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Hap (nickname)

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

People with the nicknamed

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  • 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

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See also

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