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originating from Old French
Huard (or
Houard Houard is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Clodomir Houard (1873–1943), French botanist and entomologist
* Marie-Claire Houard, Belgian civil servant
See also
* Howard
Howard is an English-language given name ...
) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probably in some cases a confusion with the Old Norse cognate ''Haward'' (''Hávarðr''), which means "high guard" and as a surname also with the unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases it is from the Old English ''eowu hierde'' "ewe herd". In
Anglo-Norman Anglo-Norman may refer to:
*Anglo-Normans, the medieval ruling class in England following the Norman conquest of 1066
*Anglo-Norman language
**Anglo-Norman literature
*Anglo-Norman England, or Norman England, the period in English history from 1066 ...
the French digram ''-ou-'' was often rendered as ''-ow-'' such as ''tour'' → ''tower'', ''flour'' (western variant form of ''fleur'') → ''flower'', etc. (with
svarabakhti). A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900 and 1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960 and 1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990 and 2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600.
People with the given name Howard or its variants include:
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Howard Allen (1949–2020), American serial killer
* Howard
Duane Allman (1946–1971), American guitar virtuoso
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Howard Anderson (disambiguation) Howard Anderson may refer to:
People
* Howard A. Anderson Jr. (1920–2015), American visual effects artist and title designer
* Howard C. Anderson Jr., North Dakota politician
* Howard P. Anderson (1915–2000), Virginia politician
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Howard Andrew (1934–2021), American poker player
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Howard Ashman (1950–1991), American lyricist known for ''Little Shop of Horrors'', ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Beauty and the Beast''
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Howard Baker (disambiguation) Howard Baker
Howard Henry Baker Jr. (November 15, 1925 June 26, 2014) was an American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Lea ...
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Howard Burnett (athlete) (born 1961), Jamaican track and field athlete
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Howard J. Burnett
Howard Jerome Burnett (October 14, 1929 – June 16, 2019) was a president of Washington & Jefferson College.
Life and career
Burnett, a native of Holyoke, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. degree in political science from Amherst College in 1952; he ...
(1929–2019), American president of Washington & Jefferson College
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Howard Carpendale
Howard Victor Carpendale (born 14 January 1946) is a South African-German singer living and working in Germany.
Biography
Carpendale is a pop singer who sings most of his songs in German. His 1979 song ''Nachts, wenn alles schläft'' had been ...
(born 1946), German singer
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Howard Carter (disambiguation) Howard Carter
Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Va ...
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Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster
* Howard
Ward Cunningham (born 1949), American founder of WikiWikiWeb
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Howard David
Howard David is an American sportscaster.
Biography
Over the years, David has been the radio play-by-play man for several pro sports teams including the NBA's New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics and the NFL's New York Jets an ...
, American sportscaster
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Howard Davies (disambiguation), name of several people
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Howard Davis (disambiguation), name of several people
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Howard Dean (born 1948), American politician
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Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer
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Howard Devoto
Howard Devoto (born Howard Andrew Trafford, 15 March 1952) is a retired English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands. After Ma ...
(born Howard Trafford, 1952), English singer-songwriter
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Howard Duff
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...
(1913–1990), American actor
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Howard Eastman (born 1970), Guyanese-British boxer
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Howard Ehmke (1894–1959), American baseball pitcher
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Howard Eisenberg (born 1926), American author and journalist
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Howard Eisley (born 1972), American basketball player and coach
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Howard Engel (1931–2019), Canadian mystery writer
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Howard Eskin (born 1951), American sports radio personality
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Howard Evans (disambiguation) Howard Evans may refer to:
* Howard Evans (journalist) (1839–1915), British Radical and Nonconformist journalist
* Howard Ensign Evans
Howard Ensign Evans (February 23, 1919 – July 18, 2002) was an American entomologist who was a specialist o ...
, name of several people
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Howard Goodall
Howard Lindsay Goodall (; born 26 May 1958) is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards. In May 2008, he was na ...
(born 1958), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter
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Howard Grant (boxer)
Howard Grant (born June 22, 1966 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a retired male Canadian boxer, competing in the light-welterweight (– 63.5 kg) division. A resident of Montréal, Quebec, he represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in ...
(born 1966), Jamaican-Canadian boxer
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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."
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(1896–1977), American producer
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Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as burned-out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on ''WKRP in Cincinnati'', and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on '' Head of ...
(1940–2022), American actor
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Howard A. Howe (1901–1976), American virologist
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in t ...
