Harald

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Harald or Haraldr is the Old Norse form of the given name Harold. It may refer to:

Medieval

Kings of Denmark

  • Harald Bluetooth (935–985/986)

Kings of Norway

  • Harald Fairhair (c. 850–c. 933)
  • Harald Greycloak (died 970)
  • Harald Hardrada (1015–1066)
  • Harald Gille (reigned 1130–1136)

Grand Dukes of Kiev

  • Mstislav the Great (1076–1132), known as Harald in Norse sagas

King of Mann and the Isles

Earls of Orkney

  • Harald Haakonsson (died 1131)
  • Harald Maddadsson (c. 1134–1206)
  • Harald Eiriksson

Others

  • Hagrold (fl. 944–954), also known as Harald, Scandinavian chieftain in Normandy
  • Harald Grenske (10th century), petty king in Vestfold in Norway
  • Harald Klak (c. 785c. 852), king in Jutland
  • Harald Wartooth, legendary king of Sweden, Denmark and Norway
  • Harald the Younger, 9th-century Viking leader

Modern name

Royalty

Arts and entertainment

  • Harald Blüchel (born 1963), German electronic music artist
  • Harald Heide-Steen Jr. (1939–2008), Norwegian actor and comedian
  • Harald Juhnke (1929–2005), German actor and comedian
  • Harald Lander (1905–1971), Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Harald Reinl (1908–1986), Austrian film director
  • Harald Rønneberg (born 1973), Norwegian television personality
  • Harald Sæverud (1897–1992), Norwegian composer
  • Harald Schmidt (born 1957), German actor and comedian
  • Harald Szeemann (1933–2005), Swiss curator and art historian
  • Harald Zwart (born 1965), Norwegian film director

Academia

  • Harald Beyer (literary historian) (1891–1960)
  • Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish mathematician
  • Harald Cramér (1893–1985), Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician
  • Harald Høffding (1843–1931), Danish philosopher and theologian
  • Harald Helfgott (born 1977), Peruvian mathematician
  • Harald Herborg Nielsen (1903–1973), American physicist
  • Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023), German virologist
  • Harald Stümpke, pseudonym of Gerolf Steiner (1908–2009), German zoologist

Military

  • Harald Auffarth (1896–1946), German flying ace of the First World War
  • Harald Freiherr von Elverfeldt (1900–1945), German general of the Second World War
  • Harald Hægermark (1894–1965), Swedish Army lieutenant general
  • Harald Nugiseks (1921–2014), Estonian army sergeant
  • Harald Öhquist (1891–1971), Finnish general of the Second World War
  • Harald Riipalu (1912–1961), Estonian military commander
  • Harald Sunde (general) (born 1954), Norwegian military officer, Chief of Defence of Norway
  • Harald Turner (1891–1947), German Nazi SS commander executed for war crimes
  • Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland (1814–1893), Norwegian military officer, politician and mountaineer
  • Harald Åkermark (1873–1963), Swedish Navy vice admiral

Sport

Other people

Fictional

  • Harald Hilding Markurell, the main character of Swedish novel Markurells of Wadköping (1919) by Hjalmar Bergman
  • Harald Petersen, a playwright in The Group (1963) by Mary McCarthy

Other uses

  • Harald (restaurant), a chain of restaurants in Finland

See also

  • Harold (disambiguation)
  • Herald (disambiguation)
  • Herod (disambiguation)
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