Hal is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Harold, Henry or Harvey, and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
People
- Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director
- Hal Barwood, American game designer
- Hal Bernton, American author and journalist
- Hal Bidlack (born 1958), former USAF officer
- Hal Blaine (Harold Simon Belsky; 1929–2019), American drummer
- Hal Borland (1900–1978), American author
- Hal Clement (1922–2003), American author and artist
- Hal Clements, American actor
- Hal Colebatch, Australian politician
- Hal Colebatch (author) (1945–2019), Australian author
- Hal Cormier, Canadian politician
- Hal Cruttenden, English stand-up comedian, writer, and actor
- Hal Daub (born 1941), American politician
- Hal David (1921–2012), American lyricist
- Hal Davis (1933–1998), American songwriter
- Hal Dixon (biochemist) (1928–2008), Irish biochemist
- Hal Draper (1914–1990), American socialist activist and writer
- Hal Duncan (born 1971), Scottish writer
- Hal Geer (1916–2017), American film producer
- Hal Gibney (1911–1973), American broadcast announcer
- Hal Gill (born 1975), American ice hockey player
- Hal Goldsmith (1930–2004), American fencer
- Hal Gurnee (born 1925), American TV director
- Hal Halvorsen, military officer
- Hal Helgeson (1931–2007), American geochemist
- Hal Holbrook (1925–2021), American actor
- Hal Hunter (disambiguation)
- Hal Ketchum (1953–2020), American singer
- Hal Lear (1935–2016), American basketball player
- Hal Linden (born 1931), American actor
- Hal Lindsey (1929–2024), American evangelist
- Hal Mayforth, American cartoonist and artist
- Hal McRae (born 1945), American baseball player
- Hal Moore (1922–2017), U.S. Army general
- Hal Moore (wrestler) (1923–2003), American
- Hal Needham (1931–2013), American stunt performer
- Hal Newhouser (1921–1998), American baseball pitcher
- Hal Porter (1911–1984), Australian novelist
- Hal Prewitt (born 1954), American racing driver
- Hal Prince (1928–2019), American theatrical producer
- Hal Roach (1892–1992), American film producer
- Hal Roach (comedian) (1927–2012), Irish
- Hal Robson-Kanu (born 1989), Welsh footballer
- Hal Rogers (born 1937), American politician
- Hal Singer (1919–2020), American musician
- Hal Smith (disambiguation)
- Hal Sparks (born 1969), American actor
- Hal Steinbrenner (born 1969), American businessman
- Hal Sutton (born 1958), American golfer
- Hal B. Wallis (1898–1986), American film producer
- Hal Williams (born 1938), American actor
- Hal Willis (ice hockey) (born 1946), Canadian
- Hal Willis (singer) (1933–2015), Canadian
- Hal Willis, pseudonym of English writer Charles Robert Forrester (1803–1850)
- Jean Ven Robert Hal (born 1970), Italian composer
Fictional characters
- Prince Hal, later Henry V of England
- HAL 9000, a computer in Arthur C. Clarke's fiction
- Dr. Hal Emmerich (Otacon), Metal Gear video games
- Hal Hunt, in children's novels
- Hal Incandenza, in the novel Infinite Jest
- Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), in DC Comics
- Hal Willis, in the 87th Precinct series
- Hal Wyler, Vice President of the United States in the American TV series The Diplomat
- Hal Yorke, in UK TV series Being Human
- Hal (A Series of Unfortunate Events), in the book and TV series
- Hal the Dog, in Nature Cat
- Hal Stewart, in Megamind
- Hal Turner, in 24 (TV series)
- Hal, a green boomerang toucanet bird in the Angry Birds franchise
- Hal, in the cartoon Dot.
- Hal, a cockroach in WALL-E
- Hal, a minor character in the novel series Warriors
- Hal, a character from the video game Minecraft Dungeons
- Hal, father character in Malcolm in the Middle played by Bryan Cranston
- Hal, a fictional character from the animated film Wish
- Samurai Hal, a character in the British comic book series MPH
- Lil Hal, an auto-responder from the webcomic Homestuck