Harold (given name)
Harold is a personal name derived from the Old English name Hereweald, derived from the Germanic elements here "army" and weald "power, leader, ruler".[1] The Old Norse cognate, Haraldr, was also common among settlers in the Danelaw. Diminutives of Harold are Harry, Hank and Hal. The Old High German form is Heriwald or Heriold, from hari "army" and wald- "rule". The Germanic name is recorded very early, as the name of Cariovalda (for Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz), a king of the Batavi in Tacitus (1st century), and later (7th century), as Arioald, as the name of a king of the Lombards,[2] and in the 10th century as the name of Harald Bluetooth, as runic haraltr (ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ) in the Jelling stone inscription.
Medieval
- Hagrold (fl. 944-954), also known as Harold, Scandinavian chieftain in Normandy
- Harold Harefoot, or Harold I (c. 1015–1040), King of England from 1035 to 1040
- Harold Godwinson, or Harold II (c. 1022–1066), the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
- Harold of Gloucester (died 1168), supposed child martyr and saint, allegedly murdered by Jews
- Arioald, king of the Lombards
Modern name
- Harold Arroyo, Puerto Rican boxer
- Harold Bailey (gridiron football) (born 1957), American football player
- Harold Walter Bailey (1899–1996), British linguist
- Harold Bekkering (born 1965), Dutch cognitive psychologist
- Harold Bloom, American literary critic
- Harold Craxton (1885–1971), British composer and pianist
- Harold Camping (born 1921), President of Family Radio
- Hal Daub (born 1941), American politician
- Harold Ely (1909–1983), American football player
- Harold Faltermeyer (born 1952), German musician
- Harold H. Fisher, (1901-2005), American church architect
- Harold Ford, Jr., U.S. Congressman, candidate for U.S. Senate
- Harold Frost (1921-2004), American orthopedist and surgeon
- Harold Hart (born 1952), American football player
- Hal Holbrook (born 1925), American actor
- Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister
- Harold Holt (impresario), South African-English impresario
- Harold Houser, American admiral and 35th Governor of American Samoa
- Harold A. Jerry, Jr. (1920–2001), New York politician
- Harold La Borde, Trinidadian circumnavigator
- Hal Lindsey (born 1929), American evangelist and Christian writer
- Harold Lloyd, American film actor
- Harold C. Luther (1915–1973), New York politician
- Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister
- Harold Norse, American poet
- Harold I. Panken (1910–1999), New York state senator
- Harold Perrineau, American actor
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008), British playwright
- Harold Prince (born 1928), American theatrical producer and director
- Harold Ramis (1944-2014), American film actor, director, writer and producer.
- Hal Steinbrenner (born 1969), principal owner, managing general partner and co-chairman of the New York Yankees baseball franchise
- Harold Tucker, Lord Mayor of Manchester, England, from 1984-1985
- Harold I. Tyler (1901–1967), New York assemblyman
- Harold R. Tyler, Jr. (1922–2005), federal judge in New York
- Harold Urey (1893–1981), American physical chemist
- Hal B. Wallis (1898-1986), American film producer
- Harold Walker (disambiguation), several people
- Harold Washington, first African-American mayor of Chicago
- Harold Weed, digital artist
- Harold E. Weeks, American politician
- Harold Wellman (1909-1999), New Zealand geologist
- Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister
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 Chasen, from the film Harold and Maude
- Harold Finch (Person of Interest), a main character from the television series Person of Interest
- 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 and the Purple Crayon from the children's books by Crockett Johnson
- Harold Lee, from Harold & Kumar
- Harold Hutchins, a main character in Captain Underpants
- Harold McBride, a supporting character from the animated series The Loud House
- Harold, from the Teletoon animated series Total Drama
- Harold, from the Cartoon Network animated series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- Harold Berman, from the Nickelodeon animated series Hey Arnold!
- Harold Buttowski, from the Disney XD animated series Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
- 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
- Harold "Hal" Jordan, a fictional DC Comics superhero known as Green Lantern
See also
- Harald (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Harold"
References
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