Hal is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Harold, Henry or Harvey, and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director
• Hal Barwood, American game designer
• Hal Bernton, American author and journalist
• Hal Bidlack (born 1958), former USAF officer
• Hal Blaine (Harold Simon Belsky; 1929–2019), American drummer
• Hal Clement (1922–2003), American author and artist
• Hal Clements, American actor
• Hal Colebatch, Australian politician
• Hal Colebatch (author) (1945–2019), Australian author
• Hal Cormier, Canadian politician
• Hal Cruttenden, English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor
• Hal Daub (born 1941), American politician
• Hal David (1921–2012), American lyricist
• Hal Davis (1933–1998), American songwriter
• Hal Dixon (biochemist) (1928–2008), Irish biochemist
• Hal Duncan (born 1971), Scottish writer
• Hal Geer (1916–2017), American film producer
• Hal Gibney (1911–1973), American broadcast announcer
• Hal Gill (born 1975), American ice hockey player
• Hal Goldsmith (1930–2004), American fencer
• Hal Gurnee (born 1925), American TV director
• Hal Halvorsen, military officer
• Hal Helgeson (1931–2007), American geochemist
• Hal Holbrook (1925–2021), American actor
• Hal Hunter (disambiguation)
• Hal Ketchum (1953–2020), American singer
• Hal Linden (born 1931), American actor
• Hal Lindsey (1929–2024), American evangelist
• Hal Mayforth, American cartoonist and artist
• Hal McRae (born 1945), American baseball player
• Hal Moore (1922–2017), U.S. Army general
• Hal Moore (wrestler) (1923–2003), American
• Hal Needham (1931–2013), American stunt performer
• Hal Newhouser (1921–1998), American baseball pitcher
• Hal Porter (1911–1984), Australian novelist
• Hal Prewitt (born 1954), American racing driver
• Hal Prince (1928–2019), American theatrical producer
• Hal Roach (1892–1992), American film producer
• Hal Roach (comedian) (1927–2012), Irish
• Hal Robson-Kanu (born 1989), Welsh footballer
• Hal Rogers (born 1937), American politician
• Hal Singer (1919–2020), American musician
• Hal Smith (disambiguation)
• Hal Sparks (born 1969), American actor
• Hal Steinbrenner (born 1969), American businessman
• Hal Sutton (born 1958), American golfer
• Hal B. Wallis (1898–1986), American film producer
• Hal Williams (born 1938), American actor
• Hal Willis (ice hockey) (born 1946), Canadian
• Hal Willis (singer) (1933–2015), Canadian
• Hal Willis, pseudonym of English writer Charles Robert Forrester (1803–1850)
• Jean Ven Robert Hal (born 1970), Italian composer

Fictional characters

• Prince Hal, later Henry V of England
• HAL 9000, a computer in Arthur C. Clarke's fiction
• Dr. Hal Emmerich ( Otacon ), Metal Gear video games
• Hal Hunt, in children's novels
• Hal Incandenza, in the novel Infinite Jest
• Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), in DC Comics
• Hal Willis, in the 87th Precinct series
• Hal Wyler, Vice President of the United States in the American TV series The Diplomat
• Hal Yorke, in UK TV series Being Human
• Hal (A Series of Unfortunate Events), in the film
• Hal the Dog, in Nature Cat
• Hal Stewart, in Megamind
• Hal Turner, in 24 (TV series)
• Hal, a green boomerang toucan bird in the Angry Birds franchise
• Hal, in the cartoon Dot.
• Hal, a cockroach in WALL-E
• Hal, a minor character in the novel series Warriors
• Hal, a character from the video game Minecraft Dungeons
• Hal, father character in Malcolm in the Middle played by Bryan Cranston
• Hal, a fictional character from the animated film Wish
• Samurai Hal, a character in the British comic book series MPH
• Lil Hal, an auto-responder from the webcomic Homestuck

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