Famous People with Name Harold

Harold Samuel Shapero            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Samuel Shapero: is an American composer.More interested in classical music, though, in his teens he studied with quite some famous teachers, including Nicolas Slonimsky (editor of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians) in 1936, and Ernst Krenek in 1937. At 18 he was ready to go to Harvard, where he studied composition with Walter Piston in 1938, and Paul Hindemith in 1940.

Harold Arnold "Herk" Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Arnold "Herk" Harvey: was an American film director, actor, and film producer.Harvey was born in Windsor, Colorado, the son of Everett and Minnie R. Prewitt Harvey. He grew up in Fort Collins and was a graduate of Fort Collins High School before serving in the U.S. Navy as a Quartermaster, 3rd Class, during World War II, during which time he was studying chemical engineering. "But when I got out," Harvey has said, "I decided that wasn't for me and so I went into the theater."

Harold Bradley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Bradley: is an American country guitarist.Harold played banjo as a child but switched to guitar at the insistence of his elder brother, Owen Bradley. Owen got Harold a spot touring with Ernest Tubb while Harold was still in high school. After graduation, Harold attended George Peabody College in Nashville, studying music and accompanying singers at the Grand Ole Opry.

Harold Smith Prince            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Smith Prince: is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing, two as producer of the year's Best Musical, and three special awards. His shows are known for their political context, new approach to romance, and characters who sing and dance with thematic import.

Harold Bloom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Bloom: is a literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist (Deconstructionists and Semioticians), and other methods of academic literary criticism. Bloom is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.[1]

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