Famous People with Name Harold

Harold Danko            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Danko: is an American jazz pianist.Danko attended Youngstown State University. Among his credits are work in the big bands of Chet Baker, Woody Herman, and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, as well as smaller ensembles with Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz. He worked often wit

Harold "Hal" Galper            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold "Hal" Galper: is a jazz pianist.He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1955 to 1958. Around this time Jaki Byard and Herb Pomeroy taught him privately. He went on to work in Pomeroy's band. Later

Harold "Hal" Eidsvig            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold "Hal" Eidsvig: was a Canadian professional golfer who captured two Manitoba Amateur championships and four Manitoba Open titles in less than a decade.

Harold W. "Babe" Paulsen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold W. "Babe" Paulsen: is a former collegiate ice hockey player and head coach.Paulsen played hockey at the University of Minnesota from 1938-41 and was an All-American in 1940 at left wing alongside fellow teammate John Mariucci. He was team captain as a senior in 1940-41 fini

Harold Glenn Holland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Glenn Holland: was a developer from Arcadia, California who established the first franchise of amusement parks, Santa's Village.In 1953, Holland proposed Santa's Village after reading a Saturday Evening Post story about a similar project called North Pole in New York. Holland set up a corporation that funded the amusement park, and leased the land from the family of the general contractor J. Putnam Henck.In the early 1950’s, Holland sat at his kitchen table one day and started to sketch his idea of a Christmas fairyland filled with enormous candy canes, animals and gingerbread houses. Holland developed this idea into a working plan and began finding investors for his project. He traveled the country selling his Santa’s Village concept and $45 stock shares and eventually listed his new company, Santa’s Village Corporation, on the California Stock Exchange.

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