(1905–1976), American aviation pioneer and film mogul
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Howard Jacobson (born 1942), British novelist and journalist
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Howard Johnson (disambiguation), name of several people
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Howard Jones (disambiguation), name of several people
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Howard Judd (1935–2007), American physician and medical researcher
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Howard Keel (1919–2004), singer and actor born Harry Keel
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Howard Kendall, English football player and manager
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Howard Andrew Knox Howard Andrew Knox (March 7, 1885 – July 27, 1949) was an American medical doctor and eugenicist specializing in heart and rheumatic diseases. Serving as an assistant surgeon at Ellis Island during the early 1900s, he made major contributions to i ...
(1885–1949), American physician
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Howard Lassoff (1955–2013), American-Israeli basketball player
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Howard Lederer (born 1964), professional poker player
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Howard Lesnick
Howard Lesnick (April 22, 1931 – April 19, 2020) was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Biography
Lesnick was born into a Jewish family in New York City to George L. and Sadie (R ...
(1931–2020), American, Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Howard Long
Howard Long (September 21, 1905 – July 14, 1939) was an American convicted murderer who was executed for the 1937 murder of 10-year-old Mark Neville Jensen in Gilford, New Hampshire. He was the last person to be executed by the state of New Ham ...
(1905–1939), American convicted murderer
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H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American writer (full name Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
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Howard McNear (1905–1969), American radio and television actor
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Howard Marks (1945–2016), teacher, drug smuggler and author
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Howard Matthews (1885–1963), English footballer
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Howard W. Mattson (1927–1998), American chemist and journalist
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Howard T. Odum (1924–2002), American ecologist
* Howard Allen O'Brien, birth name of American writer
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature.
She was best known for her series of novels '' The Vampire Chronicles'' ...
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Howard Payne (athlete)
Andrew 'Howard' Payne (17 April 1931 – 1 March 1992) was an English Olympic track and field athlete. He specialised in the hammer throw event during his career.
Biography
Born in Benoni, Gauteng (South Africa), Payne represented Great Britain ...
(1931–1992), English hammer thrower
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Howard Schatz, American fine art photographer
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ''The Lord of the Rings'' and '' The Hobbit'' film trilogies. ...
(born 1946), Canadian composer
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Howard Smith (disambiguation) Howard Smith may refer to:
Companies
* Howard Smith Limited, former Australian industrial company
Government and politics
* Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), U.S. Senator from New Jersey
* Howard E. Smith (Minnesota politician) (1917–20 ...
, name of several people
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Howard Smothers (born 1973), American football player
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Howard Spira
Howard "Howie" Spira is an American gambler and convicted felon who was central to Fay Vincent's decision to ban George Steinbrenner from baseball during the 1990s. In 1991 he was convicted of trying to extort $110,000 from Steinbrenner and spent o ...
, American gambler who was paid by George Steinbrenner to find dirt on baseball player Dave Winfield
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Howard Stableford (born 1959), British television and radio presenter
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Howard Staunton (1810–1874), British chess player and Shakespearean scholar
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Howard Stern (born 1954), American talk-radio host
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Howard K. Stern (born 1968), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith
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Howard Stidham
Howard Stidham (born December 17, 1954) is a former American football linebacker who played one season with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the fifteenth round of the 1976 NFL ...
(born 1954), American football player
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Howard Stupp
Howard Michael Stupp (born 3 May 1955) is a Canadian former wrestler. An Olympian, he won five Canadian championships (1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981), two Pan Am Games titles (1975, 1979), two Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union championsh ...
(born 1955), Canadian Olympic wrestler
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Howard Tayler (born 1968), American cartoonist
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Howard Turner
Howard Hunter Turner (May 4, 1897 – November 17, 1976) was an American football back who played one season with the Milwaukee Badgers of the National Football League. He played college football at Lombard College. The Jim Turner listed on other ...
(1897–1976), American football player
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Howard Unruh (1921–2009), American spree killer
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Howard Wales (1943–2020), American musician
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Howard Walker (disambiguation), name of several people
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Howard Walter
Howard Arnold Walter (August 19, 1883November 1, 1918) was an American Congregationalist minister, author, and hymnwriter.
Born in New Britain, Connecticut on August 19, 1883, Howard Arnold Walter was the son of Henry S. Walter, superintendent ...
(1883–1918), American Congregationalist minister and hymnist
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Howard Watt
Howard Hugh Watt (1 March 1911 – 17 August 2005) was the last surviving pre-war Springbok and part of the South African rugby team nicknamed "The Invincibles". Nicknamed ''Sparkle'', he was both a cricketer and rugby player.
Early life
Watt w ...
(1911–2005), South African rugby union player
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Howard Watts III
Howard Watts III (born December 14, 1987) is an American politician serving as a member of the Nevada Assembly from the 15th district. Elected in 2018, he assumed office in 2019.
