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Harry Chapin
Harry Chapin (1942-1981) was an American folk singer-songwriter of "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle" who founded World Hunger Year (WhyHunger) and Long Island Cares, served on the Presidential Commission on World Hunger, and died in a 1981 crash.
Harry Charles
Harry Charles (born 1999, Belfast) is a British show jumper, son of Peter Charles; Olympic team gold at Paris 2024 on Romeo 88, world bronze at Aachen 2026 on LT Holst Freda.
Harry Churcher
Harry Churcher (Harry George Churcher, 1910-1972), British racewalker for Belgrave Harriers; fifth in the 10 km walk at the 1948 London Olympics and multiple AAA and RWA national walking champion.
Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke (Henry Patrick Clarke, 1889–1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator who made about 55 stained-glass commissions and illustrated Poe and Andersen.
Harry Cliff
Harry Cliff is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Cambridge and a member of the LHCb experiment at CERN, searching rare beauty decays for physics beyond the Standard Model.
Harry Clinton Gossard
Harry Clinton Gossard (1884–1954) was an American mathematician whose 1916 result on the Euler line gave triangle geometry the Gossard triangle and the Gossard perspector, triangle center X(402).
Harry Colebourn
Harry Colebourn (1887 to 1947) was a Canadian veterinarian and army captain who bought the black bear cub Winnie in 1914, the London Zoo bear after which Winnie-the-Pooh was named.
Harry Collett
Harry Collett (born 2004, Havering, London) is an English actor, not the Australian senator Herbert Collett or the DJ of the same name, known for Jacaerys Velaryon in House of the Dragon (2022–2026), Tommy Stubbins in Dolittle, Dunkirk, and Casualty.
Harry Collins
Harry Collins, born 1943, is a British sociologist of science at Cardiff University, founder of the sociology of scientific knowledge and theorist of tacit expertise.
Harry Connick Jr.
Harry Connick Jr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr.), born 1967 in New Orleans, is an American jazz and pop singer-pianist, composer, and actor with 3 Grammy wins from 16 nominations, 11 Billboard jazz chart number-one albums, Tony nominations, and the 2026 Carnegie Hall premiere of Babe: Elaboratio.
Harry Connick Sr.
Harry Connick Sr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr., 1926-2024), New Orleans district attorney for Orleans Parish 1973-2003, longest-serving in city history; defeated Jim Garrison; central figure in Connick v. Thompson Brady case; father of Harry Connick Jr.
Harry Coover
Harry Coover (1917–2011) was an American chemist at Eastman Kodak who invented Super Glue, the cyanoacrylate adhesive patented in 1954, and received the National Medal of Technology in 2010.
Harry Corner
Harry Richard Corner (1874–1938), English cricketer from Taunton, won gold with the Devon and Somerset Wanderers in the only Olympic cricket match, Paris 1900, added as a twelfth player.
Harry Crews
Harry Crews (1935-2012), American Southern Gothic novelist and memoirist, author of A Feast of Snakes and A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, longtime University of Florida writing professor.
Harry Crosby (businessman)
Harry Crosby, born Harry Lillis Crosby III in 1958, is an American investment banker and private equity executive, and the fifth son of Bing Crosby.
Harry Daghlian
Harry Daghlian, born Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr., was an American Manhattan Project physicist who died of acute radiation syndrome after a 1945 criticality accident at Los Alamos.
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017), American character actor and musician of about 200 films; star of Paris, Texas and Repo Man, David Lynch collaborator, Harry Dean Stanton Band frontman, final lead in Lucky.
Harry Debaecke
Harry Debaecke (Harry Leopold DeBaecke, 1879-1961), American rower with Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; stroke of the eight that won gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the first Olympic rowing regatta.
Harry Dexter White
Harry Dexter White, American Treasury economist (1892–1948), chief architect of the IMF and Bretton Woods system; his White Plan defeated Keynes's; first US IMF Executive Director; later accused of espionage as VENONA's 'Jurist'.
Harry Dym
Harry Dym (1938–2024) was a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot who worked on interpolation theory and is known for the Harry Dym equation.
Harry E. Bovay Jr.
Harry E. Bovay Jr. was an American civil engineer who founded Bovay Engineers in Houston and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Harry E. Chesebrough
Harry E. Chesebrough (died 1998) was an American mechanical engineer at Chrysler Corporation who later headed Plymouth and SIMCA engineering and served as president of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Harry E. Cook
Harry E. Cook is an American engineer and University of Illinois professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to phase transition theory and automotive materials.
Harry Eagle
Harry Eagle (1905–1992) was an American microbiologist and cell biologist who developed Eagle's minimum essential medium, making routine culture of human and animal cells possible.
Harry Enfield
Harry Enfield (born 1961, Horsham, West Sussex), English character comedian; also known for Stavros, Loadsamoney, Tim Nice-But-Dim, Kevin the Teenager; Saturday Live and Harry Enfield and Chums creator, later King Charles in The Windsors.
Harry Enten
Harry Enten is CNN's Chief Data Analyst (since February 2025), previously a senior political writer at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight and The Guardian; host of the Margins of Error podcast and Dartmouth graduate known for polling analysis.
Harry F. Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (1887–1966), Virginia governor 1926–1930 and U.S. senator 1933–1965, led the Byrd Organization machine for forty years on pay-as-you-go fiscal conservatism and later Massive Resistance to school desegregation.
Harry F. Byrd Jr.
Harry F. Byrd Jr. (1914–2013), Virginia newspaper publisher and U.S. senator 1965–1983; son of Harry F. Byrd Sr.; left the Democrats in 1970 and became the first senator elected and reelected as an Independent.
Harry F. Noller
Harry F. Noller is an American molecular biochemist at UC Santa Cruz who established that ribosomal RNA is the functional heart of the ribosome, winning the 2017 Breakthrough Prize.
Harry F. Olson
Harry F. Olson was an American acoustical engineer who directed acoustical research at RCA for nearly forty years and invented the velocity microphone, the cardioid microphone, and the air-suspension loudspeaker.