Harold


Gender:
Origin: German
2336 famous people named Harold found on Wikipedia.
549844 male, 2649 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 797-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 12-th in year 1921
Used in: English

Meanings

Harold is a personal name derived from the Old English name Hereweald, derived from the Germanic elements here "army" and weald "power, leader, ruler". The Old Norse cognate, Haraldr, was also common among settlers in the Danelaw. Diminutives of Harold are Harry 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, and in the 10th century as the name of Harald Bluetooth, as runic haraltr (ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ) in the Jelling stone inscription.

Masc. proper name, Old Norse Haraldr, Old Danish, Old Swedish Harald, from Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz "army commander." For first element, see harry; second element is related to Proto-Germanic *waldan, source of Old English wealdan (from PIE root *wal- "to be strong"). The name shares an etymology with herald (n.).

Leader of an army. Combine of here (army) and weald (power, leader, ruler).

Famous People: 2336 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Harold Ramis 1944 American actor, director, and writer specializing in comedy
2 Harold Wilson 1916 British Labour Party politician
3 Harold Shipman 1946 English doctor and serial killer
4 Harold Godwinson Anglo-Saxon King of England
5 Harold Perrineau 1963 American actor
6 Harold Macmillan 1894 British politician
7 Harold Pinter 1930 Playwright from England
8 Harold Holt 1908 17th Prime Minister of Australia
9 Harold Lloyd 1893 American film actor and producer
10 Gale Harold 1969 Actor
11 Harold Bloom 1930 American literary critic and scholar
12 Harold Reynolds 1960 American baseball player
13 Harold Meachum Marvel Comics character
14 Harold Harefoot 1015 King of England
15 Harold Gould 1923 American actor
16 Harold Abrahams 1899 British sprinter
17 Harold Russell 1914 Actor
18 Harold Camping 1921 American doomsday prophet
19 Harold Hamm 1945 American businessman
20 Harold Sakata 1920 Wrestler, actor, and weightlifter
21 Harold Nicholas 1921 American dancer
22 Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis 1891 British military commander and field marshal; Governor General of Canada
23 Harold Hunter 1974 Professional skateboarder, actor
24 Harold Washington 1922 American politician
25 Harold Arlen 1905 American composer of popular music
26 Harold James Nicholson 1950 American spy
27 Harold Bennett 1899 British actor
28 Harold Robbins 1916 Novelist
29 Harold Ford 1970 American politician
30 Harold Faltermeyer 1952 German musician
31 Harold Finch Fictional character from the TV series Person of Interest
32 Harold Hering 1936 Former officer in the United States Air Force
33 Harold Lowe 1882 British sailor
34 Harold Stassen 1907 25th Governor of Minnesota
35 Harold Davidson 1875 British priest
36 Harold Miner 1971 American basketball player
37 Harold Prince 1928 American theatre producer and director
38 Harold Laski 1893 British academic
39 Harold Bride 1890 Wireless operator on the Titanic
40 Harold Lasswell 1902 American political scientist
41 Harold Gillies 1882 New Zealand plastic surgeon
42 Harold Courlander 1908 American anthropologist
43 Harold Urey 1893 American physical chemist
44 Harold L. Ickes 1874 American politician
45 Harold Nicolson 1886 British diplomat, author, diarist and politician
46 Harold Baines 1959 American baseball player and coach
47 Harold Budd 1936 American musician
48 Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903 American engineer and inventor
49 Harold Reid 1939 American singer
50 Harold Evans 1928 American journalist
51 Danielle Harold 1992 Plays Lola Pearce in BBC EastEnders
52 Harold J. Stone 1913 American stage, radio, film, and television character actor
53 Harold Carmichael 1949 American football player
54 Harold Bishop Fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
55 Harold Varner III 1990
56 Harold Sylvester 1949 American actor
57 Harold Covington 1953 American white nationalist
58 Harold Garfinkel 1917 American sociologist
59 Harold J. Greene 1959 United States Army major general
60 Harold Innis 1894 Canadian professor of political economy
61 Harold E. Varmus 1939 American scientist
62 Harold Switzer 1925 Film actor
63 Harold Lewis 1923 American physicist
64 Harold Rosson 1895 American cinematographer
65 Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere 1868 British newspaper publisher and Viscount
66 Harold Brown 1927 U.S. Secretary of Defense
67 Harold Ballard 1903 Canadian sports executive
68 Harold Larwood 1904 Cricketer
69 Harold Hotelling 1895 American economist and statistician
70 Harold Hongju Koh 1954 American lawyer
71 Harold Dieterle 1977 American chef
72 Harold Schultz 1925
73 Harold Lloyd Jr. 1931 American film actor
74 Harold Sonny White 1965 American physicist
75 Harold B. Lee 1899 President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
76 Harold Stanley 1885 American businessman
77 Harold Kushner 1935 American rabbi
78 Harold Acton 1904 British writer and scholar
79 Harold Cronk 1974 Director and Producer
80 Harold Rainsford Stark 1880 American admiral
81 Harold Ford, Sr. 1945 American politician
82 Harold McGee 1951 American food writer
83 Harold Alfond 1914 Businessman and philanthropist
84 Eli Harold 1994 American football player
85 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt 1884 American bridge player, yachtsman, and railroad executive
