Harry Allen

Harry Allen may refer to:

  • Harry Allen (executioner) (1911–1992), hangman, one of the last British executioners
  • Harry Allen (musician) (born 1966), jazz tenor saxophonist
  • Harry Allen (journalist) (born 1964), hip-hop journalist, activist, and associate of Public Enemy
  • Sir Harry Brookes Allen (1854–1926), Australian pathologist
  • Harry Julian Allen (1910–1977), NASA engineer and administrator
  • Harry Allen (footballer) (1866–1895), Wolverhampton Wanderers and England footballer
  • Harry Epworth Allen (1894–1958), British painter
  • Harry Allen (tennis), 1903 US Open mixed doubles champion

Famous quotes containing the words harry and/or allen:

    “Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what. I’ll go home to your wife and outside of the improvements, you’ll never know the difference. Pull over to the side of the road there and let me see your marriage license.”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)

    “‘The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the
    window—I have the key—Get married Allen don’t take drugs—the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window.
    Love,
    your mother’”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)