Henry James Hopkins OBE DFC (11 August 1912 – 9 January 1986) was a New Zealand civil engineer and university professor.
MA (Oxon) 1937-38: Engineering Assistant, Air Ministry Works Department, England.
Taught structural mechanics, reinforced concrete, bridge design and history of civil engineering.
1954: Member Royal Commission of Enquiry into Tangiwai Rail Disaster, NZ 1959 and 1968: Sabbaticals to USA, UK and Europe studying history of bridges.
1978: Inaugural Hopkins Lecture: A Land of Bridges – The Story of New Zealand 1979: Retired from position at University of Canterbury.
Harry Hopkins met Dorothy Louise Trott, from Bermuda, a fellow student at Oxford.
They were married on 21 July 1938 and had four sons, Brian, David, Andrew, Tim and a daughter, Jill.