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Harvard

Hereward the wake fighting Normans
Pronunciation	hɑː(ɹ)vard
Origin
Word/name	Anglo-Saxon
Meaning	army guard
Region of origin	England
Other names
Variant form(s)	Harvey

Harvard is an English surname/ family name/ last name and given name/ first name, derived a Middle English variant of Hereward; here (“army”) + weard (“guard”). ^[1]

People with the given name

• Harvard Sitkoff (born 1945), American historian

People with the surname

• Allison Harvard (born 1988), American model and television personality
• John Harvard (clergyman) (1607–1638), English-American clergyman after whom Harvard University is named
• John Harvard (politician) (1938–2016), Canadian politician and journalist, former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• Lionel de Jersey Harvard (1893–1918), English student; descendant of clergyman John Harvard
• Russell Harvard (born 1981), American actor

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