Howard

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Howard is a popular English language occupational given name of Middle English origin, meaning "sheep herder". A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900-1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960–1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990–2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600.^[1] People with the given name Howard or its variants include:

Howard, given name

• Howard Duane Allman (1946-1971), American guitar virtuoso
• Howard Burnett (born 1961), Jamaican track and field athlete
• Howard Carter (1874–1939), King Tut Tomb discoverer
• Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster
• Howard Dean (born 1948), American politician
• Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer with Take That
• Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford, 1952), English rock and roll singer/songwriter
• Howard Duff (1913–1990), American actor
• Howard Goodall (born 1958), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter
• Howard Grant (born 1966), Jamaican-Canadian boxer
• Howard Hawks (1896–1977), American producer
• Howard Hesseman (born 1940), American actor
• Howard Hughes (1905–1976), American aviation pioneer and film mogul
• Howard Johnson (disambiguation), name of several people
• Howard Jones (musician) (born 1955), English
• Howard Judd (1935–2007), American physician and medical researcher
• Howard Kendall, English football player and manager
• Howard Lederer (born 1964), professional poker player
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American writer
• Howard McNear (1905–1969), American radio and television actor
• Howard Marks (born 1945), former teacher, drug smuggler and author
• Howard T. Odum (1924–2002), American ecologist
• Howard Allen O'Brien, birth name of author Anne Rice
• Howard Payne (athlete) (1931–1992), English hammer thrower
• Howard Shore (born 1946) Canadian film-score composer
• Howard Stern (born 1954), American talk-radio host
• Howard Tayler (born 1968), American cartoonist
• Howard K. Stern (born 1968), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith
• Howard Unruh (1921–2009), American spree killer
• Howard Wilkinson (born 1943), English football manager
• Howard Zinn, (1922-2010), an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist.

Howie, nickname

• Howie B (born 1963), Scottish musician and producer
• Howie Carr (born 1952), American journalist
• Howie Day (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
• Howie Dorough (born 1973), American musician with Backstreet Boys
• Howie Epstein (1955–2003), American musician
• Howie Gordon (born 1971), Big Brother contestant
• Howie Gordon (later known as Richard Pacheco), American pornographic actor
• Howie Hawkins, American politician and activist
• Howie Long (born 1960), American football player
• Howie Mandel (born 1955), Canadian comedian and actor, Deal or no Deal- TV Show
• Howie Meeker (born 1924), Canadian hockey player, TV sports announcer, Member of Parliament
• Howie Morenz (1902–1937), Canadian ice hockey player
• Howie Nave (born 1956), American comedian, radio personality, writer, promoter and movie critic
• Howie Rose (born 1954), American sportscaster
• Howie Winter (born 1929), American mobster

Ward, shortened form

• Ward Bond (1903–1960), American actor
• Ward Christensen, American computer programmer and creator of the Xmodem and the first BBS
• Ward Churchill (born 1947), American controversial writer and political activist
• Ward Cunningham (born 1949), American founder of WikiWikiWeb
• Ward Weaver III (born 1963), American convicted felon

Fictional characters

• Howard Stark, father of superhero Tony Stark
• Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
• Howard the Duck, a comic book character
• Howard Wolowitz, a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Simon Helberg.
• Ward Cleaver, character in the television sitcom, Leave It to Beaver
• Ward Zabac, character in Final Fantasy VIII
• Wardes, character from Zero no Tsukaima
• Howard Hunter, fictional character played by James B. Sikking on Hill Street Blues
• Howard Moon, a fictional character on the television series The Mighty Boosh, portrayed by Julian Barratt

Howard, stage name

• Howard Keel, (born Harold, 1917 or 1919–2004), singer and actor

Other

• Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C
• Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C.
• Howard Park Wines, a winery in Western Australia
• Howard Aircraft Corporation, a defunct American aircraft manufacturer
• Castle Howard, a stately home in Malton, England

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