Harold (given name)

Harold is an Old English name^{[citation needed]}, from here "army" and weald "rule", meaning "heroic leader", same as the title herald. Diminutives of Harold are Harry and Hal.

Some notable persons with the name:

• Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
• Harold (d. 1168), child martyr and saint
• Harold Arroyo, Puerto Rican boxer
• Harold Bloom, American literary critic
• Harold Craxton (1885–1971), British composer and pianist
• Harold Camping (born 1921), President of Family Radio
• Harold Faltermeyer (born 1952), German musician
• Harold Ford, Jr. (D) U.S. Congressman, candidate for U.S. Senate
• Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister
• Harold Holt (impresario), South African-English impresario
• Harold Houser, American admiral and 35th Governor of American Samoa
• Harold La Borde, Trinidadian circumnavigator
• Harold Lloyd, American film actor
• Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister
• Harold Norse, American poet
• Harold Perrineau, American actor
• Harold Pinter (1930–2008), British playwright
• Harold Tucker, Lord Mayor of Manchester, England, from 1984-1985
• Harold Walker (cricketer) (1918-2000), English cricketer
• Harold Wellman (1909-1999), New Zealand geologist
• Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister
• Harold Styles, Member of boyband One Direction

Fictional characters

• Childe Harold, from the Byron poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• Harold Allnut, from the Batman comic series
• Harold Bishop, from the Australian soap Neighbours
• Harold Crick, the main character from the movie Stranger than Fiction
• Harold Finch, a main character from the television series Person of Interest
• Harold Frost, American Orthopedist and surgeon
• Harold Green, Red Green's nephew on The Red Green Show
• Harold the Helicopter, from The Railway Series by W.V. Awdry and the television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
• Harold Lauder, from Stephen King's The Stand
• Harold Norse, American poet
• Harold and the Purple Crayon from the children's books by Crockett Johnson
• Harold, a living scarecrow from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark story 'Harold'
• Harold Lee, from Harold & Kumar
• Harold McGrady V from Total Drama Island
• Harold Hutchins, a main character in Captain Underpants
• Harold Berman from the Nickelodeon animated show Hey Arnold!
• Harold Foster, a multibillionaire Australian newspaper company chairman from Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series
• Harold Saxon, an alias of The Master in Doctor Who
• Weird Harold, from the children's animated television show Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

See also

• Harald
• Harold (disambiguation)
• Harold (surname)
• All pages beginning with "Harold"

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