Harper (name)

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Harper is a Scottish family name which has also seen popularity as a given name.

Harper as a surname

• Alan Harper (1944— ), Anglican primate
• Alan Harper (1960— ), English footballer
• Ben Harper (1817–1887), American politician
• Ben Harper (1969— ), American musician
• Bill Harper (1897–1989), Scottish football (soccer) goalkeeper
• Billy Harper (1943—), American jazz saxophonist
• Blake Harper (1968— ), Canadian pornographic actor
• Charley Harper (1922—2007), American artist and illustrator
• Clifford Harper (1949— ), English anarchist and cartoonist
• Colin Harper (b.1946), English footballer and football manager
• Daryl Harper (1951— ), Australian Test cricket umpire
• Dawn Harper (1984- ), US gold medalist in 100 meter hurdles
• Derek Harper (1961— ), American former professional basketball player
• Edith Harper, pseudonym of Anna Wickham (1884–1947), British poet and feminist
• Edward Eugene Harper (1946– ), currently FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive
• Elijah Harper (1949— ), Aboriginal Cree Canadian politician and band chief
• Emily Harper (1981— ), American actress
• Frances Harper (1825–1911), American abolitionist and poet
• Gisèle Côté-Harper, Canadian law professor and human rights activist
• Graeme Harper, British television director
• Hannah Harper (1982— ), British actress
• Heather Harper (1930— ), Irish operatic soprano
• Hill Harper (1973— ), American film, television and stage actor
• Jessica Harper (1949— ), American actress and producer, singer and author of children's music and books
• John Harper (politician), former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
• John William Harper (1916–1944), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Kevin Harper (1976— ), Scottish Association Football player
• Louis Harper, Scottish civil engineer
• Lynne Harper (1946–1959), Canadian murder victim
• Mark Harper (contemporary), British politician, Member of Parliament
• Nick Harper (1965— ), British singer/songwriter/guitarist, son of Roy Harper
• Pat Harper, American TV news anchorwoman who, for a story, pretended to be homeless
• Peter Harper, blues musician
• Reg Harper (contemporary), Canadian politician from Prince Edward Island
• Robert Goodloe Harper (1765–1825), American politician, senator from Maryland
• Robin Harper (1940— ), Scottish politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament
• Roger Harper (1963— ), West Indian cricket player
• Ron Harper (1964— ), American basketball player
• Roy Harper (1941— ), British singer-songwriter, father of Nick Harper
• Skinny Bobby Harper (1939–2003), American radio and video DJ
• Stephen Harper (1959— ), current (22nd) Prime Minister of Canada
• Steve Harper (footballer) (1975— ), English football player
• Susan Harper (1952— ), Canadian diplomat
• Tom Harper, former coach of the Wake Forest college football program
• Tom Harper, a pseudonym for novelist Edwin Thomas
• Tommy Harper (1940— ), American former baseball player
• Valerie Harper (1940— ), American actress
• William Allen Harper, JFK assassination witness
• William Claude Harper (born 1944), American jewelry artist
• William Edmund Harper (1878–1940), Canadian astronomer
• William Harper (composer & photographer) (1949-), composer
• William Harper (South Carolina) (1790–1847), a US Senator from South Carolina
• William Rainey Harper (1856–1906), first president of the University of Chicago

Harper as a given name

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• Harper Goff (1911–1993), American artist, musician, and actor
• Harper Lee (born 1926), American novelist

Fictional people

• Kate Harper, character on the television show The West Wing
• Owen Harper, one of the main protagonists in the television series Torchwood
• Patrick Harper (fiction), character in the television series Sharpe
• Seamus Zelazny Harper, character in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• Charlie Harper, character in the television series Two and a Half Men
• Alan Harper, character in the television series Two and a half Men
• Several characters in the American sitcom Mama's Family:
  • Ellen Harper
  • Naomi Harper
  • Thelma Harper
  • Vinton "Vint" Harper
• Harper Finkle a character in the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place.

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