Early life and education
Watts was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1 ...
(born 1987), American politician
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Howard Wilkinson (born 1943), English football manager
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Howard Williams (disambiguation), name of several people
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Howard Wilson (born 1995), American football player
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Howard Wilson (physicist), British physicist
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Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist
Howie
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Howie B (born 1963), Scottish musician and producer Howard Bernstein
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Howie Carr
Howard Louis Carr Jr. (born January 17, 1952) is an American conservative radio talk-show host, political author, news reporter and award-winning writer.
He hosts ''The Howie Carr Show'' originating from his studios in Wellesley, MA and broadc ...
(born 1952), American journalist
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Howie Day
Howard Kern Day is an American singer-songwriter. Beginning his career as a solo artist in the late 1990s, Day became known for his extensive touring and in-concert use of samplers and effects pedals to accompany himself. He self-financed and ...
(born 1981), American singer-songwriter
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Howie Dorough (born 1973), American musician with Backstreet Boys
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Howie Epstein (1955–2003), American musician
* Howie Gordon (later known as
Richard Pacheco), American pornographic actor
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Howie Hawkins
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Howard Gresham Hawkins III (born December 8, 1952) is an American trade unionist, environmental activist, and perennial candidate from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins was the party's presidential nomin ...
, American politician and activist
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Howie Long (born 1960), American former football player and actor
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Howie Mandel
Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian-American comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel voiced the character Gizmo in the 1984 film '' Gremlins'' and the 1990 sequel '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch''. ...
(born 1955), Canadian comedian and actor, host of the TV show ''Deal or No Deal''
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Howie Meeker
Howard William Meeker (November 4, 1923 – November 8, 2020) was a Canadian professional hockey player in the National Hockey League, youth coach and educator in ice hockey, and a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament. He became best ...
(1923–2020), Canadian hockey player, TV sports announcer, Member of Parliament
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Howie Morenz (1902–1937), Canadian ice hockey player
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Howie Nave
Howie Nave, also known as Howard Nave, is an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, writer, and movie critic based in the resort town of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was recently known for incorporating music, especially guitar in his comedic pe ...
(born 1956), American comedian, radio personality, writer, promoter and movie critic
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Howie Rose (born 1954), American sportscaster
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Howie Severino (born 1961), Filipino broadcast journalist
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Howie Winter (1929–2020), American mobster
Fictional characters
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Howard Bellamy (Doctors)
Howard Bellamy is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' Doctors'', portrayed by Ian Kelsey. Howard first appeared on 28 May 2012, where he is introduced as the practice manager of the fictional Mill Health Centre. Kelsey was cast i ...
, in the British soap opera ''Doctors''
* Howard Clifford, a fictional villain in the ''
Detective Pikachu'' movie
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Howard Cunningham (Happy Days), in the ''Happy Days'' TV series
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Howard Hamlin, a fictional character on the AMC television series ''Better Call Saul''
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Howard Huge, a comic strip dog
* Howard Hunter, in the TV series ''
Hill Street Blues'', played by James B. Sikking
* Howard Langston, in the 1996 film ''
Jingle All the Way''
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Howard McBride
Howard and Harold McBride are a pair of fictional supporting characters in the American animated television series ''The Loud House'' and it's resulting multimedia franchise on Nickelodeon. Howard and Harold are voiced by comedians Michael McDonal ...
, in the animated series ''The Loud House''
* Howard McGreggor, in the TV series ''
Fresh Meat (TV series)''
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Howard Moon, in the TV series ''The Mighty Boosh'', portrayed by Julian Barratt
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Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel ''The Fountainhead''
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Howard Stark, father of Iron Man Tony Stark
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Howard Wolowitz
Howard Joel Wolowitz, M.Eng. is a fictional character on the CBS television series '' The Big Bang Theory'', portrayed by actor Simon Helberg. Among the four main male characters in the show, Howard is distinctive for being an engineer—rather ...
, a fictional character on the CBS television series ''The Big Bang Theory'', portrayed by actor Simon Helberg.
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Howard the Duck, a comic book character
* Howard Link, a "Crow" and Inspector for the Black Order in the
D. Gray Man Anime/Manga
* Howard Marner, a fictional character from
Short Circuit (1986 film)
* Howard Silk, main character and agent in the TV series ''
Counterpart (TV series)
''Counterpart'' is an American science fiction thriller television series starring J. K. Simmons. It was created by Justin Marks and was first broadcast on the premium cable network Starz. The series ran for 20 episodes across two seasons. It ...
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* Howard DeVille, in the animated series ''
Rugrats''
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