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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".

Places

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

People

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*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
*Curtis Mayfield Harvey Jr., A True Gentleman. Simply Put... He's That Dude
*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
*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
*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

;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

Works of art

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

Other

*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, the name of a piano rock group out of Atlanta, Georgia
*Harvey Danger, an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington

External links

*A history of the name ''Harvey''