Behind the Name: Comments for the name Harold

Comments for HAROLD:

Harold Pinter is a British playwright and theatre director. He has written for theatre, radio, television and film. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

-- Anonymous User 12/20/2005

Harold is a helicopter in the "Thomas the Tank Engine" series of children's books and videos.

-- breakofday 12/22/2005

Harold Lloyd was a famous silent film maker in early cinema. In the US hit animation 'Futurama' Dr. Zoidberg's uncle is also a silent film maker named Harold Zoid which is certainly a dedication to him.

-- Buzznick 1/1/2006

Famous bearer is Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

-- Anonymous User 3/26/2006

Filmaker and actor Harold Ramis.

-- Tudor 6/20/2006

Boring, old and over-used, but I mean, you have to feel sorry for King Harold and that arrow in his eye, poor guy. (Hey that ryhmes!)

-- Anonymous User 10/25/2006

It is mostly pronounced HAR-old.

-- bellaboo 10/25/2006

Harold Bloom is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. I think Harry would be a nice nickname, better than for Henry.

-- Anonymous User 2/13/2007

Most scholars now think that King Harold didn't take an arrow to the eye as the Bayeux Tapestry suggests. He was decapitated. It's likely that the "arrow-in-eye" was added when the tapestry had restoration work done to it in later medieval times.

-- Anonymous User 3/15/2007

Harold Saxon! I hear The Sound Of Drums!

-- patchworkgirl 6/19/2007

I think this name is a good strong name. I like it a lot.

-- applemilk 8/17/2007

Unbeknownst to practically everyone, this name briefly made the girls' top 1,000 in the United States in the 1920s in position no. 808. However, everyone does know that it was one of the top 20 boys' names at the time, although most Harolds today are dads, uncles, and grandads aged between 50 and 90 (or perhaps 100).

-- freeserve.co.uk 10/7/2007

Harold Green is Red Green's nephew on The Red Green Show. He's sort of dorky, but you have to love him.

-- welovejamesarness 5/23/2008

Harold Saxon A.K.A The Master HERE COME THE DRUMS!

-- bluebox93 5/30/2008

The musician Harold Budd is a famous bearer of the name. He's made some wonderfully liquid and dreamy piano tunes, especially with Brian Eno.

-- slight night shiver 5/31/2008

Harold Dieterle was the winner of the first season of Top Chef.

-- emmiix3 1/24/2009

The main character in Athol Fugard's play 'Master Harold and the Boys', but Harold goes by Hally.

-- Anonymous User 3/28/2009

One of the title characters in the film Harold and Maude.

-- Jezzie80s 4/12/2012

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