Henri René (born Harold Manfred Kirchstein; December 29, 1906 – April 25, 1993), was an American musician who had an international career in the recording industry as a producer, composer, conductor and arranger.

Born in New York City of a German father and a French mother, young Harold traveled to Germany with his family where he studied at the Royal Berlin Academy of Music.

[1] He was responsible for the original "Beer Barrel Polka" disk, which played an important role in the development of the music machine to its present status as a powerful entertainment medium.

Henri Rene's recording of the Milton Delugg composition "Roller Coaster" was used as the closing theme for the Goodson-Todman Productions panel show What's My Line?

[4] After this René worked in production for RCA Victor, with Harry Belafonte, Perry Como, the Ames Brothers, Eartha Kitt and Dinah Shore among others.