Gabriel Harrison (March 25, 1818 – December 15, 1902) was an American photographer, actor, playwright, painter, and writer active in New York City.

He moved to New York City with his family at age six and made his theatrical debut in 1838 as the title character in Shakespeare's Othello opposite Lester Wallack.

His notable photographs include a daguerreotype of Walt Whitman that was used as the engravement for the title page of Leaves of Grass,[2] The Infant Savior bearing the cross (ca.

[3] His written works include a dramatization of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and biographies of actors John Howard Payne and Edwin Forrest.

[4] Harrison supported free art schools in connection with the Brooklyn Academy of Design, which he co-founded, and was also a portrait and landscape painter.