Henry Reed may refer to:
- Henry Reed (poet) (1914–1986), British poet
- Henry Reed (merchant) (1806–1880), British merchant and philanthropist
- Henry Reed (fictional character), a fictional character in children's novels by Keith Robertson
- Henry Reed (musician) (1884–1968), Appalachian fiddler and banjoist, associated with folklorist Alan Jabbour
- Henry Thomas Reed (1846–1924), U.S. federal judge
- Henry Armstrong Reed (1858–1876), killed at Battle of the Little Bighorn, nephew of George Armstrong Custer
- Henry Herbert Reed (died 1940) British sailor, George Cross recipient
- Henry Hope Reed (1808–1854), American educator
- Henry Hope Reed, Jr. (born 1916), American architecture critic and preservationist
- Henry Byron Reed (1855–1896), Member of Parliament for Bradford East, 1886–1892 and 1895–1896
Famous quotes containing the word reed:
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)