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Harold Munro Fox
Harold Munro Fox, born Harold Munro Fuchs, was a British zoologist known for work on invertebrate respiratory pigments and for his forty-year editorship of Biological Reviews.
Harold N. Scherer Jr.
Harold N. Scherer Jr. (1929–2017) was an American electric power engineer who led the design and energization of the first 765-kV transmission line, then the world's highest voltage.
Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley was a British statistical physicist who solved the close-packed dimer problem with Michael Fisher in 1961 and gave his name to the Temperley–Lieb algebra.
Harold Nicholas
Harold Lloyd Nicholas (1921–2000), American tap dancer, younger half of the Nicholas Brothers with Fayard; Cotton Club and Hollywood star famed for the Stormy Weather "Jumpin' Jive" and acrobatic "classical tap."
Harold O. Conn
Harold O. Conn (1925–2011) was an American hepatologist at Yale and the West Haven VA hospital who coined "spontaneous bacterial peritonitis" and created the West Haven criteria for hepatic encephalopathy.
Harold Osborn
Harold Marion Osborn (1899-1975), American high jumper and decathlete; 1924 Paris Olympic champion in both events, the only athlete to win the decathlon and an individual event at the same Olympics; set six world records.
Harold P. Eubank
Harold Porter Eubank was an American physicist who spent 1959 to 1985 at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, heading neutral beam research for magnetic fusion experiments.
Harold P. Freeman
Harold P. Freeman was an American surgical oncologist who pioneered patient navigation for poor and uninsured cancer patients, founding the first navigator program in Harlem in 1990.
Harold Perrineau
Harold Perrineau (Harold Williams Jr., born 1963) is an American actor known for Augustus Hill in Oz, Michael Dawson in Lost, Mercutio in Romeo + Juliet, Link in the Matrix sequels, and Boyd Stevens in From.
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter and Nobel laureate 2005; creator of 'Pinteresque' menace in The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal; also screenwriter for The Servant and The Go-Between.
Harold Prince
Harold "Hal" Smith Prince (1928–2019), American Broadway producer and director; record 21 Tony Awards; pioneer of the concept musical with Sondheim; director of Cabaret, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and The Phantom of the Opera; distinct from other Harolds Prince.
Harold R. Collard
Harold R. Collard is an American pulmonologist and physician-scientist who has been Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Francisco since 2022, known for interstitial lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis research.
Harold Raistrick
Harold Raistrick (1890–1971) was a British biochemist, internationally acknowledged pioneer of fungal product chemistry, who held the biochemistry chair at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1929.
Harold Ramis
Harold Ramis (1944–2014), American comedy writer, director, and actor; Second City and SCTV head writer; co-wrote Animal House and Ghostbusters (as Egon Spengler); directed Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, winning a BAFTA for its screenplay.
Harold Ray
Harold Ray (Harold W. Ray) was an American sprinter for Rutgers and the New York AC, third leg on the 1921 world-record 4x220y (1:27.4) and 4x110y (42.4) relay teams; not the musician or other namesakes.
Harold Reynolds
Harold Craig Reynolds (born 1960, Eugene, Oregon) is an American former MLB second baseman, 1983-1994, mainly Seattle Mariners; two-time AL All-Star, three Gold Gloves, AL-best 60 steals in 1987; later Emmy-winning ESPN and MLB Network analyst.
Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins (1916-1997), born Francis Kane and also Harold Rubin, American novelist of sex-and-money blockbusters like The Carpetbaggers (1961); Universal Pictures executive turned author, reported 750 million copies sold, many film adaptations.
Harold Rosen (electrical engineer)
Harold Rosen (1926–2017) was an American electrical engineer at Hughes Aircraft who conceived and led Syncom, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, earning the Draper Prize.
Harold Ross
Harold Wallace Ross (1892–1951), American journalist, co-founded The New Yorker in 1925 with Jane Grant and Raoul Fleischmann and edited it until his death; former Stars and Stripes editor, high-school dropout, famed for Ross notes and Fowler-based editing.
Harold Russell
Harold Russell (1914–2002), Canadian-American WWII veteran who lost both hands in a 1944 training accident, played Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives and won two Oscars for that single role.
Harold S. Johnston
Harold S. Johnston (1920–2012) was an American chemist at UC Berkeley whose 1971 calculation that nitrogen oxides in supersonic aircraft exhaust could destroy stratospheric ozone earned him the 1997 National Medal of Science.
Harold S. Luft
Harold S. (Hal) Luft is an American health economist, emeritus professor at the University of California, San Francisco, best known for pioneering the volume-outcome relationship in surgery.
Harold S. Margolis
Harold S. Margolis was an American CDC medical epidemiologist who led federal viral hepatitis research and was senior author of the landmark 1999 national hepatitis C prevalence study.
Harold S. Mickley
Harold S. Mickley, also known as Harold Somers Mickley, was an American chemical engineer who taught at MIT and became vice chairman of Stauffer Chemical Company.
Harold S. Shapiro
Harold S. Shapiro, also known as Harold Seymour Shapiro, was an American-born Swedish mathematician, professor at KTH Stockholm, known for the Golay–Rudin–Shapiro polynomials and the Shapiro cyclic inequality.
Harold Sakata
Harold Sakata (Toshiyuki Sakata, ring name Tosh Togo), 1920-1982, Hawaiian-born Olympic weightlifting silver medalist at London 1948, professional wrestler, and actor who played Oddjob in Goldfinger (1964).
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907–2003) was a Canadian mathematician and classical geometer who spent 67 years at the University of Toronto and classified reflection groups.
Harold Shipman
Harold Shipman, British GP and serial killer, convicted 2000 of murdering 15 patients with diamorphine; the Shipman Inquiry under Dame Janet Smith concluded he killed about 250 patients before his 2004 death in Wakefield prison.
Harold Smallwood
Harold Smallwood (Robert Harold Smallwood, 1915-1985), American quarter-miler for USC; 1936 AAU 400 champion and Berlin Olympian whose 400 m campaign ended in the semi-finals by appendicitis surgery.
Harold Smith
Harold Smith, "Dutch Smith" (Edwin Harold Smith, 1909–1958), American Olympic diver for the Los Angeles AC; 1932 platform gold and springboard silver, fourth in springboard in 1928, later pro aquacade performer and coach.