Harold Denny (March 11, 1889 – July 3, 1945) was an American war correspondent. Denny served in the US Army's Rainbow Division, during World War I, rising from Private, to Sergeant, prior to being wounded. He had studied at Drake University, and began his newspaper career in 1913, working for the Des Moines Register, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Minneapolis Tribune, before he began working for The New York Times. Denny married , in Moscow, in 1936. She was an American woman, fifteen years his junior, from Kentucky. She predeceased him on May 21, 1943.