HARVEY

'Harvey' is an English surname and place-name, derived from a personal name meaning "soldier" or "man-at-arms". It is thought to have come to England with the Breton mercenaries of William the Conqueror as "Hervé". It is also used as a given name. As a given name, the diminutive Harry is sometimes used.

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Places

People

Works of art

Other

External links

See also

Places

Harvey is a common place-name in some English-speaking countries.
;In the United States

★ Harvey, Illinois

★ Harvey, Louisiana

★ Harvey, North Dakota
;In Australia

★ Harvey, Western Australia
;In Canada

★ Harvey Station, York County, New Brunswick

★ Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick

People

★ Alfred Harvey, comic-book publisher

★ André Harvey (1941– ), Canadian consultant, politician and former teacher

★ Anthony Harvey (1931- ), British film director and editor

★ Bryan Harvey (musician), American musician

★ Colin Harvey (footballer) (1944– ), British soccer player and manager

★ David Harvey (footballer) (1948– ), British soccer player

★ David Harvey (geographer) (1935– ), British-born Marxist geographer

★ David Harvey (statistician) (born 1928), D. Q. Harvey, statistician and treasurer of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

★ Domino Harvey (1969–2005), British-born former model turned Los Angeles bounty hunter

★ Francis J. Harvey, American military administrator

★ Fred Harvey (1835–1901), American entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House restaurants, famous for their "Harvey Girls"

★ Gerry Harvey, Australian billionaire businessman, co-founder of the Harvey Norman chain stores

★ G. E. Harvey, Burmese historian and scholar

★ Hayward Augustus Harvey (1824-1893), American engineer and inventor of Harvey armour

★ Jeff Harvey (1957– ), Canadian ecologist and journalist

★ Jeffrey A. Harvey, American theoretical physicist

★ John Harvey (television), American television presenter

★ Ken Harvey (1978– ), American baseball player

★ Laurence Harvey (1928–1973), Lithuanian-born actor

★ Louis P. Harvey (1820–1862), American politician and governor of Wisconsin

★ Michael Harvey aka MC Harvey (1979- ) British rapper, television presenter and footballer

★ Michael C. Harvey, American inventor

★ Nick Harvey (1961– ), British M.P.

★ PJ Harvey (1969– ), British singer and songwriter

★ Paul Harvey (1918– ), American radio broadcaster

★ Robert Harvey (footballer) (born 1971), Australian rules footballer

★ Robert Harvey (musician), British musician

★ Steve Harvey (1956– ), African-American actor, entertainer and comedian

★ Tim Harvey (1961-), British racing driver, winner of the BTCC in 1992 and media personality

★ Turlington W. Harvey (1835 - 1909), Christian leader, entrepreneur, inventor, founder of Harvey, Illinois

★ William Harvey (1578–1657), British physician who discovered the circulation of blood

★ William Henry Harvey (1811 - 1866). Irish botanist, author of ''Phycologia Britannica''.
;See also

★ Baron Harvey, a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1954

★ Harvey Firestone (1868–1938), founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company

★ Harvey Keitel, a notable American film actor

★ Saint Harvey, 6th century Breton saint

Works of art

★ ''Harvey'' (play), a 1944 play by Mary Chase about a man befriended by an invisible anthropomorphic rabbit

★ ''Harvey'' (film), a film starring James Stewart, based on the play

★ ''The Harvey Girls'', a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and a 1946 musical based on the book

Other

★ Harvey armour, a type of naval armour developed in the late 19th century

★ Harvey Comics, a publisher of comic books from the 1940s to the 1990s

★ Harvey Wallbanger, a mixed drink

★ Harvey, the name given by John Crichton to the neural clone of Scorpius implanted in his brain in the TV show ''Farscape'', a reference to the 1950 movie above

★ Harvey's of Hayle, iron founders and pioneers of the industrial revolution

★ Hurricane Harvey, the name used when the eighth tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean in certain years becomes a hurricane

★ ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'', a cartoon series

★ Harvey Danger, an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington

★ "Harvey" or "Harvey Smith", term for the V sign after the show jumper of the name who used it in a televised event in 1971

★ Harvey Swick, the protagonist of the novel ''The Thief of Always'' by Clive Barker.

External links

★ A history of the name ''Harvey''

See also

★ List of Wikipedia article titles starting with "Harvey"