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Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 dystopian short story from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Welcome to the Monkey House, set in 2081 where the Handicapper General enforces absolute equality by handicapping the gifted.
Harrison Bettoni
Harrison Bettoni (Harrison Lee Bettoni), English attacking midfielder born 2007, left-footed, 191 cm. Wigan Athletic 2025-26 breakthrough (27 apps, 4 goals), signed by Chelsea in July 2026 on a contract until 2030.
Harrison Black
Harrison Black was an American thoracic surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for early open-heart surgery and closed mitral valve surgery.
Harrison Brown
Harrison Brown (1917–1986) was an American geochemist who developed the plutonium isolation process for the Manhattan Project, then used meteorites to date the Earth at 4.5 billion years.
Harrison Butker
Harrison Butker (born 1995) is the Kansas City Chiefs placekicker, a 2017 seventh-round pick from Georgia Tech; three-time Super Bowl champion, holder of the 57-yard Super Bowl-record field goal and Chiefs' 62-yard franchise record.
Harrison C. Spencer
Harrison C. Spencer, born Harrison Clark Spencer Jr., was an American malaria epidemiologist who led the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and ASPPH.
Harrison County, Mississippi, United States
Harrison County, Mississippi: Gulf Coast county established 1841, named for President William Henry Harrison, with dual seats Gulfport and Biloxi; 217,136 residents in 2025, the state's most populous county by that estimate.
Harrison Dillard
Harrison "Bones" Dillard (William Harrison Dillard, 1923–2019), American sprinter-hurdler; only man to win Olympic gold in both the 100 m (London 1948) and 110 m hurdles (Helsinki 1952), plus two relay golds.
Harrison Echols
Harrison Echols was an American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley whose studies of bacteriophage lambda showed how the virus recombines into the bacterial chromosome; he died in 1993.
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born 1942, Chicago) is an American actor known as Han Solo in Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner. A former carpenter, he earned over $12 billion at the box office, an Oscar nomination for Witness, and the AFI (2000) and SAG-AFTRA (2026) Life Achievement Awards.
Harrison Ford filmography
Harrison Ford filmography: screen credits of the American actor (born 1942), from Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) through Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Jack Ryan, and 2025 Marvel roles.
Harrison Gray (research geologist)
Harrison J. Gray is an American research geologist at the USGS Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center in Lakewood, Colorado, who received the 2025 PECASE award.
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. (1866–1929) was an American entomologist who formulated Dyar's Law, the geometric-growth rule for insect larvae still in use, and built the United States National Museum's Lepidoptera collection.
Harrison Hong
Harrison Hong is an American financial economist, the John R. Eckel Jr. Professor at Columbia University, known for work on disagreement and market crashes and sin stocks.
Harrison Jones (English footballer)
Harrison Martin Jones (born 2004) is an English midfielder who came through Sunderland's academy, made 7 first-team appearances, and joined EFL League One club Peterborough United in 2026.
Harrison Marks
Harrison Marks (George Harrison Marks, 1926–1997), English glamour photographer and film director. Founded Kamera magazine with Pamela Green in 1957; made Naked as Nature Intended and Come Play With Me.
Harrison McCain
Harrison McCain, known as H. Harrison McCain, was a Canadian executive who co-founded McCain Foods in 1956 and built it into the world's largest maker of frozen french fries.
Harrison Metal Capital
Harrison Metal Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by former eBay executives Michael Dearing and Erik Rannala, whose investments include AdMob, Heroku, and PagerDuty.
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914), also called the Harrison Act or Harrison Narcotic Act, was the first major U.S. federal drug law, taxing and registering handlers of opium and coca products and becoming, through court rulings, the foundation of American drug prohibition until 1970.
Harrison power station
Harrison Power Station is a coal-fired power plant in Haywood, West Virginia, along the West Fork River, owned by Mon Power, with three units totaling 1,984 megawatts.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler
Harrison Ruffin Tyler (1928-2025), last living grandson of President John Tyler; ChemTreat co-founder; restored Sherwood Forest Plantation and Fort Pocahontas; gave $5 million to William & Mary.
Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, astronaut, and senator who flew on Apollo 17 in 1972 as the twelfth and last person to walk on the Moon.
Harrison Shull
Harrison Shull (1923–2003) was an American theoretical chemist known for quantum-mechanical work on small-molecule electronic spectra and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1969.
Harrison Street Asset Management
Harrison Street Asset Management is a Chicago-headquartered investment firm with over $109 billion in real assets under management, co-founded by Christopher Merrill in 2005 and majority-owned by Colliers since 2018.
Harrison Wells
Harrison Wells is an original Arrowverse character from The Flash (2014-2023), played by Tom Cavanagh; the season 1 Wells was secretly the Reverse-Flash Eobard Thawne, and later seasons introduced multiverse doppelgängers such as Harry, H.R., Sherloque, and Nash Wells.
Harrison White
Harrison White (1930–2024) was an American sociologist at Columbia University who moved from theoretical physics into sociology and became a founder of modern social network analysis, known for structural equivalence, blockmodels, and vacancy chains.
Harrison, Arkansas
Harrison, Arkansas: county seat of Boone County in the Ozarks, population 13,069 (2020). Known for the 1905 and 1909 race riots that made it a sundown town, nearby Knights of the KKK compound, and Buffalo National River headquarters.
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg, Virginia: independent city and Rockingham County seat in the Shenandoah Valley, also called the Friendly City or Rocktown. Founded 1780 by Thomas Harrison; home of James Madison University; 2020 population 51,814.
Harro Bode
Harro Bode (born 1951) is a German sailor and civil engineer; with Frank Hübner he won 470-class Olympic gold at Montréal 1976, then became a University of Hannover professor and Ruhrverband chairman in water management.
Harro Höfliger
Harro Höfliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH is a German family-owned machinery manufacturer founded in 1975, headquartered in Allmersbach im Tal, that builds production and packaging systems for the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries.