List of Famous people named Harry

Often it's a shorthand for Harold, Henry. Similar names: Harold, Henry, Hari, Harri, Harrie, Hara, Hary, Harie, Harro. Here are some famous Harrys:

Harry Landers

First Name Harry
Last Name Landers
Born on September 3, 1921
Died on September 30, 2017 (aged 96)

Harry Landers was an American character actor. He was born in New York City.

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Harry Volkman

First Name Harry
Last Name Volkman
Born on April 18, 1926
Died on August 20, 2015 (aged 89)

Harry Volkman was an American meteorologist and the first weatherman to issue a televised tornado warning.

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Harry Koch

First Name Harry
Last Name Koch
Born on October 22, 1867
Died on June 21, 1942 (aged 74)

Hotze "Harry" Koch was a Dutch-born American businessman who founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper. He was the father of Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), founder of Koch Industries.

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Harry Koch

First Name Harry
Last Name Koch
Born on November 15, 1969 (age 56)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
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Harry Koch is a German former professional footballer, who played as a centre-back, and a coach.

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Harry Wüstenhagen

First Name Harry
Last Name Wüstenhagen
Born on January 11, 1928
Died on December 11, 1999 (aged 71)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Harry Wüstenhagen was a German film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1953 and 1988. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Florida. Wüstenhagen was the German dubbing voice for Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), A Study in Terror (1965), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) and The Sign of Four (1983).

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Harry Harlow

Harry Frederick Harlow
First Name Harry
Last Name Harlow
Born on October 31, 1905
Died on December 6, 1981 (aged 76)

Harry Frederick Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked with him for a short period of time.

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Harry Kupfer

First Name Harry
Last Name Kupfer
Born on August 12, 1935
Died on December 30, 2019 (aged 84)
Born in Germany

Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer was a German opera director and academic. A long-time director at the Komische Oper Berlin, he worked at major opera houses and at festivals internationally. Trained by Walter Felsenstein, he worked in the tradition of realistic directing. At the Bayreuth Festival, he staged Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer in 1978 and Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1988. At the Salzburg Festival, he directed the premiere of Penderecki's Die schwarze Maske in 1986 and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in 2014.

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Harry Baur

Henri Marie Rodolphe Baur
First Name Harry
Last Name Baur
Born on April 12, 1880
Died on April 8, 1943 (aged 62)

Harry Baur was a French actor.

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Harry Mathews

First Name Harry
Last Name Mathews
Born on February 14, 1930
Died on January 25, 2017 (aged 86)

Harry Mathews was an American writer, the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language.

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Harry Warner

Hirsz Mojżesz Wonsal
First Name Harry
Last Name Warner
Born on December 12, 1881
Died on July 25, 1958 (aged 76)

Harry Morris Warner was an American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry. Along with his three younger brothers Warner played a crucial role in the film business and played a key role in establishing Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc, serving as the company president until 1956.

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