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 op de Laak

First Name Harry
Last Name Laak
Born on June 1, 1925
Died on January 16, 2012 (aged 86)
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Harry F. Noller

First Name Harry
Last Name Noller
Born on June 10, 1939 (age 86)

Harry F. Noller is an American biochemist, and since 1992 the director of the University of California, Santa Cruz's Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the ribosome and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Harry Maule of Kellie

First Name Harry
Last Name Kellie
Died on January 1, 1731
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Harry Carey

First Name Harry
Last Name Carey
Born on January 16, 1878
Died on September 21, 1947 (aged 69)

Henry DeWitt Carey II was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero. One of his best known performances is as the president of the United States Senate in the drama film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was the father of Harry Carey Jr., who was also a prominent actor.

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Harry Trelawny

First Name Harry
Last Name Trelawny
Died on November 30, 1833

Sir Harry Trelawny, 7th Baronet (1756–1834) was an English Protestant preacher and convert to Roman Catholicism, nephew of General Harry Trelawny.

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Harry Groener

First Name Harry
Last Name Groener
Born on September 10, 1951 (age 74)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Harry Groener is a German-born American actor and dancer, perhaps best known for playing Mayor Wilkins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Harry Michell

First Name Harry
Last Name Michell
Born on December 6, 1991 (age 34)
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Harry Stradling

First Name Harry
Last Name Stradling
Born on January 7, 1925
Died on October 17, 2017 (aged 92)

Harry Stradling Jr. was a two-time Oscar-nominated American cinematographer and the son of cinematographer Harry Stradling.

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Harry T. Burleigh

Henry Thacker Burleigh
First Name Harry
Last Name Burleigh
Born on December 2, 1866
Died on September 12, 1949 (aged 82)

Henry Thacker ("Harry") Burleigh was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. The first black composer instrumental in developing characteristically American music, Burleigh made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging spirituals in a more classical form. Burleigh also introduced Antonín Dvořák to Black American music, which influenced some of Dvořák's most famous compositions and led him to say that Black music would be the basis of an American classical music.

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Harry Jürgensen Rundshagen

First Name Harry
Last Name Rundshagen
Born on September 3, 1968 (age 57)
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