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 B. Harris Jr.

First Name Harry
Last Name Jr.
Born on August 4, 1956 (age 69)

Harry Binkley Harris Jr. is an American diplomat and former U.S. Navy officer. He was the first American of Japanese descent to lead US Pacific Command in the U.S. Navy and was the highest-ranking American of Japanese descent in the U.S. Navy during his time as commander.

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Harry Hood

First Name Harry
Last Name Hood
Born on October 3, 1944
Died on May 26, 2019 (aged 74)

Henry Anthony Hood was a Scottish football player and manager.

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Harry Haft

First Name Harry
Last Name Haft
Born on July 28, 1925
Died on November 3, 2007 (aged 82)

Harry Haft was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he boxed fellow inmates to survive. He was briefly a professional boxer in post-war Germany, and boxed as a light heavyweight in the United States from 1948–1949.

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Harry H. Buckwalter

Harry Hale Buckwalter
First Name Harry
Last Name Buckwalter
Born on January 1, 1867
Died on March 7, 1930 (aged 63)

Harry Hale Buckwalter, sometimes credited as Harry H. Buckwalter or Henry H. Buckwalter, was an American photographer, journalist, photojournalist, and silent film director and producer.

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Harry Graf Kessler

Harry Clemens Ulrich Kessler
First Name Harry
Last Name Kessler
Born on May 23, 1868
Died on November 30, 1937 (aged 69)

Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) reveal anecdotes and details of artistic, theatrical, and political life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the late 19th century through the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in Lyon in 1937.

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Harry Horse

First Name Harry
Last Name Horse
Born on May 9, 1960
Died on January 10, 2007 (aged 46)

Richard Horne, whose pen name was Harry Horse, was an English author, illustrator and political cartoonist. He was also known as lead singer of the band Swamptrash. Born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, he moved to Edinburgh in 1978, where he adopted his pen name.

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Harry Kroto

First Name Harry
Last Name Kroto
Born on October 7, 1939
Died on April 30, 2016 (aged 76)

Sir Harold Walter Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.

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Harry Lee

First Name Harry
Last Name Lee
Born on October 26, 1890
Died on April 21, 1981 (aged 90)

Henry William "Harry" Lee was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Middlesex County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1934. He made one Test appearance for England, in 1931. An all-rounder, Lee was a right-handed batsman and bowled both off break and slow-medium pace bowling with his right arm. He scored 1,000 runs in a season on thirteen occasions. Part of the County Championship winning sides in 1920 and 1921, Lee aggregated 20,158 runs and took 401 wickets in first-class cricket.

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Harry Whittington

First Name Harry
Last Name Whittington
Born on March 3, 1927 (age 99)

Harry M. Whittington is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas, who received international media attention following an incident on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail with two women on a ranch in Kenedy County, Texas, near Corpus Christi.

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Harry Enten

First Name Harry
Last Name Enten
Born on November 30, 1987 (age 38)

Harry Joe Enten is an American journalist best known for his former role as a senior political writer and analyst for the website FiveThirtyEight and his current job as a senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics. He was described by the Columbia Journalism Review as being of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.

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