Famous People with Name Harold

Harold F Uplinger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold F Uplinger: is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'4" guard from Long Island University, Uplinger spent the 1953-54 NBA season with the Baltimore Bullets, scoring 86 points in 23 games.

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr: is an American actor. Best known for his appearances in several TV series such as Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo, He is also well known for his role in the recent film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award. He is married to actress Dixie Carter.

Harold John Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold John Russell: was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting (the other being Haing S. Ngor).While an Army instructor, and training with the U.S. 13th Airborne Division stateside in 1944, a defective fuse detonated an explosive he was handling while making a training film. As a result, he lost both hands and was given two hooks to serve as hands. After his recovery, and while attending Boston University as a full-time student, an Army film called Diary of a Sergeant about rehabilitating war veterans was made featuring Russell.

Harold Norwood "Barney" Ewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Norwood "Barney" Ewell: was an American athlete, winner of one gold and two silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.Born into poverty in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Barney Ewell was one of the world's leading sprinters of the 1940s. Mr. Ewell attended John Piersol McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. McCaskey High School honored Mr. Ewell by dedicating their stadium in his name. Mr. Ewell was also inducted into the J.P. McCaskey Athletic Hall of Fame during the school's 50th anniversary year in 1988.

Harold Robbins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Robbins: was an American author.Robbins, born Harold Rubin in New York City, claimed to be a Jewish orphan raised in a Catholic boys home but actually, he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants. He was reared by his pharmacist father and stepmother in Brooklyn. And his first wife wasn't a Chinese dancer who died from a parrot bite as he had also claimed. She was in fact merely his high school sweetheart (when that marriage ended after 28 years, he married two more times.)

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