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Harry Fielding Reid
Harry Fielding Reid was an American seismologist and glaciologist at Johns Hopkins University who developed the elastic rebound theory of earthquakes from studies of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Harry George Armstrong
Harry George Armstrong was an American physician and Air Force major general who founded the Aero Medical Laboratory and gave his name to the Armstrong limit.
Harry George Drickamer
Harry George Drickamer, born Harold George Weidenthal, was an American chemical engineer who spent 56 years at the University of Illinois and pioneered pressure tuning spectroscopy.
Harry Gideon Wells
Harry Gideon Wells (1875–1943) was an American pathologist and immunologist who chaired pathology at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1925.
Harry Gilbert (biochemist)
Harry Gilbert was a biochemist and glycobiologist, Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry at Newcastle University, known for showing how gut bacteria break down complex carbohydrates; he died in 2025.
Harry Glancy
Harry Glancy (Harrison Smith Glancy, 1904-2002), American freestyle swimmer; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the 4x200 m relay with a 9:53.4 world record alongside Johnny Weissmuller, later a three-time Olympic swim judge and 1990 Hall of Fame inductee.
Harry Goldblatt
Harry Goldblatt (1891–1977) was an American pathologist whose 1934 experiment producing persistent high blood pressure in dogs by clamping the renal arteries created the first animal model of hypertension.
Harry Gordon Selfridge
Harry Gordon Selfridge, known as Gordon Selfridge, was an American retailer who spent 25 years at Marshall Field's in Chicago before founding Selfridges on Oxford Street in 1909.
Harry Gray (footballer, born 2008)
Harry Andrew Gray (born 2008) is an English centre-forward for Leeds United, brother of Archie Gray; debuted for Leeds at 16, signed a pro contract in 2025, and has loans at Rotherham United and Sheffield Wednesday.
Harry Greb
Harry Greb (Edward Henry Berg, 1894-1926), "The Pittsburgh Windmill," American boxer; world middleweight champion 1923-26, light heavyweight champion 1922-23, the only man to beat Gene Tunney, fought blind in one eye.
Harry Green
Harry Green (Henry Harold Green, 1886-1934), British marathon runner of Herne Hill Harriers; 14th at Stockholm 1912 Olympics, set a 2:38:16.2 world best marathon in 1913; distinct from the Texas 10,000m runner of the same name.
Harry Gregg
Harry Gregg (1932-2020), Northern Ireland and Manchester United goalkeeper, world-record 1957 signing, hero of the 1958 Munich air disaster, best keeper of the 1958 World Cup, later manager of Shrewsbury, Swansea, Crewe, and Carlisle.
Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 1961, Sussex) is a British film, TV, and video game composer known for all four Shrek films, Narnia, The Martian, Gladiator II, and Metal Gear Solid, trained at St John's College, Cambridge, and via Hans Zimmer's circle.
Harry Grundfest
Harry Grundfest (1904–1983) was an American neurophysiologist and National Academy of Sciences member who, at the Rockefeller Institute and Columbia, established nerve fiber conduction velocities and GABA's inhibitory role.
Harry Guardino
Harry Guardino (1925–1995), American character actor of film, TV, and Broadway; Lt. Al Bressler in Dirty Harry and The Enforcer, Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason, Tony nominee for One More River.
Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett (1925-1982), English actor (not the Sooty entertainer Harry Corbett), played Harold Steptoe in Steptoe and Son from 1962 to 1974; Method-trained stage actor, OBE 1976, subject of his daughter's 2012 biography.
Harry H. Low
Harry H. Low is a structural biologist and professor at Imperial College London known for his 2006 Nature structure of a bacterial dynamin-like protein and work on ESCRT-III-like membrane remodelling.
Harry Hadden-Paton
Harry Hadden-Paton, English actor born 1981 in London, LAMDA-trained; known as Bertie Pelham in Downton Abbey, Martin Charteris in The Crown, and Tony-nominated Henry Higgins in the 2018 Broadway My Fair Lady revival.
Harry Haft
Harry Haft (Hertzka Haft), Polish Jewish Auschwitz survivor forced to box fellow prisoners for SS officers, escaped, emigrated to the US in 1948, and lost to Rocky Marciano in 1949; subject of a 2006 book and the film The Survivor.
Harry Hamlin
Harry Hamlin (Harry Robinson Hamlin, born 1951) is an American actor known as Perseus in Clash of the Titans, Michael Kuzak on L.A. Law, and Jim Cutler on Mad Men, also a stage actor, memoirist, and fusion-energy entrepreneur.
Harry Hammond Hess
Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969) was an American geologist and Princeton professor who proposed seafloor spreading in 1960, the mechanism underlying plate tectonics, and received the Penrose Medal in 1966.
Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow, born Harry Frederick Israel, was an American comparative psychologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for rhesus monkey experiments on attachment and maternal separation.
Harry Harris (biochemical geneticist)
Harry Harris (1919–1994) was a British-born human biochemical geneticist who used enzyme electrophoresis to show that genetic variation among ordinary healthy people is common and usually harmless.
Harry Hart (mathematician)
Harry Hart (1848–1920) was a mathematician of the linkage and coordinate geometry tradition, affiliated with the Royal Military Academy and publishing in the 1870s and 1880s.
Harry Haslam
Harry Haslam (Harry Eustace Haslam, 1883-1955), English field hockey goalkeeper, Ilford HC; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold with Great Britain, first GB hockey team, men's player No. 1; OBE, journalist, distinct from footballer Henry Haslam.
Harry Hay
Harry Hay (1912–2002), British-born American activist, Communist Party member, and founder of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in 1950; later co-founded the Radical Faeries in 1979.
Harry Hebner
Harry Joseph Hebner (1891-1968), American swimmer and water polo player of the Illinois Athletic Club; won the 1912 Olympic 100 m backstroke gold (1:21.2) with the revolutionary crawl backstroke, held all world backstroke records 1910-1917, and competed at the 1908, 1912, and 1920 Games.
Harry Heller
Harry Heller (1899–1967) was an Israeli physician born in Berlin who defined familial Mediterranean fever, classified the inherited amyloidoses, and was medical director of Tel-Hashomer Hospital.
Harry Hemingway
Harry Hemingway is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at University College London, whose research on electronic health records has shaped cardiovascular prevention guidelines and policy.
Harry Hemley Plaskett
Harry Hemley Plaskett (1893–1980) was a Canadian astronomer and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford from 1932 to 1960, a pioneer of rigorous observational astrophysics and solar spectroscopy.