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Harold Spencer Jones
Harold Spencer Jones (1890–1960) was an English astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1933 to 1955 and determined the solar parallax from observations of Eros.
Harold Stark
Harold Stark (born 1939) is an American number theorist who solved the Gauss class number 1 problem in 1967 and formulated the Stark conjectures on L-function values.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro, born 1935, is a Canadian-born American economist who was president of the University of Michigan from 1980 to 1988 and Princeton's 18th president from 1988 to 2001.
Harold Thimbleby
Harold Thimbleby, born 1955, is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor at Swansea University, known for founding the UCL Interaction Centre and for showing that poorly designed medical devices cause unnoticed errors that harm patients.
Harold Torres
Harold Torres (born 1991) is a Mexican film, television, and theater actor, a CUT-UNAM graduate known for Norteado, ZeroZeroZero, Memory, Desaparecer por completo, and Netflix's Los Gringo Hunters, with multiple Ariel nominations.
Harold Tower
Harold William "Doc" Tower (1911–1994) was an American rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eights at Los Angeles 1932, rowing second seat for the University of California crew that beat Italy by 0.2 seconds.
Harold V. Jones II
Harold V. Jones II is an American Democratic politician and attorney who represents Georgia's 22nd Senate District around Augusta and serves as the Georgia State Senate's Minority Leader.
Harold Varner III
Harold Varner III (HV3), American golfer from Gastonia, North Carolina: East Carolina alum, two-time international winner (2016 Australian PGA, 2022 Saudi International), zero PGA Tour wins, 2023 LIV Golf Washington D.C. champion with RangeGoats, 4Aces, and Smash GC.
Harold W. Jaffe
Harold W. Jaffe is an American physician and epidemiologist who joined the CDC's 1981 AIDS task force, led its first national case-control study, and directed its HIV center.
Harold W. Kuhn
Harold W. Kuhn (1925–2014) was an American Princeton mathematician known for the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, the Hungarian algorithm, and championing John Nash's 1994 Nobel Prize; he won the 1980 von Neumann Theory Prize.
Harold W. Paxton
Harold W. Paxton, also known as Harold William Paxton, was a British-born American physical metallurgist and Carnegie Mellon professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Harold Walden
Harold Walden (1887–1955) was a British amateur footballer who won gold with Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and later became a Music Hall comedian.
Harold Washington
Harold Washington (1922-1987), American Democratic politician, first African American mayor of Chicago (1983-1987), 51st mayor, previously Illinois legislator and U.S. congressman, reelected 1987, died in office.
Harold Wayne Nichols
Harold Wayne Nichols, Tennessee death row inmate executed December 11, 2025 for the 1988 rape and murder of Chattanooga student Karen Pulley, after pleading guilty and 35 years of appeals.
Harold Weintraub
Harold Weintraub (1945–1995) was an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who identified MyoD, the single gene that triggers muscle differentiation in non-muscle cells.
Harold Whitlock
Harold Whitlock (Hector Harold Whitlock, 1903-1985), British race walker, Metropolitan Walking Club; 1936 Berlin Olympic 50km walk gold in 4:30:41.4, 1938 European champion, six national titles, later coach of Don Thompson.
Harold Widom
Harold Widom (1932–2021) was an American mathematician at UC Santa Cruz who made foundational contributions to Toeplitz operators and, with Craig Tracy, discovered the Tracy–Widom distributions.
Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson (Baron Wilson of Rievaulx) was British Labour Prime Minister 1964–70 and 1974–76, Labour leader 1963–76, won four of five elections, devalued sterling in 1967, and held the 1975 EEC referendum.
Harold Y. Hwang
Harold Y. Hwang (황윤성) is an American condensed matter physicist, professor at Stanford and SLAC, known for superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates and emergent phenomena at oxide interfaces.
Harold Y. McSween
Harold Y. McSween, known as Hap McSween, is an American planetary petrologist and cosmochemist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who proposed that the shergottite meteorites came from Mars.
Haroldo de Campos
Haroldo de Campos (1929–2003) was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator who co-founded Concrete poetry in Brazil and coined transcreation, his theory of creative literary translation.
Harom Hara (హరోం హరా)
Harom Hara (హరోం హర) is a 2024 Telugu period action crime drama directed by Gnanasagar Dwaraka, starring Sudheer Babu as a 1989 Kuppam lab assistant who enters illegal gun manufacturing; released 14 June 2024, A certificate, mixed reviews, box-office failure.
Harp
Harp: plucked string instrument with strings perpendicular to the soundboard and no bridge, known since third-millennium BCE Mesopotamia; modern concert pedal harp has 47 strings and Erard's 1810 double-action mechanism.
HARP (algorithm)
HARP (harmonic phase) MRI algorithm, by Osman and Prince, Johns Hopkins, 1999: rapid analysis of SPAMM-tagged cardiac MR images using invariant harmonic phase to track myocardial motion and strain; basis of Diagnosoft HARP software.
Harp seal
Harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also called Greenland seal or saddle-back seal: an ice-breeding phocid seal of the North Atlantic with a harp-shaped back patch, whitecoat pups, three populations, and a long commercial hunt history.
Harpa (concert hall)
Harpa is Reykjavík's concert hall and conference centre, opened 2011 at Austurbakka 2. Designed by Henning Larsen, Batteríið, and Olafur Eliasson, it houses Eldborg (up to 1,734 seats), the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and won the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award.
Harpacticoida
Harpacticoida, an order of benthic copepod crustaceans (G. O. Sars, 1903; harpacticoid copepods), with 463 genera and about 3,000 species in marine, freshwater, and moist terrestrial habitats; key meiofauna, fish prey, and live feed.
Harpactirinae
Harpactirinae (Pocock, 1897), African baboon-spider tarantulas, a Theraphosidae subfamily of about 60 species in 10 genera, exclusive to eastern and southern Africa, burrowing in dry grasslands and sister to Stromatopelminae.
Harpadon nehereus
Harpadon nehereus, the Bombay duck (Loitta fish), is a lizardfish (Synodontidae) of Indo-West Pacific nearshore waters, a major dried and fresh food fish in India and Bangladesh, IUCN Near Threatened.
Harpagia Sulcus
Harpagia Sulcus is a 1,400-km-wide grooved bright-terrain lane on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered near 11.8°S, 313.5°W, named in 1985; Galileo G28 images showed its smooth terrain is finely tectonically deformed.