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Harold and the Purple Crayon (film)
Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American family fantasy comedy directed by Carlos Saldanha, starring Zachary Levi as a grown-up Harold who draws himself into the real world.
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluck, 1905-1986), American Songbook composer from Buffalo who wrote over 400 songs including Over the Rainbow, Stormy Weather, and Get Happy, with lyricists Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, and Johnny Mercer.
Harold B. Gotaas
Harold B. Gotaas (1906–1977) was an American sanitary engineer and professor at Berkeley and Northwestern whose research established composting fundamentals and sewage treatment by photosynthetic oxygen in open ponds.
Harold Baily Dixon
Harold Baily Dixon (1852–1930) was a British chemist who held the Chair of Chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, and became a leading authority on flames in gaseous explosions.
Harold Baines
Harold Baines, American MLB designated hitter and outfielder (1980-2001), 2,866 hits, 384 HR, 1,628 RBI; elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 2019 by Today's Game Era Committee, 12 of 16 votes, after a 6.1% BBWAA peak.
Harold Barlow
Harold Barlow (1899–1989) was a British electrical engineer who held the Pender Professorship at University College London from 1950 to 1967, pioneered surface waves and the TE01 circular waveguide, and supervised Nobel laureate Charles Kao.
Harold Bennett
Harold Frank Bennett (1898–1981), English character actor; played "Young" Mr. Grace in Are You Being Served? (1972–1981) and Sidney Bluett in Dad's Army; retired draughtsman who took up acting at 65.
Harold Beverage
Harold Beverage (1893–1993) was an American radio engineer who invented the wave antenna, patented in 1921, and became vice president of research and development at RCA.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930–2019), American literary critic and Yale Sterling Professor of the Humanities, author of The Anxiety of Influence (1973) and The Western Canon (1994); theorist of poetic influence, not the Harvard or other Blooms.
Harold Bray (sailor)
Harold John Bray, Jr. (born June 15, 1927) is an American retired sailor and police officer who is the last living survivor of the USS Indianapolis sinking.
Harold Bride
Harold Sydney Bride was an English Marconi wireless operator, the junior operator aboard the Titanic and the only one of the ship's two wireless operators to survive its 1912 sinking.
Harold Brown (physicist)
Harold Brown (1927–2019) was an American nuclear physicist who directed Lawrence Livermore, led Caltech, and was the first scientist to serve as U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Harold Budd
Harold Budd (1936–2020), American composer and pianist, pioneered ambient music with Brian Eno on The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, collaborated with Cocteau Twins, and created the soft pedal piano style while rejecting the ambient label.
Harold Busby
Harold Busby, American sprinter and wide receiver; Muir High School CIF 100-yard champion 1964-65, UCLA 4x110y relay world best 39.6 in 1967, UCLA football 1966-68, drafted by Oakland Raiders 1969.
Harold C. Slavkin
Harold C. Slavkin, known as Hal Slavkin, was an American craniofacial developmental biologist and dental educator who directed the NIDCR from 1995 to 2000 and served as dean of USC's dental school.
Harold C. Urey
Harold Clayton Urey was an American chemist who won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium, then founded isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry, studying the Moon into the 1970s.
Harold Camping
Harold Camping (1921–2013), American radio evangelist and Family Radio founder, famous for failed doomsday predictions including May 21 and October 21, 2011, later retracted as sinful.
Harold Cassels
Harold Kennedy Cassels (1898–1975), English field hockey halfback born in Langzhong, Sichuan, China; won gold with Great Britain at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, played in the 12–1 win over Belgium, later a schoolmaster in Shanghai and at Millfield School.
Harold Charles Bold
Harold Charles Bold (1909–1987) was an American phycologist, C. L. Lundell Professor at the University of Texas, who classified green soil algae, joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and created Bold's Basal Medium.
Harold Conklin
Harold Conklin (1926–2016) was an American anthropologist at Yale University who founded ethnoscience, known for landmark fieldwork among the Hanunóo and Ifugao of the Philippines and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
Harold Cooke
Harold Douglas R. Cooke (1895–1966), English field hockey halfback; won gold with Great Britain at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, playing one match. Distinct from the 1907-born fencer Harold Cooke.
Harold Cottam
Harold Thomas Cottam was a British Marconi wireless operator who, as the Carpathia's sole radio operator, received the Titanic's distress call on 14 April 1912.
Harold D. Mooty III
Harold D. Mooty III, born Harold Dean Mooty, III, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2025.
Harold Davenport
Harold Davenport (1907–1969) was a British mathematician and leading figure of the mid-century British school of number theory, working on Waring's problem, additive group theory, and Diophantine approximation.
Harold Davis
Harold "Hal" Davis (born 5 January 1921) is an American sprinter, the "California Comet," who tied Jesse Owens' 10.2 100m world record in 1941, won multiple NCAA and AAU sprint titles, and never raced at an Olympics.
Harold Delos Babcock
Harold Delos Babcock (1882–1968) was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory known for precision solar spectroscopy, ruled diffraction gratings, and the first measurement of the Sun's general magnetic field.
Harold Dudley
Harold Ward Dudley (1887–1935) was a British biochemist who discovered the enzyme glyoxalase with Henry Dakin, prepared the first international insulin standard, and isolated the ergot alkaloid ergometrine.
Harold Dutton
Harold V. Dutton, Jr. is an American Democratic politician who has represented Houston's District 142 in the Texas House since 1985, serving his 21st term in 2025.
Harold E. Johns
Harold E. Johns (Harold Elford Johns) was a Canadian medical physicist who led the design of one of the first cobalt-60 cancer therapy units, the "cobalt bomb", in 1951.
Harold E. Lebovitz
Harold E. Lebovitz is an American endocrinologist and diabetologist, a longtime Professor of Medicine at SUNY Downstate known for research on hormone resistance and diabetes.