All articles starting with H

Harry Herbert Crosby

Harry Herbert Crosby (1919-2010) was lead navigator of the 100th Bomb Group, the "Bloody 100th", Eighth Air Force; author of the 1993 memoir A Wing and a Prayer and BU professor.

Harry Hill

Harry Hill is the stage name of Matthew Hall, an English comedian and former doctor who hosted TV Burp from 2001 to 2012 and won the 1992 Perrier Award.

Harry Livingston Hillman, Jr. (1881–1945), American sprinter-hurdler of the NYAC; won three 1904 St. Louis Olympic golds (400m, 200m and 400m hurdles) and 1908 silver, then coached Dartmouth track from 1910.

Harry Hole

Harry Hole is the fictional Oslo police detective created by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, debuting in Flaggermusmannen (1997). Thirteen novels through Blodmåne (2022), over 50 million copies sold, Netflix adaptation of Marekors launched 2025.

Harry Holiday

Harry Holiday Jr. (1923-1999), American backstroke swimmer and steel executive; set 7 world records, won 6 NCAA titles for Michigan, and in 1943 beat Adolph Kiefer; later led Armco.

Harry Hollander

Harry Hollander is an American infectious-disease physician and medical educator at UCSF, known for early HIV research and for directing its internal medicine residency program from 1995 to 2018.

Harry Holm

Harry Holm (1902–1987), Danish artistic gymnast with Hermod, Esbjerg; won gold in the men's team free system event for Denmark at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and later judged floor exercise at the 1952 Games.

Harry Hopkins

Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890–1946), Iowa-born social worker and statesman; New Deal relief chief (FERA, CWA, WPA), Secretary of Commerce 1938–40, and Roosevelt's Lend-Lease administrator and wartime emissary to Churchill and Stalin.

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz, 1874-1926), Hungarian-American magician and escape artist born in Budapest, famed for handcuff, Milk Can, and Water Torture Cell escapes, and for exposing spiritualist mediums including Margery Crandon.

Harry Howell (footballer)

Harry Howell (born 2008, Worthing) is an English attacking midfielder/right winger; Brighton's youngest-ever Premier League player, now on loan at Leicester City with a Brighton contract to June 2029.

Harry Humby

Harry Robinson Humby (1879-1923), British sport shooter of the Alexandra Palace Rifle Club; won gold and silver in small-bore rifle at the 1908 London Olympics, trap team silver in 1912, and placed fourth in trap teams in 1912 and 1920.

Harry Island

Harry Island (Isla Enrique, Île Harry) is a small icecapped island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, north of Spallanzani Point, Brabant Island, discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-1899 and named for journalist Gérard Harry.

Harry J. Anslinger

Harry J. Anslinger (1892–1975) was the first and longest-serving Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930–1962, architect of the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the Boggs Act, and the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

Harry J. Dankowicz

Harry J. Dankowicz is a mechanical engineer and applied dynamicist who received a 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for research on nonsmooth dynamical systems and instability control.

Harry J. de Koning

Harry J. de Koning (Henricus J. de Koning) is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist and professor at Erasmus MC who designed and led the NELSON lung-cancer screening trial.

Harry J. Sonneborn

Harry J. Sonneborn, former Tastee-Freez finance vice president and McDonald's first president and CEO (1959-1967), devised the Franchise Realty Corporation real estate model, making McDonald's landlord to its franchisees and its main income source rent, not burgers.

Harry J.G.M. Crijns

Harry J.G.M. Crijns is a Dutch cardiologist and emeritus professor at Maastricht University known for the RACE trials, which showed lenient rate control is safe in atrial fibrillation.

Harry J.M. Groen

Harry J.M. Groen is a Dutch pulmonologist and thoracic oncology researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, known for a 2000 study of PET scanning in lung cancer staging.

Harry Jaggard

Harry Jaggard is an English travel vlogger and content creator known for generosity-themed travel videos, a 1M-follower Facebook page, multi-platform vlogs, and The Holafly Podcast.

Harry James

Harry James (Harry Haag James, 1916–1983), American swing trumpeter and big-band leader from Albany, Georgia; played in Benny Goodman's trumpet section, led the Harry James Orchestra from 1939, hired Frank Sinatra, and scored "You Made Me Love You."

Harry Jerome

Harry Jerome (Henry Winston Jerome, 1940-1982), Canadian sprinter and three-time Olympian; set or equaled seven world records including 100m 10.0 and 100yd 9.1, won 100m bronze at Tokyo 1964, later promoted youth sport in Canada.

Harry Judd

Harry Judd (born 1985, Chelmsford, Essex) is the English drummer of pop-rock band McFly, winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2011, McBusted member, and Coach Bolton in High School Musical, London 2026.

Harry Kane

Harry Kane (born 1993, London) is an English striker for Bayern Munich and captain of England, its all-time record scorer with 125 caps; ex-Tottenham record scorer with 280 goals, 2018 World Cup Golden Boot winner.

Harry Kendall Thaw

Harry Kendall Thaw (1871-1947), Pittsburgh railroad-heir millionaire, murdered architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906 over White's affair with his wife Evelyn Nesbit; his two trials, the first 'trial of the century,' ended in an insanity acquittal.

Harry Kent (cyclist)

Harry Dale Kent (1947-2021) was a New Zealand track cyclist, born in Upper Hutt, who won the 1 km time trial at the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, New Zealand's first Commonwealth cycling gold, and took 1970 world kilo silver behind Niels Fredborg.