Christopher Harison (c. 1825 - 8 November 1897) was a British military officer and forestry official in South Africa.
Thomas Bain and Christopher Harison first explored the feasibility of the Grootrivier Pass near Nature's Valley in 1868.
Harison's interest in the building of the road stemmed from his belief that it could be used to halt the runaway destruction of the forest started by Dutch East India Company woodcutters in 1777 and carried on by their descendants.
His son, Launcelot Malcolm Harison, attended St Andrew's College in Grahamstown from 1869 to 1874.
[1] His daughter, Eliza 'Bessie' Georgiana Harison, married Charles Wilhelm Thesen (1856–1940) of Knysna and produced ten children.