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Harvey Norman
Harvey Norman is an Australian retailer of computers, electrical goods, appliances, bedding, and furniture, running a franchised network of large-format stores under the Harvey Norman, Domayne, and Joyce Mayne brands.
Harvey O. Banks
Harvey O. Banks (Harvey Oren Banks) was an American civil engineer who, as the first director of the California Department of Water Resources, planned the State Water Project.
Harvey Oren Banks
Harvey Oren Banks (1910–1996) was an American water resources engineer who, as first Director of the California Department of Water Resources, shaped the State Water Project.
Harvey Peeler
Harvey Peeler is an American Republican politician and cattle farmer from Gaffney, South Carolina, who served as President of the South Carolina Senate from 2019 to 2021.
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar (1939-2010), American comic book writer and jazz critic from Cleveland, creator of the autobiographical series American Splendor, illustrated by Robert Crumb and others; won the 1987 American Book Award and inspired the 2003 Sundance-winning film.
Harvey R. Colten
Harvey R. Colten (1939–2007) was an American pediatric immunologist who showed that complement proteins are made outside the liver and identified surfactant protein B deficiency in newborns.
Harvey R. Gralnick
Harvey R. Gralnick is an American physician-scientist in blood coagulation research, based at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on von Willebrand disease.
Harvey R. Herschman
Harvey R. Herschman, also published as Harvey Herschman, is an American molecular biologist at UCLA known for cloning the COX-2 gene and identifying the EGF receptor.
Harvey Raymond Butcher
Harvey Raymond Butcher, born 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts, is a Dutch-American astronomer best known as co-discoverer of the Butcher–Oemler effect, the excess of blue galaxies in distant rich clusters.
Harvey S. Marver
Harvey S. Marver was a physician at the National Cancer Institute and UCSF who helped establish the enzymatic basis of the hepatic porphyrias; he died in 1971 at 37.
Harvey Scrimshaw
Harvey Scrimshaw (born 2001, Nottingham, England) is an English actor, screen debut Oranges and Sunshine (2010); best known as Caleb in Robert Eggers's The Witch (2015), also Adult Life Skills, The School for Good and Evil, Without Sin.
Harvey Specter
Harvey Specter, Gabriel Macht's character in Suits, is a Manhattan corporate lawyer, senior partner at Pearson Hardman, mentor to unlicensed associate Mike Ross, later Donna's partner, ending in Seattle; reprised in Suits LA.
Harvey Spencer Stephens
Harvey Spencer Stephens (born 1970, London) is an English former child actor who played Damien Thorn in The Omen (1976), cast after attacking director Richard Donner at audition; his only other notable role was Gauguin the Savage (1980).
Harvey T. McMahon
Harvey T. McMahon, born in Clones, Ireland, has led a laboratory at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1995, studying membrane curvature and endocytosis.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and health-policy leader who led the Harvard School of Public Health, the Institute of Medicine, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Harvey W. Schadler
Harvey W. Schadler (1931–2014) was an American metallurgist at General Electric's research center in New York, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Harvey Wallbanger
Harvey Wallbanger: 1970s American highball cocktail, a Screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) with a Galliano float; attributed to Donato "Duke" Antone and made famous by McKesson Imports' 1969 marketing campaign.
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein (born 1952) is the American producer who co-founded Miramax and The Weinstein Company, won Oscars for indie hits like Pulp Fiction and The King's Speech, then became the #MeToo movement's central defendant with New York and California sex-crime convictions.
Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases
Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases: criminal prosecutions and civil claims against the Miramax co-founder after October 2017 New York Times and New Yorker reporting; convictions in New York and California, a 2024 reversal, retrials, and the #MeToo movement.
Harvey Whiteford
Harvey Whiteford is an Australian psychiatric epidemiologist and University of Queensland professor who leads the mental and substance use disorder work of the Global Burden of Disease studies.
Harvey Williams Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) was an American neurosurgeon widely called the father of modern neurological surgery, who described Cushing syndrome and won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize.
Harvey Wood
Harvey Wood (Harvey Jesse Wood, possibly Harvey Icke Wood), 1885-1958, British field hockey goalkeeper; won 1908 Olympic gold with England at White City, conceded six goals in seven 1908 internationals, then never played for England again.
Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing
The Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing, also known as Harvey's bombing, was a 1980 extortion bombing at Harvey's casino in Stateline, Nevada, which injured no one.
Harveys (restaurant)
Harveys (restaurant) covers several unrelated eateries: Marco Pierre White's two-Michelin-star Harveys in Wandsworth (1987-1999), the Canadian Harvey's burger chain founded 1959, and namesakes in Washington, San Francisco, Falls Church, Kansas City, and Bristol.
Harvinder Kalyan
Harvinder Kalyan is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member who is the Speaker of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, elected from Gharaunda since 2014 and named Speaker in 2024.
Harwa
Harwa was an Egyptian official of the 25th Dynasty, Great Steward of the Divine Adoratrice Amenirdis I at Thebes, known for his vast tomb TT37.
Harwich
Harwich, Essex, England: historic North Sea port town at the Stour-Orwell mouth, home of Harwich International Port (Parkeston Quay, 1883), Stena Hook of Holland ferries, Harwich Haven Authority, Mayflower links, and the 1667 Treadwheel Crane.
Hary Surf School
Hary Surf School, Selong Belanak, Lombok, Indonesia: family-run surf school and restaurant offering lessons from IDR 350,000, board rental, and surf trips; distinct from Harry Surf Bali and Gary's Surf School South Africa.
Haryana (हरियाणा)
Haryana (हरियाणा), a north-west Indian state formed 1 November 1966 from Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, covers 44,212 sq km, surrounds Delhi on three sides, and pairs a paddy-wheat agrarian economy with a major industrial and services base.
Haryana Board of School Education
Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH/HBSE), the state school board of Haryana, India, established by Haryana Act No. 11 of 1969 and headquartered at Bhiwani since 1981; conducts Class 10 and 12 exams, Haryana Open School, and HTET.