Harold Hirsch

{{Short description|American football player and lawyer (1881–1939)}}

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|name=Harold Hirsch

|birth_date={{birth date|1881|10|19}}

|death_date={{death date and age|mf=y|1939|9|25|1881|10|19}}

|known_for=General Counsel for The Coca-Cola Company

|alma mater= University of Georgia
Columbia University

}}

Harold D. Hirsch (October 19, 1881 – September 25, 1939) was a student at the University of Georgia from 1898 to 1901 who also played football for his alma mater. After graduation from the University of Georgia, he studied law at Columbia University and later became general counsel for the Coca-Cola Company, serving in that capacity for more than thirty years.{{cite web |title=Harold Hirsch (1881 - 1939) |url=https://libguides.law.uga.edu/hirsch |website=libguides.law.uga.edu/hirsch |publisher=University of Georgia Law Library |accessdate=5 June 2019}}

Hirsch was the co-developer of the unique shape of the iconic Coca-Cola bottle and its logo in 1913 with Earl Dean.{{cite web | url=http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/the-story-of-the-coca-cola-bottle | title=The Story of the Coca-Cola Bottle | work=Coca-Cola | date=February 26, 2015 | accessdate=November 20, 2017 | archive-date=November 19, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119092136/http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/the-story-of-the-coca-cola-bottle | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=https://ccbanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TBL_Spring-Summer_324.pdf | title=The Contour Bottle Celebrates Its 100th Birthday! | work= Coca Cola Bottlers Association | date=2015 | accessdate=November 20, 2017}}{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=bSAChoqpnHUC&q=harold+hirsch |author=Mark Pendergrast |title= For God, Country, and Coca-Cola |publisher=Basic Books |year=2004 |pages=104 |isbn= 9780684826790}} In 1932, a new building was funded and completed for the University of Georgia School of Law that was named "Harold Hirsch Hall" to honor Hirsch for his contributions to the University of Georgia School of Law.{{cite journal | url=http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_archives_other/415/ | title=Harold Hirsch Hall | journal=The University of Georgia | date=August 1937 | accessdate=November 20, 2017}}{{cite web | url=https://ctlsites.uga.edu/museumsparksandmonuments/harold-hirsch-hall/ | title=HIST 4027/6027 American Museums, Parks, and Monuments | work=The University of Georgia | date=October 6, 2016 | accessdate=November 20, 2017}}