Harold is an Old English name, meaning "army leader", same as the title herald. A diminutive of Harold is Harry.
Fictional characters
- Harold Allnut, from the Batman comic series
- Harold Berman, from the Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold!
- Harold Bishop, from the Australian soap Neighbours
- Harold Crick, the main character from the movie Stranger than Fiction
- Harold the Helicopter, from The Railway Series by W.V. Awdry, and the television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
- Harold Lauder, from Stephen King's "The Stand"
- Harold and the Purple Crayon from the children's books by Crockett Johnson
- Harold, a living scarecrow from the Scary Stories' story 'Harold'
- Healthy Harold, the giraffe mascot of Life Education Australia
- Harold Holt, Australian Prime minister
- Harold Lee, from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
- Harold the Bear, a fictional charecter from the mid-day British sitcom, Brunswick School
Other
- Harold (book), a book written in 1848 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Harold (film), a 2008 comedy about a teenager with a very early on-set of male-pattern baldness
- Harold (improvisation), an improvisational form popularized by Del Close and now performed by improvisational comedy groups nationwide
- Harold in Italy, the second symphony by Hector Berlioz
- Harold (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
- Harold and Maude, a cult classic movie
- Harold or the Norman Conquest, an opera by Frederic Cowen
- Harold Gaffa, The Mascot for Sydney Rock Eistedfodd
- Harold La Borde, the great Trinidadian Circumnavigators.
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