France International and Radio Classique. He currently covers international and American news as a broadcast journalist at CNews, a French TV news network in Paris, France.

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Harold Searles

First Name Harold
Last Name Searles
Born on September 1, 1918
Died on November 18, 2015 (aged 97)

Harold Frederic Searles was one of the pioneers of psychiatric medicine specializing in psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenia. Harold Searles has the reputation of being a therapeutic virtuoso with difficult and borderline patients; and of being, in the words of Horacio Etchegoyen, president of the IPA, "not only a great analyst but also a sagacious observer and a creative and careful theoretician".

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Harold Cummings

First Name Harold
Last Name Cummings
Born on March 1, 1992 (age 34)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Harold Oshkaly Cummings Segura is a Panamanian footballer who currently plays as a defender for the Unión Española and Panama national football team.

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Harold Gould

Harold Vernon Gould
First Name Harold
Last Name Gould
Born on December 10, 1923
Died on September 11, 2010 (aged 86)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Harold Vernon Gould was an American character actor. He appeared as Martin Morgenstern on the sitcom Rhoda (1974–78) and Miles Webber on the sitcom The Golden Girls (1989–92). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, Gould acted in film and television for nearly 50 years, appearing in more than 300 television shows, 20 major motion pictures, and over 100 stage plays. He was known for playing elegant, well-dressed men, and he regularly played Jewish characters and grandfather-type figures on television and in film.

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Harold Brodkey

First Name Harold
Last Name Brodkey
Born on October 25, 1930
Died on January 26, 1996 (aged 65)

Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.

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Harold Mabern

First Name Harold
Last Name Mabern
Born on March 20, 1936
Died on September 17, 2019 (aged 83)

Harold Mabern Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields. He is described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as "one of the great post-bop pianists".

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Harold Cohen

First Name Harold
Last Name Cohen
Born on May 1, 1928
Died on April 27, 2016 (aged 87)

Harold Cohen was a British-born artist who was noted as the creator of AARON, a computer program designed to produce art autonomously. His work in the intersection of computer artificial intelligence and art attracted a great deal of attention, leading to exhibitions at many museums, including the Tate Gallery in London, and acquisitions by many others.

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Harold Schultz

First Name Harold
Last Name Schultz
Born on January 28, 1925
Died on May 16, 1995 (aged 70)

Harold Henry Schultz was a United States Marine corporal who was wounded in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was a member of the patrol that captured the top of Mount Suribachi and raised the first U.S. flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. He is one of the six Marines who raised the larger replacement flag on the mountaintop the same day as shown in the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

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