Hap (nickname)

As a nickname, Hap or Haps is commonly short for Henry, Harry, Harold, or Harrison. It may refer to:

People with the nickname

• Henry H. Arnold (1886–1950), American General of the Army and General of the Air Force
• Hap Collard (1898–1968), American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher
• Hap Day (1901–1990), Canadian National Hockey League (NHL) Hall of Fame player, coach, and general manager
• Hap Emms (1905–1988), Canadian NHL player, coach, general manager, and team owner
• Hap Farber (born 1948), American National Football League (NFL) player
• Harrison Farber, American professor of medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston University
• Frank S. Farley (1901–1977), American politician and New Jersey State Senator
• Hobart R. Gay (1894–1983), US Army lieutenant general
• Hap Hadley (1895–1976), American artist specializing in pen and ink representations
• Hap Holmes (1892–1941), Canadian NHL goaltender
• Emil Huhn (1892–1925), American MLB player
• B. Kliban (1935–1990), American cartoonist
• Louis Kuehn (1901–1981), American diver and 1920 Olympic gold medalist
• Harry McSween (born 1945), Professor of Planetary Geoscience and Distinguished Professor of Science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Hap Marre, American soccer player of the 1910s
• Herb Mitchell (ice hockey) (1895–1969), Canadian NHL player
• Hap Moran (1901–1994), American NFL halfback
• Hap Myers (1887–1967), American MLB player
• Hap Myers (ice hockey) (born 1947), Canadian NHL player
• Harold Ridley (Jesuit) (1939–2005), Roman Catholic priest and President of Loyola College in Maryland
• Hap Sharp (1928–1993), American race car driver
• Hap Spuhler (1918–1982), American college head baseball coach and athletic director
• Hap Ward (1868–1944), American comedian and actor
• Hap Ward (1885–1979), who played one game in the MLB when the Detroit Tigers went on strike

Fictional characters with the nickname

• Hap Eckhart, in Christopher Nolan's 2002 film Insomnia, played by Martin Donovan
• Harry "Hap" Loman, in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman
• Hap, in the 1989 film Always, played by Audrey Hepburn
• Hap Collins, in novels and stories by Joe R. Lansdale – see Hap and Leonard
• Hap Shaughnessy on the Canadian TV comedy series The Red Green Show
• Hap Smith, in the 1952 film Jumping Jacks, played by Jerry Lewis
• Harlan "Hap" Briggs, played by actor Don Johnson on the ABC prime time television drama series Blood & Oil
• Leslie "Hap" Hapablap, an Air Force colonel in The Simpsons, voiced by R. Lee Ermey
• Dr. Hunter "Hap" Aloysius Percy, the antagonist in The OA, played by Jason Isaacs

See also

• Happy (nickname)
• Haps (disambiguation)
• HAP (disambiguation)