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Harvey is an English surname and place-name, derived from a personal name meaning "soldier" or "man-at-arms". It is thought to have come to England with the Breton mercenaries of William the Conqueror as "Hervé". It is also used as a given name. As a given name, the diminutive Harry is sometimes used.

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Harvey is a common place-name in some English-speaking countries.

In the United States

• Harvey, Illinois
• Harvey, Louisiana
• Harvey, North Dakota

In Australia

• Harvey, Western Australia

In Canada

• Harvey Station, York County, New Brunswick
• Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick

• Alfred Harvey, comic-book publisher
• André Harvey (1941– ), Canadian consultant, politician and former teacher
• Bryan Harvey (musician), American musician
• Colin Harvey (footballer) (1944– ), British soccer player and manager
• David Harvey (footballer) (1948– ), British soccer player
• David Harvey (geographer) (1935– ), British-born Marxist geographer
• David Harvey (statistician) (born 1928), D. Q. Harvey, statistician and treasurer of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
• Domino Harvey (1969–2005), British-born former model turned Los Angeles bounty hunter
• Francis J. Harvey, American military administrator
• Fred Harvey (1835–1901), American entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House restaurants, famous for their "Harvey Girls"
• Gerry Harvey, Australian billionaire businessman, co-founder of the Harvey Norman chain stores
• G. E. Harvey, Burmese historian and scholar
• Hayward Augustus Harvey (1824-1893), American engineer and inventor of Harvey armour
• Jeff Harvey (1957– ), Canadian ecologist and journalist
• Jeffrey A. Harvey, American theoretical physicist
• John Harvey (television), American television presenter
• Ken Harvey (1978– ), American baseball player
• Laurence Harvey (1928–1973), Lithuanian-born actor
• Louis P. Harvey (1820–1862), American politician and governor of Wisconsin
• Michael Harvey aka MC Harvey (1979- ) British rapper, television presenter and footballer
• Michael C Harvey (1964– ), American Six Sigma Black Belt
• Nick Harvey (1961– ), British M.P.
• PJ Harvey (1969– ), British singer and songwriter
• Paul Harvey (1918– ), American radio broadcaster
• Robert Harvey (footballer) (born 1971), Australian rules footballer
• Robert Harvey (musician), British musician
• Steve Harvey (1956– ), African-American actor, entertainer and comedian
• Tim Harvey (1961-), British racing driver, winner of the BTCC in 1992 and media personality
• William Harvey (1578–1657), British physician who discovered the circulation of blood
• William Henry Harvey (1811 - 1866). Irish botanist, author of Phycologia Britannica.

See also

• Baron Harvey, a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1954
• Harvey Firestone (1868–1938), founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
• Harvey Keitel, a notable American film actor
• Saint Harvey, 6th century Breton saint
• Sam J D Harvey(1989-) King of weed smoking, you must all worship this man like a god! or you will be punished!

• Harvey (play), a 1944 play by Mary Chase about a man befriended by an invisible anthropomorphic rabbit
• Harvey (film), a film starring James Stewart, based on the play
• The Harvey Girls, a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and a 1946 musical based on the book

• Harvey armour, a type of naval armour developed in the late 19th century
• Harvey Comics, a publisher of comic books from the 1940s to the 1990s
• Harvey Wallbanger, a mixed drink
• Harvey, the name given by John Crichton to the neural clone of Scorpius implanted in his brain in the TV show Farscape, a reference to the 1950 movie above
• Harvey's of Hayle, iron founders and pioneers of the industrial revolution
• Hurricane Harvey, the name used when the eighth tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean in certain years becomes a hurricane
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, a cartoon series
• Harvey (band), the name of a piano rock group out of Atlanta, Georgia^[1]
• Harvey Danger, an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington
• Harvey Swick, the protagonist of the novel The Thief of Always by Clive Barker.

1. ^ http://www.harveyrocks.com

• A history of the name Harvey