Famous People with Name Harold

Harold V. Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold V. Brown: is a retired American basketball player.He played for the Detroit Falcons (1946-47) in the BAA for 54 games.

Harold Arlen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Arlen: was an American composer of popular music. He was an important composer of 20th century popular music, with over 400 songs written, a number of which have become known the world over. He is thus highly regarded in the Great American Songbook. His 1938 song "Over the Rainbow” was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America .

Harold Danning            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Danning: was a Major League Baseball catcher who played his entire career with the New York Giants (1933-42). He batted and threw right-handed.He was selected for the National League All-Star squad in four consecutive years (1938-41), played for the Giants team which defeated the Washington Senators in the 1933 World Series championship, and appeared in the pennant-winning clubs that were defeated by the New York Yankees in the 1936 and 1937 World Series.

Harold Edward Stassen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Edward Stassen: was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943 and a later perennial candidate for other offices, most notably and frequently President of the United States.Born in West St. Paul, Minnesota, he graduated from high school at age 14 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929. He was elected District Attorney of Dakota County in 1930 and 1934, then elected Governor of Minnesota in 1938. He was seen as an "up and comer" after delivering the keynote address at the 1940 Republican National Convention. At that convention, he helped secure the Republican Party (GOP) nomination for Wendell Willkie.

Harold Eugene Doc Edgerton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Eugene Doc Edgerton: was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. For example; today, the electronic flash is completely associated with the field of photography.

Erika Harold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Erika Harold: was Miss America 2003, having qualified for the pageant by being selected Miss Illinois 2002

Frederick Vere Harold            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Frederick Vere Harold: was an English cricketer. Harold represented Hampshire in two first-class matches. Harold made his debut in the 1909 County Championship against Derbyshire. His second and final match came against local rivals Sussex in 1912.

David 'Dave' Harold            Origin/Culture/Country: English

David 'Dave' Harold: is an English professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. He is known by the nicknames of "the Hard Man" and "the Stoke Potter" (conflating his home city's past pottery industry and his profession of potting snooker balls).

John Harold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Harold: was a Liberal party and Unionist member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Brantford, Ontario and became a manufacturer. He was elected to Parliament at the Brant riding in the 1917 general election. After serving one federal term, the 13th Canadian Parliament, Harold left the House of Commons and did not seek re-election in the 1921 general vote. He made one attempt to return to Parliament when he was a Liberal candidate for Brant in the 1930 federal election but lost to Franklin Smoke, the incumbent at that time.

Gale Morgan Harold III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gale Morgan Harold III: In 2000, Harold landed the controversial role of unapologetic homosexual Brian Kinney, a central character on Showtime's popular gay drama Queer as Folk, a breakthrough performance that included the first depictions of male homosexual sex on American tele