Harold Persico Paris (1925–1979) was an American printmaker, sculptor and educator.

[2] In World War II he served as a correspondent for the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes and during that time he witnessed the death camps at Buchenwald concentration camp which had a profound effect on him and his art.

[3] Paris studied printmaking at Atelier 17 in New York City and sculptural casting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste) in Munich.

[7] Paris was also an involved with the Peter Voulkos' pot palace ceramic studio.

In 1972 a major exhibition of his work The California Years was held at the University Art Museum in Berkeley.