Hap (nickname)
As a nickname, Hap or Haps is commonly short for Henry, Harry, Harold, or Harrison. It may refer to:People with the nicknamed
- Henry H. Arnold, American General of the Army and General of the Air Force
- Hap Collard, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Hap Day, Canadian National Hockey League Hall of Fame player, coach, and general manager
- Hap Emms, Canadian NHL player, coach, general manager, and team owner
- Hap Farber, American National Football League player
- Harrison Farber, American professor of medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston University
- Frank S. Farley, American politician and New Jersey State Senator
- Hobart R. Gay, US Army lieutenant general
- Hap Hadley, American artist specializing in pen and ink representations
- Hap Holmes, Canadian NHL goaltender
- Emil Huhn, American MLB player
- B. Kliban, American cartoonist
- Louis Kuehn, American diver and 1920 Olympic gold medalist
- Harry McSween, 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 , Canadian NHL player
- Hap Moran, American NFL halfback
- Hap Myers, American MLB player
- Hap Myers , Canadian NHL player
- Hap Palmer, American children's musician
- Harold Ridley , Roman Catholic priest and President of Loyola College in Maryland
- Hap Sharp, American race car driver
- Hap Spuhler, American college head baseball coach and athletic director
- Hap Ward, 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
