Harold is an Old English name, meaning "heroic leader", same as the title herald. Diminutives of Harold are Harry and Hal.

• Several kings of Denmark, England and Norway were named Harald or Harold
• Harold (d. 1168), child martyr and saint
• Harold Arroyo, Puerto Rican boxer
• Harold Kyrle Money Bellew(1850-1911) classical actor of the 19th century
• Harold Bloom, American literary critic
• Harold Craxton (1885-1971), British composer and pianist
• Harold Faltermeyer (b. 1952 as Harold Faltermeier), German musician
• Harold Ford, Jr. (D) U.S. Congressman, candidate for U.S. Senate
• Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister
• 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 Wilson, British Prime Minister

[edit] 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 Frost, American Orthopedist and surgeon
• Harold Green, Red Green's nephew on the 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'
• Healthy Harold, the automated giraffe mascot of Life Education Australia
• Harold Lee, from Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
• 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.

[edit] Other

• Harold (book), a book written in 1848 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• Harold (film), a 2008 comedy film about a teenager with a very early on-set of male-pattern baldness
• Harold (improvisation), an improvisational form popularized by Del Close and now performed by improvisational comedy groups worldwide
• Harold en Italie, the second symphony by Hector Berlioz
• "Harold the Barrel", a song by Genesis from the album Nursery Cryme
• Harold (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson
• Harold and Maude, an American film
• Harold or the Norman Conquest, an opera by Frederic Cowen

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