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Harry Knowles

Harry Knowles, American film writer, founder of Ain't It Cool News (AICN, 1996, Austin, Texas), the influential movie-fan site behind the Batman and Robin and Titanic test-screening scoops; also Famous Monsters editor and 2002 autobiographer.

Harry Krensky

Harry Krensky is an American investor who co-founded Discovery Capital Management, a Connecticut emerging-markets hedge fund, in 1999, and also leads Discovery Americas, a Mexican private equity firm that co-founded the airline Volaris.

Harry L. Malech

Harry L. Malech, born Harry Lewis Malech, is an American immunologist at NIAID who has led gene therapy for chronic granulomatous disease since 1991, including first-in-human prime-edited stem cell therapy.

Harry L. Shapiro

Harry L. Shapiro (1902–1990) was an American physical anthropologist who spent his career at the American Museum of Natural History and studied the Bounty mutineers' Pacific descendants.

Harry L. Swinney

Harry L. Swinney (1939–2026) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Texas at Austin known for table-top experiments on chaos, pattern formation, and turbulence.

Harry L. Tuller

Harry L. Tuller is an American materials scientist at MIT working in electroceramics and solid-state ionics; he joined MIT in 1975 and co-founded Boston MicroSystems, a silicon carbide MEMS company.

Harry L. Van Trees

Harry L. Van Trees (1930–2022) was an American engineer and educator known as a founder of detection and estimation theory, the statistical basis of communications, radar, and sonar.

Harry L.A. Janssen

Harry L.A. Janssen (Harry Janssen) is a Dutch hepatologist, Professor and Chair of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the 2013 miravirsen hepatitis C trial.

Harry Lawtey

Harry Lawtey is a British actor known for playing Robert Spearing in the HBO drama Industry (2020–2024) and Harvey Dent in Joker: Folie à Deux (2024).

Harry Lehmann

Harry Lehmann (1924–1998) was a German theoretical physicist who, with Symanzik and Zimmermann, co-created the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation, core tools of quantum field theory.

Harry Lennix

Harry Lennix (Harry Joseph Lennix III, born 1964) is an American actor from Chicago, stage-trained at Northwestern, known for Commander Lock in The Matrix sequels, General Swanwick in DC films, Harold Cooper on The Blacklist, and a 2025 Tony nomination for Purpose on Broadway.

Harry Lighton

Harry Lighton (born 1992) is a British writer-director whose debut feature Pillion (2025), adapted from Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill, won Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Screenplay, a Gotham Award, and BAFTA nominations.

Harry Littlewort

Harry Littlewort (Henry Charles Littlewort, 1882-1934), English amateur footballer with Glossop North End; won 1912 Olympic football gold for Great Britain, played the final at centre-half, and later wrote for the News Chronicle.

Harry Llewellyn

Sir Harry Llewellyn (1911–1999), Welsh show jumper and Olympic gold medalist, rode Foxhunter to Britain's only gold at the 1952 Helsinki Games after 1948 team bronze; also Grand National runner-up and Sports Council of Wales chairman.

Harry Lloyd

Harry Lloyd (Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd, born 1983) is an English actor, Dickens's great-great-great-grandson, known for Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, Will Scarlet in Robin Hood, Viktor in Arcane, and as George Martin in Sam Mendes' 2028 Beatles films.

Harry M. Conger

Harry M. Conger is the name shared by two mining engineers, father and son: Harry Milton Conger III, a Homestake Mining executive, and his son Conger IV, a Freeport-McMoRan executive.

Harry M. Meyer

Harry M. Meyer, or Harry Martin Meyer Jr. (1928–2001), was an American pediatrician and virologist who co-developed the first rubella vaccine and later led the FDA's Bureau of Biologics.

Harry M. Red Conger IV

Harry M. "Red" Conger IV is an American mining engineer who was President and COO of the Americas at Freeport-McMoRan and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Harry M. Rose

Harry M. Rose (Harry Melvin Rose, 1906–1986) was an American physician and microbiologist at Columbia University who developed the first reliable diagnostic test for rheumatoid arthritis.

Harry Mack

Harry Mack (Harry Hamilton McKenzie), American freestyle rapper and YouTuber; Guerrilla Bars and Omegle Bars series; Venice Beach Freestyle went viral February 2017; over 2.5 billion views, 24 million followers; three international tours.

Harry Maguire

Harry Maguire (born 1993, Sheffield) is an English centre-back for Manchester United and England, 66 caps, world-record £80m defender signing in 2019, former United captain, Carabao Cup and FA Cup winner.

Harry Maione

Harry "Happy" Maione (1908–1942), Brooklyn gangster, led the Ocean Hill Hooligans and killed for Murder, Inc.; executed at Sing Sing February 19, 1942 for the Rudnick murder.

Harry Mallin

Harry Mallin (Henry William Mallin, 1892-1969), British middleweight amateur boxer and Metropolitan Police officer; Olympic middleweight gold at Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924, first boxer to defend an Olympic title, five ABA titles, undefeated in over 300 bouts.

Harry Man

Harry Man is a Hong Kong-born venture capital investor in Beijing, a founding member of Matrix Partners China since 2008, specializing in AI, deep tech, and robotics.

Harry Markopolos

Harry Markopolos is an American investor and forensic accountant who uncovered Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, repeatedly reporting it to the SEC between 2000 and 2008 before Madoff's 2008 arrest.

Harry Markowitz

Harry Markowitz (1927–2023), American economist and 1990 Nobel laureate, founded modern portfolio theory with his 1952 paper "Portfolio Selection," introducing mean-variance analysis and the efficient frontier for portfolio choice.

Harry Marshall Ward

Harry Marshall Ward (1854–1906) was a British botanist and mycologist whose investigation of coffee leaf rust in Ceylon placed him in the first rank of mycological investigators, and who later became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson (1904–1978) was a Swedish modernist poet, novelist, and travel writer who won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature, shared with Eyvind Johnson, and wrote the space epic Aniara.

Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews (1930–2017) was an American novelist, poet, and translator known for experimental fiction built on formal constraints and as the first American member of the Oulipo, the Paris-based group of constrained writing.

Harry Melville (chemist)

Sir Harry Work Melville was a British physical chemist known for polymerization kinetics who left research in 1956 to lead Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.