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Harry B. Harris Jr.
Harry B. Harris Jr., retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and diplomat; first Asian-American four-star in the Navy, 24th commander of U.S. Pacific Command (2015–2018), and U.S. ambassador to South Korea (2018–2021).
Harry B. Whittington
Harry B. Whittington, also known as Harry Blackmore Whittington, was a British paleontologist (1916–2010), professor at Harvard and Cambridge, and leading trilobite authority who re-described the Burgess Shale.
Harry Babcock
Harry Babcock (Henry Stoddard Babcock, 1890–1965), American pole vaulter with the NYAC, won the 1912 Stockholm Olympic pole vault gold at 3.95 m, an Olympic record, ahead of Nelson and Wright.
Harry Bartelink
Harry Bartelink, born 1946, is a Dutch radiation oncologist who directed radiation oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam from 1985 to 2007 and led European breast and lung cancer trials.
Harry Bateman
Harry Bateman (1882–1946) was an English-born mathematical physicist, professor at Caltech from 1917, known for the Bateman equation, work on partial differential equations, and the posthumous Bateman Manuscript Project.
Harry Beevers
Harry Beevers (1924–2004) was a British-born American plant biochemist at Purdue University and UC Santa Cruz, best known for discovering the glyoxysome, the organelle that converts stored seed fat into sugar for the growing seedling.
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (Harold George Belafonte Jr., 1927–2023), Jamaican-American singer, actor, and civil rights activist; his 1956 album Calypso was the first million-selling LP by a single artist, and he was the first African American man to win an Emmy.
Harry Belden
Harry Belden, also known as HPB, is an American actor and voice actor born in Chicago who voices Morty Smith and Evil Morty on Rick and Morty from season 7 (2023), after winning a six-month open audition to replace Justin Roiland.
Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia, born Arri Bertoia (1915–1978), was an Italian-born American artist and designer known for sounding metal sculptures and the wire Diamond chair he made for Knoll.
Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1970-1994, Nixon appointee, former Mayo Clinic counsel, author of Roe v. Wade, known for his shift from conservative to liberal jurisprudence.
Harry Blackstaffe
Harry Blackstaffe (Henry Thomas Blackstaffe, 1868-1951), English sculler of Vesta Rowing Club who won 1908 Olympic single sculls gold at age 40, oldest Olympic sculling champion, and 15-time winner of Britain's Triple Crown sculling events.
Harry Boldt
Harry Boldt (born 23 February 1930, Insterburg) is a German dressage rider and coach; individual silver and team gold at the 1964 Tokyo and 1976 Montreal Olympics on Remus and Woycek, author of Das Dressurpferd, and German national dressage coach 1981–1996.
Harry Bolton Seed
Harry Bolton Seed (1922–1989) was an English-born American civil engineer at UC Berkeley, known as the father of geotechnical earthquake engineering for his work on soil behavior in earthquakes.
Harry Borthwick
Harry Borthwick (1898–1974) was an American plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who headed the Beltsville photoperiodism research culminating in the discovery of phytochrome, the light-receptive pigment in all higher plants.
Harry Bosch
Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is the LAPD homicide detective created by Michael Connelly in The Black Echo (1992), now spanning 25 novels, crossovers with Mickey Haller and Renée Ballard, and Prime Video series starring Titus Welliver.
Harry Briggs
Harry Briggs is a British venture capital investor known for sourcing investments in THG, Revolut, and GoCardless at Balderton Capital, and now a Partner at Astanor Ventures.
Harry Brightmore
Harry Brightmore (born 1994, Chester) is a British rowing coxswain who steered the GB men's eight to Paris 2024 Olympic gold, plus world titles in 2022 and 2023 and European titles in 2022 and 2024; now an Oxford University Boat Club assistant coach.
Harry Bronson
Harry Bronson is an American Democratic politician who has represented Rochester and nearby towns in the New York State Assembly since 2011, serving as chair of the Assembly Labor Committee.
Harry Brook
Harry Cherrington Brook (born 1999), English right-handed batter for Yorkshire and England, white-ball captain from April 2025, 2022 T20 World Cup winner, Test triple-centurion (317 at Multan 2024), average 54.79.
Harry Brown (film)
Harry Brown (2009) is a British vigilante thriller, Daniel Barber's feature debut, starring Michael Caine as a widowed ex-Marine avenging his friend's murder on a South London estate; UK release 13 November 2009, Empire Award Best British Film 2010.
Harry C. Dietz
Harry C. Dietz, also known as Hal C. Dietz III, is an American cardiologist and human geneticist at Johns Hopkins who identified genes behind Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes.
Harry C. Dorn
Harry C. Dorn was an American fullerene chemist on the Virginia Tech faculty for fifty years, known for discovering trimetallic nitride template endohedral metallofullerenes in 1999.
Harry C. Gatos
Harry C. Gatos, full name Harry Constantine Gatos (1921–2015), was an American materials scientist at MIT who developed the science of electronic materials, especially gallium arsenide.
Harry Cadby
Harry Cadby is a British actor, LAMDA graduate (2021), known for Cameron in Netflix's Everything Now, Matty in Little Bone Lodge, and Sonny Conran in Channel 4's In Flight; also O'Dessa, Dope Girls, and A Woman of Substance (2026).
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was an American photographer known for spare, lyrical images of his wife Eleanor, nature, and the city, and for decades of influential teaching.
Harry Campbell (physician and epidemiologist)
Harry Campbell is a Scottish physician and epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh known for the first global estimates of childhood pneumonia burden from RSV and influenza.
Harry Caray
Harry Caray (born Harry Christopher Carabina, 1914-1998), American baseball broadcaster for the Cardinals, Athletics, White Sox, and Cubs; Ford C. Frick Award 1989, famous for "Holy Cow!" and singing the seventh-inning stretch.
Harry Carey (actor)
Harry Carey (Henry DeWitt Carey II, 1878–1947), American silent-film Western superstar and Cheyenne Harry of the John Ford Universal films; later an Oscar-nominated character actor in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, distinct from his son Harry Carey Jr.
Harry Carey Jr.
Harry Carey Jr., also known as Dobe Carey (1921–2012), was an American character actor best known for Westerns, appearing in more than 100 films including many for John Ford.
Harry Chamberlin
Harry Dwight Chamberlin (1887–1944), US Army brigadier general and Olympic equestrian, won 1932 team eventing gold and individual jumping silver on Show Girl; pioneered the American forward seat.