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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Hillman

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Harry Kewell

Harry Kewell (ハリー・キューウェル) is an Australian football coach and former winger for Leeds United and Liverpool who won the 2005 Champions League and earned 58 Socceroos caps.

Harry Kitson

Harry Kitson (Harold Austin Kitson, 1874-1951), South African tennis player; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic men's doubles gold with Charles Winslow and singles silver, losing the final to Winslow; four-time South African champion.

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 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 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 Mitchell

Harry Mitchell (Harold James Mitchell, 1898-1983), British amateur light-heavyweight boxer of the Polytechnic BC; ABA champion 1922-25 and Olympic gold medalist at Paris 1924, beating Thyge Petersen in the final.

Harry Porter

Harry Franklin Porter (1882–1965), American high jumper, Cornell graduate and Irish-American AC member; won 1908 London Olympic gold at 1.90 m (Olympic record), later AAU champion and 1909 world leader at 1.93 m.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) is EA's multi-platform action-adventure game series based on the second Harry Potter book and film, released on PC, Mac, PS1, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA, and GBC, with different developers per platform and divergent gameplay.

Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts

Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts: indoor 3-D/4-D hybrid coaster-dark ride at Diagon Alley, Universal Studios Florida, opened July 8, 2014; 42-inch height minimum, 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, Deathly Hallows vault-escape storyline.