86 Harold Simmons 1931 American businessman and financier, developer of the leveraged buyout
87 Harold Peary 1908 American actor
88 Harold Preciado 1994 Colombian association football player
89 Harold Edward Elliott 1878 Australian politician
90 Harold Dow 1947 American journalist
91 Erika Harold 1980 American politician
92 Harold Allnut
93 Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter 1907 Canadian mathematician
94 Harold Rosenberg 1906 American writer and art critic
95 Harold von Braunhut 1926 American inventor
96 Harold M. Ickes 1939 Deputy White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton
97 Harold E. Puthoff 1936 American physicist
98 Harold Hitz Burton 1888 United States federal judge
99 Harold Verwoert 1968 Dutch actor, television presenter, singer and presenter
100 Harold Williams 1876 New Zealand linguist
101 Harold Ross 1892 American journalist
102 Harold Agnew 1921 American physicist
103 Harold Becker 1928 American film director
104 Harold Goodwin 1917 British actor
105 Harold Innocent 1933 British actor
106 Harold Howard 1958 Canadian martial artist
107 Harold Jones 1906 British murderer
108 Harold Geneen 1910 American businessman
109 Harold Fowler McCormick 1872 American businessman
110 Harold Hughes 1922 American politician
111 Harold Jeffreys 1891 Mathematician
112 Harold T. Martin III
113 Joby Harold British film director and screenwriter
114 Harold Wallace Rosenthal 1947 American terrorist victim
115 Harold Wheeler 1943 American composer
116 Harold Klemp 1942 American writer
117 Harold Koontz 1909
118 Harold Matson Harold Matson
119 Harold Hamgravy
120 Harold Keith Johnson 1912 United States Army general
121 Harold Lederman 1940 American boxing judge
122 Harold Land 1928 American musician
123 Harold Clurman 1901 American theatre director
124 Harold C. Schonberg 1915 American writer
125 Harold Cole 1906 German spy
126 Harold Blauer 1910 American tennis player
127 Harold Snyman 1928 South African police officer
128 Harold McCluskey 1912 Survivor of radiation poisoning
129 Harold Mabern 1936 American pianist
130 Harold Pringle Canadian Army soldier
131 Harold Schechter 1948 American writer
132 Harold LeMay 1919 American collector
133 Harold Brodkey 1930 Writer
134 Harold Stephen Black 1898 American electrical engineer
135 Harold Gray 1894 American cartoonist
136 Harold Bell Wright 1872 American writer
137 Harold W. Kuhn 1925 American mathematician
138 Harold Loeb 1891 American magazine editor
139 Harold Hecht 1907 American producer, choreographer and talent agent
140 Harold Kelley 1921 American psychologist & academic
141 Harold Coyle 1952 American writer
142 Harold Huber 1909 American actor
143 Harold Lamb 1892 Historian, screenwriter, short story writer, novelist
144 Harold Poole 1943 American bodybuilder
145 Harold Jones-Quartey 1993
146 Harold Ray Brown American musician
147 Harold Jackson 1946 American football player and coach
148 Harold Snoad 1935 British television producer
149 Harold Solomon 1952 American tennis player
150 Harold Santiago Mosquera 1995
151 Harold Cummings 1992 Football player
152 Harold Searles 1918 American psychiatrist
153 Harold Haley 1904 American judge
154 Harold Davenport 1907 English Mathematician
155 Harold Stevenson 1929 American painter
156 Harold Pressley 1963 American basketball player
157 Harold Ridley 1906 British ophthalmologist
158 Harold Glasser 1905 American economist
159 Harold Johnson 1928 American boxer
160 Harold Pupkewitz 1915 Entrepreneur
161 Harold Alexander Abramson 1899 American psychiatrist
162 Harold Amos 1918 American microbiologist
163 Harold W. Bauer 1908 United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
164 Harold G. Schrier 1916 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
165 Harold Marshall 1918 Canadian military sniper
166 Harold Legg
167 Harold Bornstein
168 Harold Demuren 1945 Nigerian aeronautical engineer
169 Dave Harold 1966 Snooker player
170 Harold Snepsts 1954 Canadian ice hockey player
171 Harold Brownlow Martin 1918 Royal Air Force air marshals
172 Harold Cohen 1928 British artist
173 Harold G. Hoffman 1896 American politician
174 Harold Demsetz 1930 American economist
175 Harold Bradley 1926 American guitarist
176 Harold McGraw III 1948 American businessman
177 Harold Sakuishi 1969 Manga artist
178 Harold G. Overstreet 1944 12th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
179 Harold Adamson 1906 Lyricist
180 Harold P. Brown 1869 American inventor
181 Harold H. Greene 1923 American judge
182 Harold Cardinal 1945 Canadian politician
183 Harold J. Morowitz 1927 American biophysicist
184 Harold Ivory Williams 1921 American bishop
185 Harold Darke 1888 English composer and organist
186 Harold Bergman 1920 American actor
187 Harold Roe Bartle 1901 American businessman, philanthropist and politician
188 Harold Hilton 1869 Amateur golfer
189 Harold Tafler Shapiro 1935 Canadian economist and academic administrator
190 Harold Atcherley 1918 Businessman, British World War II POW
191 Harold Goddijn 1960 Dutch businessman
192 Harold Leavitt 1922 American psychologist
193 Harold Taft 1922 Meteorologist
194 Harold Knight 1874 British artist
195 Harold Albrecht 1949 Canadian politician
196 Harold Kerzner 1940 American engineer, management consultant
197 Harold Ellis 1926 British medical academic
198 Harold Gunnes 1899 United States Navy sailor and centenarian
199 Harold C. Agerholm 1925 World War II Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
200 Harold Katz American basketball executive